Hollywould Knits » Ravelry http://www.hollywouldknits.com Wooly goodness happening in the ATL Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:37:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Moms is the greatest http://www.hollywouldknits.com/2008/01/21/moms-is-the-greatest/ http://www.hollywouldknits.com/2008/01/21/moms-is-the-greatest/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:50:06 +0000 Holly http://www.hollywouldknits.com/2008/01/21/moms-is-the-greatest/ Moms is in NYC. She and her husband gave the trip to themselves for Christmas. Then they found out ASHRAE was happening up there this year and combo’d up which makes it even better as they are “letting” the company pick up part of the tab. Nice, eh? I can’t complain though. They’ve sunk the money in and don’t get paid properly so I am cool with the company picking up things like this even if I get totally jealous and wish it were me instead. Me instead as in my taking the paid holiday to NYC. No me instead as in me not getting paid properly. And definitely not me instead as in me having to attend the ASHRAE show and having the pigs talk to my boobs whilst making not so subtle passes or outright asking me to meet them in their room later. Dig? I mentioned to Moms that if she just happened to be in SoHo she should stop by Purl, you know just in case she wanted to bring me a souvenir. I get a call from her this morning that they are at a coffee shop down the way from there waiting for the shop to open. Ooooohhhhh. They’ve got The Fibre Company’s Terra which I have been eyeing for Ysolda’s Gretel. That pattern has my sister’s name all over it and her birthday is coming up in two weeks. Moms gets into Purl and calls me up. Not only has she located the Terra, she’s describing in detail the colors and helping to decide on sis’s yarn. We decided to go with Dark Indigo for her because it will totally go with her favorite coat. I had her throw Logwood Purple in for me since she’s there and I can’t get it locally. I can’t wait for her to get home so I can get started. That is if she makes it home. NYC is one of her favorite places and when she was in Purl she sounded a little breathy…like she might just get lost petting all the fiber.

Sorry no pics – I hate that, personally – but I will update with those later. I’ve finished Fyne and some other random things that I haven’t blogged about yet. I’ve been completely sucked into the Ravelry vortex and have been way too lax with this blog.

]]> http://www.hollywouldknits.com/2008/01/21/moms-is-the-greatest/feed/ 0 Addiction http://www.hollywouldknits.com/2007/10/16/80/ http://www.hollywouldknits.com/2007/10/16/80/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:21:13 +0000 Holly http://www.hollywouldknits.com/2007/10/16/80/ So, let’s discuss Ravelry. It is the perfect forum for me. I can check out everyone’s projects, stashes, queued patterns, etcetera and I don’t have to interact with anyone. At all. It’s a non-joiner’s dream site. I don’t want to sound antisocial. I am not. Okay, well maybe sort of. I like to be in the know without having to contribute anything myself. So maybe I am a joiner, but a lazy-assed joiner? That could be it.

Fyne has been waiting. I decided to finish up the Endpaper Mitts so that the girl could wear them to Six Flags this Friday night. The first one has been done for months and months and months so it was time. I was about 5 rows out from finishing the second mitt when I decided to rip back the first mitt and redo about half of it. I had knit that first one a little tighter and it wouldn’t be right to have one snug and one perfect. Hopefully I can finish that one up Thursday – tomorrow night is The Shins. Side note: we saw Ryan Adams Sunday night and good god. The show would have been much better had he just played the fucking songs. I had no idea he was going to noodle out every.single.song.he.played. He needs to turn off the Grateful fucking Dead. I still have love for Ryan, but I’ll stick to the records from now on. Anyway, mitts:

Endpaper Mitts

The colors are brown and aqua – Louet Gems. The blue is less garish in real life. Pretty. I’ma knock these out, finish Mr.’s green socks and then get back on Fyne. I want to wear that sweater just as soon as it’s cold enough.

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