Kathy's Knitting & Knothings

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Swatching and waiting

OK, so I refuse to give up. I spent a good amount of time on Sunday with the lace diamonds pattern. Had to rewrite it 4 times to get the stitch count right. I worked the pattern in some kitchen cotton just to practice. I have frogged the actual swatch 3 times now. I am still not sure my decreases are “perfect”. There are 3 lace swatches required.

There are a number of lace cloths here that might be modified.

Got an email yesterday saying my yarn might be in in 2 days, THEN will be shipped to me. Aghhhh!

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Sunday, March 25, 2007

Test Knitting

from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EnidsDesignsKAL/ Went through the washer and dryer, needs some blocking for a better pic. Still waiting on 1 more skein of yarn to finish my sleeves from Marji or Laura. Agghhhhhhhh, the frustrations of the Level II program. I tried to alter one of the lace patterns from the cloth KAL and after 3 tries just couldn’t get the count right. I am going for a new pattern today. Still plugging away at the KPS sweater too.

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

March mid-month cloth done

OK, so the instructions aren't completely posted but it wasn't a big deal to figure it out, so I went for it!

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Thursday March 15

So, I took the day off to get some PT for my upper spine. Here's hoping I get relief soon! Got the body of my sweater done, including the buttons! Working to get the sleeves done soon!

Sunday, March 11, 2007

New Do For Effie

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Saturday, March 10, 2007

WIP, Queens, MKP, Travel, Children

Slowly progressing on the sleeves for the 2-color jacket. Slow because every once in a while I pause to weave in all the ends on the solid color, as a result of changing skeins every row due to the color difference in the Manos :(

Slow progress on Level II of the TKGA Master Knitter’s Program also. Presently working on getting my binder in order, and rearranging all the updated changes since I originally started.

The 4 swatches that I did before are no longer required. Figures I worked on those that would be eliminated! I am left with 1 Lace swatch - unfinished and unblocked, out of the 22 required!

Participated in my first judging event for this year's Shad Derby Queen last night. Social hour followed by kick off speeches and then a 1 minute speech by each of the 12 girls. As each one finished each of the 4 judges had to score them: 1 - 15 - speech 1 - 10 poise 1 - 5 appearance

It was a lot harder than I thought. The girls presented in order of height, from shortest to tallest. I was quite impressed with the poise and personalities, let alone the accomplishments of these high school senior young ladies! This event counts as 15% of their total score. This was a “by invitation only” event.

The next judging event, the Secondary Judging, will be private and a little less formal, yet represents 60% of their score, on Tuesday April 3, 2007. As I understand it, the 4 judges along with the Judge’s Chair will formulate 4 questions to present to the young ladies. Each of us will present the same question to each of the Candidates.

"Each candidate will be evaluated based on: Involvement - community and schoolOutside interestsKnowledge of current eventsAppearancePoisePersonalityAttitude in answer to question "Why do you want to be the Shad Derby Queen?" It should be noted, the judges determine the questions and content of the interviews."

The last event is the Coronation Ball on May 5, 2007.

III. Final Judging Coronation Ball - 25% Each candidate will be judged on: EssayPoise Appearance “Coronation Ball - 25% Each candidate will be judged on: EssayPoise Appearance”

Still working on processing our trip to China this summer. So excited! I finally was able to get the invoice, cc authorization and visa documents last night, so we can fax the deposit in hopefully today. We just realized that we need passport photos (2 since we will have a double entry visa - from US and Hong Kong). So we need to get to AAA for those. Thankfully we both have current passports.

Child #2 is moving closer! Yes, after almost 3 years on the West Coast, in SF, she is moving to NYC. She is in the process of working with travel nursing agencies. It seems that with her experience at UCSF she should have no problem finding work at a large teaching hospital. And they find her housing, a fully furnished one bedroom apartment in NYC. We have friends who have purchase a studio apartment for $250,000!

I’ll visit with Child #1, wife and grandson tomorrow. I need more pictures!

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Saturday, March 03, 2007

TKGA Level II

Decided to pick up The Knitting Guild of America Level II master knitter program. OK, OK, I decided to get serious back in August of 06 :( I happened to check the boards and noticed that not only they change the directions which I ordered back in August, but there are corrections posted as of November 15, 2006. So I went ahead and emailed for the directions. I have to say they got back to me right away with the new information. I was quite impressed. Now if only I could get this level done with some type of speed. So I am organizing for the binder. I had many of the swatch tags and instructions done, but now they have to be redone with the changes :( Still working on the 2 color jacket. Up to the last button hole, so now I need to finish the neck decreases and then the sleeves.

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