What a doofus!

I don't know what I was thinking, but after I took photos of tons of yarn for my Ravelry stash and put them on the website, I deleted them from flickr!!! Of course, they all disappeared on the website, too. What a doofus. I also, in a cleaning frenzy, cleaned all those photos off my computer. So now I have to take all those photos again. Poor pitiful me.

Yesterday was The Day that Good Morning America came to film me for the profile they are doing for the Academy. It will air in February. I don't know the date yet, but I will post it when I know. It was terrific! Bill Cunningham, the producer, couldn't have been nicer and his crew, Jeff and Mark, were also great. They all made me feel very comfortable and soon I was talking away, hardly realizing I was being filmed. All in all, it was a great day and a HUGE thank you to the rest of the team, Alyson and John. And to Kevin, the head of engineering, for making it easy to do. And to Stacey, who organized it all for the studio. It takes a village, I tell you. Here we are after it was all over:


From the left, it is Mark, Bill, Jeff, me, Alyson and John. It was FUN!!! (The photo was taken with Alyson's camera by Stacey. My camera's battery pooped out right when I was getting ready to shoot. I'm so grateful Al had hers.)

I'm still knitting away on the top down sweater. I've at last gotten to the point of knitting in the round, so it's going a bit faster. The yarn is not kind to mistakes, so I hope it will all smooth out when it's blocked. I haven't tried it on yet -- I have to transfer the whole damn thing to a longer circular needle for that. I will soon. I'm anxious to see how it's fitting.


I'm off to Rosalie's for Thanksgiving this week. I'm only going for the weekend, and neighbor, Charles, has agreed to check on Bella. He says he's not sure I even have a cat, but the food keeps disappearing, so something is going on. It will be wonderful to get out of town and see my sister. And have some great food to boot.

Last of all, here's baby Bella. She's discovered the cat tree!!

(Well, I was going to include a photo, but the memory card got corrupted somehow. The photos will have to wait.)

Projects

I've started a new sweater from Top Down Sweaters, a book I bought thanks to Ellen. I've never tried this before -- in fact the only clothes I've tried have been sleeveless tops or raglan tops, because the idea of fitting in sleeves scares me. Back in my high school days, I made many frightening attempts at setting in sleeves in sewing class and it scarred me, I think. But this pattern, the Scalloped-Lace Trimmed Sweater, has dropped sleeves and I think I can do that. I normally would not use the same color as the photo, but I already had tons of pumpkin colored yarn in my stash(!), so that's what I'm using. It's elann.com Peruvian Quechua in a color I don't think they have anymore. I bought it ages ago for some project that I can't remember, but it's working really well for this pattern. Here's what I've got so far:


I finished all my felting projects for the Day of the Dead party at SnB a couple of weeks ago. I made a beret and a purse from Felted Knits by Beverly Galeskas along with the Mohair Ballet Slippers. I also felted some swatches and made earrings and bracelets and topped it all off with a felted carnation from a pattern Ellen gave out for her birthday one year. I wore it all with a coat I picked up from a thrift store and thought it all turned out really well. Please check out Ellen 's blog for photos. I made all the felted things from Noro Kureyon #166. The colors of Noro Kureyon are so amazing and beautiful. And felts so well.

There are some frightening photos of fashion knits on
Rose-Kim Knits. I do like the brain purse, but the rest of it is just SCARY!!

Last but not least, Bella is doing pretty well, but I wish she would let me pick her up. She still takes off like a rocket when I try, although she will come up and lie next to me on the bed. One of these days....