Danido Crafty » a little catching up

Woo! It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks. I was in California, I was back from California. I am teaching classes at Knit Las Vegas, now I’m officially working at Knit Las Vegas too, I walked in the Komen Race for a Cure this morning and now I’m about to go to Alaska for 8 days at the end of next week.

In between all of that I have had some time for some knitting and picture taking. First we’ll start with some over due photos:

My birthday party was Saturday April 19th. It was a small get together at my house, and some how we managed not to have a whole lot of pictures to show for it. I can give you these little gems though:

These were all taken immediately before cake and Trivial Pursuit time. (Which, again, Mike and I stomped every one else. We rule at trivia.)

Here’s Laura looking terrified and I’m looking a little tipsy, though I promise you I was not in fact drunk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Laura and Kaitlen. I have no idea what was happening here.

 

 

 

And my personal favorite:

What am I even doing here? Who knows.

On to the race today!

The reason I was there. "I race in celebration of: Dee Dee Kircher Jones". I race in memory of her long blond hair.

I love this picture. I actually look like I might be somewhat athletic. Though we all know that the only exercise I get is getting up out of the chair to find my darning needle or chase down a rogue ball of yarn.

 

Here is Las Vegas Mayer, Oscar Goodman, doing what he can for the community. Notice he’s wearing a nice suit and tie, and not a tee shirt and running shoes. Hmm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This, however, was by far the highlight of the morning:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Storm troopers. They walked the whole thing in those suits. Masks on and everything. They stopped every few feet to let people take pictures of them or with them. They are the most patient and tolerant men on the planet. We walked right next to them for a good chunk of the walk. Very cool dudes.

And now, real quick before I go soak in the hot tub for a few minutes, I’ll give everyone a peak at some things I’ve been working on recently.

 

A small cabled bag.

 

 

 

 

I knit this up last weekend. I’m writing a pattern and I’ll be using it for the upcoming cables class I’m teaching this month. It’s real simple, knit flat and seamed with an i-cord strap and a simple button flap closure. It’s small, but I think it’s about as simple as you can get for a beginning cable pattern.

Mr. Elephunk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proto type of a ‘binky’ holder I’m knitting up. There is a frog and sock monkey one coming up soon too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the first frog one I did. But he’s a bit wild eyed and crazy looking. We call him ‘Smirky’ the frog because I embroidered his face on crooked and it looks like he’s smirking.

I’m currently working on a pair of toe up socks in the modified Monkey pattern - Los Monos Loco. The original version of these socks are knit top down and are awesome, but I prefer toe up. (Original pattern here by Cookie A.) The only mods I’m planning on this version are a short row heel instead of the gusset. Not a fan of gussets.

I’m leaving for Alaska on Thursday, and I’m hoping I can finish my black cotton sweater before then so I can wear it to my brothers graduation. I’m feeling pretty confident I’m going to end up making a mad dash to Sears when I get to town to find something else to wear. Such is life. Maybe I’ll have the socks done at least and I can wear those. Pray happy sock thoughts for me, ya’ll.

Now, I’m going to go soak in the hot tub for a bit and try to get to bed early.