So I finally made some progress on my socks… Yes, I admit, I am such a bad SoS member! So without further ado:
I since made a little more progress, but not enough to take another picture. The most important thing is that I now have TWO heels 
And I’ve spotted this yesterday coming home from SnB in our garden:
I haven’t seen butterfly this big in real life in the US. Isn’t it beautiful?
Found you!
You signed up on Today
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13884 people are ahead of you in line.
43 people are behind you in line.
33% of the list has been invited so far
I joined Ravelry this morning after reading all my lovely readers’ comments.
And then I found this and decided that it’s for me since I am such a book lover (books suck me into a different world!)
Anything else I’m missing out on???
Okay. So I’ve been thinking about this whole Ravelry thing. A lot of my SnB friends had joined and either had received their invites or on the waiting list. There are currently 17000+ people joined and about 1/3 had received the invitations.
This thing looks pretty cool – you can enter your stash, WIPs and FOs, and you can search FOs from others so you can see what other’s look like. You can blog and have threads also about subjects – overall, it is very interesting. You would think I joined at once, but I have not. With so many people joined and on the waiting list, I am not sure if I should join or not. It is still on the beta version.
So my question to you, my dear readers, should I join, or should I not???
I stayed up till 4am this morning to finish the book and I am still emotional about the whole story. Rowling is definitely a excellent writer and I wish the Harry Potter story would have never end.
The twist and turn of this book is incredible. I had guessed right about Snape and which side he was in, but I had not expected Snape’s intentions and the ending of the whole story. I won’t ruined it for anyone who hasn’t read it, but if you are behind, you should get right on it, because it is worth it.
Even David said he enjoyed the whole series!!!! (and I got him to start reading it last year!!!)
Now, I can peacefully go back to knitting.
I got home today from my training for Primerica and found this in the mailbox:
I was a bit worried because I ordered it so long ago that the address it sent to was my old address!!! But my post office/mail-person ROCKS! I am going to go open it and start the story now. I will see you all when I am done with the book.
Happy Reading!
I am FINALLY done with Clue 1 of MS3:
And here are some of the flowers from my yard!
You see, we moved in during April so we haven’t figure out what we got in the yard yet
Now Anphoe tagged me for some more meme, this time more knitting related…
Bold for stuff you’ve done, italics for stuff you plan to do one day, and normal for stuff you’re not planning on doing.
Afghan/Blanket (WIP)
I-cord
Garter stitch
Knitting with metal wire
Shawl
Stockinette stitch
Socks: top-down
Socks: toe-up
Knitting with camel yarn
Mittens: Cuff-up
Mittens: Tip-down
Hat Knitting with silk
Moebius band knitting
Participating in a KAL Sweater
Drop stitch pattern
Knitting with recycled/secondhand yarn
Slip stitch patterns
Knitting with banana fiber yarn
Domino knitting (modular knitting)
Twisted stitch patterns
Knitting with bamboo yarn
Two end knitting
Charity knitting
Knitting with soy yarn
CardiganToy/doll clothing
Knitting with circular needles (Love them! I don’t own any straights)
Knitting with your own handspun yarn
Slippers
Graffiti knitting
Continental Knitting
Designing knitted garments
Cable stitch patterns (incl. Aran)
Lace patterns
Publishing a knitting book
Scarf (way too many!!)
American/English knitting (as opposed to continental)
Knitting to make money (Does getting yarn instead of real money counts?)
Button holes Knitting with alpaca (one of my favorite fibers)
Fair Isle knitting
Norwegian knitting
Dyeing with plant colors (Oh yes! Very much so!!!)
Knitting items for a wedding (WIP… for my own!)
Household items (dishcloths, washcloths, tea cozies…)
Knitting socks (or other small tubular items) on two circulars (WIP)
Olympic knitting
Knitting with someone else’s handspun yarn
Knitting with DPNs
Holiday related knitting
Teaching a male how to knit
Bobbles
Knitting for a living
Knitting with cotton
Knitting smocking
Dyeing yarn
Steeks (oh the adventure!!!)
Knitting art
Fulling/felting
Knitting with wool
Textured knitting (What does that include? It sounds like fun though)
Kitchener BO
Purses/bags
Knitting with beads
Swatching
Long Tail CO
Entrelac
Knitting and purling backwards
Machine knitting
Knitting with self-patterning/self-striping/variegating yarn (WIP)
Stuffed toys
Baby items
Knitting with cashmere
Darning
Jewelry
Knitting with synthetic yarn
Writing a pattern (isn’t this the same as designing knitting garments?)
Gloves
Intarsia
Knitting with linen
Knitting for preemies Tubular CO Freeform knitting
Short rows
Cuffs/fingerless mitts/arm warmers
Pillows
Knitting a pattern from an online knitting magazine
Rug Knitting on a loom T
hrummed knitting
Knitting a gift
Knitting for pets
Shrug/bolero/poncho
Knitting with dog/cat hair (been saving my puppies’ fur!!!)
Hair accessories
Knitting in public
I really enjoyed this meme, because it lets me set my own goal for my knitting! I shall keep this updated periodically. As for tagging, I suppose I’ll tag Sunflowerfairy, Archiknist, Sneaksleep and Beth. Now, I leave you with this:
WARNING: If you have not yet seen the movie, please DO NOT continue to read this post until you do so. This WILL spoil the movie.
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If you are expecting a lengthy 3-hour movie like the previous movies, you will be absolutely disappointed. It has all the essential from the book, but not everything. The movie started off with Harry facing the dementors in the muggle world and got expelled from Hogwarts, then was transported to Sirius’s house until the trial. The movie did not elaborate on Percy, who had since graduated since the 4th book and started working for the Ministry of Magic, and distant himself from his family because of his belief in his own career. Tonks, who has the purple hair, suppose to be in love with Lupin the werewolf, and die in the book, but that was not in the movie either. Sirius, however, did die like the book described. Also in the movie, it really showed Ginny had become a very strong witch, although maybe still immature, but strong, in numerous places of the movie.
Overall, I think the movie represents the 5th book, however, I wish it had showed more characters. David and I went to the IMAX 3D version of this movie and had awesome seats for it. Although only 20 minutes of it was 3D, but it was still worth it – it was during the time when they were in the Ministry to retrieve the prophecy. Needless to say, the 3D had a very cool effect on all the actions.
This past week, I had made David sit with me and watched all the previous Harry Potter movies so I can remember what happened and continue with the 5th one. I will be reading the 6th book this up coming week so I can continue the reading to the 7th and hopefully have a happy ending. I am excited to finally get to book 7 and I can’t wait for next Saturday. All my knitting projects will have to wait!
Off me go now!
Edit: Apparently, I got the two books confused!!! Marla kindly pointed that Tonk didn’t die in Book 5 and plays an important character in Book 6. David is currently on Page 88 and that’s a bout an hour of reading… I guess I’ll work on MS3 until he is done then…
Back in June, my local SnB group sent out the Mystery Stole 3 (MS3) description and I immediately thought – how clever! But I didn’t join right away. I never really knitted lace before and though this might be a tough project to take on as a first time lace project (It stated on the front page of MS3 that you shouldn’t do this project as the first lace project!!!) But when I went to the group the following day, Archknist and Sunflowerfairy already joined and twisted my arm (not really, all they said were – you should do it!!!) and I joined that night.
After I joined, I was reading all the posts (there are many and good thing I have it as daily digest, otherwise my inbox would be exploded everyday I come home from work!) trying to figure out what yarn and what beads to use. I had Skacel Merino Lace in my stash, which I bought it to make MoonDance Stole for my wedding. I ordered the sample card from Colourmart because I heard many good things about their cashmere. But at the end, David convinced me to use my stash. Then onto the needles – I swatched with Crystal Palace Bamboo size 3 first. I brought the blocked swatch to SnB to show Archknist and Sunflowerfairy, and both of them said I could probably go down one size needle since the swatch was kinda holey.
Size 3 swatch
So I ordered Knitpick Circulars in size 2 (2.75mm and 3mm) to try out, but knowing that I wouldn’t get them on time, I borrowed one from Anphoe, who also joined MS3. I swatched it on the drive up to the 1000 Islands. Not having my blocking foam, I had to improvise:
I had tape!
In the mean time, my final selection of beads and crochet hooks arrived:
Beads from Artbeads.com and crochet hooks from Van Sciver Bobbin Lace
There were many people in MS3 group saying don’t use the Swarovski Crystals because they are too sharp and will cut through the yarn. I personally don’t see how it’s going to happened so I went against what they said and ordered some anyways.
My final selection ended up to be the crystal. I just couldn’t resist the sparkles!!!!
I am finished with Chart A and currently knitting Chart B. Although Clue 2 (Chart C) already came out, but I just don’t have as much of time as others to knit all the time. I am going to try to catch up this weekend though since I don’t really like to be behind too much. Especially with Harry Potter coming next weekend, catching up will be tough!
Up to row 60!!
Well, off I go to SnB… MS3 will be my project tonight!
I have WAAAAY too many things to blog about, but not enough time, so I’ll just post the quick update on Summer of Socks.
While I was at 1000 islands vacationing and planning my wedding, I had some down time to start my first pair of socks for Summer of Socks 2007. I decided that the first pair would be Falling Leaves, using Reynold Soft Sea Wool in Dark Green.
Instead of doing the toe up specified in the pattern with the crochet cast on, I used the Magic Cast-On by Judy Becker. I modified the size of the socks using the Universal toe-up formula. Unfortunately my feet are way too small for standard size socks pattern hence I needed to learn toe up so I can make my own. On top of using the two new techniques, I also made the socks with two circular needles, and both socks at once! Not bad for a new sock knitter, eh?
