Monday, November 17, 2008

What Rosie Means


You are deeply philosophical and thoughtful. You tend to analyze every aspect of your life.
You are intuitive, brilliant, and quite introverted. You value your time alone.
Often times, you are grumpy with other people. You don't appreciate them trying to interfere in your affairs.

You are relaxed, chill, and very likely to go with the flow.
You are light hearted and accepting. You don't get worked up easily.
Well adjusted and incredibly happy, many people wonder what your secret to life is.

You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone.
You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together.
At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together.

You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people.
You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts.
You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals.

You are balanced, orderly, and organized. You like your ducks in a row.
You are powerful and competent, especially in the workplace.
People can see you as stubborn and headstrong. You definitely have a dominant personality.

You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection.
You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive.
You have the classic “Type A” personality.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

The Knitting Meme

I found this Knitting Meme on Tea and Cakes Blog, and thought it looked interesting. So here it is.

Bold: Things I’ve done
Italic: Things I’d like to do

Afghan
American/English knitting (as opposed to Continental)
Baby items
Bobbles
Button holes
Cable stitch patterns (including Aran)
Cardigan
Charity knitting
Continental knitting
Cuffs/fingerless mitts/arm warmers
Darning
Designing knitted garments
Domino knitting (=modular knitting)
Drop stitch patterns
Dying with plant colours
Dying yarn
Entrelac Knitting and purling backwards
Fair Isle knitting
Freeform knitting
Fulling/felting
Garter stitch
Gloves
Graffiti knitting (knitting items on, or to be left on the street)
Hair accessories
Hat
Holiday related knitting
Household items (dishcloths, wash cloths, tea cosies)
I-cord
Intarsia
Jewellery
Kitchener stitch
Knitting a gift
Knitting a pattern from an online knitting magazine
Knitting art
Knitting for a living
Knitting for pets
Knitting for premmies
Knitting in public
Knitting items for a wedding
Knitting on a loom
Knitting smocking
Knitting socks (or other small tubular items) on two circulars
Knitting to make money
Knitting two socks (or other small tubular items) on two circulars simultaneously
Knitting with alpaca
Knitting with bamboo yarn
Knitting with banana fibre yarn
Knitting with beads
Knitting with camel yarn
Knitting with cashmere
Knitting with circular needles
Knitting with cotton
Knitting with dog/cat hair
Knitting with dpns
Knitting with linen
Knitting with metal wire
Knitting with recycled/second-hand yarn
Knitting with self-patterning/self-striping/variegated yarn
Knitting with silk
Knitting with someone else's hand-spun yarn
Knitting with soy yarn
Knitting with synthetic yarn
Knitting with wool
Knitting with your own hand-spun yarn
Lace patterns
Long Tail Cast on
Machine knitting
Mittens: Cuff-up
Mittens: Top-down
Moebius band knitting
Norwegian knitting
Olympic knitting
Participating in a KAL
Pillows
Publishing a knitting book
Purses/bags
Rug
Scarf
Shawl
Short rows
Shrug/bolero/poncho
Slip stitch patterns
Slippers
Socks: toe-up
Socks: top-down
Steeks
Stocking stitch
Stuffed toys
Swatching – sigh…
Sweater
Teaching a child to knit
Teaching a male how to knit - In my dreams, haha. He's not interested at all.
Textured knitting
Thrummed knitting
Toy/doll clothing
Tubular Cast on
Twisted stitch patterns
Two end knitting
Writing a pattern

Monday, June 16, 2008

Rosie's Mosaic

The rules are :

  • Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
  • Using only the first page, pick an image.
  • Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into the mosaic maker.

  1. What is your first name?
  2. What is your favourite food?
  3. What high school did you attend?
  4. What is your favourite colour?
  5. Who is your celebrity crush?
  6. Favourite drink?
  7. Dream vacation?
  8. Favourite dessert?
  9. What you want to be when you grow up?
  10. What do you love most in life?
  11. One word to describe you.
  12. Your Flickr name.


Friday, April 25, 2008

1,000 Words??



They say a picture tells a thousand words.

Peach didn't have much to say about it though, she was too busy crying. My poor baby's now sporting a temporary cast, which covers most of her arm. She's also not very happy, coz her arm hurts. Still.

She is, however, impressed by her "bone pictures" and wants to see them lots.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

How much is my Blog worth?




My blog is worth $2,258.16.

How much is your

blog worth?




It sure doesn't seem like much, but if it's money for nothing but my time, I guess I can live with that. *I* enjoy it, so I could really care less.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Our local Spinning Guild decided to have a Spindling Day - I decided to take my wheel along as usual, and spin as usual...

Not a chance! These ladies don't seem to understand "No, I'm not at all interested in trying." Everyone else there was trying it, so I got roped in regardless and was handed a spindle and some roving to use.


Now, you need to understand that I *really* had no inclination of every spindling - even in the beginning when I was wheel-less (cry) and couldn't get to the Guild when it was open due to other commitments, I still wasn't inclined to use a spindle. I just headed to the Guild on the rare occasion I could, bought a second-hand wheel on eBay (bargain), then spent a fortune trying to make it useable (drat); then bought an Ashford Traveller and away I went.

This gal wanted to spin, not spindle.


After much laughter (and frustration), we all managed some semblance of yarn on our spindles. Spindling is slooooow, and boy did I discover some muscles in my shoulders that I hadn't realised I owned!

DROPspindling was also the operative word on many an occasion. Hey, where'd that twist I had go? Learning to keep tension on the yarn as you wound it onto the spindle was also an art form - especially when you decided to be "clever" and stand up and make a *really* long length of yarn before you wound it on...

See where the sore muscles came from...

We also learnt some other stuff too: cheap homemade spindles don't work so well, they wobble more than spin; bigger isn't necessarily better, you tend to break your yarn a lot more due to the extra weight; and, if you first don't succeed, try again.

It was a bit of the blind leading the blind, with the ringleader reading the instructions from a book, and the rest tagging along. There were also some "evidence" photos taken of our efforts - I think an article in our next newsletter will be including these...

We all seemed to have fun and I was spotted looking at spindles on eBay... just looking, ya know!

Sunday, March 16, 2008

I'm a Duty Fulfiller

You Are An ISTJ



The Duty Fulfiller

You are responsible, reliable, and hardworking - you get the job done.
You prefer productive hobbies, like woodworking or knittings.
Quiet and serious, you are well prepared for whatever life hands you.
Conservative and down-to-earth, you hardly ever do anything crazy.

In love, you are loyal and honest. If you commit yourself to someone, then you're fully committed.
For you, love is something that happens naturally. And you don't need romantic gestures to feel loved.

At work, you remember details well and are happy to take on any responsibility. You would make a great business executive, accountant, or lawyer.

How you see yourself: Decisive, stable, and dependable

When other people don't get you, they see you as: Boring, conservative, and egotistical