Kung Fu Knitting

This past week was rather hard to sit down and blog about. It was all over the map and I was super busy. There were some things that were really nice. I got my second set of stitch markers from Angela and a cool card that she made. Aren't they cute? They will be fantastic once I start up my mom's lace scarf again. I didn't have any small markers before and these will be useful for my next and hopefully last version of the darn thing. At work we suprised the kids on Thursday by having a prom. All the staff dressed up for a formal, but with a tacky twist to keep it amusing. It was a complete secret so when the kids came and saw us they were nearly hysterical. For arts and crafts I had them make fake flower coursages and ties. For snack we added a prom punch and we opened up the gym for a dance/play party. It was really cute. Afterwards we went out to the local tavern still all dressed up and had great time knocking a few back. I wanted to find a poofy sleeved, poofy skirted

Dedicated kung fu student seeks teacher. For a while now I haven't had a kung fu class to go to. The last straw for me came when my teacher came over to help my partner and I in a drill and after showing how to do it on me proceeded to then turn my arm over and force me to the ground with a joint manipulation. My shoulder got wrenched in the process. This was my shoulder that had been giving me problems for months. So much so that for a month or so not too long ago I did everything with my arm tied to my side at my teachers behest. So he knew what delicate should joints I had and just did what he did because... who knows why? If it was uncounscious, then maybe it was just some unconscious need to dominate me and show who's the man or whatever. If it was conscious, then I guess it was some conscious need to dominate or control me. What ever the case, I don't need to geet hurt to satisfy the ego of my kung fu teacher. He's also a psychopathic liar so.... So I haven't

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Here's a shot of my PS project for April. I've got the top done and joined. I need to pick up the stitches for the body now and knit away. There are a few techinical problems that I may have to deal with, but I think I am just fretting for no reason. It's just that the last bag that I knit on the fly didn't turn out. I'm a little more cautious now. Yesterday I spent part of the day with my friend M in the park practicing Kung Fu. It was really fun. The sun was out, but it wasn't warm so I kept my hooded sweatshirt on, hood up and tied with sunglasses. No, I don't think I quite looked like the unibomber, but I wanted a badass look. Afterall, it's not easy to spar with M, even slowly because I feel like a munchkin. He has about 5 inches and 100 pounds on me. I mean come on, look at this: what did that tree ever do to him? J/K! He's a sweet, sweet person and fellow knitter. Check out his work on the Ithaca Stitch'N Bitch blog. And in case you'

Okay, so my ride never showed up for Syracuse. All my plans were shot today and I was mildly pissed off. You know, I really wanted to go. I wanted to support my team, take a look at all the hot boxing guys. Um yeah, I said it. Fighters have the best bodies on earth. Normally that's not my deal, but knowing what goes into it makes me appreciate it a lot more. So no boxing, no knitting on the ride, no scoping out hot guys. What's a gal to do? She just sobs a couple of times and heads on over to her LYS for her consolation prize. But she gets her first consolation prize on the way. At the yarn shop she ends up with this for her work on project spectrum. Actually, I had a nice time perusing the lace knitting books, squishing yarn and all the normal comforting activities afforded at a LYS. It was a good soothing place to go after disappointment. Plus, while I was wandering around, the perfect felting project came to me. So keep on the look out! Barbara Walker is going to earn her

This week turned into a really busy one. Not a lot of knitting accomplished. Today I am heading up to Syracuse to watch the guys and gals from my gym compete in the Golden Gloves. I have never been to a boxing match before, woohoo!

I started last night with the color your own fingering skein from Knit Picks and some koolaid. The plan was to make self striping yarn in a less cotton-candy-kiddy-colorway than koolaid dying usually turns out. Overdying takes care of the unwanted cotton-candy effect and helps to make a very tangled mess. Ahem! (you really don't want to know how long I spent untangling it all) Here's the skein drip-drying in the shower. As I was winding it, the colors reminded me of a vintage scarf that I love. It's cream with lovely roses on it. I also thought of hydrangeas. So that's what I cam calling it. I had to use a flash for this photo so some of the colors aren't representative. Hopefully it will be dry soon and I can take a nice skeined-up shot. On the crochet front, I have finished two projects and one is almost complete. Here is a shot of the one I did last weekend. It's a hybrid of a scarf that I have been wanting to make and a twirly whirly scarf that just came of

So I was poking around on some blogs the other day and clicked a link to Lolly's Project Spectrum page . I had heard about this project but didn't really know what it was about, just that there was some "thing" for red going around the knitblogosphere. In any event, I enjoyed reading some of Lolly's views on art and the rest of the day I noticed all the red around me. Since I am all for activities that increase my awareness of my environment, I decided that I would join in. I wanted to start out with a transition from last month's colors of red and pink into this month's colors of yellow and orange. I wanted to start out by looking back at photos that I aleady had to see how those two colors played a roll in their composition. I wanted this experience to help make me mindful of yellow and orange in my present environment so that the next set of pictures might be about what I see today. We have had a pretty glorious week here in Ithaca and it seemed