and shes baaaaaaaack.......

so i FINALLY got a computer!!! so i bring you the bottom of my bag (taken, of course, on the camera on my computer).....

well thats it for now. im still knitting. and i now have to be up super early. so this whole knitting thing is kinda getting in the way of getting to work on time!!! ahh!!!

Indoctrination Success!

With JJ's permission, I am posting the email I received from her last evening...

"...I just wanted to tell you how much I'm LOVING knitting!! I finished the bottom of my bag and got to the pick up and knit part and almost stopped. But instead I googled how to do it. And now that I think I know what I'm doing- I don't want to put it down!! Its like reading a good book! Except I have to be up at 6. So I have to!

That is all. Wish I was there!!


My work as a knitting mentor may be done!

By the way, the wonderfully addicting bag mentioned is the Medano Beach Bag by Heidi Kirrmaier.

It does look like a great bag, JJ! Post a pic of the finished product when you complete it...tonight??

love, marmie

Remnants and Future Projects

All I really want to do right now is bust out my new size 2.5 dpn and start knitting Nephew Josh's birthday present. However, I am still packing for my cross country trip. I am moving back to the East Coast after a whirlwind year in LA. I am unsure of my future there but I am, for the first time in awhile, looking forward to the unknown. If knitting has taught me anything about life it is that you might have a plan and a pattern to follow but the end product can still turn out different than you expected. (P.S. Thanks to Marmie and JJ for showing just how true this is!)

A few weeks ago JJ flew out to visit me and left me with a few knitting remnants. She brought me her adorable pink octopus, which has been my moving mascot. She also spent some time knitting while I was at work and I came home to her own knit eyeball. I guess the eyeball fad has stuck! I love that because of this project, we three women are leaving knitting remnants of ourselves wherever we go. :-)

So while I pack and tape and label boxes I keep eying the bag of orange, black, and white yarn that will soon be a cute little fox. I decided to listen to Stereomood.com, a music website JJ got me into recently. As I was browsing the possible "moods" of music to listen to I discovered there is one called "Let's Knit!" The knitting gods are on my side. I may not be putting together my latest project, but I am in the knitting zone, stitching together my west coast life which will soon turn into an east coast life.

Cheers, fellow Howe women, to our future as knitters, to our east coast stitch n' bitch dates, and to the hobby that has guided us through an amazing 7 months so far!

sometimes you knit...

Sometimes you knit out of obligation...


Sometimes you knit to learn something...

And sometimes you knit out of pure love...

In every stitch, little Alice!

love,

grand-marmie