bernie must have put a log on this morning, as the damper was open to the woodstove and i know i shut it partly last night
it's 73 in here, which lead me to believe that it was warm out.
noooooooooooooo
it's the radiant heat off the stone of the woodstove
once i realized that, i threw a few logs on for the morning.
now today, i need to start mucking the wet and soon to mold bedding straw out of the duck pens
the timing couldn't be worse, as i am in the beginning of the cookie marathon.
i have to shift ducks all day as well since out of 4 pens i have ONE that is ok, and i have 4 ducks that can't be put together right now......
lillianna is still homicidal, ( but she is starting to calm down i think......slowly)
momma is broody
phoebe is broody
and falstaff............well he will jump on any duck in his path repeatedly and duck rape isn't something i am ok with, as he makes them bloody
just a fast knitting update, i am knitting the 'harmonia rings' by silvia harding right now it is just in some beige tweed worsted that i don't like the color but i envision it dip overdyed in either a russet or a burgundy... and so far i am really liking the knit
the mobius cast on from cat bordhi is really nothing more then the turkish cast on (or i think it's also called the figure 8) but done very cleverly on a long circular
i have to say that cat bordhi is very very clever........ and innovative, and while i am not a total mobius convert, as i think it's fine for somethings not EVERYTHING, i do respect the genius that is cat bordhi as using this cast on in this way is nothing short of spectacular
now this harmonia rings is a nice fast knit, it's interesting, it's textured without being overpowering (IMHO) it's got enough text i think, to be really warm in a sophisticated and understated way.
i think if it's done in a tweed, of say........ burgundy, wine, plum, eggplant or even a charcoal or medium gray, i see it being a wonderful 'city' winter scarf.
i can see it over the black wool NYC winter coats of folks going to wallstreet or any other upscale corporate environment
now doing it in variegated yarns (again use a subtle color change so it doesn't fight the texture) it's a good 'jeans and a peacoat' scarf
me, i am going to make one in plums, and eggplants to go with my goose down winter coats......hahahaha i know with them i will look like the Micheline man's illicit love child but
hey who cares.....i will be warm
ok duckie juggle morning edition:
phoebe in the double pen but it's opened with one dry spot
momma unhappily in the a frame.........also opened with one dry spot
lilli desperately unhappy in the top pen
falstaff in momma' crate
i will go and switch out lilli and falstaff in a while
and then lilli will be running around the very wet basement
and pooping....... all over the place
thank goodness for partial dirt floors
i wish i drank
And what am I knitting today, now that I cast off the gold merino silk (scarf for my sister -- can't say that on Facebook since she's there) and cast on the red/purple merino angora (scrunchable cowl by Rosi Garmendia) and yes it sheds but maybe not so much after I wash and block it? Not sure. But it certainly is a lovely softness to knit. US8 instead of US7 as in pattern. This is the Gedifra angora/merino I got from Webs on sale. It's for a friend who has been through some stuff, including a car accident that wasn't her doing at all but she's having a very hard time recovering from it. She doesn't know about the knitting but I did ask her for her favorite color.
ReplyDeleteAlso cast on for a baby hat for one of the DGSs to be -- the stepson said a hat or a blanket. Well, I gave them both for their first (DGS#2)and never saw a one in use, so won't be knitting a blanket but I can make a couple of hats.
And when the Jean Greenhowe booklets I got on eBay arrive, I'll make a couple of airplanes for the Johns Hopkins kids and DGS#1 and a friend's DGS -- the friend and her daughter LOVE things I make and I already made one of the pink little elephants for the friend's DGD (yes, I made her a few things before, as well as for the DGS -- I've never met the daughter or her two kids but I get e-mail from the daughter).
So that's what's knitting.
Opera tonight. Daughter of the Regiment. Gotta get changed out of the sweats.