TessKnits.com http://tessknits.com where smart knitters have more fun! Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:20:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Flock and Fiber is Just Around the Corner!

My very favorite fiber festival of the year is almost here!

Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival, or OFFF, is always held during the 4th full weekend of September at the Clackamas County Fairgrounds in Canby, Oregon. This year, the dates are September 25th & 26th (with classes also held on Friday the 24th).

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]]> http://tessknits.com/3421/flock-and-fiber-is-just-around-the-corner Garden Home Fall Group Class – coming up! KNITTING, All Levels – Fall, 2010

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Wednesdays, Sep 22, 2010 – Dec 8, 2010  (No Class 11/24)

9:30am to 11:30am

Garden Home Recreation Center

In-district pricing: Regular $118.00, Senior $88.50  (11 sessions)

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]]> http://tessknits.com/3413/garden-home-fall-group-class-coming-up HI! didja miss me? Wowsers, it's been an eventful couple of months at my house.  At my NEW house, of course — where I'd say we are about 2/3 unpacked by now.

I'm estimating it will take until December to get the rest unpacked and put away, donated, recycled, or thrown away.  Way back in the beginning, I said this was going to be a year-long project.  We first went out househunting with the realtor on December 29th, so at this point I'm still sticking with my original estimate.  (Although I keep hearing from people about how they have boxes still to unpack from moves that were three years ago.)

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]]> http://tessknits.com/3363/hi-didja-miss-me Holy Lolcats! OK, OK — in between freaking out about carpet, flooring, paint, and drywall demolition, I sneaked off for a little fun.

June 3 was the second annual "I Can Has Cheezburger" night at the Mariner's ball game in Seattle.  And I was there.  Oh, yes.  And so was the New York Times, who decided to not only publish my (thankfully unidentified) picture right smack at the beginning, but also quote me.

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]]> http://tessknits.com/3352/holy-lolcats I’m kinda bizz-ee (Yeah, Lady Gaga got that line from me.  It's OK, we're soul sisters.)

For me, the last few weeks have been all about NEW HOUSE and especially, FRESH PAINT.

Up to now, most of it has been pretty no-brainer stuff.  For instance, I chose which bedroom is going to be the studio:  one of them is half a foot bigger, and has a much larger closet.  That was easy.

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]]> http://tessknits.com/3338/im-kinda-bizz-ee Reminder to Sign Up for Sweater Class Just a brief post to remind anyone who is interested in the Summer Sweater Class at Garden Home — registration for summer term started yesterday morning.  (The start of THPRD registration is usually pretty crazy, what with people trying to get their kids into every class under the sun, so I held off a day on the reminder.  No one needs to spend extra knitting time on hold.)

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]]> http://tessknits.com/3329/reminder-to-sign-up-for-sweater-class A Distinct Lack of Blogging What can I say?  It's been 2.5 weeks since I last posted anything.  What kind of far-fetched excuse reason can I come up with this time?

view from new house How about this one?  it's because we're moving!

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]]> http://tessknits.com/3280/a-distinct-lack-of-blogging Monday Night Knitters? I got an email from the Garden Home class scheduler today that says we just need a couple more knitters to fill the Monday night class — else it will have to be canceled.  :(   A decision will have to be made soon!  So if you were thinking about it, or are on the bubble, or just haven't gotten around to registering yet — well, we need to know your intentions, at least (and if you intend to join the Wednesday morning class, we'd like to know about that too, actually).

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]]> http://tessknits.com/3271/monday-night-knitters Fighting A Losing Battle? The interwebs is a fascinating and amazing time-waster, especially on cleaning day…

Don't ask how I got there, but today I found myself reading this psychology paper from UIUC.  It had a description of an interesting set of psychological experiments wherein college students were "primed" with certain social concepts, such as politeness or rudeness, and their subsequent actions were analyzed to see if the priming had any effect.

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]]> http://tessknits.com/3260/fighting-a-losing-battle Fun with M***c Balls pink magic yarn ballOK, so you know I don't like to use the "m" word when it comes to knitting, because KNITTING is not actually MAGIC.

But a few weeks ago, in my "what-I-want-to-knit-this-year" list, I mentioned a yarn-usage technique that is often known as the "magic ball".  Because this isn't actually a knitting technique so much as it is a clever way to use yarn, I decided I can more-or-less live with the "m" word in this case.

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