JessaLu Knits (and Spins!)

<p>If it’s Friday, then it’s time for a bit of eye candy ;o)</p><p>When I was a little girl I spent most of my summers at my maternal grandparents’ - and those memories are some of the best memories of my childhood.  My grandmother was a very caring woman who showed me how to sew and how to bake (cooking wasn’t really her forte - but she was really good at making the pressure cooker explode).  One of the things that has stuck in my memory about my grandmother’s house was that she had a milk-glass chicken in the middle of her kitchen table.  Since I’ve grown up and gotten my own kitchen table I have been searching for a chicken just like hers - trying to relive some of my childhood memories, I guess.  Over the years I’ve picked up a few here and there but they weren’t the same.  However, I am happy to report that <span title="Roger Rabbit - my SO" class="serendipity_glossaryMarkup">RR</span> and I found a chicken just like hers at an antique shop in upstate NY.  Actually, RR was the one who found it (one of the many reasons why he is the best - he’s really good at finding stuff and remembers what I’m looking for better than I do).  It now lives in a place of honor in the middle of my kitchen table, just like hers did.  And, it’s full of flotsom, just like hers was ;o)</p><p><img src="http://jessaluknits.yarncourtesans.com/uploads/Photos/09-29-06016.jpg" style="border: 0px none ; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; width: 495px; height: 358px;" alt="" /></p><p><img width="496" height="359" src="http://jessaluknits.yarncourtesans.com/uploads/Photos/09-29-06015.jpg" style="border: 0px none ; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" alt="" /></p><p>The smaller chickens I’ve started using to hold my stitch markers ;o)</p><p><img width="499" height="361" src="http://jessaluknits.yarncourtesans.com/uploads/Photos/09-29-06017.jpg" style="border: 0px none ; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" alt="" /></p><p>Happy Friday, everyone - enjoy your eye candy! ;o)</p>

I received the buttons for my Rock n Weave socks from the Button Drawer yesterday:

I think they might be a bit too close together and am considering ripping and re-doing the buttonholes. What’s keeping me from doing that? The picot edge bind off. That thing was a bitch.

I found the Button Drawer through Deb - it’s a great resource for those like me who have a crappy button selection in their area. Shipping is very reasonable and they say there is no order too small ;o)

That’s all I have to report today - in case you missed my last post, I’ve been playing Civ 4 for 22 hours a day for the past week (you also missed an Eris update but oh well…) ;o) The Civ playing has kind of cut into the knitting time, but I do have another pair of socks in the works!

*One of many great lines from Shrek ;o)

…a very important lesson this weekend.

If your girlfriend is a geek, don’t buy her a strategy game and expect to see her anytime in the near future.

Let me start at the beginning…a while back I found out that I had misplaced the disks to my Civilization 4 game and immediately went into major withdrawals. No other game helped - I tried Rollercoaster Tycoon, I tried Children of the Nile, I even tried Rise of Nations. No luck. I wanted my Civ! I searched the house, the car, even the garage and couldn’t find the damned disks. And, I wouldn’t shut up about it. So today in a burst of kindness, RR purchased a new copy of Civ 4 for me (okay not so much a burst of kindness, more of either buy the game or buy a roll of duct tape for my mouth.) As soon as we got home I installed it - then downloaded a 44mg patch and realized that my graphics driver was out of date and had to download another 8mg patch *sigh* I finally managed to start playing about 11pm - and finished about fifteen minutes ago. Hence the lesson - although right now he is unaware of learning such a lesson since he’s been sleeping for the past two and a half hours ;o) Oh and yes, I won - take THAT Alexander the Great! (yeah, I’m a geek - what of it?)

I’m also feel a LOT better - it doesn’t feel like my ex-MIL is sitting on my chest anymore (which she actually did while I was in labor…long story that involves me and a needle and someone trying to put said needle into my person…’nuf said) and I’m not coughing at 30 second intervals (more like 10 minute ones, but it’s an improvement. Baby steps…) AND I was able to go to the mall today…for a very short visit. ;o)

Okay I’m kind of rambling but in my defense, it’s 2:30am.

So…before I make a complete idiot of myself here is the obligatory knitting content of today’s post - an update on Eris:

I’m working my way around the bottom right now and still have the sleeves and a loss of about 15 lbs to go before this thing is wearable.

No, seriously, I tried it on. Two weeks on the couch ‘feeding my cold’ has led to a bit of a gain. I will be getting myself to the gym forthwith - as soon as I don’t get winded walking across the house, that is ;o) *ahem*

I think that about covers it…ohwait Heide asked how my socks from the last post were constructed - I knit the linen stitch part first, then picked up the stitches down the side, joined in the round and started knitting the sock. If that doesn’t make sense, let me know - again, 2:30am and having trouble with the keyboard and my brain connecting ;o)