Thermalgal’s Temperate Mumblings

What is up next?

Well, in the world of knitting, I bought more yarn (I’m usually really good). So, that brings the total up to four projects that are kitted up and ready for me to knit. Earlier this week, I bought the patterns for Ribby Shell and Ribby Cardi. And I also bought the yarn for them.

Orange Brandy for the shell and Autumn Purple/Lotus Blossom for the cardi. Both are Peruvian Highland Wool from Elann. I’m going to start the shell next after I’m done the baby blanket (hopefully the end of next week). That way I’ll be able to wear it this summer. Then I’m going to work on one of my older kitted up projects, Liv by Elsabeth Lavold from her Viking Knits Collection.

And in the spinning world. Remember that conference I talked about way back in March. Well, I found out this week that I got my class. Gee, it took them two months to tell me and for the charge to show up on my card? Whatever. I’m going and I’ll be happy about it. It might be a tad expensive, but it will be an intense 18 hours of instruction in only a couple of days. I’ll be an expert by the end!

Julia Pictures!

Julia was born this morning at 4:49 am. The doctors all thought my sister’s water had broken at about 8:30 Friday morning. But it turns out it didn’t fully break. They didn’t realize that until oh way early this morning. So at 3am they went ahead and broke the rest and shortly there after Julia was born. Here are some pictures:

A close up of baby Julia:

My sister and baby Julia:

My mom and baby Julia:

And finally baby Julia and me:

And just for clarification. No, James and Julia are not related. James is DH’s sister’s youngest.

Why I’ve had no progress for the past two months…

I knitted a Pi shawl for my friend’s birthday. The little birthday party was last night and I can post all the pictures I want now!

Specifics on the design:
Pi Shawl by Elizabeth Zimmermann
Knit Pick’s Shimmer in Morning Mist (used just over 3 skeins)
US6 needles
Started March 11
Finished May 17

That means I can get back to knitting the baby blanket for my sister. Good thing since I got a call from my mom this morning that my sister’s water broke while she was at her doctor’s appointment this morning! I should have updated news sometime this afternoon.

Miscellaneous thoughts

So, the ABC meme has been going around lately. Am I the only one that looks to see if they are on anyone’s list? I go straight for the T’s to see if I’m there. So, far I’m not (not even on mine!).

Star Wars Episode III… we saw it last night. I won’t go into details because I don’t want to spoil it for anyone. But Erin wrote up a very good blog entry on it. I would highly suggest reading it before you see it. I think her predictions were dead on. I would also suggest that you bring tissues.

The URL Alphabet Meme

I got this from Erin who got it from Glenda. Not sure where Glenda got it from.

Instructions: Press each letter in the address bar of your browser and list what the auto-complete function jumps to first.

A - Annette’s Blog
B - TWBB
C - My Bank
D - I used to be DeeDee’s Page of Vegetables and Sauces that I had bookmarked
E - Ebay
F - I think this came up when I doing a knitting search
G - Ah… the Rouge hoodie
H - Comments from Christine’s blog
I - Ikea
J - Jen’s Ort Jar
K - A favorite knit blog
L - The band I’m in
M - Where we will be eating on Thursday
N - Needle in a Haystack
O - I need my oboe repaired
P - Slim Stitchers, I mostly lurk
Q - My old kung fu school
R - Onde was such cool yarn
S - Another favorite knit blog
T - They make the coolest gryphons!
U - nothing
V - nothing
W - My search for cooking good plantains
X- nothing
Y - Another knit blog
Z - I’m thinking of making this ribby shell