sweetgeorgia

Easy Friday.

Carin at Bumble Bee Knits tagged me for this meme and has made my Friday post so easy. Thanks Carin! Check out her nearly done “Deli” cardi… so pretty!

Four jobs you have had in your life:

1. Pharmacist at London Drugs for three years.
2. Photocopy girl at the UBC AMS CopyRight photocopy shop (I made awesome photocopies, ate chili cheese dogs and listened to The Smiths all day. Best. (university) Job. Ever.).
3. “Normal Job” Dodger. The summer when I turned 15, I started a business doing sewing and alterations.
4. Seamstress for a “costume” shop in New Westminster.

Four (random) movies you could watch over and over:

1. Fight Club
2. Infernal Affairs 1, 2 and 3
3. Harry Potter
4. Hero (the one with Jet Li/Tony Leung/Maggie Cheung)

Four places you have lived:

1. Vancouver (a house in Kitsilano when I was born)
2. Toronto (an apartment downtown when I was 4 years old)
3. Toronto (a house in North York, until I was in grade 7)
4. Vancouver (the same house in Kitsilano, except it’s ours now)

Four TV shows you love to watch:

1. Buffy
2. The O.C.
3. Angel
4. Battlestar Galactica

Four places you have been on vacation:

1. Italy (Rome, Florence, Venice)
2. Paris
3. Japan
4. New Orleans

Four websites you visit (almost) daily:

1. Knitter’s Review
2. Bloglines this counts for 315 other feeds
3. Epicurious.com
4. Again, Bloglines should count for more than one, eh?

Four of your favorite foods:

1. Cheese in all shapes, sizes and colours
2. Za Jiang Mein
3. Blue Brie and Proscuitto Baguette sandwiches and Masala-spiced Carrot soup at Finch’s Caf?¬© (get thee to Pender & Homer).
4. That Trumpet Royal Mushroom Risotto with sidestripe shrimp, spinach, and lemon parmesan broth that I had at C Restaurant last Sunday, by way of Dine Out Vancouver

Four places you would rather be right now:

1. Somewhere beachy
2. Drinking my morning coffee in Paris
3. Sleeping in my bed
4. Spinning at home, by the window

Four Bloggers you are tagging

1. Jasmin at Worsted Witch
2. Erin at Knitting RN
3. Logan at That Logan Chick
4. Kim at The Woolen Rabbit

Meeeem.

Mmm, fun…a meme! I just got tagged by cosmicpluto…

What is your all-time favourite yarn to knit with?

Ok, I had to give this some thought… there are so many yarns that are soft, silky, squishable and generally nice, but not many yarns give me that “oh my god” feeling like Rowan’s Kid Silk Haze. It comes in amazingly brilliant jewel colours and knits up into a beautifully soft, silky and light but warm fabric.

Your favourite needles?

Abso-positively Addis. I know Addi Turbos are expensive, but I love the slip they give. I just buy a few here and there and have a pretty complete set now. Denise Interchangeable needles are great too since I’m completely safe taking them on airplane trips… they give you a great feeling of security… OMG, they are like the Volvo’s of knitting needles.

The worst thing you’ve ever knit?

Oh, yes. The worst thing I ever knit was very positively the “Very Cherry” top that I knit last year. Ok, first, it’s knit in Colinette Point 5 which costs something insane. Then whenever I put it on, I look like I’ve immediately gained 30 pounds. Umm… so I never wear it. I’m thinking to frog it and make a hat and scarf set now!

Your most favourite knit pattern? (maybe you don’t like wearing it…but it was the most fun to knit)

Definitely Birch. Sharon Miller is a genius. I know, it’s an easy-peasy lace pattern but it’s a simple pattern that makes a beautiful product. I was always excited to do a little knitting on Birch. Love it.

Most valuable knitting technique?

Cabling without a cable needle! And like cosmicpluto, laddering down to fix mistakes — very useful!

Best knit book or magazine?

Interweave Knits is a fabulous magazine — not just sweater patterns, but full of all sorts of ideas, tips and techniques. Best knit book… I have a lot of lovely knit books in my library, but one eludes me — Principles of Knitting by June Hiatt — you know, the one that goes for $300 on ebay? Yeah, that one is good.

Your favorite knit-a-long?

Like I said, I suck at knitting along.

Your favorite knitblogs?

Oh dear, this is hard. I seriously have about 200 blogs that I read… quickly. I definitely always read Wendy, Melinda, June, Diana and Adrian. But here are a few that you may or may not have seen before:

• Mustaa villaa (means “black wool” in Finnish). She takes beautiful photos and writes her blog in both Finnish and English!
• Knitting Iris. She is building a fibre studio (”dream room”) of her own right now and does a lot of natural dyeing.
• Saartje Knits. A knitter from the Netherlands knits beautiful fairisle.
• Torsades. This blog is in French, but if you don’t read French, it’s still worth it to go see her great photographs.
• Dulces!. She’s not posting too much right now since she’s in the middle of a big move, but see her archives for some gorgeous dyeing, spinning and felting!

Your favorite knitwear designer?

I love them all! Ok, not really. I love Sharon Miller, for sure. And I’ve been stalking Alice Starmore for some time now. Oh, and of course, Kim Hargreaves, who also just released her new “Evergreen” collection (beware the Rowan Big Wool).

The knit item you wear the most? (how about a picture of it!)

Not exactly a glamorous item, I wear my Ribby Cardi quite often. I think the fact that it’s a zip up cardigan makes it really versatile, warm and comfortable. Something easy to throw on. Hmm, maybe that’s why I’m stalling on making “Rogue”… deciding on the zip or plain version?

Tag time!

Hmm, don’t anybody feel obligated, but I’m tagging Mari at marirob, Marie at Brooklyn Handspun and Rebekkah at bowerbird knits. I’d love to see what these knitting/spinning bloggers say!