knitting sightings

I am to tired today to think of anything to write or knit but I thought it would be a good time to intriduce a feature that will be more or less regular. Just how much, it would depend...
I am a clothes maniac, and not only on me, but I constantly looking at what others wear...
Back in the eighties we had and used so many hand knitted items it was the height of the fashion, probaly partly because living in a socialist country, what you could get in a store was very limited. Making it gave a chance to wear something that would be remotely fashionable. Even if it was made out of sctachy acrylic yarn. Then in the nineties, I don't know what happened, more merchandise came in I guess, but we wouldn't touch handmade items (especially if they did looked handmade) with a ten foot pole. I still did crafts, but I stayed with crochet afgans, tablecloths, knitted lace doilies, quilts and such. An other ten years on many new stores opened like the chainstore, the french PROMOD whose merchandise I love love LOVE.. They do have some rather rustic looking stuff, inculding knits...which made me think again. I was like "How pretty... hmm...I can do that"... Oh I got sidetracked... I was talking about me looking at people's dresses (sometimes sitting on the metro I check on their feet too. I have yet to see a handknitted sock on somebody else than me), and ever so happy when I can spot a knitted item, which is not so rare (these cheap acrylic machine knits made in china do not make me want to go closer though), but occasionally I do spot a handkitted item. A few weeks ago I was sitting in a cafe with my Ravelry friend Dinara, and I saw a gorgeous grey tweed cabled cardi... on an italian woman. Still it was kind of hard to hold myself back and not stare openly, and not to go and ask, if it is really handknit, and did she made it or???
So.... Handknit sighting for today
As I was coming home from a bus I've seen an old(er) woman in a brown handknit poncho. It was knit in the modern way, from two rectangulars. It was knitted from a chunky yarn, with cables and it had fringes around the edges... In the last couple of years ponchos came back to fashion with a vehemence. If I wouldk have the time I would knit one for myself... maybe for the fall. For now my attention is on the butterfly, or the white thank top...

calmed down

On both sides, but this timeI will not let it go until things are solved...
On other fronts... struggling to figure out how this gigatorrent things work, but if they just delete me, I will not really mind... I just signed on for the occasional cartoon or other kid related films for Chris's sake, but I am more than ok with e-mule. It is much more relaxed nowhere all that threats about punishments and deleting membership if one do not uploads the given amount or, crosses some other rule...
I met my knitting friend, Dinara today. Kriszta, the third party couldn't join us, so there was less talk of knitting, though the books she brought are gorgeous... Once I manage to get ahead with the butterfly dress, I will try some more lace knitting. I showed D. the try out pieve of the edging and she liked it. Of course the yarn is waaaay off (a cheap acrylic DK), butI just want to figure out the lace before I jump into the mohair... What an incident. I bought the exact same yarn, the exact same color in the exact same place she did for the same dress...
Listened to some podcasts too, Yknits sounds great, and the episod on men and lace was really interesting.

The sh** hit the fan

And not in a nice way. Things are really bad at the moment... But hopefully it all means that the end is near... the endgame is nasty (as always is), and puts my stress-level up to the sky, therefore making me even more tired, but if it mean there is light at the other end of the tunnel, I welcome it.

School

My baby is going to school... OMG I can't believe it... It wasn't an easy deceision so many choices, so many schools... should he go where they teach English from the first class? Should he go where there is sports every day? Or to a chatolic school (I am not particularly religious) where there is only 10-12 kids in a class?
But today I did enroll him...

The Jungle Book

No knitting for two days :o((((
Yesterday I took my soon a theater. We saw the musical Geszti and Dés wrote from the Jungle book. Of course I am partial (I just love musicals, rock-operas, and such), but it was good. The songs are nice the lyrics are fantastic, the choreography is lovely. Christopher had a bit of hard time to understand how can people play animals (the bear and the monkeys went through, even the wolfes, but when it came to the snake... even though the actor was just great. Really just great.
Today I had a crisis over private matters (those that I am trying to keep outta here, at least until I find a solution). I should work on my translations, but I am still upset...
Tried knitting, I really want to start on the Butterfly dress, but keep messing up the lace pattern...

Knitting, knitting, knitting...

It's been always around me. Both of them. My mom was a knitter. I always remember her sitting down and knitting. She said she learned it from a classmate of hers, a boy at that... I didn't learned the basics from her. She was left handed and to teach a right handed child from the very basics, required more patience than she had...

It was my grandma who taught me the basic chain stitch with the crochet hook and took pity on me when I tried to make a fabric out of my chain by randomly putting the hook into the chain (would that be freeform crochet these days?), and thaught me the basics of knitting and crocheting. And the feeling of boredom whent away forever. I do not say that I've been knitting nonstop ever since. But I always had something to do with my hands. Knitting, crocheting, beads, sewing, quilting, just to name the main things...and whenever I pick up the pointy sticks I feel so close to my mom, my grandma, and even my greatgrandma whom I never met. Ladies up there...I miss you!!!

I am here!!!

Well, as everyone around me knows, I am a late bloomer... It always takes me ages to figure out stuff... It took me ages to get a computer back then, then get into forums and such. I've been reading blogs for a while, and always wanted to do it... Not because I am so exceptional, or funny or whatever... Just because it looks fun...
So here I am now.
Topics probably will cover all crafts considered, mainly knitting and crochting and sewing, and quilts and beads and...whatever I will try. Because I did and will try many things hopefully. Obviously things from my life bound to steep in here, but I will try to hold back myself on that part. Anyone who is close enough to know, will get my rants in real life or in emails (and all of you, thanks for putting up with me, I know it wasn't easy). But hopefully knitting and crafting in this corner of the word will take up most of the space...