From the pirates landing on the beach in West Seattle, the torchlight parade, the Blue Angels and Hydroplane races on Lake Washington - Seafair lasts about a month. Rob and I met 19 years ago when the ship he was stationed on (USS New Jersey) was in Seattle during Seafair weekend. Seafair is a special time of year for us and the events hold a lot of memories. Yesterday we went to Bob and Jean's house (Cascade Yarns owners) on Mercer Island to watch the breathtaking Blue Angels. I love the Blue Angels show and look forward to it every year, despite the chorus of complaints from citizens who don't like the noise or the I-90 bridge closures associated with the practices or shows. This morning Rob brought me the Sunday paper and breakfast in bed. Later in the day, I picked Marilyn up and she accompanied me downtown to Lauren's shop "So Much Yarn" to trade out a lavender skein of yarn for a orange colored one. I am still working on the Dale of Norway ladybug sweater and I didn't like the how the blue and lavender colors looked so close to each other, hence I decided to swap out two colors. I also bought some washable Cascade painted yarns in sherbet colors and a skein from Mountain Colors to do a Forest Canopy shawl in greens and purples. I was surfing the web figuring out which type of cast on to do for a lace shawl. Seems like a cable cast on would be appropriate. I also saw a blog in which a very cute lace and garter stitch baby jacket was featured from Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitter's Almanac. hmm, I have that book and I don't remember any sort of good looking baby sweater or good looking anything else in it. I pulled the book off the shelf in my home office. I found the baby sweater and liked the combination of garter stitch yoke and a lace gull stitch sides on the front and back. Might be nice. For a baby. I have never knit from any of EZ's fine works. Her directions always seemed a bit short of specifics and long on musing thus I found her books more entertaining than functional. The photo of the baby sweater in the book is small, black and white and difficult to see the details. I'll have to think about this one. I am in the process of knitting two baby sweaters in which the babies are imminent - one due in mid August and the other one due early September. One sweater is the ladybug one - it is coming along slowly but surely. The second is a cute stockinette Henley from Debbie Bliss. I was attracted to it because of the stylish simplicity for a boy. The yarn for that one is Baby Cashmerino. It sounds impressive but I am not sure I like working with it. It is a combination of merino, microfibre and cashmere. It feels like acrylic to me and it splits a lot. Yikes, I just realized that my flight to Toronto leaves at 7 am tomorrow so I have to get moving packing business clothes and appropriate knitting projects to take on the plane. More later...
From the pirates landing on the beach in West Seattle, the torchlight parade, the Blue Angels and Hydroplane races on Lake Washington - Seafair lasts about a month. Rob and I met 19 years ago when the ship he was stationed on (USS New Jersey) was in Seattle during Seafair weekend. Seafair is a special time of year for us and the events hold a lot of memories. Yesterday we went to Bob and Jean's house (Cascade Yarns owners) on Mercer Island to watch the breathtaking Blue Angels. I love the Blue Angels show and look forward to it every year, despite the chorus of complaints from citizens who don't like the noise or the I-90 bridge closures associated with the practices or shows. This morning Rob brought me the Sunday paper and breakfast in bed. Later in the day, I picked Marilyn up and she accompanied me downtown to Lauren's shop "So Much Yarn" to trade out a lavender skein of yarn for a orange colored one. I am still working on the Dale of Norway ladybug sweater and I didn't like the how the blue and lavender colors looked so close to each other, hence I decided to swap out two colors. I also bought some washable Cascade painted yarns in sherbet colors and a skein from Mountain Colors to do a Forest Canopy shawl in greens and purples. I was surfing the web figuring out which type of cast on to do for a lace shawl. Seems like a cable cast on would be appropriate. I also saw a blog in which a very cute lace and garter stitch baby jacket was featured from Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitter's Almanac. hmm, I have that book and I don't remember any sort of good looking baby sweater or good looking anything else in it. I pulled the book off the shelf in my home office. I found the baby sweater and liked the combination of garter stitch yoke and a lace gull stitch sides on the front and back. Might be nice. For a baby. I have never knit from any of EZ's fine works. Her directions always seemed a bit short of specifics and long on musing thus I found her books more entertaining than functional. The photo of the baby sweater in the book is small, black and white and difficult to see the details. I'll have to think about this one. I am in the process of knitting two baby sweaters in which the babies are imminent - one due in mid August and the other one due early September. One sweater is the ladybug one - it is coming along slowly but surely. The second is a cute stockinette Henley from Debbie Bliss. I was attracted to it because of the stylish simplicity for a boy. The yarn for that one is Baby Cashmerino. It sounds impressive but I am not sure I like working with it. It is a combination of merino, microfibre and cashmere. It feels like acrylic to me and it splits a lot. Yikes, I just realized that my flight to Toronto leaves at 7 am tomorrow so I have to get moving packing business clothes and appropriate knitting projects to take on the plane. More later...
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I never mind the I-90 closure but do get startled by the noise sometimes as they Blue Angels zoom over my house or office! What a cool anniversary of meeting your husband. The EZ pattern you're referring to is the February Sweater, right? I've seen that knit up several times but not made one myself—it's lovely. You're right that she was a character -- an ingenious character.
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