August 19th 2008
Sometimes projects flow seamlessly from start to finish, and sometimes they start over. Sometimes when that happens, it’s very frustrating, but sometimes starting over is a good thing.
I made a tragic error on the lace in the Marigold Socks when I moved from the foot rounds to the leg rounds. I lost my place horribly and kept getting inadvertant yarn-over increases. So I did the only thing that I could do, given the complete mess I’d made of it…
August 16th 2008
Before I got sock yarn for my birthday, I had already signed up for a sock club (SSSSYC) based on the fact that I would get one skein of wonderful, rainbow striped yarn. The yarn arrived this week. I was going to wait and knit up the yarn from the Pride and Prejudice book/sock club instead, but I’ve both had a migraine and been waiting for a back issue of Interweave Knits to arrive so I could knit my pair of wine and roses mitts.
I’m tired of waiting to knit with this yarn, so I present: the socks I’ve been waiting all summer for:
August 12th 2008
August 11th 2008
New York City may have have urban legends of alligators in the sewers, but Webster City, Iowa actually had one wandering about town. There’s not a lot of details to the story and I really can’t think of anything to add but the obligatory “Holy smokes!” (or other words to that affect.) I’m sure I’m going to have to go to the Blank Park Zoo to see our very own “native Iowan” alligator. I may even have to watch Lake Placid again, just to commemorate the event.
August 9th 2008
It’s only Saturday, but I’ve started off the weekend with fail on the knitting front.
August 6th 2008
I’m stalled on my Faux Woven Shawl. I got two rows done at my chiro’s office today. I just haven’t had my knit on for it.
I haven’t had my knit on for anything yet this week. I feel like everything is in knitting limbo until I get my knit together.
And that’s just my knitting. That’s not my job, my classes, or anything else. All of that is part of the big spiral, too.
August 5th 2008
I got the last installment of my Reading the Classics Sock Club yarn. Two words: Simply Fabulous! Of course, it’s not going to be socks (again). I thought about putting something with it and making Eunny Jang’s Endpaper Mitts and learn colorwork but I didn’t have any yarn to go with it properly. I’ll have to find other colors to make them with.
Instead I’m planning to make by JoLene M. Treace’s Wine and Roses Mitts with the yarn because they’re everything I want in girly little fingerless mitts and I don’t need to make a yarn purchase to do it.
August 4th 2008
Dust Bunny (top) and Fezzik (bottom) are getting so big. They’re about double the size they were when the came home a little over a month ago. They’re already getting that long legged teen look. I realized if I didn’t get pictures soon, there wouldn’t be any “kitten” left to photograph.
August 3rd 2008
I’ve bought the yarn I’m going to use to make Linden, Cascade Ecological Wool in color 8049 (Tarnish), and now I’m officially on a yarn diet.*No sock clubs. No impulse buys. Especially no sales.
No mindless pattern surfing. All pattern searches must be in pursuit of using yarn from the stash. No projects I can’t make with what I’ve already got. Everything in the queue must be assigned yarn from my stash. If it can’t be made from stash yarn, then it goes to the bottom of the queue.
August 2nd 2008
Last night after reading the first issue of Twist Collective, I nearly went on a pattern buying spree. There were simply too many fabulous patterns. I bought the gnarled oakwoods shawl I recognized from the swatch for from Anne at Knitspot.
Beyond that, I went into pattern overload system shock. It was simply too much love and I went into a semi-paralyzed state as I realized that if I bought every pattern I wanted to make right now, I’d have no money for yummy yarn and nothing appropriate in my stash to making anything I wanted beyond the shawls. Plus, I’d have one sweater, Pam Allen’s Come Together, which I’d have to grade up to fit a 52 inch bust by adding eight inches, if one takes the minimum negative ease fitting suggestion) which is a daunting proposition. Is it total obsession that I’m still considering doing that?
There was only one solution: buy nothing else and sleep on it.
