Since it’s Friday (Thank GOD!) here’s a bit of fun to start off the weekend properly. May I present, the Movie Meme
The rules:
1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie. Except I didn’t go to IMDb. I live off movie quotes and have whole conversations in them, so if I don’t know them, then I don’t really love the movie 😉
3. Post them on your blog for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. Looking them up is cheating, please don’t.
1. “By the way, this thing? Single gayest thing you’ve ever done.”
2. “Audiences know what they expect and that is all they are prepared to believe in.” Star got this one. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. And Happy Birthday to Gary Oldman!
3. “These guys are as mad as a bag of newts.” Lynn guessed Brother’s Grimm and she’s spot on.
4. “If I was gonna shoot you, I’d shoot you in the face.”
5. “We already run the misfits outta our country. We sent ’em back to England.” Margene got Quigley Down Under.
6. “He was always a rather stupidly optimistic man.” Barbara Kay guessed right with Clue.
7. “Not for the life of my mother! Even if I knew who she was.” Katinka got this one right, Ladyhawke is one of my favorite movies!
8. “Come and get it! It’s a running buffet!”
9. “Doctor. Doctor! Doctor! Doctors… in the hallway…”
10. “What, like you tripped and she fell?”
Guess away friends! I’ll mark off when someone has guessed one correctly.
This is the handspun angora/silk version of this scarf. I’ll be making another version of it in a commercial yarn (I’m leaning toward Dream in Color Baby) and release the pattern on about April 15th. The pattern for the handspun version is going out with the final offering for the Wooly Wonka Exotic Fibers Club.
Special thanks to my SnB grrls for the name brainstorming 🙂
M
I upgraded my shop this evening and added the paypal express checkout module, which I had been trying to add for a good 6 months but finally got all the pieces in play tonight (the backup worked perfectly, which rarely happens, and I got all the upgrades and installs right. Woot!).
If you notice anything funky about the shop, please let me know. I’ve taken a cursory look at it and I believe I’ve caught the big ones, but 2 sets of eyes are always better than one, right?
I finished the Pi Shawl class today. I really find it interesting that people just don’t show up for the second class in the series…. I’m not sure why someone would pay for the class and only take half of it. But to each their own. My Pi shawl is getting the border knitted on. It’s about 1/3 of the way done but it feels like an eternity! It probably wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t 10 sts wide of garter stitch. I have no point of reference to see how far I’ve gone like you do when you have little lacey peaks in the border.
M
Today is both Margene‘s Birthday (go wish her a happy one or I will have to hunt you all down and beat you with a stinky fish! Love you! :P) and Pi Day! What a perfect day to sit down with my second Pi shawl.
M
I made quite a few books this weekend which are now up for sale in my etsy shop if you’re interested, but I also got a package from YesAsia.com!
Japanese knitting books are fabulous. If you can read charts, then you can knit from one of them, and their combinations of knits and purls and increases and decreases are just a completely different aesthetic from ours. I love flipping through them for inspiration and ideas.
I get my books from YesAsia.com, which imports them from Asia and then ships them to you. The prices are reasonable and the books have always been clean, well kept and in great condition. I highly recommend ordering from them.
M
p.s. Hi to Mom and Dad who are in Japan right now! Bring me back something cool!
Eva asked where I got the earrings that I was wearing in the Zephyros pictures, and I thought I had lost the card, but I found it today.
I bought them from a vendor at my Local Craft/Farmer’s Market when her business name was lemonmaroon, but she’s now got her work under her name at Elizabeth Terry Jewelry. She doesn’t have these earrings in her gallery, but I bet she’d do a special order if you asked.
M
… but still knitting. Click to get to flickr to see bigger pics.
M
As we begin March I am eager for Spring. I wore my Chacos on Saturday to teach a class, had a lovely walk from the train to Black Sheep and then was rewarded for my optimism by howling sheets of frozen rain pelting me in the face on the walk back to the train.
Perhaps it’s my longing for Spring, but I guess I started the Spring Cleaning thing early too. I rented the machine and cleaned my carpets this weekend, cleaned the kitchen, living room, bathroom, sorted the laundry from the floor of the bedroom and did all but 2 loads of it (folding and everything). When combined with the class teaching, the knitting for the class teaching and the reading I got done, I’m really not sure how it happened. Perhaps I am capable of folding the space time continuum. Who knows. But my house is relatively clean (still need to tackle the office, EEK!) and I even exercised on Sunday. My abs keep reminding me every time I try to move.
I hope I can keep this up. Now I just have to get caught up on the bill paying, clean the office, and I should be set.
Oh, and I changed the blog template. I like it a lot. And I knew enough PHP to tweak the spacing between the header and the posts and to change the size of the header too. Woot!
Also…. all you Denver area people. What’s fun to do there? Any good restaurants? And I hear you’ve got great public transportation. Tell me about it all!
M
Scout has announced the new round of the Scouts Swag Sock Club. Sign-ups for the lottery will open on March 10th at 6 pm MST. Don’t miss your chance to enter for one of the 40 spots!
In other news, I took a this font-tastic quiz and got 90%. I find that rather disturbing…
M
Is it just me or is everyone pregnant?! There are a ton of people in blogland, and a ton of people IRL just popping out the babies!
Most of the time I tend to think that the mother is neglected in favor of the coming child (for instance, people ask a mother-to-be how the BABY is, not how SHE is. Kind of makes me nuts), but occasionally I just feel compelled to make something lovely to welcome a little baby into the world.
Before the shawl finishing and pattern layout madness took over my brain and killed my wrists, I whipped up a pair of Saartje’s Booties for one of the many gestating women. I know she reads this blog, so I won’t say who she is.
Pattern: Saartje’s Booties (and on Ravelry).
Yarn: Some leftover sport weight superwash wool from Scout in a colorway that I’m not sure was ever named, but it was shades of blue with lovely hints of gray.
Size: I made the larger size
Needles: 3.25 mm, US 3.
Verdict: I love them, and C, who usually is ambivalent at best toward all things baby actually grinned and commented on how cute they were. I knit them on a larger needle with heavier yarn because I had heard about this pattern running small and I’m glad I did. My favorite part is the buttons, they’re just PERFECT and they take on the color of the yarn around them. In fact, I bought about 30 of them at the fabric store because I love them so much.
M
