Little Wit Knits – Unplugged

Today I called the company we decided to go with for our gutter covers. We got everything straightened out I finished the paper work, wrote a check and stuck it in the mail. About 2.5 minutes later their installer called to say he was on my side of town today and would stop and grab the contract if I wanted and clean my gutters while he was here. Talk about speedy service. So below you will see a lovely before photo. I got busy at work and forgot to take an after photo until it was too dark. But imagine nothing in the gutters. I will show you an after once the covers are on.

dirty filthy full gutters

This particular junction is outside my bathroom window. I see those leaves every.single.day! I know they need to be cleaned out but until recently it was too icy to be on the roof. My inner perfectionist will be happy to see those gutters empty until they put the covers on them. One less bit of clutter in my day. Now do you think they could come clean out my office?

The latest updates on Sticks N Stitches 2009 with the Columbus Blue Jackets!

• Ticket sales are up to 78.
• A Tangled Tale has also donated some goodies
• Twist Collective has blogged the event and let the cat out of the bag that they donated some prizes and items for the goody bags!
• We have also had some other awesome donations for door prizes and the goodie bags. Be prepared to be pleased.
• The Blue Jackets have asked that the knitters show up closer to 530pm to give plenty of time to go through security. Please use the McConnell Street entrance (South West corner of Arena)

That’s about it for now. Just waiting on a couple more things in the mail.

See y’all at the game! Right?

PS  – Go cast on a baby/preemie hat if you haven’t made one yet. They knit up so quick you will be patting yourself on the back for having an FO so quickly.

I promised some pictures on the blog. So here you have 36% of my Amethyst Vivian sweater (6 balls of Uruguay Chunky). I didn’t get any knitting done on it today as I was busy most of the day being social. I will start chugging away on it again tomorrow. I can’t wait to wear this sweater.

Vivian knit to about the waist from the bottom up.

I should be going to bed soon but instead I will stay up until I finish knitting up this skein of yarn. I am working on finishing skein #6 for Vivian. 10 more to go. I do really feel like this is knitting up quickly now that I am in the groove. Twice, I missed a decrease row but I was able to add it in a row or 2 later and it still worked out so that makes me happy. I truly would prefer not to rip.

Today was another busy busy day. We went to the grocery store on my brother’s side of town, stopped by the Quilt shop and then picked up my brother from church. He wanted to come over and help with the goodie bags for Sticks N Stitches. He graciously helped us put the groceries away and then the three of us tackled the sub assembly that needed to be completed before everyone else showed up. Once we were done with that I let him go play Mario Kart with the boy and friends. The ladies showed up and we all set to work. It only took us about 45 minutes to get all the bags stuffed as everyone worked at lightning pace. After that we sat around and knit while chuckling at the periodic cheering coming up from the basement. Apparently Mario Kart was quite fun today.

I then proceeded to spend the rest of my evening knitting on Vivian. This sweater is really moving along. Oh and the boy’s computer may be fixed. (cross your fingers). We still can’t get the ethernet port to work but I happened to have a wireless card laying around so we hooked that up to install his updates with. I think starting tom’w some photographs may show back up on this blog.

Have a great night.

Today was a busy busy busy day in our household. It started off with a heart shaped omelet for the boy because it just sounded like a good idea. Then we headed off to YarnMarket to pick up their donations for Sticks N Stitches. I also putzed around there for awhile to try and find another yarn to match the Forest Vixen. I thought I had found two that were close until I got out in the sunlight. Then the pink one had to go back. The brownish one is hanging around to be evaluated by many eyes tomorrow. Then we popped over to Wonder Knit to pick up their donation for Sticks N Stitches.

For lunch we popped into North Market. I have heard so much about it and we finally were able to check it out today. There are soooooooo many food options there! The boy was quickly seduced by the bbq joint and ordered a brisket for lunch while I got some Texas chili. Then I found a wine market store place that had about 6 or 7 varieties of Lambic beers. Be still my heart. After eating lunch we got ice cream at Jeni’s. Yes, the Jeni’s that you can read about all over knitting blogs from folks who come to Columbus for TNNA. I had a very very yummy pear riesling sorbet. The boy had a smoked dark chocolate with marshmallow ice cream. We will definitely be heading back to the North Market at some point when we have more time to mosy around.

We had to rush out of North Market to go to the boy’s parents’ house to pick up his dad for a quick jaunt into Amish (ish) country. We were looking at storage sheds and then we headed over to Der Dutchman to get some pie. Because really if you’re that close to Der Dutchman you have to stop. We also popped into a local grocer to get some lunch meat for this week. Lastly, we heeded the siren call of Amish furniture and drooled for a bit. It was a nice little trip with his dad. We’re going to have to see if there is any Amish country closer to our side of town.

Our last stop for the day was at Knitter’s Mercantile to pick up their donation for Sticks N Stitches. Then we came home ate dinner and immersed ourselves in designing the “assembly line” for the stuffing of the goody bags tomorrow. I am getting rather excited for the event. Tomorrow some of the ladies will come over to help stuff the goody bags. If you haven’t bought your tickets yet you should call the Blue Jackets ASAP!