cosmic orchid

cosmic cloud -- resembling my orchid.

thx, uncle h.

ode to the olympics

i saw the hat and wanted it.  and then found that someone had reverse-engineered it.  i was golden!

(having trouble stranding invisibly)

i decided to make it my knitting olympics project, instead of forcing myself to write a pattern for my ruffly moebius. (i'll still do that, but not by sunday.)  and i won't finish this by sunday, either.  i'm about ready to switch back to size 5 needles because comments indicate the hat runs really tall.

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and when i forgot to bring enough knitting to wednesday night knit at abuelita's, i indulged in some malabrigo sock yarn -- i have never knit with it before, and it's lovely and soft, just as i'd heard.

here's the little pocket for the martha stewart scarf.  i saw the link on mason-dixon the other day, and so thought i'd knit it up.

natural sunlight

here's my lovely kitchen orchid in natural sunlight.  (click on photo to see it more bigly.)  i hear we have one more day of sunshine before STORM WATCH 2010 begins again (rain is called for tomorrow and saturday).

in other news, i just found some leftovers from christmas day in my refrigerator.  it turns out that home-made bearnaise keeps pretty well for a really long time.  ;-)

and it's fair to just say "ewwwwww!" to that.

follow me...

my new internet acquaintance and lovely blogger marie tells me that she would follow my blog if i just put a button up. so here it is, crossing my fingers that it works!

rachel may has been lonely in the official following room, so i guess if i make it easy, she'll get some company. it's been a while since i linked to her blog (though i do go there regularly -- see "must-reads" over there in the sidebar), and i recommend going to her etsy store. she makes beautiful handmade journals and cards.

i've been knitting; i'll catch up on the picture-taking later this week, i think.

in the meantime, my ravelry/facebook/blog/twitter friend mary from taiwan attended my moebius class at abuelita's (my fav lys), and shared this picture on facebook -- here are all the relieved faces, having conquered the cast-on and just knitting away on their moebii! she should charge me a publication fee on this photo -- i've posted it everywhere and emailed it even more!

i hope you don't mind, mary! thank you again! ;-)

i have to say, knitters are the nicest (and funniest) people. we had a blast, even though that cast-on is sheer faith and determination to get through the first time!

ETA: i've added marie's blog, permission to unwind, and my friend ulli's blog, pure handmade to my must-reads. it's been a while since i edited that list! e.

fed, and happy

here's the new blossom with its older sib's:
knitting will return soon! it's happening, just not being documented.

i know my camera will adjust for the fluorescent lighting over my kitchen sink, but i have yet to look up how to do that. the colors are not quite right. you'll have to imagine just exactly how lovely the orchid blossoms are ;-)

feed me, seymour!

my kitchen orchid is blooming.

moebius class

i'm ready! booklets, stitch markers, we're good to go!