crafty bits...

New faves from Pic-a-Day...
June 2009

Pic-a-Day May 23

My fave of these pics so far...

Pic-a-Day May 20

Pic-a-Day May 19

Things I made lately

Tomten Jacket for Mick.Inside of Crafty Mammy Bag.
My Crafty Mammy Bag. Holds a lotta knittin'!

I Love Mister Rogers

What do you do with the mad that you feel
When you feel so mad you could bite?
When the whole wide world seems oh, so wrong...
And nothing you do seems very right?
What do you do? Do you punch a bag?
Do you pound some clay or some dough?
Do you round up friends for a game of tag?
Or see how fast you go?
It's great to be able to stop
When you've planned a thing that's wrong,
And be able to do something else instead
And think this song:
I can stop when I want to
Can stop when I wish.
I can stop, stop, stop any time.
And what a good feeling to feel like this
And know that the feeling is really mine.

Really, I do knit

Right now I'm working on the Baby Surprise Jacket by Elizabeth Zimmermann. It's very fun and I think I'm going to make about 4 of them right off the bat, because there is an unsettling amount of pregnancy in my social strata lately! Good thing I knit or I'd be winding up in the baby shower poorhouse (as opposed to the yarn addict/photo supply poorhouse that is my preference).

Here's the baby surprise jacket so far (click pics to see close-up):












and here's a lovely scarf thingy I'm making for my mom,
it is soooooo close to being done...

MN is a hotbed of knittin' activity---who knew?!

I didn't know. I should've known, since there are about 500 yarn stores here in the Twin Cities metro, let alone in the outlying suburbs and up North, but I didn't know. I got a little lonely for an opportunity to venture out and knit with some other people, and did a google search for "MN KNITTERS" and, lo! Here is what I found that took place the very next weekend:

THE MN KNITTERS GUILD'S 21st ANNUAL "YARNOVER"

First, we got neato backpacks of goodies














Then, there was some of this:
































and boatloads of this:














Annie Modesitt was the keynote speaker---wonderful and funny














And best of all, after a little conniving (begging) because I was too late to register, I managed to get into the knitting class that I'd hoped for: Bavarian Twisted Stitch with Meg Swansen, who is a wonderful human being and a fabulous teacher! I've loved reading her mom's (THE Elizabeth Zimmermann) books over the years and it was a pleasure to meet Meg.


















What can I say? I'm a dork about knitting and I've found my fellow trekkies! Here's a link to a blog by a nice woman who was in my class (hi Debra!): Cashmere Dreams

Parenting

Here's my latest favorite quote from my wonderful husband:




"It takes a village...and we're the village idiots!"

You people are BASTARD people!

Gnitter is back, friends. And look what the hell's been going on around here in my absence! I finally got kicked out of the "Knitting Blogs" web-ring. Why do those knitches hate my baby so much?!

Oh, well. maybe it would help if I started posting about knitting again. ;-)

Baby Love

Here are some new pics of Mick. What a dreamy feller! Sorry they are so giant, it's late and I'm too tired to go back and size 'em smaller...

Pure, blinding LOVE

I...I...

I can't take my eyes offa that smile!!!

Trout Mask Paris...er...Paris Mask Replica?

I think Captain Beefheart is HAWT!

thanks, Markie!

My beautiful friend Oni, RIP

I really can't even talk much about it.

Suffice it to say that he went out with most of his dignity intact and that I will always love him. He's been a great and funny friend and my little familiar for 17 years. I'll miss my little bear.

Hold Your Head High, sonny!

click the photo for many, many recent pics of mick

Song of the Week, Special Edition: Hello Josephine!

Only about a week to go until...

Hello Josephine!










(this rare version brought to you by the killer and the king)

Song of the Week: Anywhere I Lay My Head

We're using the phrase "of the week" very loosely while we adjust to having a new baby, okay?! "Song of every 18 weeks or so" just doesn't sound as good.

There was a time a while back when I listened to so much Tom Waits that now when I hear him I feel like I've run into a great old friend and we're catching up on old times. I never seem to be able to get a word in edgewise, though, he does ramble on so! This song always makes my eyes mist up.

I promise to get back to the gnitter. I miss you, too! For now, though, accept this meager offering of a song...

Mickey's first trip to the Walker Art Center

Mickey got to meet one of Mommy's photographer heroes today! I had to sneak these shots because the punk-ass Walker prohibits photographing at exhibits.

If you live around here you should really go to this show---see how much Mickey's enjoying it?!

Click here or on the picture to see more shots...

Pictures of Lily

Lily, oh, Lily...

No, not the Who song, but Helen and Joe's beautiful new daughter (born 6-6-06, SPOOKY!). Helen, you'd better comment with Lily's full name and other pertinent info if you want to. Others, look here for pics...