the blue blog archives: teeny tiny things

It all started when I took the boys to the library for the first time on Friday. They're still not ready for following a story book, but I wanted to introduce them to the library and see if it might be some place we can go on rainy days, etc. While the boys played (together!) with one of those little toys where you push beads along loopy tracks, I read them a cute little book called The Teeny Tiny Teacher. Everything in the story is teeny tiny this and teeny tiny that and I had such a blast saying teeny tiny over and over that it sort of stuck.

I used the yarn in a pouch that someone brought in to Knitsmiths a few weeks ago. It's wool and I've only got the one teeny tiny pouch, so what else am I going to do with it but make lots of teeny tiny mice?!

Then in the car, in the dark, on the way back from visiting friends I knit a teeny tiny swatch for the Phildar top. It's teeny tiny cause I hate to swatch and so stopped just as soon as I could convince myself that I got my teeny tiny gauge (3.5mm needles - eeeeeek!). I'm so proud of how nicely it came out considering I couldn't see anything.

And teeny tiny it is. With only the already blocked back piece to compare it to, the front looked even teeny tinier. But I was able to block it out to a similar size as the back. Keep your fingers crossed for a not too teeny tiny tank tomorrow!

posted by alison at 7:40 am | in accessories , phildar filly , tank girl chic

Comments

I love the teeny tiny entry today Alison! The teeny tiny tank looks good, I hope it fits OK. I'll check back tomorrow for the teeny tiny picture.

Posted by: kerrie at August 4, 2003 6:46 AM

A teeny tiny note to say hi, and that I wish I were still teeny tiny enough to wear a teeny tiny tank!! ;-)

P.S. I try to get this comment thing to save my personal info, but it never does. Can you help?

Posted by: Marg at August 4, 2003 8:36 AM

I am in the same teeny tiny boat that you are with my ribbon tank. Fingers are crossed.

Posted by: Melissa at August 4, 2003 8:46 AM

I am with you in teeny tiny mouse-land...the ride up to VT on Friday PM was a three-mouser.

Posted by: claudia at August 4, 2003 9:01 AM

Hey Marg, I have no idea what the problem is! I've noticed it myself and have reinstalled the templates and recopied the scripts that store the cookies, but I can't get it to save my info when I respond on my own blog! Does it work for anyone out there?? Any one MT savvy have any ideas about what the bug might be? Thanks!

Posted by: alison at August 4, 2003 9:39 AM

I think if you disconnect from the internet, the system forgets you... otherwise, I bet if I go to another movabletype blog's comments, my info will still be there, even if i don't check the box...

ANYWAY, Reuven won't sit for a book unless it takes about a minute to read, give or take a few seconds otherwise he'll start turning pages before you finish reading them... If he wants to be read to, he'll bring us books & if someone won't read to him, he'll throw the book at whoever he's next to... (we're trying to break him of throwing, takes time!)

Be prepared to read & reread their favorite books a zillion times in a sitting... this is where it's nice to have older kids in the house: the twins (age 8) have more patience for rereading!

Posted by: Jessica at August 4, 2003 12:12 PM

Love the mousie! And thanks for the plug for our Mouse-a-thon!

Posted by: Wendy at August 4, 2003 2:04 PM

Can you remember me now, oh long-term-memory-impaired comments box?

Posted by: alison at August 4, 2003 8:44 PM

Aww, you remembered. How sweet!

Posted by: alison at August 4, 2003 8:47 PM

I love reading to toddlers. Especially Beatrix Potter - she never pulled her punches with vocabularly. I also enjoyed "Good Dog Carl" Little ones can "read" themselves. I'm also amused when grown ups who have never seen a "Carl" book figure them out.

Posted by: swatchy at August 5, 2003 7:34 AM

HELP! I'm sorry if this is not the right venue for this type of thing. I've only been knitting for less than a year. I'm looking where I can buy a Phildar pattern book (in english): Tendances Printemps 2003. Where do you purchase your patterns from?

Thank you for any help you can give me.

Posted by: Casy Catalano at November 2, 2003 6:53 PM