Sunday, May 06, 2007

Cool Socks! Warm Feet~The Lucy Neatby Experience

Well, I spoke about it before but I wanted to show you a picture of my new best friend:
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He is a dream and does whatever I tell him to without complaint. All he asks is that I clean him up a bit after he's been around the dirtiest parts of my house. Not a bad trade off I think. Its the the Roomba Sage and you can read more about these awesome robots at www.irobot.com

This is a necklace that I made for Project Spectrum's April and May colors which are yellow, pink and green. This has two of those colors. I think I am going to give it to my grandmother for Mothers Day.
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This is my daughter at her rainforest presentation. She had to tell everyone about the Harpy Eagle and then the audience had to guess what she was describing. Of course Mommy raised her hand to answer and all the other parents called me a cheater! What nerve! I really didnt know what animal she was doing because she wouldnt tell me. I really did guess. Who cares what the other parents think.
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I never did finish my baby argyle socks but instead I made one into a sweater for a Steiff bear that I have had since I was a little girl. To much bad energy was going into this sock and I didnt want a baby having any of that bad energy. I am going to do them over but not now. I have another pattern thats similar except that the bottom of the foot is made in the round which eliminates the seam at the bottom. Sally did a wonderful job teaching the class, the problem was with me and the pattern not clicking in my head. Toward the end it did click but as I said there was to much toxic sock energy and it just wasnt meant to be.
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This is the beginning of a Cabled Tank top in Knit Simple Magazine. I am using Berocco Love it and I am loving this yarn. Its a cotton, acrylic, poly blend. It has a wonderful give to it so it will fit nicely when worn (I hope! LOL).
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The beginnings of my Blue Moon April sock. Its toe up with lace and the pattern is very difficult to do with the Addi circulars because its not sharp enough so I had to switch to my Knit Picks metal DPN's. These are VERY sharp and I am not having any issues now.
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Today was the Lucy Neatby Cool Sock class and I cant tell you how much I learned! This is a "sock tree" where all her socks were displayed so I took a few pictures of them. They are gorgeous.
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Here's Lucy teaching:
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Hot Tamale Toes which is a pattern I bought and I absolutely love. Arent they cute? Look at those hot tamales!
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Lucy and I:
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Celestial Merino Sock Yarn which is Lucy's own brand specifically made for her. They are all handyed and the skeins are simply beautiful as you can see from these pictures.
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I also have to mention that I purchased Lucy's DVD's which I watched last night. (Socks 1 & 2 and Knitting Essentials 1 & 2) Today I purchased Finesse Your Knitting 1. I cant say how wonderful these DVD's are because they are simply the best ones I have ever owned or seen ever and I am not just saying that. She demonstrates so many techniques that I never even knew existed. I have wanted to own these since I read about them in the Yarn Harlot's Blog months ago. I know its hard to see whats in a DVD to know if you want to buy it or not so go to www.lucyneatby.com where you can see the listing of whats on each DVD and see if you might like to own your own copy. You can also ask your local library to get them in so you can preview them for free before you decide to buy them.

On a totally different subject, I am watching the Discovery Channels show thats on now called LIVING WITH CANCER and its very good. The people that they are talking to have hit the nail on the head with how it feels to live every day in fear with it in the back of your mind that your cancer can return without warning. I have had such a hard time describing this to people and they just cant understand how I feel and I think that everyone should watch this show. There is going to be an encore performance on tomorrow night (Monday) at 8pm. Please watch it.

2 comments:

Curly Cable said...

I love the argyle sweater you made for teddy, he is certainly the trendiest teddy in town now! The necklace you have made is suberb, you have been busy. Your daughter looks cute and I don't think its cheating at all, you asking questions, kids need encouragement from their parents, makes them feel special when parents participate in what they are doing.
I bet the Lucy Neatby classes are fab, I've just bought her Knitting Essentials 1 DVD and learnt so much from it. The celestial Merino sock yarn skeins are divine!!! Well done with starting the second str kit, its looking good, I just keep admiring the yarn in mine, but will hopefully start them soon! The program on the discovery channel sounds really useful on bringing the facts of Living with cancer to home, that's the problem sometimes with people who arn't effected they tend to be a bit ignornant, but we could probably do with more programs about it, as there is no doubt, it is something that mgbeffects us all one way, either ourselves, family or friends!

CurlyBrunette said...

Thanks on the argyle "sweater" even though it wasnt meant to be one! LOL The teddy's loving it though. My daugher was so cute during the presentation and I cant believe how well she read because when she's at home she doesnt do as well. I mean, she tries really hard but reading isnt her strong point, math is. Thats something that I wasnt good at when I was 7!
Lucy's DVD's are great. I would advise you to get them all!
The cancer show was great and some parts made me cry. Very true to life.