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by CabinGirl
Looking around at the news this morning, the chorus for this song popped into my head:
And don't you understand What I'm tryin' to say And can't you feel the fears That I'm feelin' today? If the button is pushed, There's no runnin' away. There'll be no one to save With the world in a grave. Take a look around you, boy. It's bound to scare you, boy
And ya tell me -The Byrds Comments >> (11 comments) by CabinGirl The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-e e cummings Comments >> (12 comments) by CabinGirl I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. - Dwight D. Eisenhower How well do you think scare tactics are working this year? Comments >> (25 comments) by CabinGirl
Well, I can't take much more of the Republican drama this week, can you?
Time for a Knit-a-palooza! I've had plenty of knitting time with all the Dem convention watching last week... I finished sewing together my funky linen sweater, and I love the colors of the yarn:
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It's been way too long since I posted one of these. I keep thinking I want to wait until I have something finished to show (because everything I've been working on is sort of boring), and now I'm giving up on that.
First up is the linen wrap cardigan that I've been working on: It's made up of 5 rectangles of varying sizes (1 back, 2 fronts, and 2 sleeves), and I'm almost finished the last sleeve. I would have been finished earlier this week, but I got carried away while knitting in the car on the way home from the beach (10 hours on the road will do that to you), and had to rip back because I knit too much! Then I had to rip back a second time because I was afraid I wouldn't have enough yarn left to sew the pieces together. I think I'm good now. Just have to put it together. Next up: My little Lace Ribbon scarf. I've been knitting on this eveyrwhere I go this summer- Italy, Austin, algebra class, the orthondontist, the Vans Warped Tour concert, you name it. I only have a little further to go, and then it's done, but its not quite finished yet either. To make up for the lack of knitting pictures, I guess I can add some gratuitous vacation photos.
I loved this sign on the coffee shop bulletin board in Ocracoke:
And check out the unexpected catch in CBtY's crab trap: That's all of got. What's needling you? Comments >> (22 comments) by CabinGirl "This is like deja vu all over again." -Yogi Berra Happy Friday! Comments >> (13 comments) by CabinGirl
Time for another edition of Knitapalooza...I finally got un-lazy enough to take a couple of pictures to share!
I had plenty of knitting time on the plane to Switzerland and Italy, so I took along a little lace scarf I'm working on. The pattern is Lace Ribbon Scarf, and it's a nice little pattern that uses sock yarn (I chose Araucania Ranco, and I'm probably halfway finished. It's pretty easy once you memorize the pattern....I just won't tell you that it took me hours of knitting and un-knitting to do that. :) Here's a close-up (click to embiggen): Read more... (30 comments, 392 words in story) by CabinGirl
Wow, I wanted to post this earlier this week...but it's been way too busy around here!
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Wow, it's been a long time since I posted one of these. Too long!
I went to Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival last weekend. Here's a picture of some of the Festival headliners: There's all sorts of stuff at the festival, and not just sheep and yarn (although that is a major draw!) They have all sorts of events, a Sheep to Shawl competition (yep, teams include a shearer, 2 spinners, and a weaver, and they really do go from sheep to shawl right there in front of everyone.
Here's one of the more exotic blue ribbon winners in the handspun yarn category: And here's a better picture of the winning yarn. A little creepy, but very clever, wouldn't you say? The sheepdog herding demonstrations are always cool: Read more... (15 comments, 423 words in story) by CabinGirl The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Comments >> (12 comments) by CabinGirl "I arise in the morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
~E.B. White Comments >> (18 comments) by CabinGirl If we are peaceful,
if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace. -Thich Nhat Hanh Comments >> (12 comments) by CabinGirl
For some reason this week, I keep thinking of an old Peanuts cartoon with Lucy saying this:
When you're feeling down and out,
Lift up your and head and shout: "Somebody's going to pay for this!" Comments >> (16 comments) by CabinGirl On her twelfth birthday, Cornelia Jefferson Randolph received a letter from her grandfather that she often reread. Thomas Jefferson told his granddaughter that the "Canons of Conduct in Life" were:
1.Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today. Funny how much of it still applies to life 200+ years later... Comments >> (10 comments)
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