tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463997599607208892024-03-05T06:46:22.866-05:00Moon's HollerWhile doing the following in my pajamas, I sometimes have thoughts: knitting, spinning wool, weaving, beading, soap-making, playing World of Warcraft, and just drinking SBC coffee. I mean to holler about them right here.Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-13344505089698056482013-03-04T15:25:00.002-05:002013-03-04T15:25:59.790-05:00She's gone plum frog happy!
My February has been perfect for knitting. The Tennessee valley saw frequent dustings of
snow that weren't dangerous, but just pretty!
With my unemployed status, I spent it in my pajamas knitting and spinning
and drinking buckets of yummy coffee. If
it weren't for the Sunday knitting group at the bookstore and the newly started
Tuesday spinning group at the Yarn Haven, I couldMoon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-13882579537624060812013-02-01T13:51:00.001-05:002013-02-23T13:22:58.760-05:00Stock Socks v1.4
This is just a sock recipe or template rather than a specific pattern, where I've collected my favorite options for toes and heels together in one place for a toe-up sock with an afterthought heel. I used two circular needles, though you could substitute DPNs or the magic loop method and use stitch markers to keep the stitches divided in half. I like the two Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-73541132923294035742013-01-23T08:47:00.000-05:002013-01-23T08:47:14.291-05:00Huzbeast
Over on Ravelry's Knitting Dead message boards, I've been bragging on my husband's yarn-shopping skills. In response, GailinCCB referred to him as the "huzbeast."
That is soooooo gonna be his new nickname for a good long time (snicker).
Christmas 2012
Birthday January 2013
Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-48286246493202489232013-01-20T08:28:00.000-05:002013-01-20T08:44:44.922-05:00DYO Cover
Design Your Own Cover
I'd
wager that most folks who've used Judy's Magic Cast On have done so for them
toe-up socks. But I'll let you in on a
little trick - it's dead useful for designing your own cozies for bottles,
mason jars, candle votives, vases, pencil cups, soda cans, etc.
We're
used to seeing it with increases at the beginning and half way points of every
Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-32954993033800903772013-01-19T14:34:00.000-05:002013-01-20T08:16:55.443-05:00Almost Three Years
Scoot over and let me in - we got some
catching up to do!
Yup, I still meet every week with the local
knitting group, The Fertile Turtles, only our location has since changed. We're now at Books-A-Million in west
Knoxville, every Sunday 11am - 2pm.
I'm still playing World of Warcraft with my
guildies The Legends of Azeroth, only these days I'm playing my druid as much
as my Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-74936215707178806982013-01-19T09:03:00.003-05:002013-01-19T09:03:42.539-05:00How've Ya Been?How've ya been the past couple of years that I ain't been bloggin'?I've really missed it, but had to give it up back when it's format went wonky and it wouldn't let me line up photos with captions. Yeah, and I ain't 'puter-savy enough to have figured out some sort of work around, so, um, it just kinda faded away into non-use.
But . . . Blogger has updated bunches since I last looked at it, Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-67527521266742014402010-06-19T07:35:00.000-04:002013-01-19T08:45:03.579-05:00dyeing faith
There was that first time I tried sewing sleeves onto a blouse-to-be. You know, progressing from flat garments to three dimensional ones. I kept thinking, as I re-read and followed the directions, "There's no way this is going to work." As I kept easing that rounded sleeve cap into that square-ish armhole, and pinning it to stay put long enough to sew it into place, I also Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-18270864942307635312010-06-17T19:01:00.003-04:002010-06-18T22:08:12.150-04:00Twist and ShoutMy books came in, at the Yarn Haven, so I swung by there last Thursday on my way home from work and picked them up and set aside some more roving and a skein of Noro's Yaiyo blend #20. The books were Thinking Outside the Sox and Elements of Style. Avery's latest, Knitting 24/7, is on back order so it was a no-go.
The roving was something different from the BFL I've been Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-58633124665926979542010-06-10T22:13:00.000-04:002010-06-10T22:13:26.680-04:00Knittin' & Noddin'
Aren't these some very happy lookin' people? Check out Mom & Babe, just knittin' and noddin'. Kristine has her Baby Longlegs as a pattern up on the Knit Picks site - congratulations! Doesn't Pat make that lace dead sexy? She had a bamboo tape yarn going into a kimono. And meet Diane, who brought some wool socks to her first KiP with us. &Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-61826040076306848522010-05-31T10:20:00.026-04:002010-05-31T11:42:28.857-04:00Maiden VoyageSo, um, my plans changed. They just had to. I was already having a very hard time acting like a grown-up, last Friday at work, knowing that the very next morning was when I could finally go get my wheel. Phyllis from R & M Yarns in Georgetown called me around 2:30pm to tell me it had arrived in her store intact, and added the teasing remark, "Ya know, if you left right now, you could make it Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-82589691378879381222010-05-27T18:44:00.023-04:002010-05-27T21:01:30.466-04:00cue the musicRegardless of what the calendar says, I know summer’s been here for a week already. Last week, my local grocery stores had Grainger County tomatoes and Vidalia onions for sale! And if that ain’t proof enough for ya, I got eat up by a hateful skeeter this morning.Ironic that today was also Wax Day at the dermatology clinic where I work, in which we employees enjoy the perk of having our eyebrows Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-48777668649964839172010-05-17T20:14:00.009-04:002013-01-19T08:30:34.731-05:00Stock Sock v1.3
I am really over having cold feet, so I have this dream of a drawer that’s overflowing with thick house socks! To see this dream made real before next winter, I need a pattern that’s really fast, really mindless, and that doesn’t have features that piss me off. You know, a stock, go-to pattern.
The part of the name, version 1.3, is due to it taking trials of three different short row Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-6465568487863911102010-05-09T07:45:00.015-04:002010-05-21T20:53:51.045-04:00Pew-Pew, baby, Pew-Pew!So, about two weeks ago, I was jonesing for a petting fix. Work is a bit tough in Coder Land lately, and during one of those shifts, I got the undeniable urge for some fiber therapy at my local yarn shop. There are yarns there that I hadn’t petted in quite a while, and they called out to me from across town. I’ve said for years that yarn is noisy.So I swung by the Yarn Haven on my way home that Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-4968282769957438942010-04-22T18:16:00.008-04:002010-05-21T20:50:58.651-04:00Knitted TogetherI sat down to blog a bit, but you know, prowled around on Ravelry first. Just to see what genius occurred there today while I was at work. Found two surprises, one tragic and one hilarious. Funny how life is balanced that way, huh?Rachel Wattenbarger was killed in the recent Parkwest Hospital shooting. I saw a post on the boards from The Yarn Haven that described her as having just started to Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-37424448342825058362010-04-14T18:46:00.009-04:002010-05-21T20:50:58.652-04:00smoosh, nuzzle, and sniff, in that orderBefore we even get to this past Sunday's knitting and the weekend gaming, let me tell you that I worked some overtime for the first time in this new job. Well, is it still new after seven and half months? Anyway, I did. Last Thursday I stayed over. Friday I went in early and stayed over. Then I came in on Saturday.The coding was behind due to some 'puter server snafus and my cohort's hand surgeryMoon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-89602612767491421332010-04-01T19:44:00.011-04:002010-05-21T20:50:58.652-04:00April Fools!Aw c’mon! You didn’t really believe that our great state of Tennessee would tax our yarn shopping with an entertainment tax, did ya?Growing up around these here parts, the Heartland Series was part of my landscape, and it had a tradition of airing joke episodes about this time of year, every year. Not just on the day of April’s Fools, but they started a few days leading up to it. They’d show us Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-20068766770627837772010-03-27T15:58:00.014-04:002010-05-21T20:50:58.653-04:00Shake and FingerpopOkay, so I've been playing WoW more than is admittedly reasonable. Not so much that I'm uber leet or nuthin', but enough that other things aren't gettin' done (blush). I've also been listening to the audiobook version of the newest WoW book, Stormrage, and it's got me in a right elven druidy mood, hence I've been playing this alt toon, Dovewing (the photo capture caught her with the fishing pole Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-39210850566802712472010-03-17T19:11:00.026-04:002010-05-21T20:50:58.653-04:00Blue-footed boobieSo how did everybody do with the recent time change? For me, the usual difficulty waking up an hour earlier than I have all winter long. And with my WoW guild friends, it's been downright confusing since we're all in different time zones already.
But, it's a sure sign of spring to come, even if it doesn't much look very springy outside just now. Not at just a glance. But if ya look really close Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-84102551382342546992010-03-08T20:53:00.006-05:002010-05-21T20:50:58.654-04:00Squirrel FishingFor as long as I could remember, Daddy would take my brother and me fishing. We’ve fished stocked ponds, learning how to pick up catfish without getting stung by their whiskers. We’ve fished from docks, and when we were a bit older he got his first boat. That’s when the serious fishing began. He really wanted the bass, and got pretty good at catching ‘em too when he didn’t have us kids underfoot.Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-68236955954502508442010-03-01T19:33:00.020-05:002013-01-19T09:11:11.195-05:00Gold, Sex, the Clap, and Babies!After an epic battle of wills, I finally got my computer back into a very healthy state. Better even than when it was new! All for the want of a stupid .NET Framework file that hung up everything. Well, that booger is finally in, after much shoe-horning on my part. I'm pretty certain that the cliched 'mark of the beast' is the Microsoft logo, and that Gates is actually Satan Junior hisself.
Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-54625447176993708692010-02-22T20:12:00.005-05:002010-05-21T20:50:58.655-04:00ManipulationsPardon me a bit, whilst I play with this new software that lets me manipulate photos . . . We had a really good turn out at last Sunday's knitting group, our Fertile Turtles. Jane, Pat, Lynda, and Luna made it back - yay!Lynda knitted gloves, despite packing in some purple and black roving of alpaca and silk. The stuff is gasp-worthy, for sure. Luna had some thrummed mitts going, ala the Yarn Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-19010077570121502332010-02-15T19:44:00.011-05:002010-05-21T20:50:58.656-04:00Goblins and Gateway SocksFirst up, sorry it took me so long to post. I've had a new distraction for which the Internet Angel spanked me. Um, I've been playing the Auction House a lot this past week, in the World of Warcraft game. It's the virtual economy, and to be honest it's fascinated me more than is reasonable. Reckon it's my inner goblin showin'.Then, my 'puter got a hateful hijacking somethin' or other in it, Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-51931643031232548452010-02-06T08:04:00.005-05:002010-05-21T20:50:58.656-04:00Brought to you by the letter "A"I've missed the last two weekends of our knitting group, due to remodeling the craft room and a blizzard or two. Angelika and some made it to the last one, and she left the following synopsis on my facebook wall:" . . . Nichole is doing baby socks ;) Barbra is learning nasty words ;) and Mary Beth is gonna knit nasty coverings ;) And Mary Beth bless her helped me finish a head band ;) Thank Gawd Moon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-33946976587672943632010-02-04T19:29:00.006-05:002010-05-21T20:50:58.657-04:00A cullin' is a' comin'The Grape Ape socks have the first completed, and I just turned the heel on its mate this morning. And it's tough showing off your sock knitting without a model or some blockers to help out. So, um, blockers are on my shopping list now, to avoid this bending-over-to-shoot thing again.My dear friend in Indianna is now a proud Gramma, and the wee one's new hat is currently en route to him.I've alsoMoon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246399759960720889.post-60585323568078643772010-01-19T18:13:00.018-05:002010-05-21T20:50:58.657-04:00She shot the binky?!?Ravelry is gobbling up my life. While at work, I confess my thoughts often turn to yarn, colors, and stitches, and this especially happens during my, ahem, smoke breaks. Sitting alone, my inner eye goes to my stash, or to patterns I’ve recently seen, or to colorways, or to those ‘what if?’ ideas. You know the ones.Like these two wafted through my head at different times this week. If hand paintedMoon Torbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399951338716132359noreply@blogger.com2