Rebecca Danger

Thanks!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Sorry for the silence again, after not quite getting over the 5 week flu, I got a bad cold about 2 weeks ago, and just as that was not quite gone I am sick with some other cold thing now. Ugh. It has meant I have absolutely nothing but cranky things to say to anyone, so I have not allowed myself near the blog.

But, I just wanted to take a minute to say thank you to you all. This has been an amazing year for me and it is really thanks to you all: my family and friends, my readers, and my amazing customers. So thanks, thanks a million. You guys rock.

I'm off to do a "traditional" Thanksgiving with Mr Danger and one of his brothers, full of giving thanks for so many amazing things, pizza, beer, movies, and knitting. It's gonna be a good day. 

Things I Think About While I Knit

So, the main thing I have been thinking about in my many, many, (many) hours of knitting is how close the new year is. Mr. Danger and I actually had a conversation yesterday about how this means that the Winter Olympics are coming to Vancouver Canada incredibly soon, which is a big deal when you live 5 miles from the border. We all have been talking about the Olympics here for so long that I just sort of assumed that it was still one of those distant things you talk about, not a reality. I am apparently not the only one either since I mentioned it to a friend today and she did the same thing I did ("What?!" The Olympics don't start in a month and a half, what are you talking about?!"). But, they are for sure happening. We have talked to a couple people we know who are renting houses out in our city for $5,000 a week if they can sleep 6 people. Wow! 

But, I am not actually particularly excited about the Olympics, so the main thing the new year has meant to me is it is time for a new calendar. Yes, I am one of those people who is just a million times happier and takes unnatural joy from all things organizational, especially calendar/planners. I found my perfect one, which I totally adore because it is perfect, on etsy:

 

How cute is this? You can grab one too in Sarah Pinto's etsy shop. I also particularly liked the skull and crossbones one, but since I can in no way justify buying TWO calendar/planners, the horseshoe one won out. I may though, be back for the horseshoe notebook, since not only do I love organization things, but matchy things too.

The other thing I have been thinking a lot about is all the beautiful things I am going to knit for myself after I finish the book. I, of course, have an *ahem*, respectable collection of knitting books, magazines, and general patterns, but seem to keep finding things outside of that collection that I want to make. The latest? I love Twist Collective (man their photography is GORGEOUS) and was digging through their fall issue today only to find this (and nearly peed my pants with excitement):

It's the Novak Sweater by Claire Montgomerie and I am totally in love with it. I have as much as decided this will be the first thing I knit for me next year. Of course, I do have several thousand more hours of knitting before I am done with the book, so I will most likely definitely change my mind about the first project at least 37 more times. But it is for sure on the top of the list. And hey, that means lots of fun picture blog posts for y'all, right?

Alrighty, off to knit (and play with a new toy I will share with you tomorrow).

The One In Which Rebecca Locks Herself Away From The Rest Of The World

Wow, sorry for the silence again. It is really, really hard to come up with creative, witty things to say when you sit home alone knitting like a maniac for weeks straight. This kind of lifestyle just doesn't really lead to amazing things to share with others.

So, all I've been doing is just knitting (and knitting, and knitting, and knitting) for the book for the last few weeks. I actually have knit enough that I have rubbed a raw spot on my left hand middle finger where I feed the yarn through my hand while I knit. Mr Danger and I were trying to calculate how many miles have yarn have run over that finger in the last week or so and we can up with about a mile and a half. But, when these are the funny highlights of your week you just kinda wanna stop blogging because not sharing seems better than sharing things like this.

For a progress update though I have 7 of my 20 patterns for the book written now and I am starting on number 8 as soon as I am done here. I'm feeling pretty good about this, but I still have to type up all these patterns and knit at least one more sample per pattern (before the middle of january) so I am feeling the pressure. So, I best be off to knit some more. But I am going to make it a point to connect with the outside world a little more so I am going to use le blog as my outlet and blog more. So stay tuned for more exciting posts about things like the irony that the Fedex and UPS trucks come at the same time or where the pugs pick to sleep in a day. I tell you, just riveting.

The One in Which Rebecca Drools Over Patterns

So I think because I am working on my book and "have" to work on my patterns all I want now is to be knitting sweaters and other things for myself. This of course means I was wasting time looking at patterns on the internet (and in my incredibly extensive library of patterns) this weekend. I am sure I have talked about Kim Hargreaves before, but I am going to talk about her again. I absolutely adore her patterns, Mr Danger happened to stumble across the Thrown Together patternbook last fall while waiting for me in a yarn shop. He handed it to me since he thought I would love it, and I must say I do believe it is my favorite patternbook ever. Seriously, I plan to make and wear at least 12 of the 16 designs, which we all know is quite impressive to love that many patterns in one book. So, as I was wasting time on the internet over the weekend I happened across the Kim Hargreaves website again, only to be greeted by her new book, Precious, which I of course instantly want. And want pretty badly. It's GORGEOUS, look at these:

 

 

 

The styling in the book is just so beautiful, not to mention the beautiful items to knit. I especially love this shawl/scarf thing(and the dress underneath it):

 

I mean anything with an umbrella apparently just does it for me:

 

So, my only decision now is if I want to buy this book PLUS another of her books, or just keep it under control and buy this one. I am thinking at this point I am going to spend a bunch of time knitting for me after January 2010 (when my book is due). Hmm, with that in mind I am thinking I should probably stock up on these patterns to make sure I have lots to do........

Alrighty, off to knit more monster legs and dream of knitting Kim Hargreaves and Twinkle sweaters.

And since I know you are reading this too, Happy Birthday Mom!