This was taken yesterday.
The St. Lawrence is really low right now due to the lack of rain, and I had gone to the end of the docks out back of the apartment to take some pictures of a small rocky island that had emerged, which the ducks and geese quite like. Then I looked up.
The sky was magnificent and I couldn't pass up the chance at such a beautiful picture.
Saturday Sky, taken Friday, September 28, 2007 at 6:33pm from the docks out back of the Platypus Nest.
Well, I bit the bullet at photographed the Pineapple doily I'm working on.
It doesn't actually look as bad as I was expecting.
Not great, but not horrible either.
I started this thing last summer, I wanted to submit it to the fair, but I didn't finish in time, I ended up dragging it around with me for a while, but eventually lost interest, I picked it up again to see if I could finish it.
I hadn't realized how skuzzy it had gotten, the picture doesn't show it as much, but it's got this giant blob of dirt in the middle medallion, I'm hoping a good washing before I block it will get it out.
I can't wait to finish it; it's going to be beautiful!
This is the biggest doily I've worked on so far, more than a foot long.
Hopefully I can enter it into next summer's fair.
Well it has definitely been a tiring summer around here, thankfully there is only about two weeks of work left.
Progress on feather and fan is going well; I'm a little over half way finished. Although it has slowed down a bit as it has gotten too big to travel with, so it has become my stay at home project. Even that hasn't kept it safe though, somehow it has acquired a small red stain - I'm assuming raspberries - but I'm not sure how it got it, as the knitting is kept far away from the food. It's a good thing I plan on dying it once I'm finished.
That and I was distracted for a few days be Ravely. :-/
I love being able to surf through patters and see other peoples projects with just a few clicks. It makes finding good projects so easy.
Including this:
His Name is Alexander the Great Lion Washcloth.
Or Knitty's Grrr.
Bill saw the pattern while I was surfing around Ravely and thought it was cute, so I decided to make one for him. (He doesn’t want to use it, just keep it as a friend... my husband is a little weird sometimes)
It was actually quite fun, the loop stitches were a PITA at first, but once I got in to the grove of it, it was a fast and fun little knit.
I've also picked up the crochet pineapple doily I had started in the middle of last summer, but never finished, I had been hoping to submit it into he fair for judging, but didn't finish in time. It has become my new traveling project and I only have a few more rounds to go, I think it will definitely be submitted next summer.
beautiful sky this morning, but I was running late for work, so Bill took the picture for me.
he rocks.
notice the small flock of birds?
Saturday Sky, taken Saturday, September 22, 2007 ~7:35am out front of the Platypus Nest.
When I was at the NY Sheep and Wool Festival in Rhinebeck NY last year I was astounded to see a large gathering of people all chatting and crying some kind of bingo cards. I immediately recognized some of the people as favorite bloggers of mine, but was too timid at the time to do anything but stare from afar.
well this year I have my very own knit blog, and I'm going to put it to my full advantage.
catch me if you can!
I'm a square!!
more info will be forthcoming as we get closer to the date.
wee! I'm so excited!
:D
Ravely is evil
i just got my invite and spent quite some time looking at patterns and uploading projects.
whew.
(i'm AlienSunset if anyone cares, but most of my content is still going to be here, but i do enjoy being able to easily find other people working on the same project and me, or on projects i would like to make, Google blog search is not always as helpful as i would like.)
have a bunch of knitting content coming but need time to formulate a post.
for now, Saturday sky.
the Russian Girl I work with said today's sky looked like it wanted to snow.
Saturday Sky, taken, Saturday, September 15, 2007, 3:25pm, out back of the platypus nest.
holly crap, it's a Saturday sky!
yeah, i know i haven't posted many since i started back at work, but the sky was quite pretty today and it was pleasantly warm instead of oppressively hot like it has been.
so here you go:
Saturday Sky, taken Saturday, August 18, 2007, 4:10pm, Rt.12 looking toward Alexandria Bay out front of the Platypus nest.
Whew, this week is "Bill Johnston Pirate Days" in the town where I work, which means everything is about five times as busy and usual. The week leading up to this has been just as crazy with preparations for the influx of people.
But I have been knitting!
Fist we have Elizabeth Zimmermann's February baby sweater. 
Knit on size 6 (4mm) knit picks interchangeables, with some random acrylic I had in my stash.
I knit this entire sweater in about week while listening to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. (Yes I know I'm way behind, I prefer it this way, please no spoilers) I actually finished it Thursday knight, but have just been too busy to stop and take pictures and post about it. The button holes are a little unevenly spaced, but I didn't notice until I went to take the picture today. It's not too noticeable, so I don’t think I'll do any thing about it. I need to pick up buttons while I'm in town tomorrow.
I don't have any babies to give it too, but I'm sure I'll find somebody.
Next we have Feather and Fan.
A little slower since I actually have to pay attention and I've been too tired lately to focus for too long.
But I am making progress!
I'm on row 90, and it is becoming nigh impossible to take a good picture.
Ah well.
I finished the socks I was making for Bill.
I got bored with the plain stockinette and decided to add a cable running up the sides.
it looks really cool, but it's really hard to photograph well.
I learned that Bill's feet are quite different than mine, while my feet are chubby and very, very flat. Bill's feet are wiry and have the instep of DOOM.
next time I make socks for him I'm going to have to give in and do a heel flap and gusset.
I tried adding a little mini gusset in after I realized how badly the short row heel was going to fit.
I don't think it was enough.
ah well.
Stats:
Yarn: Brown Sheep nature spun sport
Needles: Addi turbo size 2 (3mm) for the main portion and size 1(2.5mm) for the ribbing.
Pattern: the usual tow up two at once short row heel pattern, with last ditch increases to fit instep of doom.
this one was taken as I stepped out my front door on the way to work this morning.
I was struck by the beauty of the clouds in the perfect blue sky.
the picture doesn't do justice to what it was really like, but it's still pretty.
Saturday Sky, taken Saturday, July 21, 2007, 6:30am, out front of the platypus nest.
so I have been a horrible blogger this summer. work has been so crazy, and when I'm not working, I'm to busy knitting to blog about it.
I've started a new pair of socks for Bill, I've turned the heel and am deciding what kind of pattern I want to put on the ankle.
progress on the feather and fan shawl is going nicely, but it's still pretty small, i have reached the actual feather and fan patterned part now.
maybe by Thursday I'll have pictures to post, and y'all can have an interesting post instead of somethings lame like this one.
Bill took this picture last week.
there's a place in Alexandria bay that will take people up in hot air balloons and give them tours of the 1000 islands, I'm bettign this balloon was from there.
although I can't help but think of Lee Scorsby whenever I see a balloon. (Warning, the link contains spoilers for the His Dark Materials books by Phillip Pullman)
Saturday Sky, Taken Thursday July 3 2007. out front of the Platypus Nest.
it's been a very busy week at work with the fourth* and all, and I'm beat, and there's still two more days until I can have a day off. :(
where I live we had the celebratory fire works on the Sunday before the fourth, we are lucky, because we can see the fireworks from our back yard. I took quite a few pictures, but only these four turned out decent.
the squiggly are from the delayed shutter time combined with my shaky hands.
the first is my favorite.
Saturday Sky, taken Sunday July 1, 2007, out back of the Platypus Nest.
* Fourth of July, Independence Day In the U.S.
well not really.
I've been rather remiss in my Saturday skys lately, Saturday is a very busy day at work, and I usually forget or am too tired to take a picture afterwards.
to make up for it, here is a rainbow picture that Bill took Sunday. it was a full arch, but he couldn't fit the full rainbow in the frame,you can just barely see the secondary rainbow in the upper right hand corner.
Sunday Saturday Sky substitute.
Taken Sunday July 1, 2007. looking out from the front door of the Platypus nest.
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