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It’s My First Yak!


2009
02.28

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Me sporting a Yak/Merino scarf made by Marianne

OK, it’s actually Yak and Merino, and it is SOOOOO SOFT and light, so warm.

Some time ago (how long was it Marianne?) I volunteered to do the Pay It Forward with Marianne. I had the easy part, she was the payer, I was the payee. Ha! To be honest, I had completely forgotten about it. Plus, I thought I was one of the extra ones that volunteered to do Pay It Forward with Marianne. It was really a bit of surprise to actually receive a package from her. Not that I didn’t think she was serious, mind you. I really just didn’t remember.

It is a loooong scarf knitted with 50% Yak, 50% Merino yarn, Superyak, by Karabella, made in Italy. A simple pattern, but the result is a super luxurious scarf. Possibly the softest knitted fabric that I’ve ever felt. So light and warm. And as you can see in the picture, it drapes really, really well. Thank you so much Marianne! It’s wonderful!

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Oscar Party


2009
02.23

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OK. So it’s at Stephen and Todd’s, not one of those hoppin’, filled-with-mega-stars parties in the neighborhood. But our party was also filled with actors and producers. We also had our own celebrity, Rami, who was a finalist on Project Runway. AND, Stephen and Todd throw the best parties. Those nutty boys.

We had a contest to see who picked the most winners, (someone made really nice ballots,) people brought food named after the Oscar nominees, (you must see the photos that I will post below,) the show and the personalities at the party. What an evening. Oh, CB made the ribs. You’ll see them and the name of the dish in the pics. Click to zoom in. :-)

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Say Hello to Tristan


2009
02.08

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Yes, I am still here. But busy with work and school. Hopefully I will have more free time after the Winter session is over. That’s next week. :-)

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Kickball At Roxbury Park


2008
07.31

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A couple of priests at CB’s church, All Saints’ Beverly Hills, hosted a Wednesday children’s kickball evening event throughout the month of July. Located at Roxbury Park, which is only a couple of blocks away. We decided to prepare a picnic basket (OK, there were two) and invited our good friend Tracy and her son Pace to join in the fun.

We’d never gone inside the park before. I know it’s a shame. It doesn’t look so big from the outside. But wow! It is huge. Lots of big, green areas filled with people doing yoga, tai chi, soccer, etc. There’s also a huge playground for kids. The church rented the small baseball field for kickball. Most of us arrived early enough to have a quick picnic before the game started. I’ll let the pictures do the rest of the talking:

It was really, really fun. The park is so nice that we wished that we visited more often. I think there will be many nights that we just pick up a couple of beach chairs and walk down to the park for the evening. Doggies allowed on leash. And, I am thinking, what a nice place for knitting and spinning. You know what I mean? :-)

More photos here.

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Remembering Twisted Ruth


2008
07.17

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Remembering Twisted Ruth just doesn’t seem the right thing to say. How can such vibrant person be no longer in this world? I am in shock. It’s hard to believe.

Our dear friend Ruth Schooley passed way Tuesday night. The person that led me physically into the spinning world by inviting me to the Greater Los Angeles Spinning Guild. The person that practically danced and pranced around at the guild meetings, bringing so much joy to all of us. The one that was so willing to share everything that she knew. Gone. She went into some kind of seizure on the way to dinner Tuesday night, went to the hospital and passed away. Ruth had a foot surgery recently. The doctor thought that blood clot traveling to the lungs could be the cause.

Recently Ruth and I had been in discussion on Flickr about cotton spinning. I’ve opened her last email to me so many times since I heard the news. In it she said:

… And I shall summon you to an audience with the Queen (that’s me) and I shall show you the Proper Way to card cotton punis.

Promise!

Ruth

Underneath the email message there’s this little button that says SEND A REPLY. It hit me really hard to realize that I would never get a reply from Ruth again. I want to demand that her promise be kept, so that I can see her and say that it was all just a bad dream. I can’t even imagine what her Roketman is going through.

Messages about Ruth are pouring in on Ravelry, Yahoo groups. Ruth was joyful, loving, generous, uplifting. Always smiling. So very adventurous. It amazes me how many hearts she had touched. She was like a Tim Russert in the fiber community. I had no idea the impact she had in so many people’s lives. This world lost a truly wonderful person, an amazing human being.

I am happy that she left behind a personal blog and an online photo album. Even though it pains me to look at them now. I am sure they will bring happier memories somewhere down the road.

Ruth’s Blog: twistedspinster.blogspot.com
Ruth’s Flickr Album: http://www.flickr.com/photos/originaltwistedspinster/
Ravelry Group in Memory of Ruth: Twisted Ruth

I grabbed some pictures of Ruth off her Flickr album. Please click on them to see some of her amazing adventures.

Note, July 19, 2008, I just found out that Ruth’s old blog is still up on the Internet. It is at www.twistedspinster.net

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Quick Update


2008
07.07

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CB is still in the hospital and will probably be there until Wednesday or Thursday. The doctor ordered a broncoscopic to be performed. But there was no staff over the weekend, so it waited until this morning. They also did a lung biopsy at the same time. They also did an echocardiogram in the morning. It will probably take a couple of days for the results.

CB is really sick. It’s not a normal case of pneumonia, difficult to figure out the cause. (There are three possible causes.) The broncoscopic and biopsy will hopefully give a definite answer so right treatments can be given. Meanwhile they are giving him two kinds of antibiotic injections.

I was doing OK the last time I blogged. But he runs a fever every afternoon. Seeing him struggling with breathing really worries me, and hurts me. But he says that he feels better everyday. And he does have good moments. I am probably worrying too much.

I can’t wait to bring him home.

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Happenings


2008
07.04

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Hi all! A few things to update you on. CB is in the hospital. Nothing to worry about at the moment. He hasn’t been feeling well for a couple of weeks. He started having difficulty breathing last week, causing headaches and fatigue. He finally was willing to go to the doctor yesterday morning. The doc immediately found the oxygen level in CB too low and sent him to the emergency room. They performed tests on him for the entire afternoon and could not find the cause. Finally in the evening after doing a CT scan, they found pneumonia in a hard to detect region of the lungs. So, now he’s in the hospital for a few days to get better. They are also performing extra tests to see there’s anything else. It’s a relief to have found the cause of his illness. Now we can focus on getting better.

Remember that yarn that I named Forest Jewels?

I am going to start knitting something with it. I’ve always had Drifting Pleats from the book Knitting New Scarves in mind. A little scared of the pattern, but am going to give it a good try.

I joined Katherine’s Le Tour de Fleece 2008.

I had so much fun spinning and knitting for Fibre to Scarf Exchange, I thought I’d join up another spinning challenge. Maybe I’ll do well again doing a project with time restraint? We’ll see. Now I have to find something in the stash to get going.

Happy Fourth of July! I’ll be spending the afternoon with CB. :-)

OH! Almost forgot. Chris, here’s the cotton I have to work with:

I am not an experienced cotton person. Maybe it is usual to get cotton in this condition. (It was given to me.) I have at least 30 times more of this cotton. What do you think? Keep or let go? :-)

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