Allen Martin McDonough
4 October, 1963 – 21 August, 2005
You have been, and always will be, my best friend.
I will be taking a hiatus from blogging. I need some time to figure some things out.
Month: August 2005
Iris made and launched this today at the FOGE.org LA kickoff event. Each kid decorated and named their own rocket. The guy reading the launch manifest couldn’t believe that someone would name a rocket ‘Rosy Hearts’ and read ‘Rosy Heat’ instead. Iris was not as upset about that as the fact that the rocket went suborbital.
She said that it was a fake rocket because it didn’t go into outer space. And the rocket was so small, it could only lift an ant. She thought she was going to make and launch a real rocket. Mark said her rocket attained an altitude of ~100 ft at the apex of the trajectory.
I let her go to preschool late one day last week so that we could watch the Space Shuttle launch. I guess the really big rocket made quite an impression on her 4 year old mind.
Why does Barbie always reminded me of rockets? Could it be the missile-like boobs? Iris picked out the fat quarter of pink batik and the Burda pattern for the dress.
Maribeth and I attended the Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane workshop at Machine Project last Sunday. We met Daina Taimina in person and learned how to make some hyperbolic planes. I, of course, went for the most crenulated one for which I increased in EVERY stitch. This took forever. When Iris asked me when I was going to be done, I said it would take a while. So she went and got a teeny, tiny one from the shelf and said, ‘See how cute this is? You could make yours cute and be done.’
Side view
Top View
Can a yarn be yummy enough to eat? I snagged the last skein of this berry silk/merino mix in Nancy Finn’s booth at Fabulous Fiber Fest 2004. It knits up like a dream. I have never knit with such an enjoyable yarn before. I hope Nancy will be there again this year.
I mixed the berry yarn with 2 skeins of its green/teal sibling and 3 skeins of Cascade 220. I started this sweater at family camp last month. Of course, I had to spend an afternoon at the nearby yarn store that arranges their yarn like a color palette. I made considerable progress on the sweater despite the long hours I have been putting in at work. I am using Jill Vosburg’s crystal cove sweater pattern. As usual, I couldn’t resist making a few changes.
On the sewing front, I made Iris’ Barbie an evening dress from some cotton batik that she picked out. I will post the pix next weekend.