kindness

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, 

loves something 

and has lost something. 

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Max Monkey sox in STR 'ka-POW! pa-TINA!'

potential

Always dream and shoot higher 

than you know you can do.  

Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries

or predecessors.

Try to be better than yourself.

~William Faulkner 

monkey sock pattern by Cookie A in an STR mill end  

my favorite things

picots...

...and macarons...

...especially picots.

for every color of yarn, there is a macaron to match...

...i have no complaints.

 

who wins this debate of favorite thing?

i hesitate to declare.

what do you think, picot? or macaron?

what's your favorite thing?

i hope your weekend is filled with all your favorite things! xo

Life is like riding a bicycle. 

To keep your balance you must keep moving.

~Albert Einstein  

monkey socks by Cookie A. in STR 'mill end' 

p.s. this is monkey #15 for me!! 

p.s.s. Clearly, monkey socks are a favorite thing, too!

just an inconvenience

What does a neuroknitter do when work stuff goes awfully awry...again...

...and again?

After the meltdown...?

Yep.

camera...check.

hot tea...check.

macarons...check.

knitting...check and check and check.

There's nothing that a warm cup of tea, pretty macarons, and a toasty pair of new socks can't fix!

Sigh...that's so much better.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat,

if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. 

Everything else is inconvenience.

~Robert Fulghum  

Toasty Twist socks in Blue Moon Fiber Arts STR (probably a rare gem...running a ducking for cover )

finished

The 14th pair of Monkey socks is finished!

Knitting them was like hanging out with an old friend...

...you just pick up where you left off, 

no matter how much time has passed between visits...

...what more could a girl ask for?

Happy Friday-eve!

Spend the afternoon.

You can't take it with you.

~Annie Dillard

Monkey sock pattern by Cookie A in STR 'lavender truffle'

the present

You must live in the present,

 

launch yourself on every wave,

find your eternity in each moment.

~Henry David Thoreau 

Monkey sock pattern by Cookie A in STR 'lavender truffle'

lavender squared

And more knitting is afoot! Fancy that!

The first monkey sock is finished and the second one is off to a good start.

I'm not sure I'll have anything fresh for you tomorrow, so I'll wish you a happy Friday-eve now,

and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!! xo

His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune --

oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!

~Emily Dickinson 

Monkey sock pattern by Cookie A in STR 'lavender truffle'

of chocolate and gems

The last finished project of 2008. Omega it was. The knitting year of 2008 has ended with a Monkey Sock in an STR Rare Gem. During the arctic blast of 2008 this color reminded me of fire and ice...of course, there was a lot of snow and ice around to inspire me. Anne mentioned chocolate and Tiffany's, and I thought the correlation was brilliant!

Thank you so much for coming by the neighborhood to check out what's happening and leaving comments when you can! I so appreciate all your kind words!

Happy New Year!

Counting down

Progress is being made on the Omega Monkeys of the year.

The first sock is finished, and I'm past the gusset decreases on the second sock. I have a couple of other projects on the needles that aren't for public consumption just yet, so the push is on to finish everything by the Janus hour...I just made that up...Oy.

Clearly, more coffee is needed and there's no time to spare.

Back to knitting. Happy Monday!

p.s. the linen stitch makes an interesting heel flap...what do you think?

The big reveal

“O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

Can you see me now?

Ahhh...that's much better!

I am so transparent...I need to work on that in 2009! Yes, you all guessed it!! Yay! The last, or perhaps penultimate (if Cockeyed's forecast is correct), pair of socks of 2008 are Monkey socks.

However, just to mix it up a bit, I'm trying a linen stitch heel flap that I surfed across here.

Kickin' back

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree”
Emily Brontë

It was a bee-u-tiful weekend here in the Pacific Northwest.

The mornings were brisk, the days clear and lovely, and the evening sun was as golden as the freshly fallen leaves.

The shadows are getting longer, and the sun is sinking from view earlier and earlier.

It's time to pull on these socks and settle in for the chillier days ahead.

Happy Monday!