Dear Blog

I am very sorry for not posting but it has been a very busy couple of weeks. I'm moonlighting right now. And I've had a few other commitments. Like Alisa's Stagette:

That's me on the right looking like I had an unfortunate accident. All that wetness is of the sky variety. Alisa's Stagette was comprised of a scavenger hunt on the rainiest, stormiest day in Vancouver that I can remember in a long time. I, being so hip and modern, did not own a rain coat and was terribly miserable. That's my partner Laura on the left. She owned a raincoat and was slightly less wet. We rocked the scavenger hunt and came in second (it came down to a foot race. Doesn't always? I was a running disappointment and we did not win the heart shaped key chains. I did win some gum though. The best prize by far was the 3 pack of socks, which I bartered for a pair of. My feet were soaked after we fell in a knee high puddle outside of The Landing.)

There was a second half of the Stagette which included a lot of alcohol (Jager Bombs should not be consumed by people over 30...) and bad dancing to Justin Timberlake, etc. I have photos of that part of the night but have some pride and will not post them. It says a lot that I am more than happy to post a picture of myself looking like I peed my pants on the Skytrain but will not post the drunk dancing photos. I should really just delete them now lest they fall into the wrong hands.

Anyhoo, I got myself a new raincoat:


I got Tony one too as you can see. We needed them because it was supposed to rain all last weekend and we were off to Savary Island:



That's my sister Andrea. Let's see if she actually looks at my blog..... She made that hat. She makes loads of things. She's a crocheter but I still love her.

So, while it apparently rained like a s.o.b. in Vancouver, Savary was lovely! This was good because my friend Anne got herself hitched:

What a great photo, no? It was an all out 4 day affair. I tell you, planning a wedding on an island without electricity or heck, even paved roads makes me want to cry a little but they planned it perfectly. Came off without a hitch. Here is a picture of Karl cooking his own wedding feast:

So you see I have been busy. There have been other things too. Ah, I went to see Roger Waters the other night (amazing) and ah, other things that I can't recall off the top of my head. But look, I managed to finish this:

Please focus on the sweater, not the shininess of my forehead. We took like 7 pictures. Sadly, that was the best one.... So, yes, Flair from Knit and Tonic. Made with Blue Sky Alpacas Cotton. I love that stuff. Anyways, its great. Worn it twice this week. Heck, I'm wearing it right now so I guess that makes it 3 times. It might make me look slightly pregnant from the side, but I don't care, I still love it. The interior buttons were a bit hard for me. I only put 3 inside and I thought that I had sewn them in very loosely but they pucker a bit so I guess not loosely enough. Like the slightly pregnancy aspect I also choose to ignore that.

Well, I guess that's about it. This is kind of a long and exhausting post. I'm on my way out to Surrey for my friend Christine's Annual Surrey BBQ. She lures us all out there with loads of great food once a year. Its more than worth the excessively long Skytrain ride. Tomorrow is the inaugural meeting of the Park Knitters Club. But it is supposed to rain so it will be inside like all the past Living Room Knitters Club meetings.

Here's a couple more pictures of Savary (taken the day after the wedding aka Hangover Day)cause its awfully nice there.

I lost my buttons

Seriously.

I don't know how it happened. Actually I have a theory that someone's boyfriend started cleaning a little over zealously and they ended up in the garbage. There was a 4 day search party and now they are considered lost and presumed dead. I'm going to go to Button Button today to replace them.

I was kind of bummed about that this week. I was also bummed because they let Paris Hilton out of jail. I am evilly filled with glee now that she has been sent back. I am a small and petty person, I know.

Return of the super secret baby project

I had to use a really big picture to celebrate the glory which is the completed Super Secret Baby Project. Look at it! Its a beautiful thing!

So what you see here is a hat made by Donna. She also made the pale green booties. And those little green booties with the pale green ties were made by Jocelyn. And me I made that sweater, but that's old news.

It brings a tear to my eye. Look how great it turned out! And Donna and Jocelyn have come so far. They're real knitters now. Its heartwarming.

I'm not sure what patterns were used for the booties and hat (D and J- why don't you leave it in the comments?). I do know that it was all knit in Blue Sky Organic Cotton. We love that stuff.

I got new buttons!

You know that Kids in the Hall sketch, well how would you know if I can barely remember it? Um, it takes place in a hipster clothing shop and 2 of the Kids (I can't even remember who) are female shop clerks. Um, I think. Anyways they are talking about all sorts of hipster shop clerk type things (circa 1989), punctuated with lots of "Oh my god!"'s, etc and one of their topics of conversation is about a girlfriend of theirs who had a fabulous jacket and went dancing. Something was haunted. Was it the dance floor or the jacket? I can't remember. Mmmmm, this is a good story isn't it? Suddenly, due to the haunting, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF HER BUTTONS POPPED OFF!.

No....!

YES!!

Well then the girlfriend comes into the store at the end of the sketch wearing the fabulous jacket and announces "I got new buttons!!!"

Good rendition, no? Anyways, more to the point- I got new buttons!! Here's a nice upside down shot:

Yes, Donna picked me up at work yesterday and we had a lunch date at Button Button. Man, that place is seriously a good time. I've never been in there, just drunkenly looked through the windows late at night after leaving the Cambie.

These little suckers are going to go on to my Flair jacket which is blocking as we speak. (I'm a little worried about my blocking abilities on this one, but that is for another day.)


I almost bought some awfully excellent yellow vegetable ivory buttons that just faintly had cowboy images on them. Those were really some of the coolest buttons I have ever seen, but after about an hour of discussion with Donna, the shop woman, and other customers I went with the subtler buttons you see. New in 2007, a subtler Tracy. (I am so buying those cowboy buttons for another sweater...)

Due to excessive alcohol consumption

Due to excessive alcohol consumption this past holiday weekend, not too much in the way of knitting occurred. I did manage to get started on my FadClassic vest ever so stylishly portrayed on my seriously in need of a wash bedsheets (not much laundry occurred this past holiday weekend either).

I am liking this Knit Picks Shine Worsted yarn and am planning my next internet shopping adventure. I'm thinking apple green and cream for this: Bella Blouse.

Thoughts??? Alex, you must have something to say about that.

oh Tofutsies, you've let me down

That's me there. Watching Lost. With Mr. Bear. With my new socks. They are the Roza Socks from the Spring Issue of Interweave Knits. Its a good pattern I liked knitting it a lot.

I knitted them out of that Tofutsies yarn. Is that how you spell it? I'm not sure. Anyhoo, I was totally loving that yarn (despite the fact that it smells a little bit) until I was just getting into the foot of the second sock. So I'm knitting along and suddenly there is a break in the yarn, which kind of annoys me. I think that sock yarn really should not have breaks in it but fine, whatever, I can live through this and attach the two and keep it going. And I'm knitting away and have a very nice time at it (of course because I do like to knit quite a lot actually) when I notice that the yarn after the break isn't the same as the yarn before the break!!! How uncool is that?? So the one foot (the one on the right that you can't actually see that well but just trust me) is totally different than the other 1.5 socks.

So yeah, Tofutsies, I had great hopes of you and I being the best of friends but clearly that is not going to happen. You totally let me down. Besides, you're kind of saggy. Louet Gems, you're next, maybe we could be best of friends.

Another shout out to all the fabulous people leaving comments for me. I heart comments. (I also heart facebook and will probably be fired soon.) Oh and the Super Secret Baby Sweater was actually called Little Luxury Kimono from Lion Brand (its free!). I knitted it in Blue Sky Alpacas Dyed Cotton in Pickle (I think). I modified slighlty and put a couple of rows of garter and the bottom of the body and the sleeves as I so do not heart curling.

Oh happiness! Oh joy!

Its been a great couple of days I tell you.

Check it out dude. Two things.

1. Suffragette Knitty is now Googleable. I have been obsessively checking to see when Google would find me and it was last Thursday. I practically fell off my chair.

2. I now belong to the Knit Bloggers webring. That means that people other than Alex and Donna might just look at my blog. This thrills me to no end. And has led me to my next exciting thing:

3. Three people (count them, THREE!) I do not know left comments on my blog!!! It rocks! Thank you so much people i don't know! That means that at least 3 people I don't know have looked at my blog which is, oddly, very exciting to me.

So i had lots of other exciting things to write about but its hot in Vancouver now. (20 degrees is hot to me. I haven't adjusted yet.) Here is a photo of Peter of Peter, Bjorn and John. We saw them on Saturday at the Commodore. It was awesome. Do you see how close I was??? That was pretty hot too actually. I need to live in Iceland or something.