Wheels on wheels

My Burly bike trailer has many uses. Hauling groceries, dog food, stuff like that. And my spinning wheel.

Huh?

Check it out:


How many wheels can you count?

For Jeanette

The link I promised her! This is Rusted Root, which is a fabu pattern that wouldn't quite suit me. The whole pattern is here. And a real live example, knitted by Heather. I never trust a pattern until I've seen a real person knit it. Like when I saw the White Lies Angelina pattern, I wanted one, so I went surfing for someone who actually knit it up. I only found one person who knit it, and it looked, well, a leetle different than the original. Surfing just now, I found a page with one not-so-hot one and one hot one. So, it can turn out, but it's not a sure thing.

I'm having a change of heart, I like it again. I bought a sweater from Talbots that is similar, and like it pretty well. Angelina can go onto my "maybe someday" list again.

BTW, when you search on "white lies angelina", knitting is not the most popular theme to pop up.

I'm planning on making a page of links to Eugene knitbloggers, so if you are one, let me know. Now.

Yarn Harlot Sighting!

It's true, she really does exist! She's even funnier in person. Now, being funny on purpose is a quality that I really admire in people, partly because I'm impaired when it comes to telling jokes, or stories, or what-have-you. My delivery is just not funny. (Except for the 2 jokes that I've practiced. Those I'm getting better at.)

Celebrity is a strange thing to me. I've always thought that meeting a celebrity would have a certain hollowness to it, because the importance to me would not be in proportion to the importance to them. I'd remember it always, and to them I'd be another face on another day. So I've pretty much avoided the whole thing. (Well, I've gotten Tonya Harding's autograph twice, but don't hold that against me.) But I couldn't pass up the chance to meet Stephanie Pearl-McFee. I just couldn't. And it was pretty much like that, except that we had so much in common! Well, knitting at least.

And I was too shy to tell her that I had a blog and wanted to be on her blog. D'oh! Regrets, regrets. And other people give her handspun and stuff, I could have at least done that.

The hiking sock hangin' with the local knitters and the Canadian celebrity:



It was either her or the sock in focus. I chose her.
And the meet and greet, with Wonky, Flyingpoodle, and the Yarn Harlot.


(I'm bending my knees in order not to tower over her.)

The turnout wasn't as big as I'd hoped, but probably 100 knitters or so! I saw some familiar faces from the Thursday afternoon group, and some faces I recognized from blogs. Like Jodie, and Fyberduck, but no, I didn't say hi. The competition for spots in the signing line was too fierce.

And the sock peek is the hiking sock for Hans to wear with his "Plus-fours".

Felted Purse-purple and brown

This is a modification on the Vintage Bubble Bag from Pursonalities, I just shortened the stockinette section to about 6 inches, and put a bit of stockinette on the end of the I-cord.



And instead of Noro Silk Garden held with the Cascade 220, I used Kureyon. This was due to a brain fart in the store, not on purpose.

I love it! It is similar to the shape of my favorite purse. I wish to knit dozens. I just have about a hundred projects to finish first.

Even the poodle can't stop looking at it:



(this pic shows the shape better)