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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Which means that some projects are on hold for a little bit, buuuuuuuuuuuuut...
I finished knitting all the pieces for the Must-Have Cardi Turned Sweater!! I blocked them all, and boy, does blocking do wonderful things >.< They're all flat and fabric-y and nice, yay!
But lo, no pictures :/
HOWEVER I started on the vintage stripe crochet blanket and here's some pix:
This feels so retro, I don't know WHAT to do with myself!
This gave me an idea for hip stripey scarves for Xmas. Crochet has a use!
The blanket is at about twice this width now, so I want you to imaaaaaagine the wonderous colors I've chosen for it. Ehhhhh, actually, I'm sorta, kinda running out of colors, but I still think it can look nice and tacky and oh, so seventies.
And to give you an idea, this blankets height? About 7 feet high. Why do I do these things to myself?
So me and boyfriend Pat will be moving the Chimichanga experience (our band, if you didn't know!) about a mile or two from where we are now.
A quick word about our summer fun band -- we may be having a show at a local Anarchist venue in Tucson on July 7th! Crazy, right?! We need to upload a myspace with our music (we need to record good versions of our songs we have down) and just get some pictures up and see if we're A-OK for those rule-dodging youngsters! Much fun. I've never been in a BAND like this and never played drums in front of an audience, so this is a big thing for me. Pictures of that will be posted when it happens!!
Now, tomorrow, we sign the lease for a year, give them our deposit and pet deposit, and see when we can start moving stuff in. It might not seem like it, but
I'M. SO. EXCITED!!!!!!!!
No joke, I love moving and I love decorating even more. I love putting things on shelves and putting couches in different places and, and, and... OK, I'm all right, but you get the idea. EEEEEEE! I usually wouldn't be so stoked, I guess, but it's in a better neighborhood (not right next to the bum-park (ie, the park that was infested with bums who would lock us in our own front yard (long story) and knock our gate over when it was broken just for fun and try to creepily keep up conversations with us through an open window at 3 a.m. -- while we were sleeping. Also a long story.)). Anyways, it's overall a better place I think. No carpet, which I'm VERY glad for (rental places seem to always have shitty brown shag rug and stains everywhere, aimirite?) and is a cute '50s construction.
I'll show some decorating pictures later.
Oh yeah! KNITTING TOO!
Wish me luck on the house, and, oye, on that blanket that will take me years...
Posted at 10:12 pm by Knicole
 | | | Aviva
July 2, 2007 11:48 PM PDT
Good luck on your move! I found you on Ravelry(actually you found me). Maybe we can get together sometime for coffee and knits? Give a holler.
~Viv | |
| | | jessie
June 28, 2007 04:31 AM PDT
Congratulations on the move. In my younger days I moved every year or so and I loved it every time. My favorite apartment, the one I unpacked every single box for, the one the landlady had repainted just for me before I moved in, the one with the picket fence in the front yard (half of an old farmhouse), that one lasted six weeks. The week after I moved in, I met my husband and shacked up with him a month later.
I love my husband but I miss that apartment. :-) | |
| | | bandanafish
June 27, 2007 11:11 PM PDT
I love moving, too. In fact, I was just telling some of my friends this very same thing today, and of course, they were all, "whha?!"
Those people don't know how to enjoy life. | |
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My name is Nicole and I've been knitting since I was 13. I started when I lived in SF, CA, but now I've moved to Tucson, AZ, and the exercise seems asinine at times. We only get about 2 weeks of cold weather, so go figure.
But I stick to it, I'm too passionate about my craft to give up because of some silly thing like weather, school, work... It's all about focus and immersion.
I'm now a junior in college at the University of Arizona and rockin' it fuckin' old school. Yuhhh!!
It's all that matters.
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101/1001
001. Grow hair out, no cutting (trimming allowed), for 1 year. (Started 5/29/06)
002. Cut all of it off.
003. Graduate with a BFA.
004. Start my own garden.
005. Join the gym.
(JOINED Bally's on 6/18/6)
006. Learn how to ollie.
(SMALLEST jump evar.)
007. Paint a self-portrait in my own time.
008. Be vegan for a month.
009. Crochet Amigurumi for friends.
010. Knit a baby sweater.
(Started 6/28/06)
011. Drink AT LEAST 3 Nalgene bottles of water per day for 1 MONTH. (I'D SAY I've done it, what with running and biking.)
012. Stop drinking caffeine for 1 week.(CAFFEINE FREE 7/17/06 - 7/24/06)
013. Participate in a protest.
014. Throw a cocktail party.
015. Send a postcard to PostSecret.
016. Go to Canada.
017. Travel to France.
018. Order custom tags for handmade items.
019. Go camping again.(New Years!)
020. Experience the wrath of a full-time (40 hr.+) job.(ASS BUSTED week of 6/13-6/20)
021. Send a love letter to a love interest.
022. Make an improvised lite-brite picture that fills the whole thing.
023. See Bjork in concert.
024. Prank call an ex-boss.
025. Do 1 sketch every day for 1 month.
026. Survive off of $20 for one week.
027. Join a sports team (University, community, or otherwise).(Biking! Running! Woo!)
028. Have my drawings/art up in a cafe in my town.(Thanks to a flakey artist at the cafe I curated for (UPDATE: Art up again, and again, and soon to be -- AGAIN!))
029. Curl my hair. (Goldi-locks style, yo.)
030. Learn how to apply eyeliner.
(APPLIED on 7/21/06)
031. Keep perfect dental hygiene for 1 month.
032. Sew a dress all by myself.
033. Make bath bombs.
034. Make marshmallows.(They tasted like gelatin... not so much next time)
035. Knit a sweater from my own design.(WORKING on it!)
036. Tag.
(ILLEGALITIES STRUCK on 6/14/6)
037. Create an alias.(FUCK YEAH! Joan Kidd wins!)
038. Go to Mexico.
(MEXICOED OUT on 7/17/06 - 7/21)
039. Ride a bike everywhere within a 5 mi. radius for 1 month.(Started Mid-January 2008, let's see how this goes :D)TOTALLY KICKED THAT BIKES ASS.
040. Quilts!
041. Learn to operate a sewing machine without it breaking. UGH.(MULTIPLE GARMENTS ALTERED & CREATED)
042. Move into my own place.
(Done tuh-WICE now!)
043. Eat grits!
044. Meet someone from the 'net in person.
045. Take cooking classes. (Go to cooking school? (PIMA))
046. Tag my city/neighborhood with knitting. (TAGGED! on 6/5/6)
047. Make more space on laptop.(HARD DRIVE acquired, xmas '07)(Laptop stolen - kind of OK.)
048. Go to the movies by myself.
049. Visit the zoo in Arizona.(At least it wasn't in the summer... poor animals.)
050. Read at least 5 books on current politics.
051. Knit/sew curtains.(Ikea does a fine job of making their fabrics insta-curtains)
052. Create a resume.
053. Knit one thing out of each knitting book I own.
054. Build a small model-sized house out of matches -- then burn it down.
055. Learn to tie a bowtie.
056. Kiss someone on New Year's.
057. Read half of the Random house Top 100 books. (Started 6/2/6)
Now reading:East of Eden
Under the Valcano
Finished:
The Tropic Of Cancer
The Maltese Falcon
Animal Farm
The Great Gatsby
Slaughterhouse 5
A Clockwork Orange
058. Watch IMDB's Top 250 movies. (146 left to watch...)
059. Go to the drive-in.(We watched 28 weeks later and the car battery died at 2 in the morning and couldn't get a jump.)
060. Skinny-dip.
061. Watch "The Wizard Of OZ" while listening to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon".
062. Do a public art project such as a personal zine idea or letters to the public...
063. Touch a spider...(Not out of my own will, I never said I had to do it that way, ha!)
064. Get something pierced other than my ears/get something tattooed.
065. Watch all R. Kelly "In The Closet" videos.(SINKING STARDOM WITNESSED on 7/28/06)
066. Really learn how to drive stick shift.
067. Go apple-picking in the fall.
068. Make jam. Lots of jam.
069. Take vitamins everyday for 2 months.(My body is probably full of undigested multis...)
070. Knit at least 20 things for charity out of stashed yarn.
071. Get a facial.
072. Learn different forms of poetry and practice them to understanding.
073. Move into a place with a backyard.
074. Go Geocaching.
075. Create & bury a time-capsule.
076. Clean out room to have only necessary things (books & yarn are necessary). A minimalistic lifestyle, if you will.(AS GOOD AS IT GETS; Clothes, books, fabric, yarn, bed.)
077. Learn how to juggle.(I can't tell you how many lemons and tomatoes I've bruised.)
078. Take a walk in a bad-ass Tucson storm.(I think multiple bike rides home in said storm can account for this.)
079. Wake up early (before 8) every morning for 1 month.
080. Try salvia. (DONE on 6/5/6)
081. Develop that mystery roll of film I've had for years. (DEVELOPED on 6/14/6)
082. Knit something lace. God, I hate lace.
083. See how much water I can drink in 24 hours.
084. Sing in public (in a band, another person, karaoke, anything).(SHEEPOSITY overcome!)
085. Get my vision checked.
086. Get allergy tests done.(Turns out I'm a hypochondriac.)
087. Watch all David Lynch movies.
Inland Empire
Darkened Room
Rabbits
Dumbland
Mulholland Dr.
The Straight Story
Lost highway
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Wild at Heart
Blue Velvet
Dune
The Elephant Man
Eraserhead
The Amputee
The Grandmother
The Alphabet
Six Figures Getting Sick
088. Learn the US state capitols.
089. Get a new bed...
090. Hold a bird without crying.(R.I.P. PRINCE)
091. Save all tips from my new job and DON'T SPEND IT until 1001 is over. (OK SO I SPENT ALL MY TIPS, I don't have to be perfect :D Having a job (or no job) requires dipping into the funds a little bit)
092. Write at least one song on guitar and play it ALL THE TIME.
093. Listen to every song in my iTunes at least ONCE (I'm fucking insane).
094. Nickel slots. Need I say more?(I DON'T KNOW about you guys, but I fucking hate the casino. Lost $2. Feh.)
095. No sugar for 1 month. Splenda and the pink stuff allowed (Hello, cancer!).
096. Make a short film.
097. Put an entire paycheck into savings.
098. Transfer all my MP3 files to AAC for the sake of computer space.
099. Get accepted to the BFA program at school (Photo, baby!).
100. Learn to embroider and make things with it.
101. Find a female author that I really love.(Lisa Crystal Carver is a fucking rockstar.)
Swipe My Button
Homies
Mayflower Knits
Yarn-A-Go-Go
KOPttAoP
Carrieoke's Knit Blog
Glampyre
Schmeebot
Libby Land!!
Yarn Boy
Skinny Rabbit
Ysolda
Trido-Bot 9001
RAOS Postcard
The Pat Hat v.2
Fisticuff #1
Herringbone Cuffs
Chooch's hat
Ballet Sweater
Finished Goods--05
Knitting Magz
MagKnits
Knitting Fog
(It's really coooool!)
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