Summer Lovin' Happened So Fast

Holy Cow where did the time go?  Bad, bad knitter!  Here's a fav Summer song for your viewing pleasure.  FYI I know every single word of this little ditty.  That's just the kind of girl I am.

I spent so much time on the go this summer that I totally put aside this fun verbal run-on project.  Apologies all around.

So here's the scoop.  I knit in three different countries this summer.  Cool or what.  I went "home" to Canada and brought my Lurex sweater avec.  I would post a pic of it but the camera just isn't picking up the metallic-ness of it.  I have to get one of my kiddies to take a pic of me it and will post that soon.

So I took the knitting with me and it pretty much sat on my Mom's coffee table for the next three weeks.  What were you thinking Gaz?  Anyhoo there it sat but then I took my babes to NYC for a couple of days and that's where the knitting fun started!  Yes Girls I finally made the pilgrimage to the "Wool and the Gang" shop in Soho.  It was the size of a shoe box but oh so heavenly.  The were nice and didn't think I was too much of a psycho so all in all I think I'd be allowed back.  I happily left with my new "Sexy Back" kit in hand.

THEN the kids and I joined the Swede and went to Provence where we always hang out in August.  That's when I got the needles out.

The Lurex stayed in it's bag while I started with the "Sexy Back".  Whipped it up in 3 days!  Here it is in all it's glory.

 I'm really psyched to wear it.  If I were to make another one, and will have to since two different people have asked, I'd make it a bit longer.  All in all I'm really pleased with it.  Thank you WATG!!!

THEN the Lurex came back out!  A fab pattern from a great book called Weardowney Couture.  I found the title on Amazon UK.  It's lovely but not if you're looking for a quick knit.  Most of the patterns are with smaller needles but my oh my are they pretty.

So NOW I'm on to a couple of things ( big shock that I'm doing two things at once).  I have started making a slouchy,( a running theme in my clothing since my summer diet of cheese, the best baguette in the world and Rose wine has made me look like Danny Devito as the pengiun from the Batman movie) RED sweater.  It is quite simply scrumalicious.  I can't knit it fast enough and with the weather in Brussels getting rather chilly, I have to hustle.

Oh yeah but I'm also whipping up a basket for my ever growing number of creams and lotions.  Middle age is hitting me hard and I'm finding solace in over priced cosmetics...Nuff said.

Now girlies, you are all caught up!  The next thing on my agenda is to come up with a sassy ( Whoa where'd I pull that word out from) name for my knitting group.  I'm liking the following and would love to know which one you guys prefer.  How about ""Obsessively Creative"? or " Eat, Love, Knit" ?

Holla Back will ya?

Big love,

G.

 
               

Knitter's Day Out

The Modes Museum in Antwerp held an exhibit entitled "Unravel: Knitwear in Fashion.  You just KNOW I had to go.  A scheduled tour with some ladies, both knitters ( believers) and non-knitters ( non-believers)  was arranged and it took all of my patience to wait and not to jump the gun and go the very next day I found out about it.  Here are some pics a friend took of the exhibit.

This was a huge piece of knitted rope that was probably 10 ft wide.  It was one of the few things we were allowed to touch so at one point we all jumped on it and had a lay down!