tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26296056768067013512024-02-19T04:57:18.461-05:00Cheryl's Random RamblingsA place for my ramblings about knitting, curling, music events and other random parts of my life!Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-17840897597420862102012-09-09T17:24:00.003-04:002012-09-09T17:27:17.854-04:00Knitting Experiences - 5 years later!
I was reading back through the blog today trying to find a reference to something that I apparently didn't ever blog about (big surprise right? ;) ). But I did come across this, posted almost 5 years ago just as I was getting more serious about knitting and thought I'd post it again and see how much has changed in my knitting.
Mark with bold the things you have ever knit, with italics Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-5761176502900709412012-06-05T21:49:00.001-04:002012-06-05T21:50:31.634-04:00Weekend at Sick Kids Celebrity Bonspiel
Don't have time to do a full blog post about this weekend right now, so will instead post the letter I just sent to all my awesome sponsors (surpassed my fundraising goal & will have a higher one for next year!) and some pictures from the weekend! (picture of the skips by Anil Mungal, remainder mine) Huge thanks also go out to the organizing committee, Jeff, Pete & Kevin, and theCherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-69816918112693699542011-11-01T13:04:00.003-04:002011-11-01T13:10:41.893-04:00NaKniSweMoMany of you may have heard of NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, but may not have heard of NaKniSweMo. During NaNoWriMo writers across the globe endeavor to complete a 50,000 word novel. As NaNoWriMo's knitting counterpart, during NaKniSweMo knitters across the globe try to complete a sweater with 50,000 stitches in one month. (For comparison your average pair on fingering weight Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-31008729470725248922011-11-01T08:50:00.008-04:002011-11-01T09:37:39.929-04:00What You're (Probably Not) Missing at Home, Volume 1This week's What You're (Probably Not) Missing at Home is seasonal, as it's that time of year that we have to get the calves ready for sale and fill Grandma's basement with wood for the winter.For those of you who don't know, we have a beef farm, about 2 hours away from our house at my grandmother's, and operate a cow-calf operation, which means the cows are bred over the summer, have their Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-16852385882790218032011-11-01T08:44:00.004-04:002011-11-01T08:50:29.530-04:00New Name, New Blog Series!Some of you may have noticed that I've updated the title of this blog. I didn't think what I was posting really fit the old name as I was doing more random ramblings that didn't necessarily include knitting and baking and have more of that planned. Don't worry I'll still ramble on about knitting (Especially this month potentially! NaKniSweMo starts today & I'm casting on!) and baking, it Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-1956301176815342272011-09-02T23:47:00.005-04:002011-11-01T09:43:44.779-04:00First Day at Shelter ValleyGoing to make this brief because it's almost midnight & I have to be back out at the festival site tomorrow morning before 9am!Today was the first day of the Shelter Valley Folk Festival and this year my Mom & I are volunteering and attending this local festival.My role as a festival volunteer is parking, directing people where to park and helping them back to their cars after dark. It Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-10060462127054841142011-07-22T09:11:00.007-04:002011-11-01T09:44:21.444-04:00Stitch & Pitch at the Blue Jays!!Earlier this summer my brother had been complaining that he had never been to see a Jays game, my response? "I'll go with you but we have to go to the Stitch n Pitch game" (expecting really to be going by myself or with Mom who I've been able to drag along before), imagine my surprise when not only did he say sure, but my Dad piped up and said get 4 tickets, we'll all go. So Wednesday night Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-88742562062888698202010-04-27T11:18:00.002-04:002010-04-27T11:26:08.626-04:00SNOW!!Hey,So I haven't been here for awhile, blame pneumonia, work, school, final exams and pneumonia again!I'm DONE university!!! I wrote my last exam yesterday morning and am so thrilled to be finished, but am now packing up like mad since I'm moving home tomorrow....But, this just had to be blogged about. Yesterday it was sunny, warm, 17*C outside. I went out to lunch with friends and we sat on Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-4511039464797466802010-03-03T14:48:00.003-05:002010-03-03T14:52:21.042-05:00Drive-by blogging- Sweater finished, Olympics finish line crossed, details/pics hopefully to follow next week- no new projects yet, still working on ill-fated sock design, again... new sweater idea percolating- midterm this afternoon in Financial Statement Analysis, probably not going to go all that well- catching a train home tomorrow morning for Dad's retirement do on Friday then back to Montreal Friday night Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-84541222832875090002010-02-19T21:09:00.003-05:002010-02-19T21:16:53.618-05:00Halfway...Or not so much...I was going to have a great post here tonight about how my sweater has been going pretty good (besides a misplaced set of side decreases we won't mention), however...instead I tried on my sweater and came up with this:Yep, for a sweater supposed to have 0 ease, it's looking pretty big, too big.I remeasured gauge and my gauge is spot on which sucks, because in my swatch it was Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-86615858185819772432010-02-10T07:36:00.005-05:002010-02-10T07:49:47.572-05:00Getting Close......to the Ravelympics / Knitting Olympics cast-on!! I'm so excited to start working on my Freyja sweater!!I'm getting excited, also antsy, because I finished my latest big project on Saturday (more about that below) and bought enough yarn for a new sweater project at Ariadne Knits' knit night last Thursday, so I'm really itching to cast on!I have been swatching though - enough to know that my Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-29010799260375468452010-01-29T07:38:00.003-05:002010-02-10T21:56:52.764-05:00Finally January!So after being around plus 10*C for the earlier part of the week and being under a heavy rainfall warning, yesterday it snowed and today it is -17*C, -30*C with the wind chill, and it finally feels like January!Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-4433441083067514212010-01-28T14:04:00.007-05:002010-02-10T07:50:03.800-05:00Kindly Sheep Mittens!A project I finished awhile ago but haven't posted about yet, mostly because I haven't gotten any photos of them yet today, but it is snowing big, fat, fluffy snow today, so walking home through it I decided it was a good day to finally get some pictures of these mittens.A view from my balcony this afternoon (really only 1/2 the snow shows up in this picture...):So the mittens.These are from a Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-21546779540136721842009-10-26T14:30:00.003-04:002009-10-26T14:33:32.051-04:00Now Available for Sale!!The Pink Promise Socks are now available for sale on Ravelry, I am so excited!!If you want to knit a cute pair of socks and support a great cause you can get your very own copy of the pattern by clicking on this button right here: Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-39684139893885331042009-10-22T09:36:00.002-04:002009-10-22T09:40:25.862-04:00Pink Promise Socks finished!The Pink Promise socks have been finished and will hopefully be up for sale in the next little while.All proceeds from this pattern will go to benefit the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.This is a toe-up sock pattern featuring ribbon detailing in cables up the sides and on the heel flap. It features a short row toe, a toe-up heel flap with gusset and a lace ribbon detail around the Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-17227318956849996932009-10-06T21:33:00.005-04:002009-10-06T21:43:35.261-04:00DesigningSo, it's been awhile. I'm not going to bother updating you on everything that's happened since I last posted since I promised I would do that last time and never got to it.I am posting here though for a specific reason. I'm in the process of designing a pair of socks. I was driven to do this thanks to the Sock Knitter's Anonymous group on Ravelry. They have a monthly challenge that I've been Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-80505816642445618652009-02-16T17:27:00.002-05:002009-02-16T17:38:35.815-05:00Reading MemeWow, it's been a long time! Oops!! I'm up to my neck in midterms and out-of-town visitors, so no update right now, but I'll try to update soon.Today I read this meme on Jung at Heart, one of the blogs I read regularly (I always find her lace very inspiring!), and wondered how many of these books I've read, so I thought I'd post it here and figure it out."The Big Read answers a big need. ReadingCherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-58874636119243853082008-12-10T08:49:00.005-05:002008-12-10T09:08:33.254-05:00Snow, Snow, Snow!Well, tis that time of year again when we tend to get a bit buried in snow. We saw our first actual snow on Sunday (only a little bit) and then temperatures dived to -20 C and lower on Monday, the wind was especially brutal. But you know what? It was sunny out and I came to realize I really enjoy winter like that. As long as you're bundled well and you aren't standing around outside, weather likeCherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-21815550063366400112008-11-11T12:15:00.002-05:002008-11-11T12:24:43.611-05:00We Will Remember ThemNovember 11th - As you go about your day today, please take a moment to remember, remember those who have given their lives and those whose lives have been affected by conflict. And take a moment to be thankful for the freedom we have now thanks to the people who fought in these conflicts.Act of RemembranceThey shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:Age shall not weary them, nor the Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-14601601910417131942008-11-04T15:09:00.002-05:002008-11-04T15:23:03.809-05:00Mittens!Hello,I guess it hasn't been that long since my last post, relatively. I don't exactly remember when that was, so I'll catch up with you later, right now I just want to show you these awesome mittens!!They are the Galileo mittens by Laura Chau (Ravelry link, here they are on her blog). When I first saw them on her blog I immediately wanted to start making them. I don't normally feel like that Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-10811175028403986872008-09-29T12:14:00.005-04:002008-09-29T12:38:19.006-04:00It's Been Awhile...Sorry about that! I did survive exams, yay! But posting was a bit difficult over the summer, between working full-time and having dial-up internet at home. So I'll try and get caught up a bit and try to update again soon. (P.S. - if the weird music is bothering you, scroll down a few posts and mute the "Horton Hears a Who" widget, hopefully in a few more posts that won't show up on the front Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-54429440860016424472008-04-17T13:45:00.004-04:002008-04-17T14:23:57.338-04:00Exams, Exams and more exams!!!Hey everyone! Again I am so sorry for the lack of posting, I really don't think I'm cut out to be a blogger, I've never been successful in keeping a journal, but I'm going to continue with the occasional post, because sometimes you just need to say things.I haven't had much time to post either as the semester is coming to an end quickly. Classes ended last Friday, so there was a massive pile of Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-85949810238879409612008-03-14T17:53:00.002-04:002008-03-14T17:56:47.802-04:00Horton Hears a WhoThis is neat! Kind of weird, but it's Dr.Seuss! I've really liked the story of Horton Hears a Who since I saw Seussical the Musical, and I'm interested to see the movie, but I don't think I'll go see it in theatres.Sorry about the lack of posts. I'll try for an update on what I've been knitting and such!Ok, so it's kind of weird and annoying - you can turn the music off though! Also hit the Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-71017911973577690212008-01-22T10:49:00.000-05:002008-01-22T11:00:02.759-05:00You know you're Canadian when...... you're relieved it's warming up enough to snow. That seems to be the case today where it's now above -10C and snowing, although we did only get two really cold days, and the windchill never dipped below -30C, so it could have been worse. My parents visiting this weekend went surprising well, although they were here for such a short time I think that really helped. Took them up Mont-Royal to Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-49502941694121678332008-01-18T18:25:00.000-05:002008-01-18T18:51:39.866-05:00What a close one...Ok, so it's Friday, yay, and the weekend and all that, but I'm a bit stressed because my parents are coming up to visit for the weekend with some friends. They're not staying here (there's no way they would all fit in my very small student, studio apartment), but it's stressful none the less, this is the first time they will have seen my place, so I spent most of today cleaning. Then just to Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0