City of Boxes - Dawn

CITY OF BOXES



So we are moved into our "new to us" condo and we have begun the "why the hell did we move THIS" process. Meanwhile I have still managed to knit. Believe it or not in the mist of all the other things I should be doing I've been knitting and it has helped me to stay somewhat sane. This is a picturer of my stash and where it lives while I figure out where it will go in the new condo. I'm planning a location of relative prominence (rightly so) but where.


Here are some other condo pics.

The kitchen with a few boxes visible

Living Room with many boxes visible

Spare Room with only boxes visible.

and

okay, some knitting

This is the Phyllotaxis Scarf from Knitting Nature (I love that book). I'm knitting it for my Dad who will probably not wear it but put in a safe location to save for ... who knows. I think he'll like it though. It is knitted of baby alpaca from a farm in Ohio.

Dad, if you wear it, it will keep you really really warm and I know those Ohio winters are cold cold cold.

Next...

Seaside Mitts for a former student of mine at Los Angeles City College where the winters are decidedly less cold. This was my first project using beads. It was suprisingly easy. The pattern is, I think, from Mag Knits, but I can't say that is for certain. I altered the pattern a bit and left the separation of fingers off 1) since I'm lazy and 2) since no fingers seems to be all the rage.

and

for Dana, in replacement of the Sunrise Circle Jacket that I couldn't seem to get right. I frogged the jacket and knitted up a Capelet from "Wrap Style" which I hope she likes. Generally, I'm getting good reactions from people I show it to, though some pause and say, "you made a cape?" Anyhow, here it is. I still have to block it out and I'm not quite sure how to go about it. Also I just bought the buttons yesterday and will need to sew them on. Will people in Ann Arbor think the cape is cool or will they say, "a cape?" What will my sister think. The jury is still out.

Anther crazy thing that has happened for Jeff and I besides buying property in Southern California is that our dog started to wake us up 3 and 4 times a night wanting to go out. I though it was just the craziness of our lives catching up with us, but we finally took her to the vet last week and found out that she had a stone in her bladder. Poor thing, she has been dealing with a big stone rolling around in her bladder for probably the last 6 months. So on Tuesday our pooch had surgery and the lemon drop sized stone was removed. She is definitely feeling better and we are definitely getting more sleep.

See here, Bette has stitches. She also has to wear a cone around her head to keep her from pulling the stitches out, but I won't embarass her too much by posting that pic.