God Save our Gracious Queen....
Remember... as a Newfy I have a very rich tradition with the British.... Mom and Dad were born British... they still have their British birth certificates.... passports... etc. Me... I'm Canadian but I I still love the Royals...
I've been awake for hours.... but it was so worth it... big smile on my face. What a really awesome message in the sermon. Back off and leave them alone... and be caring of each other... very good.
He was grand and she was captivating. I wish them all the best and may they have many years of happiness. The vows were the same as the ones that Teapot and I exchanged... only we had communion too.
I'm all alone and the sky is brightening. Is it getting to be a new day already?
Now if they would just kiss so I could go back to bed.
Friday, April 29, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
It Was A Joke...!
I'm astounded at how many people actually think that I am going to make a study of yarns suitable for the Royal Wedding characters for my in depth study.... it was a joke really... I didn't really meant it. I am NOT going to do an in depth study on the Royal Wedding knitted figurines.... really I'm not!
Actually I have been thinking about my in depth study. But my topics of interest are much more scientific (I'm not sure that is the right word) and certainly less cutesy than the Royal figurines in knitted wool.... Here's a list of what's been on my mind.
1. A Study Of Balance In Long and Short Stapled Wool Yarns - What Makes a Yarn Balanced And How That Affects a Knitted Garment.
2. A Study In Colour In Novelty Yarns With Emphasis On Colour Used With The Four Natural Colours of White/Cream, Brown, Grey, And Black
3. A Study On Spinning Silk For Embroidery (this one needs some refining yet).
4. All Around The Clock, A Study On Yarns Suitable For Warp In Weaving And Whether Yarns Spun Clockwise Are More Effective Than Counterclockwise Spun Yarns.
The first two really interest me and the other two, less so... #2 has been in my mind since my first year. When I was first introduced to tufted novelty yarns/insertion novelty yarns. I was fascinated with how using a grey or white background changed the look of a novelty yarn in comparison to black or brown. But then colour has always fascinated me and thus the reason for my inability to choose a favorite.
Meanwhile it is a rainy coolish day. I woke to a gentle spring rainfall outside my window, hitting the tin. I jumped out of bed to go and bring the deck chairs in under the eaves of the house in order to keep them dry. When I came back in my spinning wheel was beckoning me to sit a while and spin. It was 5:30 a.m. and all was quiet... you can't ask for a more perfect time to spin. So I did. I just finished my last Worsted sample and it is as close to perfect as possible. Gorgeous! Even if I do say so myself.
I have one sample left in that section. I had hoped to get it done yesterday but quite honestly those write ups took longer than I expected. It's not the writing up that takes the time.. it's the labelling and the printing and getting them into the page savers etc... it takes forever. In addition I did get more print ups finished than I expected... I even managed to finish a few of the write ups for the dye section which I finished last summer at the dyeing retreat. So yesterday was a good day for getting my work done.
Teapot and the girls have headed off to school. The dogs are disgusted that it is wet outside and I will not let them stay outside digging in the garden and getting all muddy.
Meanwhile I am sitting listening to the Current on CBC Radio and it is a show dedicated to the Royal Wedding... it's really interesting to listen to. But nary a word is being said about Knitted Royal Wedding characters.... and so I will end by reiterating that I am NOT knitting the Royal Characters for my in depth study... though I may knit them for fun!
Actually I have been thinking about my in depth study. But my topics of interest are much more scientific (I'm not sure that is the right word) and certainly less cutesy than the Royal figurines in knitted wool.... Here's a list of what's been on my mind.
1. A Study Of Balance In Long and Short Stapled Wool Yarns - What Makes a Yarn Balanced And How That Affects a Knitted Garment.
2. A Study In Colour In Novelty Yarns With Emphasis On Colour Used With The Four Natural Colours of White/Cream, Brown, Grey, And Black
3. A Study On Spinning Silk For Embroidery (this one needs some refining yet).
4. All Around The Clock, A Study On Yarns Suitable For Warp In Weaving And Whether Yarns Spun Clockwise Are More Effective Than Counterclockwise Spun Yarns.
The first two really interest me and the other two, less so... #2 has been in my mind since my first year. When I was first introduced to tufted novelty yarns/insertion novelty yarns. I was fascinated with how using a grey or white background changed the look of a novelty yarn in comparison to black or brown. But then colour has always fascinated me and thus the reason for my inability to choose a favorite.
Meanwhile it is a rainy coolish day. I woke to a gentle spring rainfall outside my window, hitting the tin. I jumped out of bed to go and bring the deck chairs in under the eaves of the house in order to keep them dry. When I came back in my spinning wheel was beckoning me to sit a while and spin. It was 5:30 a.m. and all was quiet... you can't ask for a more perfect time to spin. So I did. I just finished my last Worsted sample and it is as close to perfect as possible. Gorgeous! Even if I do say so myself.
I have one sample left in that section. I had hoped to get it done yesterday but quite honestly those write ups took longer than I expected. It's not the writing up that takes the time.. it's the labelling and the printing and getting them into the page savers etc... it takes forever. In addition I did get more print ups finished than I expected... I even managed to finish a few of the write ups for the dye section which I finished last summer at the dyeing retreat. So yesterday was a good day for getting my work done.
Teapot and the girls have headed off to school. The dogs are disgusted that it is wet outside and I will not let them stay outside digging in the garden and getting all muddy.
Meanwhile I am sitting listening to the Current on CBC Radio and it is a show dedicated to the Royal Wedding... it's really interesting to listen to. But nary a word is being said about Knitted Royal Wedding characters.... and so I will end by reiterating that I am NOT knitting the Royal Characters for my in depth study... though I may knit them for fun!
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Nary A Fork In Sight And The Eyes Are Still Intact
Well the trip to DC yesterday went well especially the trip back... My mother had a mouthful of new teeth so maybe that was why it went so well. She couldn't tell me the same story twenty times... because she was having a hard time getting used to her new teeth. (Strike me down God!) Poor Mom... as she gets older her memory is not as good as it used to be.
I have now finished write ups for all linen/flax questions and will be putting them in my book today... I also got one write up done for the Lopi samples... I have two more to do this morning. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and I feel my momentum building... it is like a horse that can smell the barn after a long day out on the range.... or the little train that could. I'm working hard these days, when I find the time, and this day is stretching out before me with no obligations except to spin and do write ups.... aaah.. what bliss!
I am also going to put myself out there and say something that most Canadians don't give a fig about. I'm a Royalist through and through. I'm all over the news... I can't wait till Friday (or Thursday night as case may be) I'm staying up. I'll be driving the bites downloaded way out of wack since we don't have TV but I'm really hyped for them... I just hope no nit wit does anything to spoil their special day..... You know who I'm talking about don't you....
I'm going to knit this for my level 6 in depth study.... Yarns Appropriate For The Royal Wedding.... That's what I call my in depth study.... (that's a joke for you guys too serious to recognize one)!
Anyhoo... I'm off to do write ups... well actually I'm not off because then I couldn't reach the computer... I'm staying right here, I just won't be on the internet... see ya tomorrow...
The Daughters and I think the picture above is hilarious... except for the Corgi's which are just too cute!
I have now finished write ups for all linen/flax questions and will be putting them in my book today... I also got one write up done for the Lopi samples... I have two more to do this morning. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and I feel my momentum building... it is like a horse that can smell the barn after a long day out on the range.... or the little train that could. I'm working hard these days, when I find the time, and this day is stretching out before me with no obligations except to spin and do write ups.... aaah.. what bliss!
I am also going to put myself out there and say something that most Canadians don't give a fig about. I'm a Royalist through and through. I'm all over the news... I can't wait till Friday (or Thursday night as case may be) I'm staying up. I'll be driving the bites downloaded way out of wack since we don't have TV but I'm really hyped for them... I just hope no nit wit does anything to spoil their special day..... You know who I'm talking about don't you....
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| Don't you think the Queen looks like she's been imbibing a little too much. : ) |
Anyhoo... I'm off to do write ups... well actually I'm not off because then I couldn't reach the computer... I'm staying right here, I just won't be on the internet... see ya tomorrow...
The Daughters and I think the picture above is hilarious... except for the Corgi's which are just too cute!
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
In Between It All
1. I didn't get my worsted and woollen samples finished. But I did get a fair bit of work done on catching up on my write ups. I only have one true worsted sample left and a blend of the same wool fibre with mohair.
2. The weather was amazing and I was able to sit out on the deck and enjoy the beautiful spring all weekend... which is one of the reasons I didn't get my woolen and worsted samples finished.... I kept falling asleep in the sunshine.
3. I woke up about a half an hour ago with a really bad stomach because stupid me forgot to take her medication... so now I'm trying to get my meds to digest a bit by sitting in an upright position before I go back to bed. (Taking meds and then lying down will cause raucus heart burn and ulcers.)
4. I am going to lose a day of spinning because I am getting up in the morning and heading off to DC with ma Mere for another appointment... (I've got the forks ready!) Hopefully this is the last appointment.
5. I cannot find a recipe for bleaching linen/flax. I may just wing it.... which is never good.
6. I curled my hair with rollers yesterday (which I haven't done in years) and Daughter #2 told me I looked like I had horns... so I told her that I was the devil.... and that I was her worst nightmare. Bad hair day supreme.
7. I'm starting to get panicky about my level 4 homework... (I go through this every year...)
8. I wish it would snow again.. (yes I do) since the air is startlingly bright and warm... with no leaves to filter it, it is scary how hot it gets on the deck. I don't want another hot-excruciating-nothing-growing year again.
9. I have a sore throat again... thanks to the Daughters and their little flirt with the flu.... right that's just what I need.
10. Easter is over for another year. Boo hoo...that's not fair. No more sleeping in until the May long. Whahhhh!
So I think I'll go paint my toenails while I'm waiting for this stupid pill to digest. An-hour-of-no sleep... blah!
2. The weather was amazing and I was able to sit out on the deck and enjoy the beautiful spring all weekend... which is one of the reasons I didn't get my woolen and worsted samples finished.... I kept falling asleep in the sunshine.
3. I woke up about a half an hour ago with a really bad stomach because stupid me forgot to take her medication... so now I'm trying to get my meds to digest a bit by sitting in an upright position before I go back to bed. (Taking meds and then lying down will cause raucus heart burn and ulcers.)
4. I am going to lose a day of spinning because I am getting up in the morning and heading off to DC with ma Mere for another appointment... (I've got the forks ready!) Hopefully this is the last appointment.
5. I cannot find a recipe for bleaching linen/flax. I may just wing it.... which is never good.
6. I curled my hair with rollers yesterday (which I haven't done in years) and Daughter #2 told me I looked like I had horns... so I told her that I was the devil.... and that I was her worst nightmare. Bad hair day supreme.
7. I'm starting to get panicky about my level 4 homework... (I go through this every year...)
8. I wish it would snow again.. (yes I do) since the air is startlingly bright and warm... with no leaves to filter it, it is scary how hot it gets on the deck. I don't want another hot-excruciating-nothing-growing year again.
9. I have a sore throat again... thanks to the Daughters and their little flirt with the flu.... right that's just what I need.
10. Easter is over for another year. Boo hoo...that's not fair. No more sleeping in until the May long. Whahhhh!
So I think I'll go paint my toenails while I'm waiting for this stupid pill to digest. An-hour-of-no sleep... blah!
Sunday, April 24, 2011
A Happy Easter
Been up since 6 a.m and this time I was not the first one up. Daughter #2 beat me to it and was out in the yard with her horse. We had a lovely Easter morn. Easter gifts (and all things fit) ... check. Easter egg hunt.... check. Easter chocolate.... check. Easter tree... check.
Easter breakfast... check. Easter Sunday service.... check. Now cooking an Easter family din din. An old fashioned pot roast with all the trimmings... yum. Teapot is out cutting trees and doing some yard work which for him, is the next best thing to Godliness. : ) Daughter #2 is in bed with a head cold that's the only draw back but while she is snoozing Daughter #1 is teaching her best bud to ride horse back... looks like fun to me.
What a pretty day... and while the veggies cook I'm on the deck with my wheel and wool... what more could you ask for?!
Hope your have a fine old Easter too...
Easter breakfast... check. Easter Sunday service.... check. Now cooking an Easter family din din. An old fashioned pot roast with all the trimmings... yum. Teapot is out cutting trees and doing some yard work which for him, is the next best thing to Godliness. : ) Daughter #2 is in bed with a head cold that's the only draw back but while she is snoozing Daughter #1 is teaching her best bud to ride horse back... looks like fun to me.
What a pretty day... and while the veggies cook I'm on the deck with my wheel and wool... what more could you ask for?!
Hope your have a fine old Easter too...
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Working Hard
Teapot and I have been working hard. Daughter #1 and Daughter #2 have been laid low with head colds for Easter weekend. It was lovely to have them all home yesterday and I know they enjoyed it too. Daughter #1 hardly got out of bed which was fine since I don't want her germs and they are confined to her bedroom for the most part. Daughter #2 is not feeling so raw and was up and about for part of the day. Meanwhile Teapot was out cutting down trees as we are still trying to clear the Pine Beetle kill trees out. The yard is once again starting to look very bare. After lunch I convinced him to finish the small project of putting the full length glass in the door to our balcony outside of our bedroom and over looks my deck. Meanwhile I spun. All day I worked on the blasted worsted and woollen (Canadians spell it with two ls) samples.... I have four of them finished and I am working on the fifth. After about 4 o'clock, when it was too cold to sit out on the deck any longer and spin I started work on the write ups for all of my work since back in February. I made good progress and by 11 o'clock last night I was completely done in. I have my first binder completed and I'm now working on the second binder. I finished writing up the work for the flax samples. I still have Lopi samples to write up and worsted/woollen samples to write up.
There is nothing better than the warm spring days to invigorate you and make you feel like you can do anything.Even though there are still heaps of snow around in the yard and in the back country it is still quite winter-like, spring is definitely making headway around this end of the country. The trees are coming out in bud and I am beginning to see little sprouts of green grass on the south sides of things. This morning the sky is blue and the sun in shining brilliantly. Teapot and the girls are enjoying a sleep-in while I nurse a stiff back (after all that spinning and computer work yesterday) over a cup of coffee and some breakfast. All is quiet, but I expect that to be short lived... although i might just go back to bed for a little sleep-in since I'm starting to loosen up again..... Nah, now is my chance to catch up on this level 4 work.
I always did love Easter.... maybe because it is in the spring and how can you not like something when the sun is shining.
There is nothing better than the warm spring days to invigorate you and make you feel like you can do anything.Even though there are still heaps of snow around in the yard and in the back country it is still quite winter-like, spring is definitely making headway around this end of the country. The trees are coming out in bud and I am beginning to see little sprouts of green grass on the south sides of things. This morning the sky is blue and the sun in shining brilliantly. Teapot and the girls are enjoying a sleep-in while I nurse a stiff back (after all that spinning and computer work yesterday) over a cup of coffee and some breakfast. All is quiet, but I expect that to be short lived... although i might just go back to bed for a little sleep-in since I'm starting to loosen up again..... Nah, now is my chance to catch up on this level 4 work.
I always did love Easter.... maybe because it is in the spring and how can you not like something when the sun is shining.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Spring.... At Last?!.... Maybe?!
So I sat out on the deck yesterday.... oh it was lovely... The snow was almost gone, and it was warm... like really warm. Warm enough that I was able to pull up my top a little and get some sun on my Lily white belly.... but I kept my chair back on to the road, that's for sure, and you will never see pictures of that! I'd scare everyone away. Yes those pictures of snow that I posted the other morning were very short lived. I knew that and that's why I took the picture. By lunch time it was all gone. But it was very pretty.
There's a light in the spring in the north that you don't get anywhere else. It's really bright and unfiltered by the green leaves, it can even be harsh. Right now there are pussy willows starting to burst forth and the sun shining on those soft frothy buds make the trees look like something from one of Shakespeare's plays... (As You Like It maybe). It all has a dream like quality about it. There are millions of wee birds around and the coyotes have been really active in the last few weeks. I hear them all the time just before it's time to get up or just after dark. The days are getting longer too. Right now the sun is rising at 5:43 a.m. and it is daylight long before that. The sun is setting some time after eight and it really isn't full dark until 9:00 p.m. or later. The ground is starting to dry out so it is not all about muck in the yard.
What did I do while out on the deck? Well, I didn't just sit. I spun. I finally finished off this...
It now looks like this....
Oh and this picture doesn't even come close to doing it justice.
Later:
....Ok I've been trying all day to get this post finished and it just hasn't happened. I went to Chetwynd today to finish Easter shopping... I got kicked off the computer this morning to shower before I went. Then I got home and tried finishing again but almost fell asleep at the computer because I was awake half the night... (check the calendar... I betcha that we're close to a full moon) I was spinning half the night... I finished this...
dang it!....yup I haven't figured out my new camera yet and I can't get a good picture... so I'll just tell you instead. In the middle of the night I spun a full spool of Denim Blue Cotswold (that's wool for you non woolies) that I had been given some years ago for Christmas... it turned out really pretty... I'll see if I can post a picture tomorrow.
Anyway... I tried finishing this post this evening but then remembered that it is Knit Night and I had to run off for that.... so now I am finished b---ching about not having enough time to .... well you get my drift. But at least I'm just about finished.
I'm sure that Good Friday will be better. I'm sleeping in late and nursing this darn pain in my kidneys... no it's not an infection... I don't think... and I'm going out to spin on the deck again if the weather stays nice.
See ya tomorrow.
There's a light in the spring in the north that you don't get anywhere else. It's really bright and unfiltered by the green leaves, it can even be harsh. Right now there are pussy willows starting to burst forth and the sun shining on those soft frothy buds make the trees look like something from one of Shakespeare's plays... (As You Like It maybe). It all has a dream like quality about it. There are millions of wee birds around and the coyotes have been really active in the last few weeks. I hear them all the time just before it's time to get up or just after dark. The days are getting longer too. Right now the sun is rising at 5:43 a.m. and it is daylight long before that. The sun is setting some time after eight and it really isn't full dark until 9:00 p.m. or later. The ground is starting to dry out so it is not all about muck in the yard.
What did I do while out on the deck? Well, I didn't just sit. I spun. I finally finished off this...
Later:
....Ok I've been trying all day to get this post finished and it just hasn't happened. I went to Chetwynd today to finish Easter shopping... I got kicked off the computer this morning to shower before I went. Then I got home and tried finishing again but almost fell asleep at the computer because I was awake half the night... (check the calendar... I betcha that we're close to a full moon) I was spinning half the night... I finished this...
dang it!....yup I haven't figured out my new camera yet and I can't get a good picture... so I'll just tell you instead. In the middle of the night I spun a full spool of Denim Blue Cotswold (that's wool for you non woolies) that I had been given some years ago for Christmas... it turned out really pretty... I'll see if I can post a picture tomorrow.
Anyway... I tried finishing this post this evening but then remembered that it is Knit Night and I had to run off for that.... so now I am finished b---ching about not having enough time to .... well you get my drift. But at least I'm just about finished.
I'm sure that Good Friday will be better. I'm sleeping in late and nursing this darn pain in my kidneys... no it's not an infection... I don't think... and I'm going out to spin on the deck again if the weather stays nice.
See ya tomorrow.
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