Baaaaah
I like Heifer International. They do good things. Every now and then, I give them money. As a result, I seem to be on their mailing list. The other day, I got a nice fat envelope from them. Inside was a stack of holiday cards. Really cute holiday cards. Now we've already established that I'm a giant grinch and don't do holidays. But if I were less heartless and dead inside, these would totally be the cards I'd send. I show them to you on the off chance that you're the good, caring, holiday-celebrating type who does send cards. I [...]
Look, Knitting
Just in case you were worried I'd not been knitting, I've got a tiny reminder. I'm awfully pleased with these. They're orderly somehow, almost stately. I'll cast on the second one in a day or two, and might even finish them up this month (an unheard of level of knitting fidelity truth be told). I have a suspicion they'll look even cooler when I've got a pair of them and they're on real live feet.
Cheating
I have a complicated relationship with my furnace. I deeply resent turning it on every year. It's not even that it's all that expensive. It's just I feel that I should be tougher than that. I shouldn't walk around whining that my fingers are frozen stiff when it's 55 in here. That's a perfectly lovely temperature and I should enjoy it. But I find if I'm sitting still and reading or writing, I really can't abide 55, even if I'm bundled up in all sorts of woolly layers. And the next few days are going to see a lot of [...]
Shameless Abuse of Power
I think I may have made an error in judgement. Not the kind that gets you arrested or even sued. But the kind that leaves you swearing at yourself and at your knitting. You see, I started a hat. That wasn't the error. The error was not checking to see if the single 150 yard ball of yarn I had was enough. I just sort of thought, 150 yards is plenty for a hat, I'll be fine. Not so much. So, now for the shameless abuse of power part. Does anybody out there have a skein (or a partial skein) [...]
Wrap Up
1) Holy hell that was fun -- watching professionals work is really inspiring. Also a tiny bit envy-making. But mostly inspiring. I feel so good about having hired a real live grown up to come take the pictures for this. 2) Man oh man was that tiring -- try to schedule your colds and your photo shoots for different days. Because I know you carefully schedule your colds. To do otherwise would be foolish, as I've just demonstrated. 3) I will likely die of impatience waiting for the final version of the images -- no really, they are that good. [...]
All My Bags Are Packed, I’m Ready To Go
I am (finally) all packed and ready for the photo shoot tomorrow. That's Box 1. It contains model releases, shot lists, a wee knitting repair kit in case something goes wrong, and lint roller. Oh, and knitting. A fair bit of knitting actually. You can see tiny snippets of about 15 of the 20 projects there, though peer as you might, you aren't going to be able to tell much about them. You'll just have to take my word for it that they are nifty. Box 2 is lurking off camera. It is even larger (and much much heavier). It [...]
I Checked
It's not every sock that can say it was knit on during a Tuvan throat singing concert. Really it may be a fairly small percentage of socks that can add that to their resumes. But the gray ones can. And it was darn nifty. Though I must say, if you're also a child of the 80s, you may well think Dark Crystal as soon as they start singing. It was an ever so slightly trippy flashback to my youth and childhood. After the show we went to Sweetie Fry, the new ice cream and french fry shop that opened just [...]
Crisp
As promised, actual socks on the needles. This is the first cast on with some of the Sock Summit yarn. It's Plucky Knitter's MCN Primo in the color Barely Birch. This is a nice thick yarn, and the socks are going to be perfect for wearing around the house when it gets cooler. Assuming it ever does...it's unseasonably warm at the moment. For now we'll just have to pretend the pumpkins make it feel fall-like (please ignore the whirr of the ceiling fan in the background).
Hint
When someone rings your doorbell and hands you a kitten, you might want to try hard not to see the kitten. Instead, you might want to see the very tall stack of vet bills (all carefully timed to coincide with other expenditures like house painting and vacations and car repairs). You probably won't succeed. The power of kitten cuteness to overcome good sense is quite impressive. I obviously did not succeed and was instead overcome with the cuteness of the fluff. Which is why Douglas and I went to the vet yet again yesterday. He has an ear infection, and [...]
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