February 13th, 2009 
mio This is how much of the purple rose afghan I can make with one ball of the off-white yarn:
For the math majors out there, that’s roughly 20% of the motifs. Add in a border, and I think we all know what the blog post will be when I finish this.
In the meantime, here are a few pictures from my trip to Alberta:
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February 8th, 2009 mio I spent most of the day Thursday worrying about airport security. I’d read the CATSA website several times, knowing the whole time that all it would take was one security guard who was having a bad day to ruin my flight. It says that crochet hooks are allowed in your carry-on bag (under “Penetrating Objects” *snicker*) and scissors are ok as long as they aren’t pointy. I felt confident that I could get my tools on board if everything went to plan. I also remembered that in all of the flights I had taken, I’d been pulled aside for further searching on about half of them. I wasn’t pulled aside on the trip to Montreal a few years ago, so I was due. If a guard says you can’t take something, your options are pretty much argue with him or go on your trip. What a stupid system! (I was totally ranting about this for days before the trip).
We awoke ridiculously bright and early Friday morning and headed out for the airport.
There weren’t many people at Pearson at that time of day, so the line at security was non-existent. The carry-on bags go on the counter. Then our coats. Charles‘ shoes. The laptops (each in a separate tray). My knee brace (and its annoying, yet effective, metal boning).
I warned one of the guards that I had scissors in my bag, and after the brief look of panic on her face, I amended that statement to say that they were rounded scissors for kids. No problem.
I walked through the metal detector and all was fine, so I headed to the end of the counter to get our things. Charles was behind me (his shoes take a while to take off). Everything seemed fine, so I started getting our things together.
Oh, wait. Something is holding us up! Oh no! They’re not going to let my crochet hook through! I knew I should have told them it was in there! I just panicked! I’d forgotten to bring a book! Eeek!
They were searching through Charles’ coat. Wait a minute, that doesn’t make any sense…
My stuff was fine. They didn’t like the pen Charles had in his coat pocket. Oy!
January 31st, 2009 mio We’re going on a trip soon, from the icy, freezing, thrice-cursed winter in Toronto to the picturesque snowy landscape that is Middle-of-Nowhere, Alberta. At this point, the only good thing, weather-wise, that I can see coming of this, is that maybe Toronto will feel balmy and comfortable when we come back. Right.
My mission now is to come up with the perfect project to take along with me. And I did! (Go me!) I’m going to bring the Purple Rose Afghan (first mentioned here).
So, I dipped into the stash. The yarn for this project was bought two years ago when I was working at the Michaels in Burlington. I bought an embarrassing amount of yarn during their annual Employee Appreciation Sale. Like, 3 shopping carts full. Anyhow, the yarn for this blanket has been living in the drawer under the TV for quite some time now. (What? What do YOU keep in the drawer under the TV?)
I remember “over-buying” when I bought this yarn. You know, because sometimes patterns lie about yarn requirements. It was a perfectly reasonable thing to do, even if I was using the same yarn the pattern calls for, and had already made this very blanket using this same yarn. Ahem. So, over the years, knowing that I’d over-bought, I started dipping into it when I needed a certain colour. (I think you’re starting to see where this is going…)
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