Sunday, February 08, 2009

I leave my car alone for a minute........


And the next thing you know I am getting an email from a friend's computer. This would be my husband (in the passenger seat) and his buddy touring around the backroads with the top down!!!!!!!! (they look like they're having fun, though, don't they?)

We went out for Sunday morning breakfast with the Flying Club gang- and we took the convertible (we are thinking of calling it Sammy- it is like a sleek black seal). A number of people actually thought we were joking around when we told them that this is what I got for my birthday (which is actually on Tuesday, Feb. 10). We took the top down for the ride home. Got a few looks from other drivers, but MAN! was it ever cool. (and not just cool in temperature) I do love that car!!! And I can hardly wait for the warm temperatures to go and drive around!


On to other news- knitting type news-I have been working on Mom's domino wrap- I have about 46 squares, so I am well on my way. I am teaching an entrelac workshop on the 18th of April. It is meant to be a workshop for people who are quite comfortable knitting (as in everything from an adventurous beginner and up) who would like to learn entrelac. I thought I would make up some samples with self striping yarns (I have a sweater made out of Noro Silk Garden), as well as gradient type yarns and solids with each square knit with a textured patterns. But I wonder what people would like to make? A scarf?

I've got this started- it is a rayon that was dyed in rainbow- "parrot" I think was the colourway). I thought I would show that knitting in straight stockingnette with this yarn yields something that isn't very attractive, but it looks great in entrelac. I figure a scarf would be the best bet, or else make a facecloth/handtowel in entrelac, as the class project. It isn't very hard to learn, but it does help if you can purl backwards. We'll see if there are enough people interested. Let me know if you want more details!
I need to go and mark papers now-drek, I tell ya- so I had better be off. Mother is cooking me my favourite meal of all time for my birthday (roast turkey with all the trimmings, and graham cracker crumb cake with seven minute frosting-HEAVEN!) so I don't even have to worry about what to make tonight.
See ya!

4 comments:

Diane said...

Well, it was warm enough on this side of the lake to have the top down...all the way up to 50F. I saw people who got their motorcycles out and one brave (or perhaps foolish) soul jogging in just her bra, shorts & sneakers. I, for one, am not a fan of underwear worn as outerwear, Me, I got out a t-shirt and have actually left the house without mittens, hat, scarf, heavy coat, woolly socks boots. Honestly, I thought I had forgotten something!

Bea said...

Well we know why you got a new car now...

I think a scarf would be cool. It would be a good way to play around without a ton of commitment like a blanket or a shawl/stole. And I don't know that I would want to do entrelac in cotton or have a towel made of something else. You could make pillow covers?

Sounds like Mother cooking means extra knitting time :)

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