Showing posts with label Antarktis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antarktis. Show all posts

Thursday, September 8, 2016

Feeling Patriotic

I'm feeling slightly more patriotic today.

I stopped by the bank yesterday and as I was leaving .....


A huge bald eagle was on the edge of the parking lot eating his dinner.

A bald eagle sighting at the Union Bank in Ashland, VA
Bald Eagle

I just hope he didn't cause an accident because he was definitely getting noticed by the passing cars.

In knitting news, I finished my Antarktis and even blocked it.  Of course, I failed to photo it.  That's on tomorrow's to-do list.  Today, I'm hanging with my kids.  I haven't seen my boy child in almost two months.  It's difficult being a helicopter parent to an adult who no longer lives at home.

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Antarktis

I'm joining Ginny's Yarn Along...

The visible progress on my Antarktis has slowed considerably but I'm inching towards the finish line.

knitting scarves and shawls and Yarn Along reading My Familiar Stranger

I'm also nearing the end of My Familiar Stranger.  This book has a strange mix of multiple dimensions, elves, nice vampire, vampire hunters and humans.  Somehow the author manages to weave them all together into a mostly believable romance novel that I'm actually enjoying.  It helps that the nice vampire has just enough 'bad boy' in his past to make him lovable instead of wimpy.  I'm enjoying reading this book almost as much as I'm enjoying knitting Antarktis.


Sunday, August 28, 2016

On the needles

Just a quick OTN update.

Antarktis shawl scarf, hand knit simple lacy shawl scarf
Antarktis 

My Antarktis shawl is coming along nicely.  The pattern is fantastic.  It contains lots of garter stitch for mindless TV knitting with just enough patterning to keep it interesting.  And since I'm using another colorway of Pittura yarn.... I'm in knitter's Heaven.

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

And then I had a coma

My knitting has been sporadic at best for the last week.  There was that nasty eye infection (which spread to the other eye,) there was family 'stuff' and of course, there was work.  Work got the better of me and I ended up falling apart and going home early Sunday night. I honestly don't understand how I could possibly come down with a different sickness with all the antibiotics pumping through my system but apparently it is possible.  Monday morning I woke up long enough to call out sick then went back to sleep until about 7 p.m.   It's amazing what 19 hours of sleep will do for you.  Actually, it was more like 19 hours of coma.

It really is amazing what 19 hours of sleep/coma can do.  I feel much better but I also have  one sunburned knee.  Apparently, my curtains were open and one knee was sticking out from under the covers.  Oh well.  The sunburned knee just goes along with the still red, puffy eyes.  It's a look.

But since this is supposed to be about my knitting....

lace garter stitch shawl hand knit with Pittura wool. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/antarktis
Antarktis Shawl

Thanks to a bit of gentle persuasion from Karen over at Pumpkin Sunrise, I cast on my own version of Antarktis shawl this morning.  It doesn't look like much yet but I feel unbelievably productive.  Row-count wise, it's a crazy fast project to knit.  At least it starts out that way.  We'll see how fast it feels when there's almost 200 stitches on the needle.