Rainforest Knits : Life of a Westcoast knitter

Moving again!!

2008-02-06T09:52:00.000-08:00

Hi all, I couldn't wait to move to my new home so I had to pick a winner for the mini-contest. Sorry to all those who were thinking of entering and didn't -- to late you lose. Seriously, come on over to the new blog with my all new screen and blog name. I will be hosting another contest fairly shortly as a blogwarming virtual door prize, so keep a look out there.Come see who won the

"Defeat the Winter Doldrums" Dishcloth Swap Weekly Topic #2

2008-02-01T10:08:00.000-08:00

There are many people who ADORE receiving hand-knit or crochet items; but there are just as many who have no appreciation whatever of how much love, work, and time goes into a hand-made item. Share a story of a hand-made gift you gave to someone and how it worked out - good, bad, or ugly!Well I've had really good luck with gifting my knitting and crocheted items. I crocheted my father a scarf

You could win this, no not the snow look closer ;-)

2008-02-01T09:49:00.000-08:00

Well I've been knitting and crocheting up a storm here. Also dealing with a lot of snow! I'm a true Vancouverite and we are only used to visiting our snow, while up on the mountains. So when it snows here, the whole city and surrounding areas especially shut down. It is somewhat embarrassing that about 5-10 cm of snow is considered a snow day because the rest of our country goes on their

Booking Through Thursday - The Late Edition

2008-01-25T18:02:00.001-08:00

What’s your favorite book that nobody else has heard of? You know, not Little Women or Huckleberry Finn, not the latest best-seller . . . whether they’ve read them or not, everybody “knows” those books. I’m talking about the best book that, when you tell people that you love it, they go, “Huh? Never heard of it?”I know I'm late it's Friday, but I've been a but busy. For example I haven't had to

Defeat the Winter Doldrums Dishcloth Swap Weekly Topic #`

2008-01-22T18:29:00.000-08:00

Weekly Topic: Dishrag. Dishcloth. Face cloth. I've seen folks get all fired up in forums when someone refers to their knit or crochet creation as a dishrag, as that's somehow offensive to them! When you're working on yours, what do you call them? Also, is there a difference between a dishrag and a dishcloth? How bout a facecloth? Are they all really the same thing?At first I thought dishrag,

I'm late as always, and a mini contest

2008-01-22T14:35:00.000-08:00

Seems like lately I'm alway late for something. like meeting friends for lunch, knitting meetups, doctors appointments... However I have managed to stay on top of my knitting deadlines for swaps. I changed my mind yet again what I am making for my Loopy Ewe swap pal! Good thing is I'll make the deadline *wipes forehead* I am way ahead of schedule with my HSKS 4 pals bag, it's awesome!! I

This post is brought to you by Booking through Thursdays

2008-01-17T14:23:00.000-08:00

I've always thought that I'd want to join in on Booking through Thursdays after seeing them on various blogs especially Marsha's, but never did go through with posting my answers. Well, it's a new year and here is my first Booking through Thursdays!This week’s question is suggested by Puss Reboots:How much do reviews (good and bad) affect your choice of reading? If you see a bad review of a book

"Defeat the Winter Doldrums" Dishcloth Swap Questionnaire

2008-01-10T13:56:00.000-08:00

1. Do you knit, crochet, or do both? both2. What types of needles do you enjoy using for making dishcloths? wooden, mostly bamboo but I can't wait till my interchangable Harmony needles arrive!3. What types of cotton do you enjoy using for making dishcloths? Is there any that you've been wanting to try? my favourite cotton is blue sky alpacas organic and dyed cotton (but it's a little pilly and a

A mild case of Startistis

2008-01-10T12:04:00.000-08:00

Before I go into what's on my needles and such, I wanted to share with you a story that happened over the holidays. Well His Tallest knew that a swift was all I wanted for my Holiday gift and he didn't want to pay a lot of money for something that he could make and make it better (darn engineer.) He looked over plans on the net and all different types of swifts and then drove me bat shit with

Putting the new in new year

2008-01-02T23:58:00.000-08:00

Yeah I couldn't think of a better fitting title, sorry about the cheese. I decided after finished the last eye cord strap for an everlasting bagstopper that I'd try something new. Now I have been thinking of trying entrelac for a while now because I have been drooling over the Entrelac socks that Eunny Jang designed a few issues back in Interweave Knits (spring 2007). I recalled that Julia (

New Year Knitting Resolutions

2008-01-01T23:10:00.000-08:00

So it being the first day of 2007, I thought I'd look forward to 2008 by setting some New Year knitting resolutions. Here we go Cut down my stash by using stash yarn and I'm only aloud to by new yarn if I finish a project with stash yarn and only buy half or less of what I used from my stash. I may look into this further and decide rules etc..Knit a more complicated lace projectFinish a pair of

Holiday Knitting Picture Post

2007-12-20T12:53:00.000-08:00

I'm a little too busy for words, but here's what I've been up to in the land of holiday knitting. Sorry the pictures aren't formatted here all pretty; however I am meeting my mom at the mall for some Starbucks and a little last minute holiday shopping trip. Happy Holidays everyone! Enjoy yourself and take some time to knit something for yourself. Like the winter cowl and those monkey socks

I was Tagged!

2007-12-12T10:03:00.000-08:00

I haven't really done a meme in a long time, especially since I haven't really been reading or posting on good ol' LJ. I've lost interest in LJ, I've had approx. 3 journals there, one private with some public posts, another friend's only and my recent being a mixture of private, public and friend's only. I like Blogger better, but I'm thinking I might jump ship to Wordpress. I've noticed a lot

I survived NaKniSweMo and all I got was this..

2007-12-03T15:29:00.000-08:00

frackin' beautiful cozy sweater!!!!!!!!1Here's some pics of my CPH all finished (minus the wooden toogles for enclosures) Hogwarts Sock Swap Questionnaire 1. What Hogwarts house have

Turned the heel

2007-07-16T09:41:00.000-07:00

So I have turned the heel and I'm almost finished decreasing the gusset stitches on my sock-a-palooza pal's sock. Wow August 2nd it approaching fast. I have a little over a week to complete the second sock, eep. I know I can do it because I just need to fly through the foot then onto the toe then viola a completed pair of socks.Tomorrow we are going to see Harry Potter and the Order of the

First Sock complete!!

2007-07-06T15:22:00.000-07:00

I got a new toy from May, so I thought I'd post a picture of her and her teaser jolly ball. She loves it so much and it keeps her busy even when we are busy and can't play with her. This ball is great and there will be many more hours of fun to be had with it. Oh look what I found on my clematis! It's my sockapalooza's first sock all finished. There are a tiny bit of errors, but hey I'm

A Day at the Beach Knitting

2007-07-03T17:55:00.000-07:00

This is my view from the bench I was knitting at when we went to the beach a few days ago, pretty isn't it?Here's the view to my left. Mountains, ocean and trees. Oh it is wonderful to live in the beautiful westcoast.Here's my sockapalooza pal's sock on my foot later that day. My pal's foot is larger than my so I had a ways to go when I took this picture. I am using Panda Cotton (55% Bamboo,

Squeeee!!!!

2007-07-03T11:05:00.000-07:00

I can't wait till the movie comes out, but even better till my book comes in the mail!!! I really should get my butt into gear and get some Ravenclaw school colours to make a hip house scarf or even Gryffindor. When taking the sorting hat tests I mostly get Ravenclaw, but at times get sorted into Gryffindor.As for my sockapalooza pal's socks, I am at the heel flap on the first sock yay me!

Sockapalooza sock update

2007-06-28T20:28:00.001-07:00

So here is the sock I'm knitting for my sockapalooza pal hanging out with our fish tank. It's the monkey socks and it seems like everyone is knitting a pair -- the new jaywalkers. I have to admit I jumped on the bandwagon, but I've been oogling this pattern before I could even knit socks. The lace is fun and addictive, hence the name that Cookie A gave this pattern. This is the first sock,

They grow up like weeds, the pretty ones...

2007-06-28T20:10:00.001-07:00

Happy Grade Seven Graduation to Mini-me!!!!Congrats, it's been a hard road at times but you have put in 100% and more, almost all the time - regardless of the struggle. Despite the hardship of changing schools in Grade 6 and leaving the friends you grew up from Kindergarten and on behind, you rose above it and shined making many new friends along the way, while still trying to keep in touch

SP10 Contest Answers

2007-06-27T10:59:00.001-07:00

So for our last contest before SP 10 wraps up was name three yarns you are dying to try and here's my listBanana Silk, see hereCorn yarn, read about it hereSWTC's Craft, which is 35% milk fiber and 65% organic cotton, lookie hereSP 10 has been so fun and I enjoyed being an angel as well. Nothing like buying yarn that you can't use and living vicariously through others. Hopefully they will post

Previous sticky of the month for two months, lol!

2007-06-26T16:05:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my new home. There are already some posts below to read and now this is my permanent knitting blog home. So come back often to read about my knitting adventures and more. Here's a pretty collage of my latest stash enhancement as well as my last SP 10 package, the reveal package from Amy.

Butterflies

2007-06-20T16:38:00.000-07:00

So I just got my package from WEBS. Yay me! I have two skeins of Wick, which is the yarn I've been dying to try, a couple balls of Cascade of various colourways and a bag of Rowan Calmer in onyx that I ordered to make a sweater. I had a sweater in mind, I think it was in the No Sheep book but now I have forgotten and I should check how much yardage I have, so I can decide on a pattern for the

Frogging Party

2007-06-16T08:50:00.000-07:00

So I have been frogging my sockapalooza pal's sock so much that it's not funny. I was going to make monkey socks with the panda cotton that I ordered from The Loopy Ewe, but it doesn't seem to want to knit up in the twisted rib. *sniff* So I am going to go through my new Interweave Knits Favourite Sock Book to see if I can find a pattern that this sock yarn wants to knit up to be. I really

New Home

2007-06-11T17:48:00.000-07:00

I decided to change my blog name, so I started a new blog. I'm going to play around with this and see if I like it or stick with my old knitting blog. I am a relatively new knitter, since I started knitting in November of last year. Even though I am a "new" knitter I have tackled lace, socks and next I'll be knitting my first sweater. I'm so happy to be a knitter now than many years ago