Feliz Cumpleaños Jazy!

Muchas felicidades!!!



Esperamos que te la pases muy padre en tu dia.
Yey! It's your birthday!




















Yum!

All is good now

We've been through a rough patch the last couple of months, hence the lack of posting. All is good now and we'll keep going forward.

I've decided that I'm going to start posting about the things I make and bake at school. I, surprisingly, don't do that much baking at home, but that might change in the future. Consider yourself warned ;-)

I did manage to finish something



















I'm squinting because it's hard to take your own picture while sitting on snow. This was taken 03/20 and we still got more snow!

Le slouch in Classic Elite Inca Alpaca the color is 1127 Cochineal red. I can't remember the needle size that I used, but, as always, I used 2 circulars instead of DPNs. I really liked the pattern and the yarn is sooo soft and warm. I actually had been wearing this without weaving the ends (just tucked under) to avoid posting about it :-(




















This next FO was finished in Dec 06, but somehow never got around posting it. I think it was because shortly after we moved and we didn't need scarves there.

It's made with a 100% wool recycled yarn from a sweater that I bought for that very purpose. My husband liked the color and requested a scarf. I looked for "manly" scarf patterns and came across this one from Last Minute Knitted Gifts, very easy and very manly indeed!



















The color is a much deeper red, you can see it in this next picture that was taken the day he got it.












Y ahora en Español!

No creo que alguien lo haya notado, pero no habia escrito mucho en el blog por causas personales. Gracias a Dios ya todo esta mejor y a seguir adelante!

He decidido que voy a empezar a escribir mas acerca de mis aventuras en la cocina, no se si ya lo mencione, pero estoy haciendo un certificado en alta reposteria. Asi que ya saben lo que pueden esperar.

Con todo y todo me sigo dando tiempo para tejer y entre las cosas que he acabado esta este gorro/boina Le slouch tejido en alpaca, el estambre esta super suavecito y es muy calientito. La foto donde estoy yo la tome hace unos dias y todavia nevo mas despues de eso!
La bufanda se la teji a mi esposo en Diciembre 2006, pero por alguna razon no la habia puesto aqui. El estambre es 100% lana y fue reciclado de un sweater que compre en una segunda. El patron es de este libro y lo puedes encontrar aqui, como ves no tiene chiste.

Knit-out 2008

Saturday my DH took me to Mall of America for the 2008 Knit-out, how could we let this opportunity pass? I had such a great time, I bet I would've enjoyed it more if I had taken a demo class or stayed for a demostration, but I didn't have time, we were only there for 3 hrs and most of the time was spent in line, but I think it was worth it!
I love getting freebies and DH stood in line with me, so he got a goodie bag too! All the ladies that were in line with us were very impress by his patience, he even brought me lunch to the line, I definetly hit the jackpot with this one <3 (does that look like a heart?)

I got to meet Vicky Howell, she's really nice, super nice! I now regret not going to her Crafty Planet presentation the day before. At least I got a picture, right?





















This is one side of the Interweave Knits booth

















This is the Lion Brand line, the booth is actually around the corner...40 min away, You would think they were giving money away, but no, it was just a black tote and free patterns





















This dress was at the Knitting Machine Guild booth, I thought it was really cool.





















This is my booty: Lots of free patterns, some magazines, several needle gauges, yarn, knitting needles (one free pair and if you donated 3 dlls they would give you a second pair, so I got some Knit-lite and some N.19 wood needles)




















I had a great time! If you ever have the chance, don't let it pass.

Feliz Dia de San Valentin!

Happy Valentine's Day!


and now that that's out of the way...

let me tell you about my latest trip to Salvys (Salvation Army). I'm a big thrift store fan, big. I love going to Goodwill, Salvation Army, Unique, you put the words "thrift store" by the name and I'll be there. Lately I haven't had a chance to go and the last time I was there I walked empty handed (shocking, right?), but boy am I happy I stopped there yesterday...

I found this

















14 balls of Rowan's Yorkshire Tweed 4-ply

best part?

It was only $1.99 for all of them!

5 are brown, 2 blue, 2 grey, 1 green, 1 light green, 1 redish/brown, 1 orange-ish and 1 mauve

Any ideas or suggestions? I have enough for a sweater, but I would need to combine the colors...which scares me a bit.

Hope your thrift store trips are as rewarding as mine!

20 days later

I can't believe it's been 20 days since my last post! So much has happened since...well not really. I came back from south of the border and started culinary school. For those of you who don't know me that well, I'll explain a little. I graduated from medical school, but it's been about 5 years since I practiced Medicine. I won't go into the reasons because sometimes it's even hard for me to understand what I'm doing. Long story short, I've always loved baking and pastry and for the next year that's what I'll be doing. After that, who knows, maybe I'll continue into the baking and pastry career or maybe I'll go back to medicine. Whatever I decide, I'll definitely be knitting!

And speaking of knitting, there are tons of things that I haven't posted yet.

Remember the calorimetries? Well, I ended up knitting about 20 of them. I don't have pictures of all of them, but here are a few. Needless to say, everybody loved them!

DH didn't get one, he was just posing, but even guys look good in them!

My mom received a hooded scarf, loosely based on this pattern. I used 2 skeins of Paton's Divine yarn. She liked it, but next time I'll try to round-off the top a little bit.

My MIL collects angels, so I decided to knit her an angel scarf. I modified this pattern to make it a scarf and I used Lion Brand's Jiffy yarn in one of her favorite colors: Yellow.

(MIL with my sister)

(Close up)

For my two sisters and my BIL I knitted each a pair of Felted clogs. I'm still waiting for the "good" pictures from my sisters, but here's at least a preview. My husband decided that his pair should also be in the picture. I still have to finish a pair for my little brother. I ran out of yarn in Juarez!

This adorable baby

got a pair of EZ baby booties from The Opinionated Knitter

My friend Roberto got a nice neckwarmer. Trust me, he could had sued me if I didn't crop the picture ;-)

I'll end this post with more babies! Well a baby and a toddler.

O-man got a Ganomy hat, another pattern by EZ found in The Knitter's Almanac

His sister Zaida got a top-down bonnet that I knitted with Kool-aid yarn

Aren't they cute?

I'm still missing some FOs. I'll post them next time.

Have a great week! or month, depends how much it takes me to post ;-)

Feliz Año 2008!

Mil disculpas por no escribir mas seguido, la verdad es que estoy disfrutando estos dias con mi famila. La navidad la pasamos todos (y me refiero a TODOS) con mis suegros y el año nuevo la pasamos con mis papas, muy padre todo.

El 2007 ha sido un año lleno de bendiciones, robe paso los examenes, entro a la residencia, visite Europa por primera vez, nos mudamos de ciudad, todos tenemos salud y amor, que mas podria desear? Yo se que el 2008 superara por mucho el año que se acaba y eso me emociona mucho, hay tantos proyectos! Ya despues les contare.

Espero que el año que empieza este lleno de bendiciones y cosas buenas para ti y tu familia.

My apologies for not writing in such a long time. I've been busy having fun with my family. We celebrated Christmas with my in-laws and New year's with my parents, all very nice. DH left yesterday and I'm leaving in a couple of days :-(

I feel so blessed, 2007 was a great year, but I know 2008 will be even better, we have so many plans and projects. I'll tell you about them later.

I really hope that 2008 is filled with blessings for you and your family.

All freaked out!

This is my last post before leaving tomorrow to spend the holidays with my family. I'm all freaked out!. I haven't packed (my flight leaves in about 17 hrs, that's plenty of time, right?) and I didn't finish knitting all the presents. I still need to pick out my "travel project" and I have 2 movies from the library that I haven't watched, 1408 and Premonition.
At least I managed to finish the bear booties from 50 Baby Booties to Knit, right? This are for one of DH's coworker. She's pregnant (thank god! 'cause it would be weird to give her baby booties if she wasn't) and we were supposed to take her out for drinks as a thank you for helping DH with some work...but now she can't drink, so booties it is!
The pattern is pretty straight forward, all the mistakes I made were my fault. The yarn is what I had left from another pair that I made 2 years ago for my godson, I think it's Dale of Norway's Baby Ull, but I'm not 100% sure. I would had like them to be a little more symmetrical, but I can deal with it. Aren't they cute?

Este es mi ultimo post antes de irme a pasar la fiestas dicembrinas con mi familia. Ando toda vuelta loca! Me falta empacar, no termine de tejer los regalos de navidad, no he escogido el proyecto que me quiero llevar para el camino y quiero ver 2 pelicuals que saque de la biblioteca.
Al menos acabe estas botitas. Son para una compañera del trabajo de mi esposo, como agradecimiento por ayudarle con un trabajo. Esta es la segunda vez que las tejo, la primera fueron para mi ahijado. El estambre es el mismo, ya hace tanto tiempo que lo compre que no recuerdo el nombre, creo que es este. Me hubiera gustado que quedaran mas simetricas, pero ahorita ya me doy por bien servida al haberlas acabado. A poco no estan muy monas?

Nos vemos en Juarez!

Cold!

I'm no stranger to snow or cold weather, but something tells me (OK everybody keeps telling me) that Minnesota winters are different. It's being snowing here and by the looks of it, Minnesotans will have a white Christmas, not me, I'll be south of the border telling people how it's not really cold there, how they would be freezing their traseros off in Minneapolis.

Thankfully its' been cold , but I haven't been cold...could it be because I spent most of my days indoors? Anyways, I'm pretty sure I'll be knitting lots of socks, mittens and scarves to keep ourselves warm and toasty. I'm actually looking forward to knitting for myself, right now it's all about the Christmas presents and Locapalooza. I really doubt that I'll be able to knit everyone a present, we'll see.

One thing that I have noticed is the absence of snowmen, I guess people are so used to the snow that they don't play with it, and they must be used to driving in the snow, because it takes more than 24 hrs to start plowing the streets, at least in my neighborhood.

And for those who are keeping track, I knitted 3 more Christmas presents, yey!

Long time, no post

I figured that if I was going to blow off NaBloPoMo, I might as well not post for more than one day. It was incredibly easy not posting, but I can't do it forever, so here it is, the long post.

Pues me canse de escribir tan seguido, despues de un rato se acaba la inspiracion. Asi que ahi le va el resumen:

Here's a recap:


We had a really nice thanksgiving. In Mexico Thanksgiving is not a Holiday, so for us, it would had been like any other day, thankfully, one of DH fellow resident took pity on us and invited us to dinner. Everything was delicious and we had a really good time.

Celebramos el Dia de Accion de Gracias con un compañero de Robe, se apiado de nosotros y nos invito a cenar a su casa. Su esposa cocino el pavo y toda la cosa. Cenamos riquisimo y la pasamos muy bien.


On Friday I went shopping. I bought some things that my sister asked me to and some things for me, pants and memory cards for the camera. It wasn't as crowed as I thought it would be.

El dia despues de Thanksgiving es famoso por sus ofertas. Yo acabe iendo a comprar unos encargos de mi hermana y unas cosas para mi. La verdad yo esperaba qeu hubiera mas gente, pero no, todo estuvo tranquilo.


Later on Friday we had some friends over. Remember Ambica and Mike? along with CL and Ed (from Illinois), visited us. It was so nice seeing them again! We had dinner at a Red Sea, which serves ethiopian food, a first for me. It was really good!. After that we had a beer at Town Hall Brewery, we sat near the fireplace and had a really good time. The Masala Mama was a little too bitter for me, but after a while you don't notice anymore ;-)

El mismo viernes por la noche vinieron a visitarnos unos amigos de Bloomington, bueno, los conocimos ahi, pero ya todos viven en otros lados. La pasamos muy bien, fuimos a cenar comida etiopie y a hecharnos unas cervezas. Eso es algo que me gusta de aqui, puedes encontrar un restaurante para todo tipo de comidas!
El sabado se regresaron y nos quedamos flojeando todo el domingo.


On saturday we had Indian food and went grocery shopping. We had a really good time, it was nice seeing them after so long.










Most of the "Usual suspects"



I'm still knitting, not necessarily what's on my list. I finished another koolhaas. It came out a little bit smaller, I used the same yarn as before (Lion Brand's Wool-Ease in Blue Mist) on smaller needles (my mistake). I like it, it's warm, fast and easy, while looking very-hard-to-knit.


Here's a picture (ignore the pajamas)















I'll keep knitting and counting my blessings.

Sigo tejiendo, no lo que deberia (me faltan todavia regalos), peor al menos sigo con la viada. Termine otro gorro Koolhaas, mismo estambre, mismo patron, diferentes agujas y por lo tanto mas chico, peor no importa. este patron me gusta porque es facil, pero se ve como que es muy complicado.
Por lo pronto seguire tejiendo y dando gracias a Dios por todas nuestras bendiciones.

Happy Thanksgiving

Hoping you have a lot of thing to be thankful for this year, I now I do, family, friends, health, love, residency, and so many blessings more.

Enjoy your turkey! Wobble, wobble.

Edited to ad: Ha, Ha, Ha! I guess my sister is right, it is goble goble! What was I thinking? LOL!

Lo prometido es deuda

Ayer dije que hoy iva a terminar de tejer algo, la verdad esque he empezado varios proyectos, pero no los he acabado. De hecho, hoy casi se me olvida escribir en el blog. Ya iva a acosdtarme a dormir cuando me acorde y ya no pude hacerme loca.

Asi que voy a mostrarles alguans cosas que me gustaria tejer en un futuro inmediato y que ya tiene un buen rato circulando el internet.

Tatami Kimono El puro patron cuensta lo que un libro, y al parecer ahora ya esta agotado y el estambre recomendado cuensta una fortuna. Pero apoco no esta hermoso?

Image Copyright Sundra Yarns

Interweave Knits Fall 2007 issue Minimalist Cardigan. Lo unico qeu me detiene son las mangas que se tejen aparte y la ultima y unica vez que he hecho eso no me resulto muy bien. A mi me gusta hasta en ese color.

Copyright Interweave Knits

Tilted Duster.

Cuando vi este no me llamo mucho la atencion, pero he visto fotos de otras personas que lo han tejido y se ve muy padre.

Copyright Interweave Knits

Y todavia quedan un monton! Pero si me pongo a buscarle nunca acabo, y mejor paso a pasito, priemero acabo lso regalos de navidad y luego tejo para mi

Chase's Calendar of Events

Sorry, no knitting stuff today.
When I worked as an Assistant Librarian, one of the things I liked doing was checking this book, to find out what was being celebrated on that day. Since I couldn't think of something more interesting to blog about, here's what I found out.

~ Mexico's Revolution day 1910( I knew that! No school, no work and a parade)

~ Name your PC day My sister's laptop has a name, Matilda. My husband decided to name ours "that's stupid"

~ Anniversary of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials 1945

~ The Sheik was released. I don't think I'm ever watching this movie.

~ Lucerne Piano Festival runs from Nov.20-25. My sister should go and have a look.

~ United Nations Universal Children's Day. In Mexico is celebrated on April 30. Schools have festivals on that day and it's really fun.

I promise, tomorrow I'll have some knitting done.

Random stuff

Huevo

I don't have any new FO's and I'm running out of knitting things to write about, so here are a few random things (Huevo one of them).



Como hoy no tengo nada nuevo que mostrar en cuanto a tejidos y se me estan acabando temas que escribir, he aqui algunos datso al azar acerca de mi.


1.- I'm reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the time of cholera in spanish. I decided to read it before watching the movie.


2.- I'm currently watching season 5 of Six-feet Under. I get the dvd's from the library and I love the fact that all the episodes are there. I only watch them while on the elliptical machine.


3.- I didn't watch my usual six-feet under episode today...you can guess why.


4.- I'm a Libra and a Rabbit.


5.- I'm afraid of going bald.


And now in Spanish (different of course!)


1.- Empece a ir a primero de primara a las 4 años porque no me gustaba el kinder.

2.- Si pudiera tener un perro, seria un perro pelon como este o este.

3.- Cuando era chiquita queria ser veterinaria.

4.-Termine siendo Medico

5.- No soy muy buena para tener plantas, tiendo a regarlas de mas. Ahorita tengo dos que estan sobreviviendo y eso me hace pensar que la de la culpa era mi hermana (no te creas jazy!)

Done!

The koolhaas hat is all done! It was a very quick knit. Here's DH wearing it.





















I used Lion Brand's Wool-Ease, I figured it was a good yarn for a test knit and easy to care for if I give it as a gift...which hasn't been decided yet. He really liked it! I used 2 oz of a yarn in Forest Green Heather (about 132 yds).

Let's see, what else? It was knitted on 2 8US circulars. I forgot to change needle sizes for the ribbing and messed up the pattern, you can actually see it in the picture, but it looks as part of the hat. I did 4 pattern repeats and decided to decrease to 6 stitches before closing the top. Oh! and the best part? I didn't use a cable needle! I followed this tutorial.

I was planning on making one for DH in Misti Alpaca Suri/Silk that I got on sale, but now I'm not sure I got enough yarn. I'll definitely knit another one in a different yarn.

Koolhaas

I started a koolhaas hat yesterday, just as a "test". As my sister said in the comments, I'm knitting more than one. I just want to make sure I understand the pattern before I use a nicer yarn.

So far, I've used a different yarn, didn't change needles for the ribbing and messed up the pattern, but I think it's coming along

What do you think?

Again

Once again I forgot to post. It really doesn't matter because I had been out of the contest since day two. I was out of my apartment most of the day and totally forgot about the blog until now, half an hour to late to count for today (or yesterday).
I'm still posting twice, just so I can say I posted 30 times in November, he he he.

Today, while waiting for DH, I started "test" knitting koolhaas. Test knitting, for me, is knitting something in a different yarn than stated in the pattern, just to see how it comes out and if I can stand the pattern, whatever the outcome, I'll find a recipient. But I have to say, so far so good. I'm doing cables without the cable needle and knitting it on 2 circular needles, oh! and I'm using Lion Brand's Wool-Ease. I'll post pictures later today.

Edited to say: OMG! It looks like I'm in a different time zone than blogger and it's still Nov 16 there! por un pelito de rana.

A day late

Yesterday was my Martes 13. I had a little accident while making this:

Ayer fue mi Martes 13. Mientras teñia este estambre tuve un pequeño accidente.

I really like it! I think the blue makes all the difference, don't you? The stripes are much longer (1 yd each). I'll knit another swatch to see how it works.

El estambre me encanto como quedo, mucho mas que el anterior. Yo creo que el azul hace la diferencia, no? Estas rayas son mas gruesas. Me queman las manos por tejer una muestra para ver como quedan!

Anyways, as I was saying, I dyed this yarn with kool-aid in the microwave and this happened

Pues como les decia, tuve un accidente mientras teñia el estambre en el microondas

Thank god it was the last part I had to dye. It was all done in sections, one by one.

This is what my hands looked like... I swear, my husband is still alive!

Las manso me quedaron rojas. Ya casi se me quita, solo me quedan las uñas.

After that I had another accident, one that involved an FO and scissors, but more about that later, once I figure how or if I can fix it.

Despues de ese percance tuve otro. Despues les muestro lo que pasa cuando mezclas un tejido terminado con unas tijeras, ayayay! Espero poder componerlo.

Back to reality

Yesterday, the Yarn Harlot posted on her blog that there are 42 days until Christmas, now 41. I gotta say, it hit me hard! I don't know why to me a month sounds much longer that 42 days, I know, it doesn't make sense. I need to start turbo knitting.
One of the reasons that I haven't made that much progress is because instead of concentrating on the bigger gifts , I'm knitting the one pattern that is small and I already know, so it makes for wonderful mindless knitting, no checking or looking at a pattern. Today I'm going to start one big project and hope I can finish on time.

I was on ravelry, when I came across this website Knitmap.com As a knitter, I know that when you travel (or not) you want to have as much S.E.X (stash enhancement xcursion) as you can and this website is going to make a lot of traveling knitters happy. Look how many yarn stores are in my area!

*that kitty used to live outside my parents home in Mexico. She was sweet and in love with Huevo ( a dog). We don't know what happened to her, one day she was gone.

Triscadecafobia

Tu la tienes?

Martes 13 es el equivalente al Viernes 13 en la cultura Americana. Yo no me concidero supersticiosa, pero un poco de precaucion no esta de mas ;-)

Pero de donde viene? y donde se concidera de mala suerte?

Me puse a buscarlo y encontre esto, esto y esto. Muy interesante, no?

por si acaso

Knitting Meme

I was wondering what I would blog about today, so I googled "knitting meme" and this came out. I'm giving it a shot. I might be late to the party...but better late than never!

~ What is your all time favorite yarn to knit with?

I can't say I tried a lot of yarns. As long as it's soft, in a nice color and doesn't break my bank it'll be my favorite. Right now I have a thing for alpaca yarn, its' soo soft.


~ Your favorite needles?

I like using circular needles to knit everything! I have tried using DPNs, but I just don't get it, that's why I use 2 circulars to knit in the round.


~ The worst thing you've ever knit?

(sigh) So many things. The one that comes to my mind right now is a hat that I made for SIL. I used needles that were too small, so it ended up being too stiff and I ran out of yarn and it ended up being to small.


~ Your most favorite knitting pattern ( maybe you don't like wearing it, but was the most fun to knit)

I felt very accomplished when I made Clapotis. I'm happy with anything that turns out remotely similar to the original.


~ Most valuable knitting technique

I don't know, knitting continental? The last technique that I learned was color knitting. There are a ton that I want to learn! Double knitting, enterlac (and purling from the front), intrasia, Kitchener stitch, oh my!


~ Best knit book or magazine

I tend to buy VK and IK magazines. I like nice pictures, like the ones in Rowan, but that's too expensive. Book is another thing, I currently have an EZ craving. I'm starting to lean more towards books that teach you how to do it and improve it, rather than just give you a pattern. I haven't had a chance to use my Knitting from the top, but I'm glad I have it.


~ Your favorite knit-a-long?

Zimmermania, but just because it's the only one I'm a member of.


~ Your favorite knitblogs?
Lets see: Yarn Harlot, Knit and Tonic, Skrilla Knits (I usually visit most of her blog list), Buenas Puntadas ( I like reading about knitting in Spanish), Batty's, Bezzie's, I have to make my own blog roll.


~ Your favorite knitwear designer?

I would loooove to say ME, but, I haven't design anything...soon I hope. Right now EZ is my favorite, I would like to knit everything on her books.


~ The knit item you wear the most?

My first Clapotis. I don't knit for myself that much, actually it was one of my New Year's resolutions (it's in Spanish, but it's in there) and here I am, doing Locapalooza.


I'm tagging anyone who wants to do this. I would love to read your answers! leave a comment with your link.