Call me crazy, but I just can't avoid the lure of NaNoWriMo. I wasn't going to do it. I was going to knit fair isle! TWO sweaters (or at least parts thereof).
And then on the metro I had this crazy idea. And all of a sudden, I got that old familiar itch. Not just to write- nosiree, that would be easy.
This is the itch to spend every waking moment when I am not PHYSICALLY at work writing. To forsake sleep. To bid a fond farewell to my boyfriend, and tell him to get his fill of WoW raiding because my schedule just went kaplooey.
I have events scheduled for my crafts cluster- and I'm going to make them. But I'll write before and after. I have work that I need to be doing on weekends... and I will somehow have to fit it in. Crap, I'm even teaching two knitting classes (my first ever)... but no matter. I'll write in the coffee shop near the yarn store, all afternoon. Classes end at 11, I fail to see the issue.
So here I go. I'm obviously starting tonight, in two minutes. I'm firing up the laptop on the metro tomorrow. I am giving up my knitting and reading and Netflix (essentially) and focusing, as I am wont to do for one twelfth of the year, on just being a crazy writer chick.
Unless I realize it's Thanksgiving, I am so sleep deprived I fall asleep at my desk, and generally I cannot live without knitting. But I'm hoping I can hold out for at least that long. And maybe, if I get my typing speed up to par again, I'll be done by then anyways.
Ha.
Wish me luck. 50,000 words or bust!
Oh- I did finish the chullo except for the braids. And tonight I knit a washcloth. So hopefully that'll get me through a few days sans knitting! Pictures to come.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Shawl fantastico
I have a Seraphim. I am in love with her. In fact, I am wearing her to work, and enjoying every moment of her blissful warmth. She is made of Schaefer Anne, and the yarn is just perfect. It's variegated, but subtly enough for even the lacy bits of the pattern. And the colors are just perfect- I feel like I'm swimming in a cool pond!
Lace details:
All bundled up:
And here is the Woven Gems Prime Alpaca I purchased at the Shenandoah Valley Fiber Fest- I keep petting it, because it feels like heaven.
I also promised photos of the Chullo hat I'm knitting to give away shortly. This photo is from early in the evening yesterday, before I finished knitting the earflaps. All that's left is to do the last round around with green, and weave in the excessive amount of ends. It's a little deceptive in the photo- most of the top actually sits above the head, and flops back. It's a really cute pattern. I may not have enough teal for the braid up top and the ties, but I did at least have enough for the hat itself.
I ordered some magnificent yarn off Ravelry- not only was in insanely cheap (less than half price?), it is quite possibly my favorite yarn ever. Besides Schaefer Anne. It's the perfect dusty rose, and I think Cashsoft DK may be the nicest fiber I've touched. I'm using it for that baby sampler afghan- I stopped working on it only because I'm lazy, though the yarn is perfect!
Speaking of babies, my cousin is going to be induced tomorrow. How wonderful! If it's a girl, I know what I'm sending to her... if it's a boy, I'll have to be more creative. Either way, there's also another project in my queue, though it's not a knitting project.
I am going to be one half of a very creative team- making one spiffy neo-Victorian steampunk suit. I think I'm going to start out by sewing up the shirt, since that should be relatively straight-forward while I learn how to use my new (to me) sewing machine. Once I have my stitching back in order, I will take on the tailoring required for the vest, and finally the frock coat.
I have a significant number of knitting UFOs, and two fair isle sweaters I want to start. Somehow, I'm not ready to knit on any of them. I think I need to dig into my knitting bag tonight after SSK, to determine what I should be working on. Or I could give in and swatch Autumn Rose. I think I say that twice a day, every day... In the meantime, I have the Super Secret Holiday gift in my bag, half completed, and I think that should take me through the next few days.
Lace details:
All bundled up:
And here is the Woven Gems Prime Alpaca I purchased at the Shenandoah Valley Fiber Fest- I keep petting it, because it feels like heaven.
I also promised photos of the Chullo hat I'm knitting to give away shortly. This photo is from early in the evening yesterday, before I finished knitting the earflaps. All that's left is to do the last round around with green, and weave in the excessive amount of ends. It's a little deceptive in the photo- most of the top actually sits above the head, and flops back. It's a really cute pattern. I may not have enough teal for the braid up top and the ties, but I did at least have enough for the hat itself.
I ordered some magnificent yarn off Ravelry- not only was in insanely cheap (less than half price?), it is quite possibly my favorite yarn ever. Besides Schaefer Anne. It's the perfect dusty rose, and I think Cashsoft DK may be the nicest fiber I've touched. I'm using it for that baby sampler afghan- I stopped working on it only because I'm lazy, though the yarn is perfect!
Speaking of babies, my cousin is going to be induced tomorrow. How wonderful! If it's a girl, I know what I'm sending to her... if it's a boy, I'll have to be more creative. Either way, there's also another project in my queue, though it's not a knitting project.
I am going to be one half of a very creative team- making one spiffy neo-Victorian steampunk suit. I think I'm going to start out by sewing up the shirt, since that should be relatively straight-forward while I learn how to use my new (to me) sewing machine. Once I have my stitching back in order, I will take on the tailoring required for the vest, and finally the frock coat.
I have a significant number of knitting UFOs, and two fair isle sweaters I want to start. Somehow, I'm not ready to knit on any of them. I think I need to dig into my knitting bag tonight after SSK, to determine what I should be working on. Or I could give in and swatch Autumn Rose. I think I say that twice a day, every day... In the meantime, I have the Super Secret Holiday gift in my bag, half completed, and I think that should take me through the next few days.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Block Party
This was a very good crafting weekend. Saturday was a work training session and a lot of Wii playing, so that doesn't count. I made up for the day off on Sunday!
First, I knitted in the car and played lots of fun tunes on the way to the Shenandoah Vally Fiber Fest. It was a very cute little festival- three buildings, a few barns, and lots of friendly and helpful people. I was able to purchase what I really went for- 16 ounces of gorgeous charcoal alpaca from Woven Gems. The yarn is destined to become an incredibly warm and comfy work sweater- I just need to find an appropriately simple pattern.
This is the same company that hand-dyed my crazy fire-inspired Bombyx Silk. Remember?
Knitted more on the way home, and I finished Seraphim before dinner. She's blocking in the living room as I type! Hurrah!
In the spirit of finished things, I cast on for a new project. Conveniently, this one is a hat- I already have it more than half-done. This is good, because it's for a dear friend who has moved to a very chilly clime- I think she could do with her gift sooner than later. I may not have enough yarn for the main color, but only one way to find out!
Photos of both projects to come shortly. I'm hoping to finish the hat tonight (if I do in fact have enough yarn), and then figure out what's next in the priorities list. Swatching for Autumn Rose, mayhaps?
First, I knitted in the car and played lots of fun tunes on the way to the Shenandoah Vally Fiber Fest. It was a very cute little festival- three buildings, a few barns, and lots of friendly and helpful people. I was able to purchase what I really went for- 16 ounces of gorgeous charcoal alpaca from Woven Gems. The yarn is destined to become an incredibly warm and comfy work sweater- I just need to find an appropriately simple pattern.
This is the same company that hand-dyed my crazy fire-inspired Bombyx Silk. Remember?
Knitted more on the way home, and I finished Seraphim before dinner. She's blocking in the living room as I type! Hurrah!
In the spirit of finished things, I cast on for a new project. Conveniently, this one is a hat- I already have it more than half-done. This is good, because it's for a dear friend who has moved to a very chilly clime- I think she could do with her gift sooner than later. I may not have enough yarn for the main color, but only one way to find out!
Photos of both projects to come shortly. I'm hoping to finish the hat tonight (if I do in fact have enough yarn), and then figure out what's next in the priorities list. Swatching for Autumn Rose, mayhaps?
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Best laid plans...
Reviewing my UFOs yesterday didn't help as much as I thought it would. For one thing, I realized that I'm in an awful lot of knit-alongs right now. And I want to do them! I'm beginning to wonder if I can really do NaNoWriMo this year or not.
Here's my rationale for the moment, until I switch back to wanting to write. If I don't write after all, I could do some marvelous stuff. For example, I could swatch and start knitting Autumn Rose. Which I very much want to do.
And I am also in the Anne Knit-and-Read-Along. Someone on Ravelry noted that they're going to do a Philosopher's Wool sweater for the knitalong. Weeeeell. Philosopher's Wool is Canadian. Anne is Canadian. The pattern is traditional fair isle. 1907 is traditional (err, old). I have the kit for their Garden Patch sweater, and in fact I bought it at Sheep and Wool. Not last year... the year before. Oops.
So maybe I will have to reconsider my goals for November. Is it better to write a bad shoddy novel that will never be published anyways... or to knit two beautiful fair isle sweaters that I will be able to wear and enjoy for decades to come?
I swear, if these are the difficult decisions of my adult life I am a charmed woman. Good thing I have a few more weeks to decide one way or the other. I guess if I choose to knit, I could sign up for NaSweKniMo instead...but could I realistically knit an entire fair isle sweater in the month of November? I guess if the goal is 50,000 stitches, I could distribute that over both sweaters. Ponderponder.
Don't both of them beg to be knitted?
Here's my rationale for the moment, until I switch back to wanting to write. If I don't write after all, I could do some marvelous stuff. For example, I could swatch and start knitting Autumn Rose. Which I very much want to do.
And I am also in the Anne Knit-and-Read-Along. Someone on Ravelry noted that they're going to do a Philosopher's Wool sweater for the knitalong. Weeeeell. Philosopher's Wool is Canadian. Anne is Canadian. The pattern is traditional fair isle. 1907 is traditional (err, old). I have the kit for their Garden Patch sweater, and in fact I bought it at Sheep and Wool. Not last year... the year before. Oops.
So maybe I will have to reconsider my goals for November. Is it better to write a bad shoddy novel that will never be published anyways... or to knit two beautiful fair isle sweaters that I will be able to wear and enjoy for decades to come?
I swear, if these are the difficult decisions of my adult life I am a charmed woman. Good thing I have a few more weeks to decide one way or the other. I guess if I choose to knit, I could sign up for NaSweKniMo instead...but could I realistically knit an entire fair isle sweater in the month of November? I guess if the goal is 50,000 stitches, I could distribute that over both sweaters. Ponderponder.
Don't both of them beg to be knitted?
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
UFO Brigade
I am zooming along on Seraphim. According to the triangle shawl calculator, I am 64% complete, with only a chart and a half to go. I'll take that progress, and I foresee quite a bit of shawl knitting in my immediate future, since it's still a nice portable knit.
I was taking a tour through my Projects stash on Ravelry (username is Mikaiya, of course, feel free to friend me!). And I realized that the UFO count is really very scary. I don't even have everything IN Ravelry to count!
But here's the current sad state of affairs, and my goals for the month, before November hits and I rush off with my laptop for some mad writing time.
UFOs of Doom
- Pink Fuzz. It did not work as a length-wise scarf! Maybe I'll have more success the next time around. I'm going to knock this sucker out this weekend, or cry in the trying.
- Seraphim. She is not languishing, true, but I started this shawl in September! I aim to complete it and wear it by November 1. That means blocking. Darnit.
- MS3. This one is definitely in time out. Am I scared of doing the center pattern? Why have I not at least completed Clue 4 on the second half of the symmetrical shawl? I need to wake up on this one. My goal is to do Clue 4 by November 1.
- Trellis. I tried again to get going on this, but it was NOT an airplane project. I need room, and the fact that I'm working it on size 8 metal needles isn't just unusual. It's loud. I think this is not a difficult project at all, but I need to just start the fronts fresh (and the second sleeve, too). I'm thinking this will be a good project for immediately after Seraphim- knock it out and be done!
- Super Secret Project - over half done already. Eeeeh, I don't know on this one. I think I'll try and work on it the last few days of the month. Shouldn't take too long!
- Hanami stole. It's so purty, so very very purty. And I just couldn't get into it. I'm not frogging, oh no, but this is going on hold until post-holidays.
- Empire Line Cardigan. I finished the back, cast on for one front... and just can't make the effort. I loved knitting the back! It was easy and fun! I think this one is waiting until January.
- Sampler baby afghan. This is not hard. It's fun to knit. It's cute and portable. And I just started to hate it! Most of the hate seems to be because I didn't check sizes while knitting (I'm knitting with a different gauge yarn than is called for, but that's no excuse for having two identical squares be different lengths). It's not going to the baby it was meant for. I'm going to suck it up and finish it, someday. I promise, on my honor I will try, to pick it up the next time I hear someone is pregnant. But not before.
- Broadripple socks. Cute, just haven't felt like sock knitting.
- Manly socks. Endless miles of simple stockinette. One's already done! One to go. This is a priority for November, since it's simple and I can knit it on the metro when I'm not TYPING.
- Purple lace scarf. I was going to give this as a holiday gift this year. I still might- it's to be worked on in December.
- Sand baby sweater. Just needs to be finished! Someday.
- Molly Ringwald. Almost half done. I'd like it finished by May.
- Pastel baby blanket. This one can languish for all I care. It's fun and easy, but too big for the metro. Even if I did start it last November.
- Peach cable baby sweater. Eeeh, next spring.
- Baby Owl sweater. Another sad little one. I forgot which needles I used for the back, which makes it a bit tricky to knit the fronts and sleeves! I may (gasp) frog the whole thing and try again. Don't tell anyone.
So in order of approximate priority:
By November 1-
Re-do the Pink Fuzz.
Knit, bind off, and block Seraphim.
Finish Clue 4 (again) on MS3.
Finish re-knitting Trellis.
Finish Super Secret Project (I'm ok with this one falling off the radar until December- but it IS part of Socktoberfest).
By December 1-
Finish the Pink Broadripple Socks!
Knit the second Manly Sock.
By December 25-
Knit the purple lace scarf.
Finish the Super Secret Project.
Also, knit a Chullo and Convertible Mittens. Woo!
I was taking a tour through my Projects stash on Ravelry (username is Mikaiya, of course, feel free to friend me!). And I realized that the UFO count is really very scary. I don't even have everything IN Ravelry to count!
But here's the current sad state of affairs, and my goals for the month, before November hits and I rush off with my laptop for some mad writing time.
UFOs of Doom
- Pink Fuzz. It did not work as a length-wise scarf! Maybe I'll have more success the next time around. I'm going to knock this sucker out this weekend, or cry in the trying.
- Seraphim. She is not languishing, true, but I started this shawl in September! I aim to complete it and wear it by November 1. That means blocking. Darnit.
- MS3. This one is definitely in time out. Am I scared of doing the center pattern? Why have I not at least completed Clue 4 on the second half of the symmetrical shawl? I need to wake up on this one. My goal is to do Clue 4 by November 1.
- Trellis. I tried again to get going on this, but it was NOT an airplane project. I need room, and the fact that I'm working it on size 8 metal needles isn't just unusual. It's loud. I think this is not a difficult project at all, but I need to just start the fronts fresh (and the second sleeve, too). I'm thinking this will be a good project for immediately after Seraphim- knock it out and be done!
- Super Secret Project - over half done already. Eeeeh, I don't know on this one. I think I'll try and work on it the last few days of the month. Shouldn't take too long!
- Hanami stole. It's so purty, so very very purty. And I just couldn't get into it. I'm not frogging, oh no, but this is going on hold until post-holidays.
- Empire Line Cardigan. I finished the back, cast on for one front... and just can't make the effort. I loved knitting the back! It was easy and fun! I think this one is waiting until January.
- Sampler baby afghan. This is not hard. It's fun to knit. It's cute and portable. And I just started to hate it! Most of the hate seems to be because I didn't check sizes while knitting (I'm knitting with a different gauge yarn than is called for, but that's no excuse for having two identical squares be different lengths). It's not going to the baby it was meant for. I'm going to suck it up and finish it, someday. I promise, on my honor I will try, to pick it up the next time I hear someone is pregnant. But not before.
- Broadripple socks. Cute, just haven't felt like sock knitting.
- Manly socks. Endless miles of simple stockinette. One's already done! One to go. This is a priority for November, since it's simple and I can knit it on the metro when I'm not TYPING.
- Purple lace scarf. I was going to give this as a holiday gift this year. I still might- it's to be worked on in December.
- Sand baby sweater. Just needs to be finished! Someday.
- Molly Ringwald. Almost half done. I'd like it finished by May.
- Pastel baby blanket. This one can languish for all I care. It's fun and easy, but too big for the metro. Even if I did start it last November.
- Peach cable baby sweater. Eeeh, next spring.
- Baby Owl sweater. Another sad little one. I forgot which needles I used for the back, which makes it a bit tricky to knit the fronts and sleeves! I may (gasp) frog the whole thing and try again. Don't tell anyone.
So in order of approximate priority:
By November 1-
Re-do the Pink Fuzz.
Knit, bind off, and block Seraphim.
Finish Clue 4 (again) on MS3.
Finish re-knitting Trellis.
Finish Super Secret Project (I'm ok with this one falling off the radar until December- but it IS part of Socktoberfest).
By December 1-
Finish the Pink Broadripple Socks!
Knit the second Manly Sock.
By December 25-
Knit the purple lace scarf.
Finish the Super Secret Project.
Also, knit a Chullo and Convertible Mittens. Woo!
Thursday, October 11, 2007
I have ink!!!
Really. Four cartridges worth.
Sometimes it's the really small things that matter most. Off to knit holes in Seraphim, after a brief glance into the current state of things:
Seraphim herself:
A glimpse of the super-secret project:
Autumn Rose in all its kitted glory:
And a taste of vacation.
Epcot:
And my fantastic parents at a very autumnal Magic Kingdom:
Sometimes it's the really small things that matter most. Off to knit holes in Seraphim, after a brief glance into the current state of things:
Seraphim herself:
A glimpse of the super-secret project:
Autumn Rose in all its kitted glory:
And a taste of vacation.
Epcot:
And my fantastic parents at a very autumnal Magic Kingdom:
A very knitty October, before a very wordy November
I have sold a whole bunch of skeins of yarn since Ravelry came out. This makes me happy. Sometimes I just get very freaked out by clutter and messiness. Looking at old pictures of my old apartments reminded me of how very much I need to get back to taking care of my things, and thus taking care of myself. It really is all connected- I need to move my body, eat a bit more worshipfully, tidy my living quarters, and shape up my reading and knitting queues. There are so many partially finished projects that it has begun giving me heartburn! Well, maybe.
My biggest heartburn, or at least heartache, is that I CANNOT knit Seraphim anymore. All the color printers are on the blink at work, and I am out of color ink at home (as I have been for months now)... which means I have no way of printing the charts. I finished the stockinette section this evening, and was raring to go when I realized that I can't read charts via computer screen. Apparently our intrepid heroine will be trekking to Best Buy in Tenleytown tomorrow- my favorite last-minute stop for necessities such as iPods (mine was broken!), headphones, and of course color ink. It's a PSC 1510xi All-in-One. That's my gentle reminder for tomorrow.
Besides continuing my love affair for Schaefer Anne and the Seraphim, which will be perfect metro knitting should I ever manage to print the pattern, I realized I have very little in the way of convenient portable knitting. I try to keep a few relatively simple projects on hand at all times for the metro- simple baby blanket squares, patterns with easy repeats, scarves and such. But right now, apparently everything on the needles is just too complicated. The super-secret holiday project is fairly portable, and the aran baby blanket would be fine if it weren't already a pretty hefty project. Maybe I should start a sock pattern? Unfortunately, all the socks I want to knit right now involve plain-colored Opal yarn in fantastically intricate cables. That defeats the purpose of portable!
What's a girl to do. Besides obsessively read Anne of Green Gables. I had forgotten how much I adore this book. I had forgotten how it made me laugh aloud, and weep copiously when I first read it in third grade. I thought maybe that was because I was a high-strung child. I know I've become more calm and rational in the intervening decade since I last read the books. But within a page I was laughing and tearing up. Oh, LM Montgomery, what a mighty tale you weave. My mother insists I was Anne-like from the beginning, so I didn't simply model my curiosity and wordiness and obsession with beauty on her alone. If I did not consciously mimic her, then we must simply be perfect kindred spirits. She was the first memorable heroine in my world, literary or real, and it is such a pleasure to revisit her now. I want to scream and shout at her that it will all turn out fine, that her optimism is anything but misplaced, that her imagination is natural and to be celebrated. Rereading Anne of Green Gables puts me in the mood to write, fast and furious, and peck out a real story of my own. I'd best get knitting, since it looks like I will be spending November in its accustomed novel-writing haze. Not much time for any other craft once I take up the quill, or in this case my baby laptop, and start on my goal of 2000 words a day. Maybe this year the tale will even be a bit more publishable. To my mother's eternal dismay I did not turn my young love for fantasy and dragons into becoming a JK Rowling, and I don't even write romance novels. I haven't written a memoir of my time in France, even if she did help me with a title. And explaining my job title to the non-computer set poses a bit of difficulty. I am thus somewhat of a failure of a writer daughter. Last November I attempted to rectify this- I ended up writing a lot of tripe, but it was enough to win NaNoWriMo by meeting the 50,000 word goal. Anyone with me for this year? Can we set down our pointy sticks long enough to create fiction? It's not too late to sign up...
My biggest heartburn, or at least heartache, is that I CANNOT knit Seraphim anymore. All the color printers are on the blink at work, and I am out of color ink at home (as I have been for months now)... which means I have no way of printing the charts. I finished the stockinette section this evening, and was raring to go when I realized that I can't read charts via computer screen. Apparently our intrepid heroine will be trekking to Best Buy in Tenleytown tomorrow- my favorite last-minute stop for necessities such as iPods (mine was broken!), headphones, and of course color ink. It's a PSC 1510xi All-in-One. That's my gentle reminder for tomorrow.
Besides continuing my love affair for Schaefer Anne and the Seraphim, which will be perfect metro knitting should I ever manage to print the pattern, I realized I have very little in the way of convenient portable knitting. I try to keep a few relatively simple projects on hand at all times for the metro- simple baby blanket squares, patterns with easy repeats, scarves and such. But right now, apparently everything on the needles is just too complicated. The super-secret holiday project is fairly portable, and the aran baby blanket would be fine if it weren't already a pretty hefty project. Maybe I should start a sock pattern? Unfortunately, all the socks I want to knit right now involve plain-colored Opal yarn in fantastically intricate cables. That defeats the purpose of portable!
What's a girl to do. Besides obsessively read Anne of Green Gables. I had forgotten how much I adore this book. I had forgotten how it made me laugh aloud, and weep copiously when I first read it in third grade. I thought maybe that was because I was a high-strung child. I know I've become more calm and rational in the intervening decade since I last read the books. But within a page I was laughing and tearing up. Oh, LM Montgomery, what a mighty tale you weave. My mother insists I was Anne-like from the beginning, so I didn't simply model my curiosity and wordiness and obsession with beauty on her alone. If I did not consciously mimic her, then we must simply be perfect kindred spirits. She was the first memorable heroine in my world, literary or real, and it is such a pleasure to revisit her now. I want to scream and shout at her that it will all turn out fine, that her optimism is anything but misplaced, that her imagination is natural and to be celebrated. Rereading Anne of Green Gables puts me in the mood to write, fast and furious, and peck out a real story of my own. I'd best get knitting, since it looks like I will be spending November in its accustomed novel-writing haze. Not much time for any other craft once I take up the quill, or in this case my baby laptop, and start on my goal of 2000 words a day. Maybe this year the tale will even be a bit more publishable. To my mother's eternal dismay I did not turn my young love for fantasy and dragons into becoming a JK Rowling, and I don't even write romance novels. I haven't written a memoir of my time in France, even if she did help me with a title. And explaining my job title to the non-computer set poses a bit of difficulty. I am thus somewhat of a failure of a writer daughter. Last November I attempted to rectify this- I ended up writing a lot of tripe, but it was enough to win NaNoWriMo by meeting the 50,000 word goal. Anyone with me for this year? Can we set down our pointy sticks long enough to create fiction? It's not too late to sign up...
Monday, October 08, 2007
Home sweet home
I went away for vacation, and all I got was a stinking cold. Or sinus infection. We'll see.
Buuut it was otherwise great fun. I'll surely update my Flickr soon with my (hundreds) of photos of fun with the parental unit. In knitting news, I completed over half of a super-secret holiday knitting project (so secret that you can't have a progress photo). But it's cute.
I cannot print out the lace charts for Seraphim until I buy color ink or go to work and print it there. So that didn't get to go with me on vacation. And I realized all my other projects weren't portable. C'est la vie!
My Autumn Rose yarn and book arrived while I was away. They are sitting on the floor in the living room, waiting for me to swatch. For the safety of all concerned, I'm waiting on that until my nasal passages clear up a bit- way too many nose bleeds for comfort in knitting! Nevermind that I probably can't handle fair isle with this cold...
Coming up in October (oh goodness, it *is* October!) is the Anne Knit-and-Read-Along. So! I need to decide what I'm knitting for that. And start reading the first two books. How exciting! Fall is the very best time of year.
Buuut it was otherwise great fun. I'll surely update my Flickr soon with my (hundreds) of photos of fun with the parental unit. In knitting news, I completed over half of a super-secret holiday knitting project (so secret that you can't have a progress photo). But it's cute.
I cannot print out the lace charts for Seraphim until I buy color ink or go to work and print it there. So that didn't get to go with me on vacation. And I realized all my other projects weren't portable. C'est la vie!
My Autumn Rose yarn and book arrived while I was away. They are sitting on the floor in the living room, waiting for me to swatch. For the safety of all concerned, I'm waiting on that until my nasal passages clear up a bit- way too many nose bleeds for comfort in knitting! Nevermind that I probably can't handle fair isle with this cold...
Coming up in October (oh goodness, it *is* October!) is the Anne Knit-and-Read-Along. So! I need to decide what I'm knitting for that. And start reading the first two books. How exciting! Fall is the very best time of year.
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