I have lost my ever lovin' mind...and it is all Mason-Dixon's fault(s)

They wrote this blasted pattern for a washrag.... a DISHCLOTH... whatever......

They wrote it with some big - ish cotton yarn.... Peaches and Cream or Sugar and Cream.. in mind.

Those yarns are knit on big needles, and it whips right up there and you have a dishcloth...

but I had another idea. A more refined idea. Do you remember this?

After the bread, there is a simple little washrag, knit in a fine cotton from Colourmart and I bought several cones of it...



Well, one thing led to another and I am now, it appears, knitting an AFGHAN!! on 3.5 mm knitting needles. That is insanity, trust me.

It does look pretty, though, doesn't it?

I should be 100 or 110 when it is finished.





I am not just doing ballband stitch, which is what I think they call the washrag stitch, I am varying it now and then with little devices of my own creation just to add some interest, but it is mostly a huge cotton washrag.

On Steroids.


Cat and feet are provided to show you how far I have come, and how far I have to go.....

I have also learned a lot while doing it.. Knitting o Circular needles means that if the yarn you want is at the other end of the article, you can just turn it around back to front and knit it over to where you want it.. Think about that a little and it will drive you mad..

Lovely colors though, aren't they?

we are watching the debate

Earmarks.


Earmarks!!!


earmarks?


my friend here


my friend

earmarks

Raise taxes

raise taxes!!

raise taxes?

tax credit!!

tax employer based health care benefits

health care? C.A.R.E.?

gold plated hair transplant policies

responsibility

my record, my record, my record..

cheating

fundamental

fundamental

How long can this go on?

Thank you for that question......

I really appreciate that question.

That's a really good question...

I have lost my blogging mojo...

I am reduced to pointing you all at other people's blogs, but I do want you to look at these. I am neither here nor there on the subject of celuclay, but they would be interesting made out of torn pieces of great paper and paper mache or wallpaper paste mix... messy, I am sure, but light and pretty. I think I might try these out. I once saw something like this made over the shape of a big huge balloon, so that it was big enough to sit on the floor and hold yarn for a whole sweater or whatever.

It is turning cold here, I need a sweater when I walk the big old girl in the AM. She loves it, however, she hops and skips and barks and at some point runs in mad circles around me making me dizzy. Then she comes in and makes interesting piles of dog on the sofa. I love me a relaxed puppy.

















Isn't this a comforting view? I have never had a real over the stove microwave before and it took me 6 months to find the light under it!

It changes the look of the kitchen.








I think it is going to warm up a little, but summer is over for sure. No leaf change colors to report here yet, but lots of morning fog.. Looks like winter is on its way here...

I had company that made me think

Gill and Mark were here, and they always make my mind start whirling about things I should, could, would be doing. Add that to the subway being in one of its saddest states.. no C train above 145, shuttle bus (aka irregularly occurring cattle car) running above 168 and then next thing you have is lots of time to ponder.

SO first, I have to tell a bit about what we all did..
I spent time with some bus people, some of whom wore VERY cute hats..


















I did NOT eat either of the items on this sign, but I confess that I wanted to know how they would taste.























And I DID Imagine how it would be if I started doing some real artsy things again and decided that I have to swap around some of the things I am doing so that I have more time and more impetus to do things rather than reading blogs about other people doing things..
And I have started by deleting about 100 blogs off my Google list... everyone has to start somewhere, right?














Gill and Mark and I found a new subway station mural too, this is just a teaser about it.


















The last night, we went to Otto, and I remembered to take a picture of old faithful before I stripped out all the shells and ate it. YUM.


Now I am going to start hunting up a book to alter.. I hope Gill is doing the same??

of course I took a few detours

and took a few lessons from the champion of all the sleepers and the thinkers.





















Any where, any time, any box at all, big or small, or way too small, and I am there. I think, therefore I sleep













I can make the world go away.
















and I can close my eyes real tight, and I can think with all my might ...


















and when I decide to wake up, look out world.. I am ready to roar.

and while I was thinking loose, I was

also doing a lot of this






















Trying out this






















and when I was beginning to think I might have some answers I did a bit of this.

bless me, I have sinned...

I have been over a week without a post and that is not a forgivable sin. All I can say, by way of 'splanation is that I was doing this.












and some of this.







and a little of this.





then of course, there was time spent doing this..

There is an old southern saw about how when I stand, I lean,
when I sit, I sit loose
and when I think I fall asleep... well, I have been thinking.


Trying to get to the bottom of why I am not doing but instead am ......
thinking loose