tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26296056768067013512012-02-11T03:23:42.118-05:00A place for my ramblings about knitting, curling, music events and other random parts of my life!Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.comBlogger431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-69816918112693699542011-11-01T13:04:00.003-04:002011-11-01T13:10:41.893-04:00

Many 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

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This 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

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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 will

Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-1956301176815342272011-09-02T23:47:00.005-04:002011-11-01T09:43:44.779-04:00

Going 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 went well

Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-10060462127054841142011-07-22T09:11:00.007-04:002011-11-01T09:44:21.444-04:00

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

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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

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- 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

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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

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...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

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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!

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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-21546779540136721842009-10-26T14:30:00.003-04:002009-10-26T14:33:32.051-04:00

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:

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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

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So, 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-80505816642445618652009-02-16T17:27:00.002-05:002009-02-16T17:38:35.815-05:00

Wow, 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. Reading

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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 like

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November 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

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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

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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

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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

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This 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

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... 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

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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

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Sorry I've been more than slightly absent lately. Before Christmas it was exams and then there was Christmas where I was at home with dial-up and now I'm back at school and things are kind of crazy.Just thought I'd share this with anyone who is out there reading! This quiz is fun to try and very short!I found out I'm Angora!Angora – Soft and warm“Angora has a warmth that rivals cashmere and

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So sorry about the lack of postings as of late. Time has been sucked away by midterms, and other time, even time I didn't have, has been taken by Ravelry, it's so awesome! If you're not in yet, I'm sorry, but it's well worth the wait, and if you don't have your name on the list yet, Go now, what are you waiting for???Knitting wise, I've been knitting a lot on Gwen's blanket, all the squares are

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Yay! I'm in - username Cheryl21This has proven to be a great distraction to all the studying that I should be doing, but I really don't care!(Update: I replaced the crappy photos from yesterday after my camera batteries recharged, it looks a lot better now.)

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Ok, so not only should I not be anywhere near a computer, I have been checking the Ravelry list excitedly today, because usually check on Mondays, just to see where I am and I started the morning with around 400 people in front of me, and now there are 96(96!!!!!). This is not good. Not only have I been spending WAY too much time knitting on the blanket.There is also a 4th square done which I

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Ok, so, sorry in advance for the lack of posts in the next few weeks. Anyone else somehow involved with university students will know - it's midterm time!! Whoo!Pictured above is my favourite new knitting tool - and the exam I'm supposed to be studying for and can't quite drag myself to.But the bobby pin - I discovered it by accident, I found myself in class without a cable needle, and am doing

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Well, ripping that couple inches out sure paid off, finished the yoke up, bound off and tried it on, and IT FITS! I'm so excited and happy! Wow! Now I'm just going to knit an inch or so in ribbing on the bottom, and then I have to seam up the armpits, but look, it's a real sweater!!!

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Well, the sweater is finally at the stage where the yoke would be done, and it looks great. However, the key words in that sentence being "would be"... I took it off the needles to try it on, and the length is great, but I think it would fit better if the decreases were worked more frequently and the top was about 2" smaller around. I did leave in the string from last time I tried it on, so I

Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-80947311804294926172007-10-10T22:00:00.000-04:002007-10-10T22:37:00.019-04:00

Well, exams are creeping up and the work is piling up, but I can't seem to stop knitting...The sweater is all in one piece, but doesn't seem to be ending.I've also picked up all the stitches along the bottom to knit ribbing, it's a really short sweater, and I'm hating the way the stockinette is rolling up, so hopefully putting ribbing along the bottom will help. Design-wise I think it will be

Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-3670897922439661522007-10-03T09:11:00.000-04:002007-10-04T10:44:22.282-04:00

So I said last night that I had finally finished my blog assignment about emerging technologies, I was feeling good about it, I gave myself a break from homework to knit, I did eventually finish my other homework.BUT - I just realized this morning that even though I had finished posting the assignment on my blog I had completely forgotten to submit it online, and now I'm feeling stupid and

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Ok, so the good news is that I have finished my Info Systems project, so no more talk of emerging technologies on the blog. Yay!However, other homework is not so up to date, and piling up fast. I promise I will do that as soon as I type this up.In sweater news, I'm finished the body up to the point where you need to join all the sides and the sleeves, so no more on that until I finish the

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IntranetThe Intranet is an IT tool that organizations have been using for some time now, and is constantly evolving in its uses and abilities, in a similar way to the Internet.The intranet is like a version of the internet that is restricted to only authorized users. For example, in an organization the intranet is a network that only employees have access to. The main goal is to share

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I've seen this around on a couple knitting blogs I've read, and always enjoy looking through them to "get to know" the blogger a bit better, maybe some of their likes and dislikes, etc. So I thought I'd go ahead and post it myself to share with all of you.Mark with bold the things you have ever knit, with italics the ones you plan to do sometime, and leave the rest.AfghanI-cordGarter

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Ok, so I received the wool for my sweater Wednesday afternoon and was very glad that it arrived, so I swatched right away and then cast on. So this is what it looked like Wednesday afternoon:So, it's not like I didn't have lots of school work to do, you've seen the posts for my Info Systems class, and I had an exam on Friday in Japanese, and I did get some of that done - even managed to do a

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Office Live WorkspaceMicrosoft announced this week that they are preparing to launch a beta version of a new online tool, “Office Live Workspace”. This is a tool designed to help Microsoft users store, share and access files online. It allows users to have access to business documents they may store there while they are away from the office. This means that workers can stay productive, even if

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Well, thanks to an unbelievably long wait for a doctor (I guess I really should expect it now), they came in and said hi to me and then went to look at my MRI results - took them 1/2hr, couldn't they do that before hand?Anyways, these got finished as a result! Kind of a letdown almost - this was the only project I had in progress, I guess there's nothing left to do but study! (yay?)Again, these

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As mentioned earlier, I'm going to stray from normal topics for a couple posts while I complete a school project, so just bear with me and I'll get back to knitting as soon as I finish this (and when my yarn gets delivered...).Say It, Sign ItFor my first emerging technology, I chose to talk about a technology that has just been making headlines this month. It’s a newly developed technology from

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So I just finished my first sock, I'm really disappointed that my yarn for the sweater didn't come today, but hopefully early next week. And this is how much yarn I have left in the half of the skein I divided up.And this is what my sock looks likeI would post a close-up picture of the detail but it was too dark and it didn't show up well. But the pattern is Lattice Stitch from More Sensational

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Among other things. I tried my oven for the first time over the weekend, and it heats up but then doesn't stay hot - so after a week of trying to chase my landlord I finally caught up with him, he says he's called the company and they should call him back sometime next week, but they're going in prioity sequence - and apparently my oven is not a prioity. Oh well, we'll see how cookies bake up

Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08977213691967251959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629605676806701351.post-4163974254456006292007-09-14T17:24:00.000-04:002007-09-21T22:04:16.997-04:00

As I mentioned in my first post, I love to knit socks, so I normally have a couple on the go at a time. Right now I just have one, and have just discovered I only have enough wool for one sock(!!), which is really too bad because I am loving this pattern.It's "Traveling Vine" from Charlene Schurch's More Sensational Knitted Socks, a book which I bought when I wanted to advance from just

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So, I'm new to the whole wide world of blogging - and kind of intimidated if I may say so, there are so many bloggers and great blogs out there that I read and lurk around, but have always put off actually starting my own blog. Reason #1 would seem to be that I don't feel that I have a great talent for writing, or writing creatively enough to keep anyone's interest for long. Also, until

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