August 18, 2003
Who Knew?!
And you thought this was just an ordinary day... This month, this week, and this day we celebrate:
Home Business Month
National Catfish Month
Children's Vision & Learning Month
Medic- Alert Awareness Month
National Water Quality Month
Romance Awareness Month
American Artist Appreciation Month
National Golf Month
National Inventors Month
Foot Health Month
National Back To School Month
Family Fun Month
Foot Health Month
Peach Month
National Watermelon Month
Children's Good Manners Month
National Literacy Month
Romance Awareness Month
National Hypnosis Awareness Month
National Data Entry Month
Family Eye Care Month
National Water Quality Month
International Air Travel Month
National Peach Month
National Child Support Enforcement Month
National Parks Month
Admit You're Happy Month
Almost Too Late to Get a Tan Month
Architecture Month
Berry Month
Eat Dessert First Month
International Breastfeeding Month
National Little League Baseball Month
National Napping Month
National Parks Month
National Sandwich Month
Peachy Month
Pooh Friendship Month
American Dance Week
National Friendship Week
Air Conditioning Appreciation Week
Don't Wait - Celebrate! Week
American Dance Week
National Aviation Week
Thanks for All the Gifts Week
Weird Contest Week
Zoroastrian Remembrance of the Dead Day (Farvardigan)
Discovery Day
Saint Agapitus Day
Saint Asteriolus Day
Saint Clare Day
Saint Helena Day
Saint Frances de Chantal Day
Knitting Knews
On Saturday, I went to my third soiree hosted by Sheila of FiberRavenSoiree, and it was the best evuh! Such a funny, articulate, creative lot of women attended that, suffice it to say, during one conversation about a particular knitted piece, the words "uterus" and "ferret" were used. None of this limiting "knit" and "purl" vocabulary for us, no, sirree!
This soiree was unique in the history of social knitting events in that it was "blogged" while it was happening. Sheila had the mahvelous idea of posting running pictures and commentary of the soiree as it played out. For the running commentary, a look at some of the folks at the soiree, and pictures of some of the beautiful knit pieces they brought with them, look at the August 16, 17 and 18th entries on Pink Tea. (And pleeeeeeeze scroll at light speed past the horrible picture of me with my eyes closed down to the mo' bettah picture.)
An unsolicited plug for Pink Tea: Its unusual use over the weekend aside, Pink Tea is a "communal blog," a place where anyone can post pictures of and information about pieces they are knitting, but it is sorely and sadly underused! To join, contact Sheila and she will give you access rights. Surely there's a knitblog wannabe out there who sees this as the perfect opportunity to dip his or her proverbial toe in the blogging pond?
Dye Garden Dyegest -- Hallelujah!
Last week I achieved the pinnacle of my natural dyeing experiences. More experienced dyers may just shrug but I love this color, which a co-worker calls "pumpkin spice" and I call "burnt carrot." It was created using coreopsis flowers and my secret ingredient, lemon ammonia. (Natural dyers, FYI: I used about 1/4 dyer's coreopsis and the rest was the type you see in the picture.) The dyed yarn initially came out a beautiful, deep burnished gold but when I put it in the ammonia afterbath, it turned browny-orangey-spicey-carroty.
For once, I was bright enough to include an actual flower blossom in the picture.
But as with many of life's joyful moments, there was a price to pay. Let us have a moment of silence for my shirt.
