Tuesday, November 08, 2005
I know I haven't posted in a while but I'm still around! Had to travel to North Carolina last weekend for my nephew's wedding and that has kind of thrown my workouts off kilter. I'm still losing fat per my weigh-in last Friday and I had a pretty good workout last night on Chest/Shoulders/Tri's. I can't say I'm back up to exercising 6 days a week like I was before, but something is better than nothing. I do know that I will need to keep the intensity up if I'm going to meet my January 6 goal of 20% body fat. I've beefed up my intervals training to be sprints at 6.5, 7.0, and 7.5 mph...those are kicking my butt!
On other fronts, I finished knitting Kelly a poncho yesterday and she wore it to school today. She was so proud of it!!! (blush) My next knitting project is to finish the plaid Tartan Jacket from Interweave Knits Fall 2004 for me.
This was originally designed for Brown Sheep Bulky but my LYS Stitches and Scones only had worsted. So I bought a color palette very similar to that shown in the picture and reworked the pattern for the worsted gauge yarn. I just finished the armhole shaping on the back and am working my way toward finishing it. It's a fabulous knit albeit time consuming with the slip stitch design in intarsia none-the-less. Not a pattern for the faint of heart.
Wendy Johnson's latest knitting project of Mermaid by Hanne Falkenberg forced me to go out and buy it!
The colorway shown is the one I bought. I've always loved Falkenberg's designs but they only come as kits and they are usually in the $250 range. I luckily found the Cucumber Patch in the UK and was able to order it for $112 which included shipping! I haven't received it yet, but assuming no major problems with delivery, I will definitely be frequenting their website more often and buying more HF kits in the future!! This kit will be wrapped and placed under the tree for my Christmas present, assuming I can keep my itchy knitting fingers out of it until then! I'm sure if I just put my head down and concentrate on my Tartan Jacket, I'll have plenty to keep me busy.
I also decided that I didn't have enough to keep me stressed out so I joined the NaNoWriMo effort. (That's National Novel Writing Month). From the website...
On other fronts, I finished knitting Kelly a poncho yesterday and she wore it to school today. She was so proud of it!!! (blush) My next knitting project is to finish the plaid Tartan Jacket from Interweave Knits Fall 2004 for me.
This was originally designed for Brown Sheep Bulky but my LYS Stitches and Scones only had worsted. So I bought a color palette very similar to that shown in the picture and reworked the pattern for the worsted gauge yarn. I just finished the armhole shaping on the back and am working my way toward finishing it. It's a fabulous knit albeit time consuming with the slip stitch design in intarsia none-the-less. Not a pattern for the faint of heart.
Wendy Johnson's latest knitting project of Mermaid by Hanne Falkenberg forced me to go out and buy it!
The colorway shown is the one I bought. I've always loved Falkenberg's designs but they only come as kits and they are usually in the $250 range. I luckily found the Cucumber Patch in the UK and was able to order it for $112 which included shipping! I haven't received it yet, but assuming no major problems with delivery, I will definitely be frequenting their website more often and buying more HF kits in the future!! This kit will be wrapped and placed under the tree for my Christmas present, assuming I can keep my itchy knitting fingers out of it until then! I'm sure if I just put my head down and concentrate on my Tartan Jacket, I'll have plenty to keep me busy.
I also decided that I didn't have enough to keep me stressed out so I joined the NaNoWriMo effort. (That's National Novel Writing Month). From the website...
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.Uhhhh, I only joined yesterday so I started out a week behind. But nevermind that, I'll plug along anyway. I might even publish my novel up here on the website when finished!
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Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.