Telemark pullover

I don’t wish my ordeal on anybody, not even on my worst enemy. Suddenly I grew abundantly in wisdom and serenity.
I realized this is not about me. There are neither invisible nor visible forces working to knock me out. I always lived my life within a good sense of fulfilled duty towards life. My mother didn’t live a long life, but during the time she spent here, in this world, she always taught me a very deep sense of work ethics, honesty, integrity and principles. She believed no matter how dark the circumstances are, you retain peace of mind if you do the right thing. Despite the fact she came from a family of alcoholics, she fought strongly against the generics, although at one point of her life, it got to her. She never lost her soul and her core to addiction. She pulled her inner power and never took anybody down with her in her struggles.
My point is: and I have one; everybody falls into hard times but I never believed in this world of doggy-doggy, where people got to throw people under the bus to get ahead. I always paid my people on time, never skipped a week of payment, even when business was not doing well. Unfortunately ripping people off is an easy road. Right-doing is a hard path but peace of mind cannot be bought. I sleep soundly, thank you very much!
I love my life, I love my life, I love my life, I love my life, love my life……………….

Here are the pictures from the telemark and the stripe knit baby cap.
I am planning to knit the baby “Uggs” booties to complete the set.


I fixed color change jog using this technique
More Telemark pics: Mademoiselle,Trico e mais Trico, Little Gray Dog, Stricken & Spinnen,
Siempre Tejiendo,Lia e suas Artes, KnitSpringsEternal

Telemark pullover

Finally I feel better and out of pain. I am back to my knitting and everything else that keeps me sane, except going back to work. I am going broke by the minute now. Only God knows!
Digital Scrapbook has helped me a lot through my ordeal, but my real passion is knitting.
The Telemark pullover is knitted from neck to bottom, first you knit the collar, then place markers at the four points (these will be increased at each row).I did moss stitch at collar, lower edge and sleeves instead of garter stitch. Next step is to separate for the sleeves on some scrap yarn, they are going to be on hold. Join to work in the round and keep on knitting until the whole body has measured about 12”from center back (without including collar in this measurement). Go back to the sleeves and finish them up, follow the pattern and decrease 10 stitches on the sleeves. Voilá!
The telemark is ready and going to wrap little Nicholas who is going to be here pretty soon!
pattern: here

Baby Surprise Jacket

baby surprise tutorial

I decided to knit a fold-over collar on the surprise jacket. Beginning at the left button band, pick up 46 stitches along the collar.
(RS) Slip 1, Knit 1, M1, knit across
(WS) Knit * Repeat until you have 4 ridges
After 4 ridges, increase 5 stitches only across the back section.
I increased every 3 stitches right after the shoulder seam. (between shoulders).
Continue increasing in the beginning of every RS and increase on the back 2 more times for a little depth on the back.
Then, keep on knitting straight until you have 8 ridges. Bind off. I used the I-Cord Bind Off.

Eu decidi tricotar uma gola no casaquinho surpresa. Começando do lado esquerdo, pegue 46 pontos ao redor da gola.
(Lado Direito) Passe um sem fazer, Tricote 1, aumente 1, tricote até o outro lado, Aumente 1, Tricote 2
(Lado Avesso) Trico * Repita até você ter 4 fileiras.
Depois de quatro fileiras, aumente 5 pontos apenas na parte de trás.
Eu aumentei a cada 3 pontos logo após a costura do ombro. (Entre os ombros).
Continuei a aumentar no início de cada (lado direito) e aumentei na parte de trás duas vezes mais para obter profundidade na gola.
Continuei em tricô (sem aumentos) até obter oito fileiras. Arrematei. Eu usei o arremate I-Cord.

World Cup Fever

Behold! June has just started and with it. .. 2010 World Cup!
As everybody has noticed, the World Cup started this weekend and my nails have been bitten right down to the roots. My team hasn’t even played yet.
It is always the same long-suffering ordeal, and now double-suffering, because I LOVE my Brazilian team, but I am rooting for the American team as well. I just watched the game USA x England – end score – 1x1. An historical result for the USA! It was impossible not being captivated by the amazing game. USA came a long way, and their players have not disappointed. They gave everything they had, heart and passion, sweat and blood. They made an effort and this effort was worth them a precious 1 point.
I don’t know whether or not my heart will resist throughout the tournament. I am Brazilian, born and raised like one, but I have adopted the USA as my country of choice. I love this country, these people and their culture. I am used to joking that I am step child of Uncle Sam.
The only thing I don’t want to happen is a match between Brazil and USA. Hope to God! And I’ll keep on chewing… In the meantime a Hip, Hip, Huha to U.S.A! Brazil is going to play against North Corea – Tuesday.
The Baby Surprise Jacket is almost off the needles! This was a very gratifying project, almost like solving a huge math problem. I was very skeptical when I began, but then, close to the end, I see the nonsense taking shape of a jacket. Although the pattern says there’s neither breaking-offs nor joining-ins of wool, mine shows a lot of both. I had to improvise because I ran out of the main color. It was a sort of working in the dark, I didn’t know exactly what to expect every time I added a new color and how the work would turn out. Literally it is a surprise from the beginning to the end. Absolutely, I will be knitting this fun jacket a hundred times over …

Segura coração! Junho começou e com ele. .. a Copa do Mundo de 2010!
Como já devem ter notado, a Copa do Mundo começou neste fim de semana e as unhas já estão só no toco. E o Brasil nem jogou ainda!
É sempre o mesmo calvário de longo sofrimento, agora então, sofrimento dobrado porque eu amo meu time, mas eu também torço para a equipe americana .Eu assisti o jogo E.U.A. x Inglaterra - resultado final - 1x1. Um resultado histórico para a E.U.A.! Impossível não se emocionar com esse incrível jogo. Os E.U.A. têm feito uma ótima campanha, e os jogadores não decepcionaram. Deram tudo o que tinham, coração e paixão, sangue e suor. Eles se esforçaram e esse esforço valeu-lhes um ponto precioso e muita motivação para continuar rumo as finais.
Eu não sei se meu coração vai resistir tanta emoção. Eu sou nascida e criada brasileira mas adotei o E.U.A. como meu novo país. Eu amo este país, as pessoas e sua cultura. Eu digo que sou uma enteada do tio Sam.
A única coisa que eu não quero que aconteça é uma partida entre Brasil e os E.U.A.. Juro por Deus! E ai sigo eu, comendo as unhas que sobraram ... Nesse ínterim, um Hip, Hip, Huha aos E.U.A! O Brasil vai jogar contra a Coréia do Norte - Terça-feira. Aja coração e unhas!
O Casaquinho Surpresa está quase saindo das agulhas! Este foi um projeto muito gratificante, tão gratificante quanto resolver um problema de matemática cabeludo. Eu estava bem descrente quando comecei, mas depois, perto do fim eu vi o abstrato tomando a forma de casaco. Embora a receita diz que não há emenda de lãs, o meu mostra um monte delas. Eu tive que improvisar porque a lã principal acabou e tive que adicionar a segunda cor mais do que o planejado.
Tricotar esse casaco é como trabalhar no escuro, cada vez que se introduz uma nova cor, a peça revela-se diferente, sob uma nova luz.
Literalmente, é uma surpresa do início até o fim. Definitivamente vou tricotar esse casaco centenas de vezes ...

Why people help

I know this is not the most exciting subject for a blog but when I heard the media criticizing Gary Coleman’s wife for not helping him, (after a fatal fall, the actor allegedly bled intensively from a blow to his head), a memory from a certain day came back to haunt me .
According to Myers, Exploring Social Psychology: "People will help when the benefits (social approval and noble feelings) are greater that the costs (the inconvenience of having to help)".Bull#@#@#, people help when they have the courage to do so. In my case, many years ago when I was a senior, on my way to school, I experienced a weird situation that confirmed my conviction.
I usually walked to school and that day I had walked 4 blocks away from home, when I saw a man, lying on the sideways, convulsing. He was about eighty hundred feet from me, I couldn’t think straight and immediately I started screaming for help, or I thought I was… no sound was coming out of my mouth. In other words, I got paralyzed, in total panic.
Somehow, after a few seconds I stepped out of my torpor and ran back home. After telling my mom, we both got in the car and went back to the place and the man was no longer there. There were a few bystanders hanging out, and one of them helped him. The man had had a seizure.
Remembering this episode makes me feel terrible. The matter of the truth is that I freaked out, I didn’t have any training in CPR and my mom said I would have probably caused more damage than help if I had tried to help him. Helloooowww!!! Obviously she was trying to make me feel less guilty!
I leave judgment to God. He is the one who is going to say, Oh, that sinner who lives on the top of the hill in that cul-de-sac...
Until today I pray for that man. I hope he made it. The simply thought I haven’t tried to help the man always piss me off. Anyways... changing gears from my past memoirs to more updated news...
The baby surprise jacket is in progress and I am also knitting a baktus.
Baktus

Baby Surprise Jacket

Este assunto não é dos mais interessantes para um blog, mas quando ouvi a mídia criticando a esposa do Gary Coleman por não ajudá-lo (depois de uma queda fatal, o ator teria sangrado intensamente devido à uma pancada na cabeça), um fato que aconteceu comigo no passado voltou a me assombrar.
Segundo Myers, Explorando a Psicologia Social: "As pessoas ajudam quando os benefícios (aprovação social e sentimentos nobres) são maiores que os custos (o inconveniente de ter que ajudar)". Baboseira pura. Na minha opinião as pessoas ajudam porque têm coragem para fazê-lo. No meu caso, muitos anos atrás, quando ainda cursava o colegial, no meu caminho para a escola, passei por uma situação estranha, que confirmou a minha convicção.
Eu normalmente ia para a escola à pé e naquele dia, eu ja havia caminhado quase 4 quarteirões de casa, quando vi um homem deitado na calçada, tendo uma convulsão. Ele estava à uns 2 metros de distância de mim, eu não conseguia pensar direito no que fazer e imediatamente, comecei a gritar por ajuda, ou eu pensei que gritava... nenhum som saía da minha boca. Em outras palavras, eu paralizei, em pânico total.
Passados alguns segundos, saí do meu torpor e corri de volta para casa. Depois de contar pra minha mãe, nós duas entramos no carro e retornamos ao local. O homem não estava mais lá. Haviam alguns transeuntes no local e um deles socorreu o pobre coitado, ele havia sofrido um ataque epiléptico.
Sempre que me lembro desse episódio me sinto péssima. A pura verdade é que eu me apavorei, não entendia nadica de nada de Ressuscitação Cardiopulmonar e minha mãe disse que eu provavelmente teria causado mais danos que benefícios se eu tivesse tentado ajudá-lo. Hãaaaaa! Ela estava só tentando me fazer sentir menos culpada!
Deixo para Deus julgar. Ele é quem vai dizer "Ah, aquela pecadora que vive no topo da colina no beco sem saída ...
Espero que o pobre homem tenha se safado do ataque e não tenha batido as botas. Mas quando penso que eu não tentei ajudá-lo, esse saco de assunto me incomoda! Esquecendo minhas trágicas memórias do passado e passando para algo mais atual...
A jaquetinha surpresa está em andamento e também estou tricotando um baktus.

Owl vest

The owl vest is in blocking phase. I simply loved knitting it and the yarn I chose has not disappointed me. The yarn is the Gramercy from Lily Chin, color 7543. To tell the truth, I’ve never knitted with such adorable and butter soft yarn like this before. It just glides over the needle and its malleability and drape is incredible.
Another lesson I learned with this project was to knit English style. It became so much easier for me, and I realized I was knitting totally crooked because I wasn’t knitting using neither Continental, nor English style. I don’t know what type of mess I was doing before, but I fixed it.
Every time I knitted on the round and had to switch to straight needles, the fabric ended up always slanted to the left where I was knitting on the round. I figured that out when I was knitting the evening shrug but I couldn’t understand what I was doing wrong. Well… now I know!
After blocking it and sewing the buttons up, I’ll post the pictures.
In the meantime, I was looking for tutorials on the double knitting technique and I couldn’t find anyone with clear and straight forward instructions. I started google-ing and found this site, Winter Foliage. Teaching is truly an art and few people master it. This lady, Miss Katie, is one of them. She nailed it. Merci!!
Some knitters who also knitted the vest:
Sereknitty, Westerly Whimsies, Thing 4 String, Sammy4586, Three Little Purls