Showing posts with label vintage vertical stripe blanket. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage vertical stripe blanket. Show all posts

Monday, March 21, 2011

Episode 8: Coming Home


Knitting and traveling!

Jetsetting:

Wedding in PHX, Honey is coming home, less traveling coming up.

Enroute:

FLS, La Vie De Bois Socks, Ampersand Socks, VVSB

Landed:

First Ampersand Sock done

Taxiing:

Nothing New

Ground Stop:

Tired a bit, No patience for some of my projects

Holding:

Nothing

Reservations:

Wollmeise It's Different
stitch markers by Rainlover
Tatted markers
Vesper in Smoke on the Water

Monday, March 7, 2011

Episode 6; No Travel, lots of crafting!

Opposite show this week! No traveling and Lots of crafting!



Jetsetting: Honey sick, no travel to TX. Lots of errands, work around the house, work was good, I am a registered maine resident and new plates coming! WHEE! Been a long time since I've set down roots: almost 9 years!

Enroute:

VVSB
FLS
Socks
Lovers Knot Blanket

Landed:
Notta

Take Off:
Still waiting to start next baby blanket

Ground Stop:
Spring cleaning for honey arrival

Holding:

Got my Highland Handmades spindle back with new shaft and hook - AWESOME! spun some cherry blossom.

Reservations: Woven Labels, 3 ewes twisted in fiber, Fiber from SAL with the Knit Girllls,

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Episode 5: More Travel then Knitting

Welcome to Episode 5: More Travel then Knitting



Jetsetting:

Hello Mother Nature!!  Canceled all flights on Friday and we drove to Boston after a 14 hour work day, got locked out of ops room, had to sleep in the car in the parking garage, caught 6 am out of BOS before nasty part of storm showed up.  Had lunch, made our connection! yea!

Spent the day over in Corpus Christi, USS Lexington Aircraft Carrier(yea me), dinner at Texas Roadhouse, my favorite!

Drove 3 hours to SAT, got lost trying to return rental car, checked in, LGK had a great day at the checkpoint, Got to ORD with no seat as the flight was overbooked,(ugh first time I pay for a ticket in 10 years and I still have no seat until 2 minutes to flight time) but made it!!! YEA!!  Got to BOS, all flights canceled home, had to get a rental car and drive all the way back to Maine... what a whirlwind!

Enroute:

FLS
La Vie Socks
Lover's Knot Blanket
Vintage

Landed: 

Shawl and Sheldon blanket mailed off

Take Off:  

Baby Blanket for Karin

Ground Stop:

Too tired to knit

Holding:

None but I do believe there is a remodeled spindle back enroute to me with a new shaft and hook

Reservations:


100th Member of the Ravelry Group is: sailorjuliet   I have a small prize!!

Twisted and Twining pattern by Fibernymph of the 90% Knitting Podcast!

Needle Bound Mention - Thanks!!  Go watch her!

www.machineknittingtodyefor.com  to get the 'try it on tubing' so you can try on your sweater as you knit it!

Sorry i was so babbly.  Still trying to catch up on sleep, but really wanted to tell you about my crazy weekend!!

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Episode 4: Babble


Here I babble away for 28 or so minutes!! Enjoy!!

Warning: I may have cussed(not sure as I recorded twice) and I said the word penis... opps. couldn't help myself

Jetsetting:

Good travel despite school vacation.  Cats traveling this weekend, hoping for good, uneventful travel; both out of BOS with weather and back with cats on Sunday.  MN accent vs. New England accent. Hi Sister!

Enroute:

La Vie De Bois - small progress
FLS - no progress
VVS(Vintage Vertical Stripe)

Landed:

Sheldon toy - Totally done now... eyes complete
Sheldon blanket - done
Prayer Shawl - done!

Take Off:

Cousin's Blanket will go on needles soon

Ground Stop:

None

Holding:

None

Reservations:

Babble on about podcasts(please see list at left for the ones I listen/watch).  I also am just starting on Yarnivore, who I am not caught up on but will hopefully do today!!  Big thanks to Leslie from the Knit Girllls for the help in starting the podcast.  Many shout outs to other podcasters!  Come join us on Ravelry... we almost have 100!!!

See you next week!

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Episode 2: UNCLE!

Welcome back to the 2nd episode of Knittin' On The Fly: UNCLE!



Jetsetting:

Weekend trip - canceled flights on friday caused me to get creative, trip back was uneventful! YEA!

Work: loved snow days time to relax, Work was frustrating and ended up in another town last night due to weather, but breaks coming tomorrow, so yea!

Enroute:

Sheldon blanket- no progress
Sheldon toy - going good!
February Lady Sweater - good progress
Prayer Shawl - will cast on soon

Landed:

Finished one sock of the La Vie De Bois, so that done, but still have one more to do

Take off:

Socks That Rock - Rare Gem

Ground Stop:

FLS - dropped stitches are the devil

Delays:

Just tired

Holding:

Cherry Blossom all spun up
CJ Kopec goodness- corriedale - Midnight desire

Reservations:

The Fiberista Files - Heather is soaked with the awesomeness(she is a friend in real life, so its easier to speak all the good stuff) she also showed my spindle that they are fixing cuz I broke it... her spindles ROCK!
Intention Yarns - Focus
Joint Videocast with Heather of the Fiberista Files in the near future
Special Olympics photo that was sent to me!
Ravelry Group:  Thanks SnookiesOz for the banner and badge.  She's AWESOME!  And will start a Reservations Thread.

Have a great week!  See you soon!

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Episode 1: Tryin' to figure it out

WELCOME!  I tried 3 times for this podcast, so forgive my rambling!!



Jet Setting - Adventures in Life, Work and Travel -

        *Blizzard and snow days!
        *Travel to Texas

Enroute - On the Needles

          * La Vie de Bois Socks - Highland Handmades yarn and pattern
          * Sheldon Blanket - I Love This Yarn, brown and pink
          * February Lady Sweater - Cascade 220 Heathers, Red Wine
          * Vintage Vertical Crocheted Blanket - bibs and bobs of leftover yarn

Landed - Off the Needles

          *Mitered Hanging Towel - Yellow cotton from my stash

Take Off - Upcoming Projects

          *2 wedding afghans for cousins
          *Sheldon Blanket - Light blue and Dark Blue
          *Socks for me out of Socks That Rock that was gifted to me

Ground Stop - Hang up, epic fails, and moments of confusion in knitting

         *Good knitting week, no fails!

Delays - Whats keeping me from knitting

         *Nothing this week!  Lots of free time for me

Holding Pattern - Spinning

        *Highland Handmades got me into spinning and I've bought most of my spinning supplies from them.  They are my evil enablers.  Here is her blog also: The Fiberista Files
        *Candy Corn - Falkland fiber
        *Cherry Blossom - superwash Merino in pinks and browns
        *Poetic - Merino/Tencel blend in purples and grays and silver
        *Birds Eye spindle

Reservations - Questions about my work, life, aviation, or whatever

       *Nothing this week as it's my first podcast, so please ask questions!

Thanks for watching and see you next week.  Please feel free to email me or comment me with nice critiques.  Please be nice and I'll do my best to take the suggestions and make the podcast more barable for all of you.