I'm not dead yet!

just in tech week for the latest show

and it is almost 10:30pm and I am already home (last night i came in at 1:30am)- so things are going okay...of course i am waiting for that proverbial shoe to drop...we shall see....i am always nervous when i both design and manage the shop...i get a bit more anal than usual, and oddly calm...not much knitting, well none at all actually (but i still plan to watch the germany v argentina game at 11am while at work - i informed my colleagues that there are to be no costume dramas from 11am-1pm, maybe between 11:45-12noon during half-time, but that is IT!)

time to be like this now:

off to sleep....

Rain. Rain. Go Away....

...come again another day...

The eastern seaboard of the USA has been under a deluge of heavy rain (is that grammatically correct?). It doesn’t want to end...and I am home sick today.

I had a little knitting drama on my world cup knitting – I forgot to cross a cable 32 rows ago!!! And I couldn’t live with it, but I did not want to do the “right” thing and rip back 32 rows. Everyone was telling me to check out Yarn Harlot’s little trick here. So I did…but I just couldn’t do it! I wanted to NOT be anal – but couldn’t. So I ripped back:


It was frightening, but the right thing to do- and now it looks just like the rest of the cables!





Yesterday, I tried to bake. The keyword here is TRIED. I wanted to make this. Corinna was kind enough to post the recipe. Well, combine my lack of cooking skills in English with me trying to follow a recipe in German and that equals disaster. Okay, not a total disaster. It was more scone like rather than sweet fluffy bread like. The filling of nutella and hazelnut was yummy. I have plenty left over that I want to use for Palatschinken (crepes).

I should not have used instant yeast (which was my decision, not the recipe) and I didn’t let the dough rise long enough the first time and then didn’t let it rise a second time. Somewhere, I have a recipe for dough used in Mohnschnecken (poppy seed sweet rolls like cinnamon rolls) – it has always been a success! I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before!

Dinner was at least good – and no one has died of food poisoning. Yet….

Ole, Ole, Ole, Ole..part II

Germany vs. Sweden 2:0
England Ecuador 1:0

those 1st 2 (and only) goals scored in, what? 12 minutes? yeah you go boyz! es freut mich sehr.
I am feeling a bit sad for Croatia - since they are now out of the running..i mean, the average height of those boys is over 6' (170cm?") and that forward Prso is just HOT. 'Cause it is all about the boys with nice bottoms, i mean the way the game is played...ahem.

"we're singing for england! england! england! we're singing our song...." new order 1990 world cup song

so happy that i gaot to stay home, knit and watch the england match this morning...thinking about not going to work today (it may be sunday, but i work in theatre)...though i do have to go shopping, return some fabric, exchange a few pairs of shoes...that sounds like more fun than going to the theatre..and then maybe end up at the yarn store to sit and knit for awhile.

Don't tell Fritz, but i cleaned house a bit. Granted I had the World Cup playing on all three tv's (guest room, living room, and our room) - so no problem going from room to room when i was tkaing a knitting break.

No Annie this weekend :( she became terribly sick and wasn't able to teach at the store this weekend....hopefully, when she is able to visit again, i will not be in tech and have to miss her. I love her style of teaching...her classes are always a blast! it's that costume designer thing, i think...

still knittin'! must go shopping...

Delivery!!!

I don;t alwasy trust the USPS to do it its job, but today yesterday i received a little present from Alice - it was a sweet little thank you that just made my day :).

And not only did that get here in record time (she mailed it on the 20th and arrived on 22nd) - my first packchen zirkel package arrived in Germany 6 days after I mailed it out!!! Unglaublich! And Mad Hatter - aka Katrin - loves it. Here is a a bit of what I sent her:

just a little pirate tea cozy!

close up of pirate napkins and napkin rings

As part of our rules, Katrin also received 5 Fat Quarters (which i like so much, i am using them in EE's quilt), some Steam A Seam ('cause i hear it is hard to find in Germany and a few other bits and bobs :) She has much better pictures on her blog, so check 'em out!

Sorry i cannot babble longer - i have got to get back to that thing called work - we are getting so much done! When it looks like sometihng more than mannequins in victorian dress, i will post a few pics!

wish i could post...

wanted to post a lovely litle post about our paeckechen circle and how i received a surprise present...but all i can do is type a brief message...wrote it all out- got pic's to show too...maybe tomorrow...

Injured Player

Well, McBride and Owen are not the only ones. In my excitement to get across town and watch a rehearsal yesterday afternoon of the show I currently designing, I fell down the stairs – only five of them, but it still hurt and I kind of sprained a few of my fingers. The upside, all that padding on my tuchas (aka po, aka kuli aka butt) helped out immensely! But do you want to know what the real downside to all this is?

NO KNITTING!

I sat through 5 hours of the run and meetings and I couldn’t knit! – I was planning on World Cup Knitting during all this – instead of falling asleep when they start to talk set and lights (‘cause really, I only care about the costumes, people!) I usually knit to keep focused – this also meant I would be more than half way up the front and back. But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Had to hurt myself. Had to put my hand on ice. At least I got happy drinks later...hee

I promise you – I am knitting tonight! Icing in-between rounds if I have to – but I am going for it!

PS – other downer of the day yesterday– missed England vs. Sweden (tie 2:2). You know, work...geesh!

The quilting bug...

…it has hit. Somebody shoot me! No really! You think I am kidding here? I swore up and down that other than the obligatory baby quilt – the one with the character top and plain fabric on back, a little padding in between and MACHINE stitching – that there would be no quilting in my life – none (except costumes).

So as you can see – fallen off that wagon. Nothing special – no real pattern here – but I got on this green kick and Baby EE was born and she is so cute and I really like her mom … yeah her dad is cool too –

So I am just cutting uneven strips and sewing bits together – we shall see what happens – not sure what the back is going to be yet – I have serious amounts of fabric in my stash and well – I could do the back in all blues…or maybe lady bugs…

So please no quilting insults that I am doing this all wrong – ‘cause like I said, not a real quilter here – I am inspired just enough by those fabulous quilters’ blogs to something a little different from my usual


PS – Germany vs. Ecuador – 3:0 – oh ja! You betcha’! world cup knitting – 8” front and back – I really want that part done by the end of the weekend – But I HAVE to have dinner with Annie Modesitt (ROCKSTAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) this Saturday - oh gee darn – but you know, I do not think that she will be insulted if I sit and knit instead of smoke, after dinner (NOT quitting people! Just taking a break!