Stitches In Pink

Seize Diamondbacks Socks KAL

You are not going to believe this, but when I was testing John's url from my last posting to make sure that it worked....of course I had to read it.  This new button was popping off the page and you know what it was??? You will never guess.

It was this....

Can you believe it? I love it. A KAL just for me. Since I already started. Okay....now, this is what all you sock knitters need to do now is join the KAL and purchase the pattern. Or I guess you could purchase the pattern and then join the KAL. Either way would work for me.To join the KAL just click on the button and we've already discussed where to buy the pattern in my other post.

Oh! It looks like someone been knitting a sock in a wonderful "pink".

Oh, will you look at this!  I've been knitting a sock.  IN PINK.

The yarn is Colinette's JitterBug.  The colorway is alizarine (#119).  I really  love it and the way it is pooling.  I especially like the way the color matches my nano Ipod.  But honestly the yarn is heavenly to knit with.  I will definitely buy more colors in this.

The sock pattern I'm using is Seize Diamondbacks by John Brinegar.  He's at Yarn Ball Boogie.  This is a great pattern!  I looove it.  All of you sock knitters need this pattern in your inventory. 

Go check out John's site.

I took a picture of my sock so far but I need help on my picture taking skills.  I'll work on a better picture for y'all.

I hope you're all having a wonderful pink Monday.

My Day of Silence for the Victims of Virginia Tech!

This is my day of silence for the victims of Virginia Tech.

I have so much grief running around my heart and head right now that only silence will come out of my mouth.

Poetry in Pink: Pink Elephant Sock?

I was going to take a picture of Jake posing for y'all.  I was also going to take a couple pictures of the socks I'm knitting and my Tulip Bud dishcloth for my KAL (I'll be more precise tomorrow).  Howeeever, when I picked it up to to take my first picture, it wouldn't turn on....dead battery.  It seems strange that my battery icon still is showing life on it the last time I uploaded and now it's dead.  Well, nothing I can do except put the charger on it. Wow, did we have a busy weekend.  I didn't have a chance to post at all.  We have decided to build a new condo or some people call them duplexes.  Saturday we had to pick out all our interior colors, cabinets, flooring, etc.  We were there forever.  You know when you decide to build or buy a new home what that means.  :~(  We have to put this one up for sell.  We have to meet with the agent either Tueday or Wednesday and get this started.  The problem being is it will be 4 months or more before our new home will be ready. I just worry about the unknown.  Will we have to move twice?  I don't like to loose control.  Oh and then the showing of the house. yuk! Well, for something fun,  I found this poem searching for pink poetry.  I think it's a hoot.  I look at it as I knitted a size 17 sock in pink while I slept. The Elephant Sock

I found it in my bed So it wasnt' a dream It was size seventeen and pink Oh what a night Pity that i cant remember Written Saturday July 2006 by: allan james saywell Have a great one and Knit on!

Happy Easter!

Glitter Graphics

You Otter Love This!

It's spring and time for love! Is this not the cutest?

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100 Books!

I took this quiz from Tiennie Knits.

Which Classic Female Literary Character Are you?

You're Marianne Dashwood from Sense and Sensibilty by Jane Austen! Take this quiz! Quizilla | Join | Make A Quiz | More Quizzes | Grab Code

I am Marianne Dashwood from Sense and Sensibilty by Jane Austen! This surprises me abit but then when I remember myself as a very young naive girl...maybe.

I also copied her list of 100 books. Before knitting took my life over I had a book stuck in my face 24/7. I have not opened one book (other than knitting books) since I've picked up the needles and the blogging. I read about others who continue to read and I have actually made promises to myself...tomorrow I will start this book. Tomorrow comes and I have to knit and blog. I don't have enough time.

In the list of books below, bold the ones I've read, italic the ones I want to read, cross out the ones I won’t touch with a ten-foot pole, a cross (+) in front of the ones on or were on my book shelf, and asterisk (*) the ones I've never heard of.

So far I've only bolded the books I've read. It is a GRAND TOTAL OF: 43

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)

2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)

5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)

6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)

7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)

8. Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery)

9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)

10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)

11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)

12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)

13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)

14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)

15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)

16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)

17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)

18. The Stand (Stephen King)

19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)

20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)

22. The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)

23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)

24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)

25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)

26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)

27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)

28. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)

29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)

30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)

31. Dune (Frank Herbert)

32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)

34. 1984 (Orwell)

35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)

36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)

37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)

38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)

39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)

40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)

41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)

42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)

43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)

44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)

45. Bible

46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)

47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)

48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)

49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)

50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)

51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)

52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)

53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)

54. Great Expectations (Dickens)

55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)

56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)

57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)

58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)

59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)

60. The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)

61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)

63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)

64. Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)

65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)

66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares)

68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

69. Les Miserables (Hugo)

70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)

72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)

73. Shogun (James Clavell)

74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)

75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)

76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)

77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)

78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)

79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)

80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)

81. Not Wanted On the Voyage (Timothy Findley)

82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)

83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)

84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)

85. Emma (Jane Austen)

86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)

87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)

89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)

90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)

91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)

92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)

93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)

94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)

95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)

96. The Outsiders (S. E. Hinton)

97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)

98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)

99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)

100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

Wordless Wednesday

I have been knitting...A little!

I wanted to show you one of the socks that I have been knitting during my move.

This sock is knitted in Sknitches Synopation Self-Striping Sock Yarn in the color Colleigiate. I purchased the yarn from Sheri at The Loopy Ewe. I really like how the blues and browns strip together. The pattern I'm using is Wendy"s Generic Toe-up Sock by Wendy.  You can click on the picture and see it closer.

Oh and I forgot to take a picture of my Duet sock I'm knitting on one circular needle. I'm really starting to like the flow of knitting on one needle. I'll get a picture of those socks tomorrow. They are toe up and I'm almost ready for the after-thought heel.

I thought I'd throw in a picture of Jake. He's on one of his kitty perches by the window. He rules his little world from there. He can see his squirrels, birds and he even has three other cats that live near by.

So I'm going back to my knitting.

I wish you all a great Sunday.