Friday, November 16, 2012

Very Busy Indeed

The Creator has been very busy indeed. He recently attended the Southeast Men's Knitting Retreat where he ran into some more fantastic knitting men. Of course, he didn't take many pictures. Horbert went but was contemplating a scarf pattern and hanging out in places unknown while The Creator was rocking in a rocking chair working on the Happy Fun Sweater that looks astonishing like something you would get at JCrew.


Happy Fun Knitting with sexy shoes!

It all I understand it was fantastic by the bomb of swag that dropped in the newly painted fiber room. There was swag people. Sweater quantities of yarn, books, circular needles, patterns, bags, fiber and this doesn't count the fibers he purchased at two yarn shops he visited. It's going to take me a month of Sunday's to get this sorted and appropriately put in the proper location. I'm sad that I didn't get to go, however, I understand he audited the classes and made some lovely purple yarns from some borrowed fiber. You can see that on his Facebook Page. It's there, you may have to hunt for it.

Right now, he is spinning a Happy Fun Colorway for a coworker to knit something happy fun with it.

 Happy Fun Spinning!

It has way to many colors, but we will see how this turns out. It's Happy Fun.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Terribly Sorry...

Hi Horbert here...

The Creator has finished the blanket of Heather's newborn baby. It needs washed and blocked before I can show pictures of it.

Manny has been busy. He is *still* redecorating his room in preparation for Julia R. The room is in such a mess that I can't find the little blue box to blog from. I have many things to share with you all and I finally found my way out of there. Manny isn't very good at organization. Of course, it may help if the Creator stopped bringing stuff home. Over the last time since I've blogged about stuff, he has went insane and purchased a new spinning wheel, fiber, yarn and another can of paint for Manny. He also has be put together two more book cases for the yarn. Whew... that is a lot of things that have happened. In the middle of that, there was a retreat or two, maybe.

Yes, I have been remiss in keeping Manny up and blogging... Sigh...

Pictures of the new blankie to come!!!

Cheers!

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Secret Weapon

The Creator had a whirlwind visit with his sister. I didn't get to meet her. The Creator showed off this hideous yarn room. It needs to be painted white. But while, his sister was here, I logged onto Amazon.com and found me a Man to woo Julia Roberts.

He didn't come with a name. I could name him Ken, but that just doesn't do his little suave helmet head justice. And The Creator needs to make him a new sweater. This Ultimate Boyfriend isn't working for me. The jeans are OK. And he has black loafers; no socks.

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The Boyfriend




I do wonder if all this will work. I mean, do I really think that I can get this room painted in time for Julia to knit. But at least I have a secret weapon. Now, I just need to name him.

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Goals and Julia Roberts

Since The Creator has been busy at work creating his goals for the next year, I've decided that I will have some of my own. Someone has to have them.

First, I must get my wee little room in order.
 
1. It needs a fresh coat of white paint. I say white because it make me look tan and buff.  2
2. I must get The Creator to get to IKEA to buy two more yarn storage cabinets. I'm tired of having yarn all over the place in this wee room.
3. I need a proper place to sit so that I can watch TV.

This brings me to my next subject. I fell madly in love with Julia Roberts. From what I have found searching the internet from the blue box, she knits. But, that isn't why I fell madly in luve with her. You see, The Creator left the TV on and I started watching Pretty Woman. You know that cheesy classic of girl meets boy, boy give girl credit card, girl falls for boy, boy does something stupid and boy chases after girl. So, I didn't stop there. I pulled up NetFlix on the TV and started watching all the movies I could get my hands on.

I've decided that I must meet this Julia Roberts. This is my second goal. I have a grand plan. Yes, a grand plan has been hatching. I logged onto the Creator's Amazon and went to town getting the Best Boyfriend Ever. It's all part of the grand plan that I'm hatching.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Fiber Forward

Hi Horbert here...

I have found receipts for yarn that isn't in the room as I have been stashing away in Ravelry. I have spent a month looking for this Magic Bean yarn from A Verb for Keeping Warm. Said yarn was purchased at Twisted in Portland. I have been scratching my plastic little head look for this shiny green/blue/yellow yarn.

As I was perusing Facebook for what The Creator has been doing, it appears that he GAVE THIS YARN away. This uber sexy silk/merino yarn.

Here he is showing some Mike guy how to knit with this luscious yarn. He even bought needles to support Mike's new habit. It's like crack. Once you start, you never stop. You acquire more yarn. Boxes. Rooms. Retreats. Yarn groups. It's a thing.


It's one of The Creators joys to share the knitting craft with someone. In fact, bringing someone in to the fold is fun. So, imagine the surprise he found last weeks sitting on the door step from some guy I haven't met. Well, I may have at that retreat thingy he raves about.

So, imagine the surprise when The Creator found a box on his front door step. And inside this box was this:

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And this little card was inside: 010

It seems this fellow sent him this fab box full of fiber. He has a fab fiber arts blog and fab taste in fiber. He also teaches to spin and is crazy about fiber. He got this fiber from one of those places The Creator coveted. He is going to make yarn. I'm not sure what he will make but, I see a scarf in the future. I may have to roll around in this goodness. 

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Grandma's Pink Flamingo Sweater

Gram's Sweater is done. YAY! Now we can get on to some boy things after working with the Knit Picks Andean Silk in the Pink Flamingo color. It's now a discontinued color and he used 9 or it may have been 14 balls of the stuff. He made a duplicate order of the stuff. He must research his and find out how many he actually used. I think, he can't remember how much he ordered nor did he enter the information in Ravelry.

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The Creator put some effort into the detail of this one. The button band was crochet and the buttons we selected with care. I think they are shell of some type.

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You can see the edging here a bit better. It really makes the sweater. The Creator deviated from the pattern as he liked a smaller picot on the edging.

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It seemed like this project took forever. But, this was the second full sweater The Creator has completed. He has already casted on for one for Grandpa.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Terribly long time...

Hi, it's me again. It appears I have been terribly horrible about blogging about the happenings in my little plastic world.

First, let me just share with you how much I detest what the creator has done. He has created this lovely pink sweater. I don't have a problem with that at all. No, it's  quite lovely with the little crochet edging. But, did he have to really put it on me and use it as a model? Not only did he put it on me, but he took (gasp) a photo of me wearing said pink sweater. And don't you think he could have cleaned up around my base? I mean, really. I am not this messy!

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Anyway, he is about done with that and he can ship it off. I wish he would just get it done and off my back. It's not becoming on me as it would be for his Grandma.

In other news, The Creator has been busy. He has photos of what he has completed, however, they came from the new camera. I can't find the new camera. I've sent Horbert after it to see what he can find. He hasn't come back. Of course, he may have been side tracked.

Oh, and I should share with you the travisty of the TV. For the longest time, I've wanted a TV to occupy my mindless mind. I have no head so I just need something to may my flesh colored shape look very good. So, The Creator found a TV at Best Buy for $199. He bought it thinking it would be a grand thing for me to keep me company while I wear the things he creates. It was ok the first few weeks. After that, the screen started rolling and frankly it was very tiresome trying the surf the channel for repeats of Rikki Lake. So, I turned it off. The Creator took it back for me and they wanted to send it in for repair. The Creator fought a good fight and told the 19 year old clerk "It's a piece of CRAP. I would like my money back." Now, we have to send it in to be fixed. After a few more words, The Creator gave them the TV and left for Portland.

I had a nice surprise when The Creator came back with another TV. LED, and 5 inches bigger. We all know that 5 inches is a good thing. And it connects to the Internets. I may have to get my own facebook page as it has a direct interface. Cool!

And then today, I received a nice TV stand for it. It matches the yarn cabinet. I'll have to take photos, but not before The Creator paints. I would love a lovely light green with purple trim and a gray carpet. It would be outstanding and show off my lovely flesh tones. I'm thinking he is opting for ultra pure white. I'm not sure I'm down with that. It will wash my tones out. Sigh. Someone with some decorating sense needs to talk to him.

I have a few more things to do before he shuts the light off and I can't do anything.

Cheers!