While I'm doing this, I am amusing myself in part by checking out the voting status for the covers for the Steve Canyon DVD. There are 130 votes in so far (probably more by the time you check it). Add to the excitement, and vote if you haven't already.

That includes you, Holly! I know you told John which one you liked, but he couldn't figure out if you actually voted for it or if you just told him.

It's an odd day. There are plenty of things that I have to do, but none of them involves a deadline (or at least not a deadline that's close). So, I have some freedom.

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I've been trying to get a start on the sleeves for the Celtic sweater. I can get the shape for the sleeve cap with no problem, but picking up stitches from the shoulder and adding the shaping is making the stitches on the cap look messy.

I've frogged it 4 or 5 times so far. It's very discouraging. I can get the knit side to look good, but the purl side looks like a mess! The only thing I can think of at this point is to go back and embroider some pretty stitches on in the same yarn.

And I'd really like to have this done for this weekend! But it's looking more and more like that isn't going to happen.

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Tonight is jam-packed with good stuff on TV! I'll be glued to the set after about 7 pm, trying to get a good start on the first sleeve of the Celtic sweater.

Once again, SciFi is showing four hours of Lost, starting at 7 pm. I'm really starting to get sucked into this.

Over on NBC, they're making me happy that I have a DVR by showing a new Chuck, and Heroes. It's not science fiction, but Life will be on after Heroes, and it's good.

Also not science fiction, but Bones will be on TNT after all that on NBC.

Have a great Monday!

Today is going to be a busy day for me, so I probably won't get a chance to blog again until Sunday, since we'll be going to the Fall Fiber Fest this Saturday.

So, I want to mention that the BBC in America will be rerunning a batch of the British series Life on Mars on Sunday. I've heard so much about this, but missed it when they were showing it before, so I really want to see at least some of it. Check your local listings.

And have a great weekend!

I just checked the weather forecast for the area in question instead of Northern Virginia, and it couldn't be better if we had been able to choose! I just need to know if there's a mud advisory, which the weather people have not judged to be important enough to report.

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It's a good thing that I put the schedule up yesterday, because I was notified of a change in it last night. The trip to the Renfair will not be on the 18th as scheduled, but on the 11th due to a change in schedule where Malaia works.

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I am currently in the middle of binding off on the light blue poncho I've been working on. It's turning out nice.

This is what it looked like yesterday. It's now a bit longer, and the border is a smidge over seven inches rather than the five inches shown here. Bind off is in progress, and it should be finished by tomorrow.

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Yesterday, John and I put some more finishing touches on the cover for the first of the new Steve Canyon DVDs. We have some alternate colors in contention for the color of the title. There was some loose talk about showing all three colorways and asking people to vote, but it's not up on the blog yet, and I'm wondering if it's going to happen. John has already warned me about telling people what he's going to do.

John has not been feeling his best, and had most of yesterday get sucked away by a doctor's appointment (with a multi-hour wait), getting prescriptions filled, and then collapsing in exhaustion. If the poll goes up on the blog, it may not be until later today. Maybe even tomorrow.

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As mentioned yesterday, Supernatural (the CW) will be on tonight, and Sanctuary will premier on the SciFi Channel.

Have a great day!

Each month (or in one case, each week) there is a homework assignment posted for any members who care to participate.

The September Charms assignment was to choose either Lumos or Wingardium Leviosa to knit something for.

For Wingardium Leviosa, we need to make something that shows something that flies, or, for extra points, is something that flies itself, like a kite. The sweater I did for an earlier HP KAL would have been perfect. One year, for Christmas, Harry gets a blue sweater from Mrs. Weasley with a snitch on the front of it. Of course, since I did this for a previous KAL, it's not eligible.



For Lumos, you need to make something that shows something that lights up, or, better yet, something that actually lights up.

I made this Christmas stocking with beads (some of them star shaped) and white yarn that are glow-in-the-dark, so that when the lights go out, the stocking lights up by itself.

You can see other finished projects here.

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Yesterday, I planned to do a lot of things, but then reality intruded with it's own plans, and very little of the the things I planned actually got done.

I'm finding that the current second great depression is causing a lot of the same effects as the first one There was a discussion I heard on the radio about it because of a book that had been written on the the great depression.

The author said that it tended to separate people by their reaction to it. Some people became very nasty and treated others badly because those others could no longer afford to pay their debts. Some of these people went so far as to abandon their children.

In other cases, whole communities banded together to help each other survive in the best way possible.

Yesterday, annoyed that my bank had imposed fees that they previously had told me they wouldn't do, I went to close an account with them. I was amazed to find that they refunded some of the fees, changed my account to one without fees, and added in several nice things I hadn't even thought to ask for! So, now, according to the new set-up, I not only have a little money to spend at the Fall Fiber Fest, that money shouldn't be spent on anything but fiberarts, and I really need to spend it to avoid bank fees! This is the first time in my life that somebody else wanted me to spend money at a fiberarts sale!

So, now I'm really excited about the Fall Fiber Fest on Saturday!

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So, here is the schedule coming up for a while:

4 Sep 08 Fall Fiber Festival

18 Sep 08 Maryland Renaissance Festival

6-9 Nov 08 Stitches East

And then, of course, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year and Twelfth Night.

Wow! What a lot of wonderful stuff to do!

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John and I are getting down to the end on the front cover of the New Steve Canyon DVD. We are pretty much agreed on the cover except for the colors for the title. We worked on it for a while yesterday.

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Tonight, Pushing Daisies is back on ABC for it's season premier!

In non-SF TV news tonight, it will be followed by Private Practice, and Bones will be on at the same time.

Knight Rider will also be on (NBC) at the same time, which creates a conflict for me. I found the premier sufficiently intriguing to want to watch some more, but it will not be on again later in the week on the SciFi Channel, so I'll have to make some hard choices in order to see it.

Tomorrow evening, get set for another new episode of Supernatural, which has developed into the best spooky show on TV for a long time.

And on Friday, the premier of Sanctuary will be lighting up the SciFi Channel.

Have a great rest-of-the-week!