Book meme

Look at the list of (100) books below. Bold the ones you’ve read. Italicize the ones you want to read. Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in. Movies don’t count.

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)(in the process)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible (partial, not all the books of the bible)
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

I have no idea where this list came from, but I thought I would join in this one. Feel free to copy and paste the list and make you own adjustments.

Dog and socks

This is the old man of the pets...Rusty. He is almost 12 years old and is usally curled up in this same spot when I am sitting at the computer. If not there, then certainly no more that 6 feet away from me. He is a very sweet dog and will put up with a lot since Sarah could be very rough with him when she was younger and he would just put up with it or walk away, but never ever growled or bit at her.


This is my latest sock. It is the Inside out sock from the Blue Moon 2007 Sock Club. The colorway of the yarn is Monsoon. It's one I would never choose on my own, but I am really liking how this sock is looking. I am knitting this pattern two at a time on two size 2.00 mm circular Addis.
Hopefully I will be able to report a finish on these later in the week. I am on Spring Break this week and hope to get lots of knitting time in. TTFN!

Progress report

My Rock n Weave socks are finished.19 inches of the baby blanket now.
Here's a close-up.
These two skeins are for the next two pair of fingerless mitts from the February 10 & 11, 2007 entry of the 2007 Knitting Pattern-a-Day Calendar. These are both Opal yarns--Crocodile I on the left and Inspiration on the right.
Now back to your regularly scheduled knitting...

Well...

I tried to post a couple of nights ago but obviously it didn't work. So here I am trying to post again.This is one item I have been sporadically working on lately. It is the Rock n Weave sock pattern from the 2006 Blue Moon Fibers sock club. (Farmhouse color mediumweight Socks that Rock yarn)Yeah, yeah...I'm way behind. I am now determined to finish all those other four kits and keep up with this years. I will start the first kit from this year as soon as I finish up this one. Then I will start the 3rd kit from last year. I'm hoping I can finish these this weekend.
Here is the blue scarf that I take to school and work on during morning bus duty. Of course, I won't get to wear it this winter but I should finish it up soon also. This is Lion Brand Homespun yarn in the Delft blue color.
And here is the baby blanket knit in a simple ripple pattern which may still be a ways from finishing. It is looking pretty though in this color yarn--Encore Colorspun, and I forget what the name of the color is.

OK, back to knitting on the socks so they will be finished by Sunday night. Hopefully, I can post a finished picture!

Mitts

Finished two pair of fingerless mitts this week. They are the Driving Mitts from the 2007 Knitting Pattern-a-day calendar, Feb. 10 & 11. I just need to weave in the ends. I'm using up some of my Opal stash for these. They will be Christmas presents.

FO!

My Monkey socks were finished last night and I am wearing them today!

And, one week later

Awww, isn't this cute! I caught our dogs, Sabrina and Rusty, lying side by side on the kitchen floor this morning. They get along very well and seldom fight.
These are my Monkey socks. Here they are ready for the toe decreases, which is what I am working on at the moment. They should be ready to wear tonight. For these I used Cherry Tree Hill yarn in the Blueberry Hill color.
I forgot to post these as a finish. These are the Lombard Street socks that I finished last week. Above is the close up of the patterning. I used STR yarn in Onyx.
I didn't take the pattern all the way down to the toe on these because the cable would have made them too bulky in my shoes.

OK, back to working on the toe dcreases in my Monkey socks!

What I'm working on right now

Here is two repeats of my Monkey sock. I decided to go with the Blueberry Hill colorway of Cherry Tree Hill sock yarn. I think it is looking pretty good!
Also on the needles, is a baby afghan using some Plymouth Encore Colorspun in this color...
I think it may be the Baby Girl Twist color but I'm not sure. It's for a baby girl anyway so that is good. I really like this knitted ripple pattern. Only two rows to remember, except at the beginning and end.
TTFN!

So I was thinking...

about using one of these yarns for my next pair of socks. I am going to knit Monkey from Knitty. Here is the link http://knitty.com/ISSUEwinter06/PATTmonkey.html
The yarn colors are Gypsy Rose, Martha's Vineyard, Blueberry Hill. I was leaning towards the Blueberry Hill but I'm not sure. What do you think?

A lot of catching up...

I haven't posted since New Year's Eve,...so I think I need to catch up with what I've done since then. I have made two more pair of felted clogs... Before...and
After.
I have made one pair of fingerless mitts for the upcoming Christmas.
I finished an extra long pair of socks for me. They stay up quite well, surprisingly.
We had a little bit of snow last week. Here is Sarah with her mini snowman. She made two of them.
Here is the latest pair of socks I am working on. It is the Lombard Street pattern but I am not continuing the pattern down the instep because I don't like the indentations down my foot.
I will need to cast on for another pair of fingerless mitts because I want to knit at least one pair a month so I have enough for presents at Christmas.
Hopefully, I will post sooner than a month later.
TTFN!