Goodbye June, goodbye 22
And goodbye red Gretel. I’m rather sad to set this off on its long journey, I love it so, but you’ll see it again in a little while somewhere rather exciting.
Much to my surprise, since I hate the actual number, 22 has turned out to be a rather wonderful year full of successes and adventures. You’ve had an awful lot to do with that wonderfulness so thank you! I like the number 23 a lot better, so I’m hoping that means it will be even better than 22.
I spent my third birthday like this -
and my thirteenth throwing a tantrum about how I didn’t want my presents and I didn’t want my birthday because I most definitely never wanted to grow up. Changed my mind pretty quickly about those presents and I’m starting to think this growing up thing isn’t so bad after all. Let’s hope this 3 is a little more like the 1st than the 2nd though
p.s. I hate that I had to do this, but clearly my brain’s on holiday. The Liesl sleeve directions that I remember thinking out so carefully got a little lost between the first version I knit (which had the sleeves) and the final pattern. I’ve sent out an update that will arrange the stitch pattern for the sleeve so it lines up perfectly with the body and that has a note on fitting the yoke. Let me know if you haven’t received the update. In happier Liesl news - have you seen that there are already a few finished ones on Ravelry, that makes me so happy!
Posted: June 30th, 2008 under knitting.
Comments: 57
Comments
Comment from cari
Time: June 30, 2008, 9:11 pm
Happy birthday!
Comment from Hazy
Time: June 30, 2008, 10:08 pm
Happy birthday! I hope your 23rd year is good to you!
Comment from Katya
Time: June 30, 2008, 10:09 pm
Happy birthday!!
I remember turning 23, happy days :)
Have a lovely day!!
Comment from Kirsten
Time: June 30, 2008, 10:12 pm
Happy birthday Ysolda! Here’s wishing you an amazing 23rd!
Comment from Rhian
Time: June 30, 2008, 10:15 pm
Happy birthday! I hope you’ve had a wonderful day, full of cake and presents. (Red Gretel is absolutely gorgeous, by the way!)
Comment from Amy
Time: June 30, 2008, 10:22 pm
Happy birthday! Here’s to another year full of adventure and happiness.
Comment from Constance
Time: June 30, 2008, 10:34 pm
may it be a happy, happy birthday.
p.s. the twenty-one years album is quite lovely.
Comment from Heather
Time: June 30, 2008, 10:45 pm
Wishing you the happiest of birthday days!
Comment from soknitpicky
Time: June 30, 2008, 11:01 pm
Happy birthday to you!
Comment from Cher
Time: June 30, 2008, 11:05 pm
Happiest of birthdays to you, my dear! Hope 23 rocks.
Comment from marianne
Time: June 30, 2008, 11:13 pm
happy birthday!
for some reason I’ve thought that 23 is the best age to be. enjoy it! :)
Comment from Birgitte Zeuner
Time: June 30, 2008, 11:43 pm
Happy birthday! I’m sure 23 will be nice - it was for me last year! :)
And the red Gretel is absolutely beautiful!
Comment from lucy
Time: July 1, 2008, 12:09 am
Have a wonderful birthday!
Comment from Amanda
Time: July 1, 2008, 12:14 am
Very Happy Birthday!
(Did you ever get the ball of yarn you left under my bed?)
Comment from ~Knitting Up a Storm~
Time: July 1, 2008, 12:24 am
Beautiful Gretel.
That’s interesting…because 22 is my favorite number. lol.
Comment from shannon
Time: July 1, 2008, 12:40 am
Oh, that Gretel is luscious! And Happy Birthday! We share this birthday…today I am 30. Yikes!
Comment from gleek
Time: July 1, 2008, 1:37 am
happy birthday! i hope that the years get better and better :)
Comment from Hellcat
Time: July 1, 2008, 2:29 am
Happy Birthday! Love that first photo-you’re gorgeous!!!!
Comment from laura
Time: July 1, 2008, 2:58 am
happy birthday, darlin’!
Comment from Cassie
Time: July 1, 2008, 3:13 am
Happy Birthday!
Comment from Amy
Time: July 1, 2008, 3:31 am
I said something about you today on ravlery, and then I checked your blog… What the crap, you turned 23 today too? Happy birthday!
Comment from Bobbi
Time: July 1, 2008, 3:48 am
Happy Birthday! 23 couldn’t happen to anyone nicer!
Comment from Sasha
Time: July 1, 2008, 4:48 am
Happy Birfday!! =D Who knows what your 3rd 3 might bring!! How exciting - the possibilities :)
And if you’d like to take part (but no pressure!) - You’re IT! Tagged from my most recent blog post :) I’d love to see what sort of mosaic your answers turn out to be
Comment from Tijm
Time: July 1, 2008, 5:24 am
Have a nice birthday.
And indeed 23 is a very nice number (and also the age that I gave birth to my oldest child).
But a lot of numbers are also nice, like 25 en 27 and 33 and now 44 (thats how old I’m now)
Comment from Whitney
Time: July 1, 2008, 7:54 am
happy birthday, ysolda! i’ve been 23 for 9 months (and 2 days!) now, and it’s been the best age by far. this was the year i found & fell head over heels in love with my mate. i know the future will be nice too (full of babies & brooklyn!), but 23 will always hold a special place in my heart because this year has been just magical. i hope your 23 is full of love and sparkle as well!!
Comment from Inga
Time: July 1, 2008, 8:02 am
Happy birthday!
Comment from Emilie
Time: July 1, 2008, 8:07 am
Happy Birthday to a fellow Cancerian! Hope 23 is a fantastic year!
(Mine is on Friday! :)
Comment from Alice from france
Time: July 1, 2008, 8:22 am
Happy birthday! Wish you a more wonderful year!
Comment from Fra
Time: July 1, 2008, 9:02 am
You come in mine blog there is a prize for you
Comment from clare
Time: July 1, 2008, 9:08 am
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Comment from Lorelei
Time: July 1, 2008, 9:11 am
Happy birthday dear! I hope the coming year brings you even more success and recognition than the last. Congrats on making designing your fulltime job- you are an inspiration to many!
Comment from Katherine
Time: July 1, 2008, 9:29 am
Happy birthday!
Comment from Cat
Time: July 1, 2008, 9:36 am
Happy birthday, Ysolda! And thanks for sending out the Liesel update so quickly - it’s now printed and I’ll be swatching this evening :)
Comment from Victoria
Time: July 1, 2008, 11:27 am
Happy Birthday! 23 was a lovely year for me. Quite scarily I will be 28 next week but as 27 was especially lovely I’m hoping that every year just gets better!
Have a really good day.
ps I just knit Elijah this weekend and I’m going to really struggle to give him away to the baby he was knit for!
Comment from anushka
Time: July 1, 2008, 12:58 pm
happy birthday my dear, i hope that this will be another wonderful year for you.
xox
Comment from irene
Time: July 1, 2008, 1:21 pm
belated birthday wishes! i hope you had a wonderful day.
xoxo
Comment from Mome-rath
Time: July 1, 2008, 1:56 pm
May your every wish come true today! Here’s to the perfect 23!
Comment from Debbie
Time: July 1, 2008, 2:27 pm
Woohoo! Birthdays! I hope yours was very wonderful!
Comment from merel
Time: July 1, 2008, 2:38 pm
happy birthday!!
i’m knitting a red gretel too, i hope mine turns out as nice as yours did!
Comment from Cerese
Time: July 1, 2008, 3:01 pm
Happy Birthday!
Comment from Jessie
Time: July 1, 2008, 3:13 pm
We share a birthday! Happy birthday to you and I hope it was filled with wonderful wooly goodness.
Comment from Shani
Time: July 1, 2008, 4:17 pm
You make me want to run out right now to buy yarn to make a red beret. Actually, this sounds like a brilliant idea…
So much poise and talent in one so young! Happy birthday and enjoy the year!
Comment from traci
Time: July 1, 2008, 5:23 pm
Happiest of Birthday’s dear Ysolda. 23 is a good number indeed and 24 is even better! (i turned 34 on the 27th and i like it just fine!)
congrats on your finished Liesl and bon voyage to Red Gretel.
here’s looking forward to a grand year for all!
:D
Comment from Alicia
Time: July 1, 2008, 7:37 pm
Happy Birthday! I’m a summer baby too.
Comment from KellyLynn
Time: July 1, 2008, 8:38 pm
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, dear Ysolda, happy birthday to you!
At my first full-time job, one of my bosses (who was a sort of mentor to me) once told me that we women find out who we are between the ages of 18 and 22. It seems to me that you have grown into a lovely person as well as a talented artist and designer.
I hope, though, that you never stop learning. I, myself, have found that the process of growing up, while sometimes painful, is what creates the best memories.
P.S. I am certain I’m not the only one who would love to see Literary Knits by Ysolda Teague (or something along those lines) adorning my bookshelf at some point in the future.
Comment from Margaret
Time: July 2, 2008, 1:38 am
Happy birthday from Australia life gets better the older you get
Happy days from
Margaret
Comment from Thea
Time: July 2, 2008, 12:48 pm
Happy Birthday!
Comment from Katy
Time: July 2, 2008, 3:37 pm
Happy Birthday for yesterday! Hope you enjoy being 23.
What yarn have you used for your red gretel? It looks sumptuous!
Comment from Annarella
Time: July 2, 2008, 4:56 pm
Happy Birthday!!!! xxx
Comment from Ana
Time: July 2, 2008, 8:30 pm
Happy birthday- and enjoy being 23. That was one of the best years I can remember.
I tried to get it back by counting backwards after I turned 25, but it hasn’t been working…
Comment from Wendolene
Time: July 2, 2008, 11:13 pm
Happy Birthday! I hope you got all the candles on your cake out on the first blow : )
Comment from yvonnep
Time: July 3, 2008, 3:52 am
Happy birthday, Ysolda.
Comment from Virginia
Time: July 3, 2008, 10:17 pm
Happy Belated Birthday! Hope you had a wonderful day.
Comment from hadley
Time: July 4, 2008, 12:43 am
Happiest of birthdays! I hope 23 is even better than 22.
Comment from thischickknits
Time: July 4, 2008, 6:51 am
Happy belated birthday
Comment from Caro
Time: July 5, 2008, 4:59 pm
Is that an Explosions in the Sky Record?
Comment from Jo
Time: August 7, 2008, 1:48 pm
I can’t believe you’re only 23, having accomplished so much already. 23 is a wonderful age, as is the rest of the twenties. Enjoy and keep up the lovely work.
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