The Scottish Lamb

Do Not Adjust Your Monitor

Be sure to check Lucky's site.  I just posted some new pictures of him.  He's beautiful.  Inside and out.   I entered him in a contest at Bissell hoping to win some money for Lucky Star Cavalier Rescue.  Please help me spread the word.  It's for a very good cause and I think it'd be awesome if Lucky was able to give back to the group that saved his life.  Here's the link to vote for Lucky directly.

Sometimes it pays to be an Army wife.  Like this past weekend when the lights went out (twice).  Chem lights provided a cool green light so I could still knit.  Combat knitting.  It's a good thing.

I've been making a lot of progress on Lilly.  I have the back and two front pieces finished.  I'm working on the first sleeve now.  I can not wait to get to the lace hem.  The stitch forms a beautiful fabric but boy is it a lot of knitting.  It reminds me of the Trinity Stitch Cardigan I did a few years ago.  I'd show you pics but they'd be just like the ones from the last post so... moving on....

I've been trying my hand at hot dyeing in a kettle.  I'd always done the whole painted or squirted on color, wrap in plastic and steam method before.  I gotta say... the kettle is fun.  Here's some yarn I came up with:   

And some roving that I then spun up. 

Last week I bought this lens for my camera.  Holy cow.  I couldn't believe how inexpensive it was especially after I saw the results.  Here are a few shots I've taken over the last week and I was just playing around trying to get used to it.  There are a couple more on Lucky's site:

54 X 3 = A Lot Of Frogging

54.  That's how many rows I was into Lilly.  Oh.  And let me not forget to mention that I was knitting her in one piece to the underarms.  So multiply that x 3.  At... oh.... about row 25 or so I was thinking that I didn't like the way the side shaping was looking and that maybe I should just go ahead and rip it back out before I got too far.  Naaahhh... it'll be fine.  I convinced myself of this with every right side row.   You can see on the 2nd, 6th and 8th column that I'd messed up too.  And I just now spotted one on the 4th column from the right.  Dropping stitches down to fix an error in this pattern is near impossible.  Obviously I wasn't successful and by row 54 I knew I wasn't going to be happy with the finished cardigan so.....

Frog City.  I hooked it up to the ball winder and cranked away.

I cast back on but I'm going to do it in pieces so the shaping won't be so noticeable.  I'm already on row 59 of the back and it's looks SO much better.   The pattern is almost mindless now but it's an awful lot like ribbing with a backwards yarn over stuck in there now and then. I'm really glad that I went ahead and ripped it back.  This Jaeger Roma that I bought from Elann back in November is beautiful stuff.  Soft and easy to knit.

In my last post I had a little verse from a song from what I thought was a popular line dance.  I was surprised at how many people didn't catch the verse that I wrote.  I found this video of people doing it at a wedding (of course the clap your hands line isn't until the very end of the video):

Kinda like the Chicken Song.  Dumb but fun.

Poor Aggie.  I'd made some banana bran muffins (I'd share the recipe but they were horrible) on Saturday in our quest to lose weight.  Dan had one the other day and decided that the foil liner was the perfect accessory for Aggie.  Poor dog.  She wasn't amused.