Life in Color โ€” a scrappy Log Cabin quilt block pieced in pink and green prints.
  • Ah I think I’m out of my funk. Still have a bit of cough, but I’ve moved on to mitered squares, so I think I’m better. ๐Ÿ™‚ Still haven’t gotten to the scrapping (tonight maybe?), but I did get to be extra crafty today. I put on my mom’s reject sweater:
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    (She made this Debbie Bliss sweater for herself, then decided she didn’t like it. Happy accident for me!) And headed over to Sciarrino’s with my neighbor Tracy for a happy little knit party. Which goes perfectly with how I’ve been spending my weekend, hanging out on Ravelry. Here is a link to my page, if you’re signed up you should be able to see it, I’m "squeekie23" on there. I’ve added my stash, projects, books, needles, ohhh it is as fun as everyone said it would be!

    And on another knitting related note, you must check out Pushing Daisies. The show is absolutely brilliant, narrated by Jim Dale (yes, the guy who reads Harry Potter). The lead was one of the characters from Wonderfalls (which was an amazing short, canceled too early show). Anyway the PI in the show knits when he gets stressed, it’s so fantastic. The whole show is shot like a movie and I really want you all to watch it because weird/special shows like this always get canceled before they should, and I would cry if that happened to this show.

    edited to add:

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    his  knitted office things.

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    knitted gun cozies!!!!

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    saving the day with his knitting needle. So cool.

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  • Washclothes
    Turns out I can turn out a washcloth a day even while blowing my nose every three seconds. But I can’t do anything involving counting or decreases, so no blanket work for now. I did get my invite to Ravelry finally and am going to work on that. Plus I’m feeling the scrapbooking vibe. We’ll see what I come up with.

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  • I haven’t been up to much this week, hence the slow blogging, but last night and today I finally had time to have some fun. Yesterday I picked up Emilie and we went with Sciarrino and Matt to First Thursday in Portland. We had a great time walking around the city. My favorite exhibits were Scott Peterman: Ice Houses and some Gee’s Bend quilts I got to see at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery. I was lucky enough to get to meet some of the woman who made the quilts.

    Then today I got to hang out with the lovely and talented Nora Griffin and her husband Sean.
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    They first got to come and have lunch at my place. When they showed up it was like I already knew them, since we’ve been reading each others blogs for a few years now. So much fun.  And I got to show them around the loveliness that is Salem. Lucky for me they loved the city as much as I do. We went to a bunch of cute boutiques on State street. Nora was very impressed with the fall foliage.
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    After that we headed north to Aurora, I think I’ve talked about it before, it’s a cute little antiquing town. It was a great day. Finding blog friends is always a double edged sword, I knew we would get along well and have fun, but she has to go home to cali! I’m sure we’ll hang out again next time we cross paths.

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