Not Dead
Not dead, just sick and super freaking busy (not the best combination). I'll return when I can. Thanks to all of you who wished me well. The drugs should kick in any day now and I'm sure I'll be back to my normal chipper productive self shortly.
Plague
So that cold? That cold I was valiantly and stoically fighting off? The one I was ignoring with truly impressive persistence? Yeah. Not a cold. More like pneumonia. Admittedly, mild pneumonia, but icky none the less. I've been given antibiotics, an inhaler, and strict orders to take to my bed for a day or two. So nothing of substance here, just a little bowl of pretty yarn. Some day soon I'll come back with actual content.
Speedy
I cast on the second mitt as we pulled out of the parking lot to head off to Pittsburgh. I knit on the drive, I knit at dinner, I knit at drinks. I did not knit at the show (it was dark and crowded) or at the hotel (we didn't get in until 2). I did knit on the drive to Ikea and at lunch. Amazingly, I actually drove back from Pittsburgh, so I didn't knit then either. When we got home, I saw that the new Cast-On was up (yay). I knit through that, and then for a few [...]
Wee Jaunt
Sometimes, when The List Of Things That Ought To Be Done gets too long, the best thing to do is pack up and run away. Not always. If you always respond that way, nothing ever gets done. But, every once in a while, especially when The List contains a lot of those guilt items (like muck out the garage and organize the basement and rake the leaves) that don't really matter all that much in the grand scheme of things, running away is the best way to handle it. Our favorite band, Jukebox the Ghost was playing in Pittsburgh Friday [...]
Present
I got myself a present. I've wanted to make socks with handspun for ages. Alas, my spinning isn't anywhere near up to that standard. Luckily, other people do have this talent, and some of them will even allow me to buy the lovely things they make. This is from Bockstark Knits. It's just unimaginably fabulous. I love it. She's got other yarn on her etsy site, and it's all drop dead gorgeous. I almost didn't want to tell you about it lest you buy all of her goodies and don't leave any for me. But it looks like she's going [...]
Blatant Falsehoods
I'm good at math. I know it's common for knitters to shy away from math, but really I don't mind it. On occasion (and under the influence of an adult beverage or two) I have been seized by the need to understand a particular math problem and have gone and found the calculus textbooks and the graph paper and the calculator and spent a happy hour figuring it out. So I tend to take it rather personally when math lies to me. That swatch-turned-mitt is 32 stitches and 8 inches around. I measured carefully. I can do that math. 32 [...]
This is Still Not a Hat
It is a mitt now though, so that's progress. Alas, it's not the sock for Heather's book. It's not that swirly sock over there pining for some attention on the sidebar. It's not even the hat it was supposed to be. What can I say, I am fickle. And while it's not any of the knitting I should be doing, it has been educational. I've learned a few things. First, knitting on the bigger yarn is wicked wicked fast. Second, mistakes show more on bigger yarn. Third, while the big yarn is fun, I'm not abandoning the sock-weight stuff any [...]
This is Not a Hat
It was meant to be a hat. Then I decided a swatch was in order. Then my loathing of swatching in the round reared its ugly head and it turned into a mitt. So now the hat can be a set (you wouldn't want it to be lonely, would you?), and I can pretend it was a clever plan right from the beginning. Don't tell anyone.
Crazed Chickens
Ya know the end of a big project, when all those little things you've been putting off because they 'will only take five minutes' all have to get done at once? Yeah. We're in that stage for the book. There are photo shoots, which means buying poster board and making that one pesky swatch I forgot about and getting a haircut and doing up yarn samples and spending some serious time with a lint roller. There are final read throughs, which have totally justified my highlighter addiction (it's perfectly valid to need a key to remember which color of [...]
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