January 6, 2010
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Latest Knit-erby-gibit
Okay, I’m calling all this knitting and frogging and just Evelyn Wooding my way thru yarn like I’m a speed knitter or its like yarn, gotta have it, knit-erby-gibit. I just want to knit and keep busy. It’s like when your facing things that aren’t uncertain or that you just feel overwhelmed or things are all whacky, I just want to knit and keep my hands busy. At nite its me and the critter and its FREEKIN COLD, (did someone say global warming was supposed to be happening) and I just want my tea, Public radio – Prarie Home Companion and some knitting to help me relax. Knitting really is like therapy. I mean its challeging enough to keep your mind focused, you can take it with you just about anywhere. When the credit union line was 20 some people deep I was hoping I had my knitting so I could do some while schlepping along in the line. Not sure if I’m brave enough to do that yet, LOL. Any way, not that I needed to start another stitch pattern but I did with all the others that are in my bag and I just keep jumping from one to the other to keep me busy. I haven’t watched a day of t.v. since my mom went into the rehab center. I just haven’t been interested. Instead I’ve been listening to the radio and catching the morning news and then at nite the differnt shows that public radio has to wind down the day. So here is the latest stitch. Called the indian cross stitch.
I’m diggin this whole wrap stitch kinda knitting. It’s sorta like knitted architecture. It also kinda weird that people figured out how to twist yarn around that way. Gives new meaning to, YOUR TWISTED, LOL
. These make some cool textural knits that work really well with this red heart yarn. I like the red heart yarn because it is plyed to where it is a really round yarn that holds its roundness kinda like a navajo plyed yarn would be since it is triple ply. Any who, it shows up patterns well. The solid colours are great for the textural stitches since the stitches are whats doing the talkin here. I’ve also been experimenting with the butterfly stitch in hot pink yarn, WOWZERS 
. Orange and hot pink are some of my favorite yarns to knit with since they are just happy colours to me. Then there is the hoopskirt pattern that is really challenging and I trying to decided which colour to do that in. I tried it in a blue but it just didn’t seem to be the right colour for it so now I think I’m going to get some bright red for it. In critter news. I had taken her yesterday for her first vet visit and her first shots etc. Well, she only weighs 4 1/2 lbs. So she got two shots and some worm stuff, some science diet food and off we went. Well, we got home and she was lethargic and wanted to sleep so I messaged her back where they gave her the shots like the vet said and she slept a good while. Then she was wantin to poop a lot and had an accident in her doggy bed all over her toys (probably because of the worm meds) so while cleaning that all up the tomatoe soup that I had forgotten about being on the stove boiled over and then had that to clean up. Then she had to go out again. This time I noticed some blood in her stool so thought well that probably when they check her temp and from the meds and she’ll be alright. So got everything cleaned up and we ate our dinner and then off to bed. She had to go out 3 times and had like squatting motions like she wanted to poop but didn’t seem to be able to. So then in the morning after her breakfast I took her out and she pooped and then kept going around and like squatting like she had to poop but coldn’t so I was like well maybe the medicine was making her do that since it makes em poop to get any worms out if they got em. Then I bring her in and she squats again and I’m like, HUH
, and some drops of blood come out so now I’m worried and call the vet. They tell me to bring her in again (saying that is not normal) and off we go. So had to cancel my morning appts. and got her there and the vet put her on a bland diet saying that all the trama from the visit, the shots, the worming, getting her temp taken, etc. probably got her system all upset. I just wanted to make sure nothing was majorly wrong. So then I pointed out AGAIN the scaly dry stuff on her ears and asked if she thougth it was okay to let the critter sleep with me. She said sure and the only reason she would object would be if I were a heavy sleeper and rolled over and smushed her. So any way I mentioned that I was wondering if the dry stuff on her ears was something that a human could get because I noticed I got these little dry red marks on my wrists and my mom had them on her legs. So now she decided to look at her ears under a purple light and then took a sample to see if its ringworm, ARGH. So that take 3 days and more money later we will see what is up. So cross your fingers for her if ya get a chance 
. Any who, I like the vet a lot. I just wish I could find a doctor like her for me. Stay tuned for more knitting samples. TTFN
