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I have to post the final 3KCBW this year tonight. It is early, but I will be sleeping all day tomorrow after working night shift. I am delighted to have completed the week. So Balance......do I strike a crochet and knit balance???? No way. I'm always the knitter and very occasionally the crocheter. I do like to crochet edges for softness. I also will crochet a bag to felt over knitting it, due to the speed of the process. My Irish Nana taught me crochet. Friends taught and re taught me to knit. Crochet hurts my hands/wrists. Knitting feels great. Balance. is ...what I am always striving to achieve in the philosophical sense of the word. How do I try to stay balanced? I nap. I pray. I try not to over think life.... and I can still stand on my head for a good long time...... when you are short, it is easier to balance.

Today'a KCBW topic is Improving Your Skill Set. *I think you'll all roll your eyes if I say it one more time: Reverse Shaping ...someday. I have yet to find pattern that is completely written out for me involving reverse shaping. I've offered to pay someone to write it all out; I realize this must be a huge pain in the arse because no one has taken me up on the offer yet! Of all the skills I want to learn, that is truly the ONE. I do have another goal.....I want to knit a Barbie outfit....I am not kidding.... It's been a fun week of different kinds of posts. I've met some new bloggers thanks to 3KCBW. More news from this week: I knitted a big old lace scarf. Really. I did. Katherine had given me the Skydive Stole pattern a ways back. The angora that I indulged in last year came to mind when I was leafing through patterns. Voila! This baby is so soft. I adore the color. Some things just take a year.....almost like having a baby.... Al is i...

My Perfect Knit Day: sleep late (I know this cuts into the knit hours, but sleep trumps all when you work night shift) Log on to computer. Coffee.....(maybe with a pinch of sugar since it is a perfect day) Write Blog Post Read your blogs and leave funny comments. More Coffee Yarn store trip. Local 3 Bags Full Shop. Find great new inspiring pattern. Fountain Coke. Nap. (I realize I haven't touched a needle yet...) Awaken after just 45 minutes completely refreshed. Pick up needles mid project. Project is effortless and a bit fun. Yarn is most likely Lorna's Laces. Oh, did I say knit on screened porch? Did I say 80 degrees in shade? Slight breeze? Did I say thunderstorms expected? Friends or my kids drop by to knit and/or chat while I knit. Laugh. Fireman brings out guacamole and chips. and makes me a Mai Tai... Check the blogs etc again. Storms getting closer. Cats nearby. Thunderstorms begin. Still knitting effortlessly. I tak...

Karen inspires me. No, silly readers not the Bloody Mary, but Karen who is behind the Bloody and the knitting, inspires me. Over and over again. Karen is a natural knitter, I think. She laughs in the face of poorly written patterns. She teaches, she coaches, she knits. She is always picking up our dropped stitches when we get together to knit. Someone is always having her put down her own knitting to rescue ours. And she does. Over and Over and Over again. Karen has a dozen projects going at once, always. If you don't think you can knit that, well she, like Mary Poppins, just pulls something else out of her bottomless Knit bags. She makes you believe you can knit too. Karen's knit brain is never not knitting. Even when she is texting! She has a wonderful family, friends and a thousand other things pulling at her, but her needles keep going. Karen, You Inspire me. Thanks.

Blooming Markers

(Al's got the color gene...her new dining room lavender and living room purple!) - I don't know why BLOGGERS new format won't let me make paragraphs. Somebody help me please!!! - Today's topic for the 3rd Annual Knit and Crochet Blog week is: COLOR.- I went to these new blogs for some color inspiration: - I love finding new blogs to read. ...... wooldurham a pile of sheep whatzitknitz ripitgood and figheadh.com. From Fig's blog I was able to find a great free cowl neck pattern that I will be knitting soon. - Irisheyes Lynn must have known that there was NO pink in my stash. She graciously found me at 0650 this morning at a patients bedside and gave me two luscious skeins of pink Lorna's Laces....just because. She's tired of them in her stash.....Oh Lynn. I think this was the best moment of my today. - So it is suggested we talk color today. Well here's my thoughts on color. I go in phases...like everything else in my life. I WORRY...