Wild Boar Amongst the Bowls

Like the bull in the China Shop? This guy is china too so I think we're OK.

 

10 things

Do you know about 10 things? Sometimes in a topsy-turvy world it is just the ticket. There is a flickr group too (I hope that wasn't a collective groan I heard).

today's 10 things: 1. oatmeal 2. my little tin measuring cup 3. it is sunny 4. my son 5. it is warm today 6. broccoli rabe 7. Jackie the fish 8. fish can hear 9. i will run errands in the warm sun and get out of the office. 10. the sound of the waterfall

Oh Dear

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I was almost finished. It is still cold enough for mittens. It just wasn't right. See how pretty the yarn is, even all crinkly? Maybe tomorrow I'll have the show-off shot. Better make that "later this week".

Something else, I've joined a Flickr group: 30 Day Macro Challenge, hosted by Orange Flower, a crafter so prolific she makes your head spin. I always like a challenge to get me going, especially in the "in between season", a nice way to say Mud Season. It is never too late to join, so do!

Bad Habit

Another bad habit in the making...crewel embroidery thread tucked in my sweet Marimekko purse. I'm already a knitting yarn junkie, a quick look into a needlework shop and I was smitten.

DMC Laine Tapisserie. It is rumored it will no longer be imported to the USA. Hmmm...at first this seems like a godsend, no addictive habits to form. However, maybe that means I should buy all the remaining stocks? Only a dollar each, only about a hundred colors...therein lies the problem. I shall be pondering this one. One a week?

You may notice my moo-cards tucked behind the yarn, and beneath it, my new copy of Lines & Shapes, both tons of fun.

Beautiful Flutter

Another photographer with wondrous images: Barbara Cole. See more.

What I did on Easter

Just a tease! Beautiful color! Saffron? Dandelion? It is called Saturne! And it is that mitten I was longing for, cabled a bit. Wait and see.

Tam Class Saturday!

A finished tam! and I'll show you how to go about it! I'm teaching a class during Unique One's Knitting Weekend in Camden Maine! Beth, the wonderful owner has a lively weekend planned. It's always great fun with lots of time to knit and wander the village and visit her shop. I know I didn't give much warning....but there's still room! Click for details!

And you remember how cute the shop is don't you?

How can you resist?

Spring?

This is what the first day of Spring looked like around these parts. Thank goodness this week's color combination at color+color is orange+white. All the looking for it cheered the otherwise gloomy, chilly day. See what I found?















My favorite Kri Kri bowl. Maybe you remember it in blue?
I think it is time to knit those sunshiny yellow mittens I've been dreaming of.

Time Wasters

I haven't had the time to waste lately, but reading my company email will often take me places where I dare not tarry least the whole day get sucked in to the time warp vacuum. Today I offer you an old favorite, the vocabulary game that also distributes rice through the UN world Food Program: FREE Rice.


My new favorite (which also allows me to use 2 words with double u's in this post) is: Continuum of Cute.
It is Nina Katchardourian's contribution to Montage: Unmonumental Online. Montage is the final exhibition in Unmonumental: the Object in the 21st Century, featured at The New Museum,
and through Rizome their offshoot...or rootstock. Continuum of Cute is deadly addictive so make sure you've got some time and a pot of tea.



Finally, I leave you with something that is not a waste of time by any stretch: Karen Magazine.
Get your copy of issue 3 today and spend hours enjoying the simplicity of interesting design with poetic and plain composition. Chronicling the everyday and making the mundane fresh. Be sure and follow her links (here is where the time-wasting enters, you'll be captivated) to The Bexhill on Sea hen weekend, and download Karen's mini magazine of that event.

8 links! Time's a wasting!

Breathless

I'm breathless. Saul Leiter.

For Fun

Though the week seemed mostly about getting well and trying to function with the still-fogged head, a surprising amount of things were accomplished. Foremost among them was getting a new item off to Knitscene. I set the worst example for my kids when it comes to deadlines, always working at the 11th hour no matter what...everything will be ready and I'll get sick and out of commission and you'll find me dragging my sickness-filled-husk to the Post Office shelling out extra beans for overnight shipping. Oh well. Know thyself. Know thy will be thwarted when one tries to outsmart thyself.

I also got lots of swell goodies in the mail. I've been on a photograph-collecting binge. Blame it on Megan and her photo swap. I got some gems here and here.

I'm happy to be knitting for fun again. Really the best kind of knitting don't you think?

And how about my sweet hedgehog bag? A treat from Amber's shop.

Montreal for a Millisecond

I travel quite a bit to Montréal, zooming 5.5 hours across Quebec and Maine. I rarely get to stay very long, usually just overnight. I've tried several times to visit yarn shops or this time a crafty little shop but I am always thwarted! Atelier Woodenapples was closed unexpectedly, but I did get a nice shot of the tired Birthday Girl with her new Mohair and Alpaca Instant Mittens. I also made her some Llama and Wool ones out of a variegated yarn. I always like variegated yarn in the hank so much better than the finished knitting....which always looks so kindergarten to me. In any case they were fast and will be warm. Need to be, still TONS of snow! Crazy parking in Montréal too, you just back up into a snowbank and call it good!