http://spindyeknit.com Alison's blog on Spinning Dyeing Knitting and Life Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:48:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Looking down, Monday. Looking across, today. Looking up, after that; what a difference a rinsing and blocking make. (It's just a bit greener than this in real life.) I like it. Hey Mikey. Weekend, here we come! Meantime, in family news, Michelle arrived home this afternoon after a week gallivanting in England. I, unfortunately, ... http://spindyeknit.com/2010/03/its-a-wrap/ There was a women's social and a dinner at church tonight. Chocolate torte #3 has been dispensed with.  But before I left, Richard was reminiscing with a chuckle over the time when someone at another potluck there had asked, in a bit of indignation, "Who assigned the Hydes SALAD!? I ... http://spindyeknit.com/2010/03/a-gift-in-return/ I didn't realize till afterwards that what I'd been waiting for was to see them receive them in person.  I hoped each one would choose and like their own particular hat--but you never know. What is a given, though, is that kids are transparent in their emotional reactions to things ... http://spindyeknit.com/2010/03/thats-who-those-skeins-were-for/ (Ed. to add picture of newly-glazed torte. The shine dulls once they've been refrigerated.) Happy birthday, John!!! Our youngest is now identical-twin terrible-twos, the big 22. Around here, when it's a family member's birthday and they are not in town, we bake a cake in their honor anyway. And it's also a tradition ... http://spindyeknit.com/2010/03/may-the-fourth-be-with-you/ The Minions of the Pointy Sticks were laughing and knitting when Gigi pulled out her cellphone for me and called her son.  Just to make sure he was home. (Try to make sure he doesn't leave!) And then I excused myself, got back on the freeway, and headed toward their house. Maybe ... http://spindyeknit.com/2010/03/gigis-sam/ Okay, if I titled this "Driving the Belt-way" that might be too much of an insider joke from someone who grew up near DC and whose older daughter did an internship at NIH there. We don't own a TV. We do, clearly, have a computer.  I spent about three and a ... http://spindyeknit.com/2010/03/go-sam/ (Time to go wind that second hank of suri.) Last January, Richard ran into our old friend C. at Stanford Hospital; she works there as a nurse. Her kids and ours grew up together, we've known each other for ages, and she greeted him joyfully. And then she stopped suddenly and asked--Wait--does ... http://spindyeknit.com/2010/03/seasons-green-ings/ Hey, KarenL, remember helping me tie this quilt in high school with the frame set up in your living room? Simon and Garfunkel playing in the background: Wednesday Morning 3 A.M., and I forget what the other album was. Michelle's comment about peacock tails got me reaching for peacock colors afterwards. ... http://spindyeknit.com/2010/03/no-longer-tied-up-in-nots/ So the hubby comes home tonight and opens his mail. And now we know the details. To all those who think employer-based healthcare plans are the pure and only true path to medicine? Given my medical history, insurance is a subject close to home here.  Are you sitting down? My husband and I ... http://spindyeknit.com/2010/03/unbelievable/ I've stalled out.  Too many choices.  (Embiggen for full effect.)  Too much that wants to be knit all at once, right now! (This is Saturday's Creatively Dyed haul, minus the duplicate skeins. In order: Waterfalls Hang laceweight, Steele sockweight in Tull, Spanish, and Jasmine, and Waterfalls laceweight Elegant.) There's only one ... http://spindyeknit.com/2010/03/one-skein-at-a-time/