East Van Stitches

Work in progress: Sediment Scraps Blanket by the Knitty Professor. It’s five strands at once – so you can use up your yarn stash by choosing randomly or otherwise. Mine is not at all random but it’s too complicated to explain. Just find what works for you, if you are thinking “where should I store all this yarn?”

I say eff storing it. Just knit it up into one big blankie. Mmmmm

“Live each day as if it were your last.”

While many feel inspired by this concept, my 14-year-old son thinks it’s a pretty bad approach. We were talking about it during a drive to buy a new football on the way home from school.

“Living a day as if it were your last could actually make it be your last day,” he said. “I would probably do some pretty stupid things on my last day of life – like jump off a bridge or something, just to see what it was like.”

He’s kind of right, don’t you think?

Here are most of them. Now I’m getting excited about my display… Any suggestions? Please share in Comments.

Is finished among men working on a beautiful paint transformation.

You can buy my mitts – and other cool stuff by local artisans – at Blim’s indie holiday market on Saturday, December 20 from 12pm to 5pm at the Fox Cabaret at 2321 Main Street in East Vancouver, BC, Canada.

To find out more about the event, follow @blimblimblim and hashtag #blimmarket on Twitter. Admission is by donation.

“It’s a cross between a really great massage and being hit by a truck.”

That’s what my gym trainer Christie said about using a foam roller to stimulate blood flow in the outside cover of your muscles – known as “fascia.”

People use these rollers, and other pieces of equipment, in the practice of Myofascial release, which, according to Wikipedia, can “relax contracted muscles, improve blood and lymphatic circulation, and stimulate the stretch reflex in muscles.”

Fascia can “…become restricted due to psychogenic disease, overuse, trauma, infectious agents, or inactivity, often resulting in pain, muscle tension, and corresponding diminished blood flow,” reads the above Wikipedia entry.

But back to the bliss. It’s better than the best massage I’ve ever had and as I write this, the next day, my upper back feels relaxed and not-tense.

Please note I am not getting paid to say this. I’m just curious about the topic and want to learn more about it – though at this early point, I’m still open to the idea that it will turn out BS-ish in some way (healthy skepticism, in other words).

Learn more at tptherapy.com and other places you’ll find via Google when you look for “myofascial release.” That’s what I’ll be doing in the next while, as my curiosity remains on this topic. Overall it seems good for knitting and of course exercising and the rest of life in general.

No time to write about it…

Here is an interesting place to knit. It’s Halloween and I’m waiting for my friends as they load their instruments into the van. I’m not helping because I’m a fairy princess tonight.

Making East Van Stitches works up a thirst. We have a lot to do by Dec 20.