Mountain Colors Twizzle
85% merino wool, 15% silk
Isn’t it yummy? The colorway is absolutely perfect– I love the richness in the green, and the subtle blue mixed in with brown. Sigh. Does my One Skein pal know me, or what? I LOVE it one skein pal! Thank you so much 
I have no idea what to knit from it yet, but it will certainly hold a special place in my stash until I find the perfect project!
Archive for July, 2006
Mountain Colors Twizzle 85% merino wool, 15% silk…
July 8, 2006I feel a little out of touch with the whole knitti…
July 4, 2006I feel a little out of touch with the whole knitting world lately. I don’t know what the current pattern craze is, the current knitting book must have, or even the current yarn in vogue. It’s all quite sad really, and kind of overwhelming to muddle my way back in, but I’m trying! I just placed an order for my One Skein pal’s July yarn and of course a couple skeins for myself. Still plugging away on my cardi while catching up on my Tivo’d Gilmore Girls episodes and the Fourth of July Twilight Zone marathon.
Here is my progress. I’m bummed I couldn’t get a very good picture, especially since I got a brand spanking new digital camera for my birthday courtesy of Jason. It’s this one in case you were wondering, and I love it. It is hard to photograph black though.
*TMI alert*
I’m giving The Keeper a try, after picking one up at Whole Foods this past week. Today’s my first day using it– I’m very thankful my period is cooperating by giving me a day off work to give it a whirl– while I’m a little weirded out by it, it’s interesting, and seems to be working without leakage. I’ll keep you updated if anyone’s interested 
If you’re interested in other options besides the keeper, check out this livejournal post comparing menstrual cups. Here’s the actual lj.
Our trip to Toronto and Niagra Falls last weekend …
July 2, 2006Our trip to Toronto and Niagra Falls last weekend was great.
Here was our view outside our hotel window. We stayed at the Intercontinental, which was ok. I thought it would be a little nicer since it was so pricey, but it is a big city, and of course everything is expensive. And then there was that fire alarm at 1:00 in the morning. We stayed on the 25th floor– the top floor of the hotel, and had to walk down 25 flights of stairs for the fire alarm. Ugh. It was just a false alarm.
We had a beautiful view of the CN tower.
Here’s another picture of the CN tower, taken across the city at night. Sorry it’s a little blurry, I took it after 2 pints of Guinness! LOL
We also went up the CN Tower and you can go out on two different observation decks. One of them has glass windows, and one of them just has fencing. It was SO windy on the one with fencing, and I wore a skirt that day. I felt like Marilyn Monroe, and I know I ended up mooning people. There’s also a glass floor that you can walk on and can see all the way to the ground. It was the scariest thing I’ve ever done.
Here’s a picture I took while standing on the glass floor:
A picture of the falls. It was so misty and wet that the pictures don’t look that spectacular, but it was beautiful:
Another:
Then we also went to an attraction called Behind the Falls, where you get to go down in an elevator through tunnels to get close to the falls, and then behind a section of them. Here’s a picture of me close to the falls:
Another:
They give you ponchos to wear because you get wet. It was hard to take pictures because it was so wet, but we managed to snag a couple. We drove across to Buffalo, too, (I’d never been in NY before) but we didn’t have time to go down to the falls on that side. We just drove along the rapids and whirlpools.
I’m bummed I didn’t get any pictures at the St Lawrence Market we went to that every kind of food imaginable, or in China town, but they were both really cool, too.
I did manage to find my sock needles before we left (literally minutes before we left–they were hiding in another unfinished sock project), but I didn’t find much time to knit. I managed to cast on, and that was it. I am still working on the cardi I posted about last time ALMOST to separating the arms.
Thank you all so much, once again, for the comments and support on my miscarriage. It pains me, but also gives me a sense that I’m not alone, to know that so many of you have experienced the same thing. My heart goes out to each of you.
