Its all true, the boogie girl is real, and you've found her. She knits, sews, spins, does pottery and writes it all down in this blog.
Saturday, March 06, 2004
Does the Betty Ford Clinic have a Knitter's wing?
This was the silly question that my husband asked of me this morning when I admitted that I'd been up until 2 am knitting. Oh but it didn't stop there. Once checked in they'd confiscate all our pens and pencils (you can knit with those when you are having withdrawals from your needles) They'd take away our shoe laces, not because we'd hang ourselves, but because we could possible knit them into something. Then a couple of days later they'd find me in a dark corner in my room trying to unravel my bedsheets into something I could knit. Funny isn't he. He's giggling all the while he's telling me this. The sad thing, he's not far from the truth. I can see it myself. What do you do as a relaxation activity when you are trying to get sober from being a knitting addict? I'm getting sweaty and fearfull just thinking about it. eee. Good thing my yarn isn't too far away. ahhhh precious yarn. My precious Noro. ahhhh fiber. 
This is what I was up late doing. I know not very much for being up so late. This is Noro if you don't recognize it (color80) Its the stuff that I've knit and frogged 10 times or so. I was begining to think I had started to like frogging. *gasp* No. I still hate frogging. It became a challenge to me to knit this and not frog it. I think I've won. I couldn't decide on a pattern and have finally settled on Rosedale from Knitty. I didn't finally decide on the pattern for sure until 10 or so. Pitiful huh. I had to start this, this pattern is what kept me up late the night before and I would rather be up late knitting then up late thinking about it.
Did you see those little bobbles hanging off the sleeve. Row counters I've started to make as my low end item along with stitch markers. I'm really proud of the row counters as I haven't seen any like them, They are similar to the bracelets I've seen but I don't want to wear a bracelet when I'm knitting. I have 2 attached here because I don't want to do math, one counts the rows for the increase and the other counts the number of increases I make. I put down my knitting so much with having to tend to a sick lil Miss M I really needed these.
I've started selling them on ebay. I bought a new website but I have yet to get it working. I need help from the computer smart jokester that sits to the left of me here. I've got to get to the PO. I was able to finish orders and today I plan on making some pretty pottery stuff. I love working on the sculptural sheep. Baaaaaa.