Who'd a Thunk?

One of the nice things about living where I do, is the abundance of natural scenery. I have decided I need to get out into it more. So I found a conservation area nearby (Like less than 10km away!) and the hubby and I went for a nice ramble today. These are some pictures I took at Lemoine Point today.





It was a beautiful day to wander along.

Arr Mateys!

Today be Talk Like a Pirate Day. I swilled too much grog and found out:

You are The Cap'n!

Some men and women are born great, some achieve greatness and some slit the throats of any scalawag who stands between them and unlimited power. You never met a man - or woman - you couldn't eviscerate. You are the definitive Man of Action, the CEO of the Seven Seas, Lee Iacocca in a blousy shirt and drawstring-fly pants. You're mission-oriented, and if anyone gets in the way, that's his problem, now isn't? Your buckle was swashed long ago and you have never been so sure of anything as your ability to bend everyone to your will. You will call anyone out and cut off his head if he shows any sign of taking you on or backing down. If one of your lieutenants shows an overly developed sense of ambition he may find more suitable accommodations in Davy Jones' locker. That is, of course, IF you notice him. You tend to be self absorbed - a weakness that may keep you from seeing enemies where they are and imagining them where they are not.




What's Yer Inner Pirate?
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Fingernail Friday

Another FO!

I'm on a streak. A slow streak, but hey, I'll take it. I finished my shawlette, Three. It took me 3 failures before I found a pattern that would work with the Rumple silk boucle yarn. I can totally see why most people did the pattern for the shawl that came with the yarn. Which was a rectangular k1yo type pattern. I wanted something more substantial. So I eventually cast on 3 stitches and marked the center stitch. Then I did a yo before and after that stitch on the knit rows and purled back. I did a garter stitch 3 stitch border on the edges to keep it from rolling.





I am quite pleased with this. Now I just need to buy a pretty shawl pin. Etsy here I come!

Trill FO!

Finally got some decent photos of my Trill (Rill). Overall, I am very happy with this knit. I could have knit a size smaller (I made the 38), but it doesn't bother me, so I'm good.







This knit took a LOT of yarn. 15 balls of the Madill Eden, to be exact. It is a very dramatic cardigan and the bamboo feels soooooo soft and squishy.

Knitting!

I have knitting! I have an FO too, but I cannot seem to get good pics of it. That would be my Trill. I tried yesterday and all I got was the wind blowing my hair in my faace, and the Trill looked like it was trying to take flight. So that will have to wait for another day. In the meantime, I finally have a decent knit for my Rumple yarn.

I am calling it Three. Since it is the third try at a knit with this yarn AND since the pattern has a lot of 3's in it,


And a close-up:


I cast on 3 stitches, k1 yo k1 yo k1, k back, do this for 3 rows, then continue but knitting the first and last 3 stitches and purling back, doing yo's around the middle stitch only.

Therefore, Three. I am hoping for a small shawl or neckerchief type FO.

Fingernail Friday-Handpainted edition

This weeks fingernails were handpainted. And beautiful!

I'll Sleep On It

Like many peope, I have a spouse who snores. This interrupts my beauty rest. So I keep buying new pillows in the hope it will curtail the noise. Latest experment was a buckwheat pillow. Supposedly, it gives better support to the neck and keeps it in a neutral position. Tried it. Husband hated it. I was curious so I tried it.

In the past, I have slept on hard pillows. I do not like it. My ear will occasionally hurt even if I am sleeping on a feather pillow. So sleeping on what was essentially a beanbag seemed rather...dubious.

The pillow I bought was the $20 buckwheat pillow from the showcase store at the mall. You know the store...the one that sells all the 'Made for tv' stuf like Bumpits etc....

To sleep on the beanbag pillow, the instructions say to smooth out the surface and then make a shallow bowl in the cente. then lie down on the pillow and pull firmly to the shoulders.

I did that. I slept wonderfully! I didn't hear the hubby snoring. I eally likemy pillow. If my ear feels a little tender, I simply push some of the stuffing out to make a hollow for my ear.

I did find the $20 pillow a little small. So I bought a queen sized one. This one has a zipper in the side, so I could pull out some of the stuffing if it was too high.
Which I did wind up doing.

The verdict is that I sleep better on the buckwheat pillow. I love mine. Try it.

huh? whut?

I still have about 8 pattern rows to go on my Rill cardi. It's too hot to knit for long. Today was my day off work and I spent it running around, getting the car fixed up,groceries, setting up dinner for later in the week when I m working....and I did all of this with a headache. So knitting progress has slowed.

I did, however, while poking around on the internet, find an interesting website on how to tie your shoelaces. Sound straightforward? Not really. Apparently a pair of shoes with 6 eyelet pairs has 2 trillion different ways you can tie your shoe. Who knew?

Black Blobbing Along

Forgive the 'black blob' pics, but it's raining and crappy out today, and frankly, it's not an FO shot, so the pics are not ones I slaved over too hard.


Yup, sleeves are attached and decreases started. Here's a marginally better pic of sleeve attachment:

Taking pictures of black yarn is hard. Doing it when it's overcast and rainy is nigh well impossible. However, this does mean that I am in the home stretch! Now to keep track of where the various decreases are....

ciao

Fingernail Friday!

Visible Progress

Fianlly, visible progress on my T-Rill!

Yup, those are sleeves! Actually, the sleeves are now attached to the body of the sweater and knitting continues apace. This pattern has basically no finishing. Although I did wind up with a couple of small holes in the armpit area, that should be easily closed up at the end. And hardly constitutes much finishing.

Ciao!

Still Here

I am still here. I am still knitting. Slowly. This is my progress on Rill:

At this point, it's a big, black rectangle. Not very exciting. eventually there will be sleevage. Eventually....

Pushups

It's too hot to knit. Hence the blog silence.

In other news, I started the 100 pushup challenge. When I started, I could do a whole 9 pushups. After 2 weeks, I can do 25! Woo hoo!

Sigh

Remember the Wing It cardi I was knitting? The one with no real pattern other than some measurements I made on a colleague's sweater? Yeah, this one:

Well, both I and the knitting inspector you can see there decided it wasn't going to work. Not in this incarnation anyway. I frogged it.

I might try this again later. For now, the yarn will be a different cardi. I was thinking Rill

Spindrift Scarf DONE

The scarf is done! And it is lovely, if I do say so myself.



Info:
Yarn: 1 skein Lorna's Laces Pearl in Amy's office colourway
Pattern:Spindrift Scarf by Lucy Neatby
Needles: 3.5mm

I did 3 repeats instead of the 3.5 repeats the pattern called for. I cast on 409 stitches and knit it longwise. The scarf is 68 inches long and 6 inches wide

Fingernail Friday

MOAR RAIN!

It's been raining so much around here, even Basement Cat is giving it the evil eye. From under an umbrella of course. Wouldn't want the fur to get mussed.

Steps

Most of us have probably heard that we should take around 10,000 steps in one day to be healthy. My job is standing and walking for 7+ hours at a go. I figured I was probably pretty close to 10,000 steps in a day.

My workplace is having a 'competition'. The idea is to form teams, and then the team that walks the most wins bragging rights. They got us all pedometers from the local health unit and away we went. We just did the first week. Turns out an average day at work is around 4000 steps. That 's not even half of the healthy number! I was shocked. Even more shocking is that on a day when I don't leave the house, I only do around 1000 steps!

Here I figured I was doing not too bad. Turns out I was waaaaay bad.

I've now gone to Map My Walk, figured out a route that should get me close to 10,000 if not a smidge more. Hopefully the weather cooperates tomorrow and I'll try it out.

Run! It's ...It's....

A very composed kitty?

Or is she fooling with us? Could she be playing mind games? Could she be....hungry? Eeep!


Or maybe she is laughing at me....