cantlivewithoutknit

Scrapping and Disney, Knitting and Disney, So what is it about Disney?

2006-12-04T17:14:00.000-08:00

It's been a long time since I last posted. One thing you will notice is a definate trend towards everything Disney. I can't help it, I'm hopelessly addicted.

So here is the can all done:

And here is a project called illusion knitting. I just had to have one with Mickey as the illusion so I worked most of the day
Sunday to come up with a graph and then tried it out. Still needs to be tweaked a little but it's pretty good I guess.

What's posessing me now...

2006-09-09T18:44:00.000-07:00

is a little scrapbooking fever. I'm working on a altered paint can for my DIS members cruise mementos.

HAPPY WORLD BREASTFEEDING WEEK

2006-08-01T06:10:00.000-07:00

To all my LLL and LC friends:

May your celebrations be grand!
May the mothers you help be grateful!
May the babies that benefit be healthy!

May the little ripple that you send spread far and wide!

Warmly,
Ilene

An Incredible Harvest

2006-07-31T18:07:00.000-07:00

The "fruits" of your labor have arrived!

Yes, that's right over 100 fruit and veggie baby hats for the breastfeeding babies at Brockton WIC. We've got pumpkins, apples, eggplants, pineapples, watermelons, peppers, and lemons just to name a few. Each is just as precious and unique as it could be. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for sharing your talent to keep our babies warm and to encourage moms to breastfeed. The picture below is just one knitters contribution. Mary knit 15! gorgeous cotton hats, each with a lady bug button on the stem for good luck.

It's been so exciting to go to work this week and have presents to open everyday. Once again thanks to all for your generosity, to Jeanne at a CA WIC office for the idea and to the Yarn Harlot without which this response would have been impossible.

Oh and here is a picture of the World Breastfeeding Week (month, year, LOL) bulletin board in the waiting room. Think the message comes across?

MD made me do it

2006-07-28T04:59:00.000-07:00

Okay so now I've got this blog thing. I'm not really sure why I have it except that I wanted to post on the Mason Dixon KAL pages and so I figured what the heck I'll start a blog too. I am having lots of fun knitting or really I should say planning to knit the great projects in the MD book. See right now my knitting has been curtailed by a nasty herniated disk in my neck.

About a year and a half ago, Feb 05 to be precise I became passionate (or is that obssessed) about knitting felted purses (yeah the button hole bag was one of them) and I knit three in three days. I wound up with a sore left arm. Actually that's putting it mildly, not only was it sore but it was weak. Primary care doc sent me to an OD who sent me to a PT. The PT discharged me after 8 weeks with little or no improvement. Finally about 4mo later I found myself getting accupuncture which healed this in like 4 visits. Everyone assumed this was tendonitis but now I wonder....fast forward to May 06, trip to Seattle from Boston. I'm like, yay I get to knit for 6 hrs in the plane...BIG mistake! I think the position of my head (down) and the cramped quarters and not taking a break to stretch, damaged my disk. The jelly inside just had no where to go but out the back. So we get to Seattle and I give little cousins piggy back rides etc., get up from couch and OUCH, I thought it was just a stiff neck although it hurt more than any other stiff neck I've had. Two days later, back on the plane to Boston, YUP, I'm a knitting again. This whole scenario added up to NO GOOD news for my neck.

Well that's the long explanation of why I can only plan to knit currently (except for my Wednesday knitting group...I just have to knit sometime!). So I've very carefully and slowly started a pink SnC baby Kimono for an internet friends little granddaughter who as of yet has not graced this world with her presence but is due any time. I'll post pics as soon as I learn how (of the kimono, not the baby, sorry)! I got the yarn to start an Absorba, and I've purchased by web shopping a ton of discontinued Cottonease to start a mitre square blankie. It's on it way and it's all just too exciting. Stay tuned...

Live your life with eyes wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten