Sunday Seven Quatorze

Seven things that I'm grateful for this week:

1. Fluffy dwarf rabbits who feel so warm and cuddly. We'll forgive the shedding, it's just more fiber to knit with!
2. Gilmore Girls fans
   
3. Strawberries fresh from the garden
4. Sourdough bread
5. Completed hand knit socks
6. Suzi's Knits research on sock yarn gauges
7. Deb Barnhill's sock knitting time trials

Sunday Seven: A Baker's Dozen

Seven Things I'm thankful for this week:

1. Spring Sundays
   
2. Strong coffee
3. Free time to knit
   
4. Clean sheets
5. Costa Rica vacations
   
6. Family pot lucks
   
7. Fresh orange juice
   

Sunday Seven Dozen

Seven things I'm grateful for this week:

1. Spring Showers overnight (we need the rain)
2. Bead stores online
   
3. Needle nose plyers
4. DD's who have a bead collection to die for
5. Color theory classes
6. Pack rat tendencies
7. Spring sunshine during the day

I spent this morning making beaded stitch markers for knitting. It was a lot of fun and I didn't want to stop but I ran out of head pins.

Sunday Seven Eleven

Seven Things I'm grateful for this week:

1. Cookie A's creative sock patterns. I'm working on the Monkey pattern from Knitty's winter issue right now.
   
2. Shelridge Farms soft touch ultra hand painted sock yarn. I'm using this for my Monkey socks.
3. Pony Pearl double point needles in small sizes and 6" length. They are perfect for the Monkey socks.
4. April 15th is on a Sunday this year.
5. Clarinex allergy medication
6. Lettuce fresh out of the garden
7. Spring asparagus

Sunday Seven Times Ten

Seven Things I'm grateful for this week:

1. Cicely Barker and her Flower Fairies
2. Online Libraries
3. Warm hand knitted socks
4. Easter egg dyes
5. Knit Wiki
6. Movies that make me cry happy tears
   
7. EZ (Elizabeth Zimmermann)
   

Sunday Seven to the Nines

Seven Things I'm grateful for this week:

1. Good friends who scan old pictures and email them to you
   
2. April birthdays
   
3. Home grown vegetables
   
4. The large stash of yarn I have on hand to knit from when money is tight
5. Fresh baked artichoke bread from Norm's market in Pescadero, CA
   
6. Cafe Mochas
7. Sunday mornings at home

Sunday Seven/Eighths

Seven things I'm grateful for this week.
1. Stick shift cars
2. Trader Joe's
3. The Sunday paper
4. Spring Weather
5. The Yellow Pages
6. Rotary cutters for quilting
7. Kleenex

I took a class yesterday with Judy Sisneros on making a quilt pattern called Winding Paths. The quilt pieces are still pinned to the design board in my car, since I went to visit my mother instead of going home. Today we're going to Trader Joe's. I finished one of my Madtini socks last night and cast on for the other one. I forgot the pattern and the extra ball of yarn, so I didn't get very far. Luckily I had another sock project along with me. I hope to finish these boring socks really soon so I can work on more exciting projects.

Sunday VII, Part Seven

This is my delightful niece Sophia, who was born in Brussels, moved to Prague at age 2, and lives in Rangoon, Myanmar right now. I knit her a baby surprise jacket when she was in Brussels. Now that she lives in a hot climate it's hard to find things to knit for her. She's 5 years old, goes to a Japanese kindergarten, and is a tri-lingual bundle of energy. Do you agree with Sophia that she looks like Stitch?

Seven things I'm grateful for this week:
1. My Family
2. Sunny Days
3. Mosaic aka Slip Stitch Knitting Patterns
4. Barbara Walker's Treasury books
5. Fiber Weekends
6. Husbands who do laundry
7. Leftovers (food, yarn, beads)

Sunday Seven, Part VI

Seven things I am grateful for this week:

1. Spring flowers
This picture was taken last spring in my garden. This year the freesias and madeira lilies are already in bloom, but the bearded iris usually bloom in April and May. I've taken the iris rhizomes that produce this flower with me wherever I've moved for the last 26 years. The very first time the iris bloomed in my garden was the day my DD was (almost 26 years ago.)

2. Knitty On Line Magazine
The new Spring issue of Knitty is out! More sock patterns to try, OH NO. Fingerless gloves, a great lace scarf, kids clothes, a wonderful briefcase bag, an interesting shrug, great cardigan sweaters, and more. I even have some of the yarns in my stash.

3. Caring, generous knitters everywhere
4. Good friends (who knit)
5. Creative Yarn Producers like SWTC, K1C2 and Habu Textiles.
I got the newsletter from SWTC with a new Tofutsies sock pattern today.
6. Sunsets
Last night the sunset was just incredible over the ocean. I'm very lucky to live where I do.
7. Daylight Savings Time (except for the lost hour of sleep today)

Sunday Seven Part V

The title sounds like a Shakespeare play, doesn't it? Henry VI, Part II

Seven Things I am grateful for this week.
1. I missed last week due to Stitches West, so we'll start with that. I had a great time and learned a lot
2. My mom is home from the hospital less than two weeks after hip replacement surgery.
3. My Rockin Sock Club shipment arrived, and I completed my first short row toe successfully. I love the little keychain with emergency sock yarn attached. Last year I had to use the yarn to complete the toe of my second sock, so it's good to have.
4. Books on Tape
5. Joyce Williams, who unvented knitting small circumferences on two circular needles
6. Cat Bordhi, who made it fun
7. Knitting at KNoon's great videos and free patterns

Sunday Seven Part III

1. Dave Mackay's wonderful page of heels for knitting socks. I just recently came across Dave's blog and was happy to see he's still knitting and feisty.
2. The Knit List
3. The Socknitters group website full of great patterns and ideas.
4. Netflix
5. Rosamunde Pilcher's books
6. Folk Socks
7. Chocolate Muffins

Sunday Seven Redux

1. I am thankful that my mom is having hip replacement surgery Tuesday so hopefully she will be able to walk without pain. (Update: she had the surgery and it went well.)
2. I am grateful that Marguerite is a knitter who shares.
3. I am thankful the GUI interface was invented.
4. I am grateful that I have a top loading washing machine and was able to felt some bags this weekend.
5. I am happy that this fabulous sock yarn exists.
6. I am thankful I learned to cook as a vegetarian many years ago.
7. I am happy that I found a new pattern to use up little bits of sock yarn. They are the sideways knit gloves, from Not Just More Socks by Sandy Rosner. They use a provisional cast on, so I used a new idea I read about on the Knit List.

Sunday Seven

I like this idea. Here are the seven things, with links, that I am thankful for this week:

1. Hand Knitted Socks
2. The fact that I don't seem to be allergic to superwash wool, baby alpaca or cashmere.
3. Stitches West takes place near my house so I can afford to go, and it's during President's Week, so I can take the time off.
4. The Secret Garden, by Francis Hodgson Burnett. I read it again every so often. The weather here is getting more springlike and things are popping out all over.
5. Koolaid is good for something.
6. The fact that my husband doesn't like football.
7. Counterprogramming on TV against the Super Bowl (see item #6 above). I got to see the National Ice Skating Championships which I missed in January.