Erica’s Blog

Any of ya’ll going to Stitches on Friday?  I’m taking one of the Market Session classes (continental knitting), then hanging out at the market.  Anybody want to meet up?

…of fame, that is.  I actually managed to get quoted on the Christa Knits podcast last week.  How cool is that?  So, let’s see, I think I’m down to about nine minutes of fame left b/c of

• having my picture in the paper when I was a kid (AAUW made a donation to the local library, and I got to be in the photo w/my mom)
• being in the “kid interview” section of that SuperBowl show on tv when I was in 6th or 7th grade or so
• being the editor of the family channel of a now-defunct church web portal
• getting my story published in Knitty
• getting quoted in that “holiday knitting” newspaper story in December

Hey, Christa — you need a button, babe!  Keep those podcasts coming.

I’m in the home stretch; just a wee, teensy bit of seaming to do and some ends to weave in, and it’s done.  Hubby says the band of ribbing on the bottom is a bit too wide.  Perhaps next time I’ll make the body another inch longer and take an inch off the ribbing and see how it looks.

Can’t…go…on…Must…frog…Yarn…not…worthy…of…pattern…

Ahhhh, the joys of owning a home…You know you’re an old fart when you get all excited about a $50 programmable thermostat — so excited that you simply must take a picture of it for your blog.

Actually, after our $180 PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric, for those of you non-locals) bill last month, this is reason to celebrate.  We have it all programmed out for M-F, Sa, and Sun with different temps for different times.  Now I don’t have to remember to turn the heat down before I go to bed, and I don’t have to ask Hubby to do it, risking his turning it down too low (b/c of Thing Two’s asthma and b/c her room is the coldest in the house, we can only safely turn it down so far).

Should be interesting to see how this affects our energy bill, if at all…

Because I really, truly have not knit enough multi-directional scarves in my lifetime, a belated birthday gift for my friend Joyce:

Yarn:  Araucania Nature Wool (one hank, minus about a yard, which will be used in the wrapping)

Needles:  US size 10 circ’s