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Now I'm getting excited to have winners. I think I'm going to put all the names into a plastic empty milk jug. I'll shake it until one falls out. That will be how the winners get chosen. Is that as good as number generator. ? I think it is going to have to be. I'm not too technical here at Irisheyes. I don't use number generator. I don't use a comment counter. I don't have an i-pod (see my Barbie radio/head phones) I have a cell phone, but don't have occasion to use it much. SO we'll do a good old fashioned draw of the winners. Maybe I'll use the good old fashioned crock pot that day too. That's tissue holder number 2, in the image. Leftover Koigu, too precious to leave unused. I hear Mars may acquire the Tribune and the Cubs. Hmmmmm, chocolate and the Cubs. I like this combo. Candy for everyone.

Theses tulip colors would look great in a Norotype skein. I love how the colors sort of blend into each other. Such shading. Nice job mother nature. I'm worrying. My packages to swap friends seem to be traveling by Pony Express. The pony is also lame, apparently. And he doesn't swim the pond well either. I have sent my new friend Floozy, (Di) two wee tiny socks now, and neither has arrived in Europe yet. The second one sent had all the papers and insurance and blah blah blah. I have sent my Not Secret Sweep Swap her fun swap gifts and they haven't arrived to her yet either. This has never happened to me before. Is it the price of gas or something? I want to see them enjoy their gifts. Has anyone else noticed this happening? I send them U.S.P.S. I go to nice Post offices where the employees are helpful and concerned.......

Here she is, Miss America! Look at that colorway Lynn chose for sweet Katie's clapotis. I have another image to post of it, but I dont want to try posting two at once.....I'm just grateful Blogger smiles on me once again....Lynn oh Lynn oh irisheyes Lynn what yarn did you choose to use? We must know. I'm still knitting tissue covers......cover #2 is well underway. I might branch out and put a faux cable patten on the next one....well, probably not. But, isn't it a fine idea? I need a little cable practice. I'm still having fun with: the contest post finding funny things for the winners to go with the yarn reading all your blogs and your blogs blogs entering other's contests On that note, I have to tell you that I named the family Rooster on a knitter's contest blog and won! I named their handsome white Rooster: Russell Crowe. hee hee heee heee I get a prize next week. Oh I love to be the clever one! have a funtastic friday.

I am having problems with Blogger :( I haven't been able to post an image for 24 hours or more. This is particularly upsetting because I have LOVELY photos of irisheyes' lynn's latest Clapotis. It is really a beauty. Made for her daughter Katie. Her College daughter got the first one Lynn made. I can't wait to show it to you. so, here's a poem and here's to blogger letting me show pictures again soon. OH WOE THE HALF POST Oh knitters, how the post doth fade wheneth imagesless. Thou fair and lovely readers, poster, lurkers Beg you I, boot up and revisit this meager bloggers realm again. for to knit without boasting bemoaning bemusing befuddles me. oh endeth soon this blogger image drought.

I've got a bad rotten bug. My thoughts are surounded by tissues. Would you like a tissue? This little gem is a tissue cover I made with leftover sock yarn using KMKAT.typepad.com 's easy Library fundraiser pattern. This one is for my mom. She always had a tissue for us in church, in the car, wherever. Finally, in my midlife I, too, have become a tissue carrier. So tthese two bugs bit me and I am itching to knit more of these covers with leftover sock yarns. Strange bug. I've never wanted to knit with leftovers so badly. I didn't even mind the seaming. The other bug is rotten. I'm off to pick up a prescription now. Finally, I killed a bug on Earth Day. What must this mean? There was a wasp on the back porch this afternoon. I whacked him several good times a la magazine technique. Then I crunched him beneath my birkenstocks to be really certain he was dead. I am normally very very good and kind and Earth loving. really....

in Aran weight. Al is making this sweater for Fireman daddy. Deadline: Fall 08. Al can only find time to knit Sat a.m. from 9-11 during one of her classes. I admire her sticktuitiveness. I know many of you work on a certain thing at certain times and that makes a FO over time. I'm such the impatient knitter, but I suppose if that was the only time I had to knit, it could see me through. I took the photo in the little blue spring flowers to highlight the blue flecks in the charcoal yarn. See 'em. Go ahead squint. Or enlarge the picture. The contest has been such a fun thrill for me. I so love going to littleknowns like me and reading their blogs. Full of incredible knits, full of wisdom, full of their own unique style. The biggest surprise is that Rachel O. is a junior high lurker. Well sometimes commenter, she thinks! Now Rachel O, I adore that you read the blog for a little levity. Now Rachel O, we have to protect your identity and all but tell your mom I

If we can have an earthquake and a cougar in the same week in Chicago, then perhaps we CAN have a Cub World Series this year. We won the World Series 100 years ago in 1908. I love Wrigley Field, otherwise known as the Friendly Confines. You can have a wonderful time there without winning the World Series. You can have a pretty darn good time here at Irisheyesknitters Confines too. In fact, I host this blog and it means a pretty darn good time to me. Within these confines, I meet and enjoy you . I'm giving away sock yarns. The Filatura Dicrosa Maxime yarn knits up into the cutest fairisle. THe Plymouth Yarn Happy Feet superwash merino Wool with 10% nylon has no name so I'll call it Mixed Berry Pie. Those who visit the friendly confines of Irisheyes pretty regularly will be in a seperate category. You know who you are! One of you will win your choice of those two yarns, two skeins of either, and some wild and fun additional goodies to be shown later. Those who lurk

Do you believe I knitted this Fiesta boucle over a year ago? Do you think it is a huge swatch? Do you see my tarnished ring on the needles with the stitches? Do you have any ideas for what I can make with this yarn in this guage? Do you want to answer a few questions for me? Do you have a cure or a way to relieve canker sores? Do you use a sweeper instead of a vacuum? Would you recommend one to me? Do you have something that improves your dog's breath? Do you like contest prizes to be gift certificates to a yarn shop, quirky prizes and yarn, a really cool purse or something that is already knitted for you? Do you want to tune in tomorrow for the CONTEST?

1. It was nice enough to take a picture outside today. See? green grass is growing! 2. These little things knit up fast and sweet. I love the way the dye took to the cotton. Swimming pool blue I call it. 3. Nyquil blue is another thing I call it. I have a bug that came on fast and I hope it leaves just as fast. Currently breathing out of one nostril. 4. I'm going to have a contest very soon. I think I said this already but contests are worth a second mention. 5. If Curtis came to my grocery store he wouldn't pick me. I don't dress up to go shopping. I put my sunglasses on and hope no one sees me. Someimes I put on some lipstick because Fireman's friends are always shopping for their dinners and I don't want them to tease him. "I saw your wife the other day....she was UUUUUGGGGGLLLYYY!" 6. I think I need a yarnstore fieldtrip. Delevan Wisconsin is what I'm thinking. 7. Feed a cold, starve a fever. I don't have a fever. Ice crea

Ravelry has an article about photography. One suggestion is to shoot yarn as landscape. This is Araucania Nature Cotton for my mitred square baby throw. Do you see complaining about seaming in the distance.........on the horizon..... I'll end the Wee Tiny Bite week with a wee tiny red velvet cake and icecream dessert. I am going to keep on with Wee Tiny Bite Diet but it won't be a Irisheyes running theme. There is a certain, reader guilt I feel when I am reading someone else's diet success. I'm thrilled for the person but I only feel guilty that I'm not doing anything about my own diet/lifestyle. So thanks for the support; i'll let you know when I give it up okay? what's on your horizon?

Yes it's another sideways image for my blog buddies. Sorry. One of my computer shortcomings, I can't rotate and save it. Some day. Sweet Husband took the picture for me. He turned the camera. NExt time I'll turn with him and maybe that'll do it. I've decided that I'm joining in on the blogtrend. Sweet Husband will now be referred to by his profession. Fireman. So Fireman took the photo for me. When I put it on, Fireman asked if it was finished.........Al gasped and put her hands together gleefully before he put his fireman foot in his fireman mouth. Thanks AL for lovin it! Here's a muffin recipe for you: Donut Muffins (please credit Mrs. William A. (ella) Yoder (ira) 1 cup sugar 1/3 cup oil 1 egg beaten 1 1/2 c. flour 1 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp nutmeg 1/2 cup milk Mix it all up. Bake 20 minsat 350. Remove and let cool 10 mins. THEN: Dip them in melted butter and roll em in a mix of 1/2 c sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon. Eat in teen

I am having great fun with the pattern, and hope to finish the hat tonight. The pattern is Marble Muffin from Wooly Wo rmhead. I had some issues until I used stitch markers between the pattern repeats. I like this pattern so much, that I will probably knit a back to back. I read this term on someone else's blog It means you knit the same item a few times in a row. This will eliminate my new pattern anxiety. This will increase my sense of accomplishment. This will mean a gift for someone. I am in the mood to have a contest. I'm thinking it up. I will have prizes for regular readers/commentors and a nice but lesser prize for lurkers. *wee tiny bite week is very interesting. I'm really missing taking BIG ENORMOUS bites. I'm almost in withdrawal over it. Seriously. * so , i'll live vicariously through you now. What's the last big bite you took of?

Kate was kind enough to take my knitting, for the blog post. Zach was buying a tshirt between acts at Second CIty. If you visit Chicago, I would say it is a must. Oh, we laughed. and laughed. and laughed some more. Kate is holding my muffin beret. Thanks Grace for the yarn swap yarn. It is the most delilghtful berry color. Did any of you see the bit on television about a new way to lose weight invovling rubber bands on your back teeth? The European study showed that people lost significant amounts of weight by having to take very small bits to eat. SO I'm declaring it WEE TINY BITE WEEK! I'm going to take wee tiny bites all week! I've already started and it is amazing how full I feel this way. I made myself eat some popcorn one kernal at a time. While I knit. Using a spoon to pick up my kernel, thereby avoiding the need for a napkin. So WEE TINY BIITE WEEK begins. Any joiners? We could send rubber bands to each other in a swap............to put on our wr

Ben Franklin made some cool connections in his life. Kites/thunderstorms=electircity. I think Ben would have loved how Emily from yarnmiracle has socks flying all over the air this week. My wee tiny was made by Sandra of Cookeyknits.blogspot.com. She's so clever, you know I LOVE clever, she added a chain clip. It is now on my down vest and looks perfect there as a zip pull. My son and his girlfriend went to a kite fly in our town yesterday. THe colors of the kites are wonderful. Maybe I'll copy kite colors for good combos. :) Enjoy a great kite, thunderstorm or knit today.

I finished the fixation fight. I think I won. I know I was supposed to rotate projects to help my wrists. I could see the end, though, and that was it. I pushed through the pain. ( no eipidural this time either....) FO. Ahhhhhhhhhhh. Here's a sweet thought. My Dairy Bar Ice Cream stand opens tomorrow. Spring is really here. Has yours opened? Waiting for my wee tiny sweet sock too! Here's a Sweet recipe for you. (Lynne's IWKTIMMW) Makes your favorite brownies. Buy a box of Andes mints. Unwrap them and place them atop the hot brownies. Cover in foil 5 minutes. Remove foil, swirl melted mints all around to cover brownies. Cool. Enjoy.

My LYS 3 Bags Full is having a sale this week. Isn't this tempting? This yarn looks to me like it came right out of Rumplestilskin. Shot in available light, my favorite light, I think it is a lovely sight. I didn't buy any. I did buy some yarn in cornflower blue and yellow for a baby blanket. The square I went right to in 200 Knitted Blocks, is called Patch. I will be making a baby blanket in Patch soon. * A few more books for National Library Week that Al has enjoyed: The Vacation: by Polly Horvath. For the 3rd or 4th grade set. She says it is a fun read. THe Outlander: Diana Gabaldon. Al initially scoffed at this Romanace series. Then fell for it! A real page turner. She can't wait for the next one to come out over the summer. Eat, Pray, Love: Elizabeth Gilbert. People complained that she was very egotistical and self-centered in this memoir, but Al appreciated her honesty. Great mediatation tips. Makes Al want to go to Italy and pig out. Good Poems for

I count Planet Earth as a book. An incredible book. A wonderous book. Do you .....Planet earth????? Luring the Largemouth Bass is a bit of a joke. We bought it for Sweet Husband last year. Do you have to judge a book by the success one has after reading it? I think he thought it was a good book. Alas, no largemouth bass. Sort of how I feel about Lace books.... Finally, my NEW book 200 Knitting Blocks. More knitted throw inspiration. Dishrags too. I knew I had to have it as soon as I saw it. What are you reading??????