She Lives!!!
Yes--I do still exist and there has been some knitting, if no blogging. We have been on a marathon trip of visiting friends on the east coast, and I thought about trying to do a few updates while traveling, but we still have the psycho ex-wife stalker (5 YEARS after the divorce, mind you, and 2 years after Andy remarried--talk about pathetic) and we find it best not to announce any plans on the blog as she seems to be a few pom-poms short of a hat.
The only good thing about long flights is the uninterrupted knitting time. At home, I could be doing other things--laundry, cleaning, taking care of the garden, painting the dining room, cleaning out that back room--but in a plane, there is NOTHING else I could be doing except sitting. In fact, those cheerful airline attendants would get quite cranky if I really did try to be up cleaning something, so this is the ultimate guilt-free knitting time. Which is perfect, as Theo chose to inspire some last-minute guilt as we were leaving:
Could he possibly look more forelorn?
I finished the front of the aran baby sweater:
which is by far the hardest part & the part that landed it in the Project Time Out Bin in the first place. The back still isn't to the point it was when I had to rip back for the sleeve shaping, but it's getting there. 
Brace yourselves, this one is going to come as quite a shock: dem fischer sin fru went with me and actually got some attention!!!
I know--how surprising is that? Does anyone even remember that I had started that one?
Clues one and two (out of 7, unfortunately) are done, and I'm even a few rows into clue 3. I realize it's a bit hard to see in this picture, but it's more than doubled since we left. I could take it off the needles to get a better picture, but then it might not ever make it back ON to the needles, and this project has a hard enough time getting attention as it is. I think I might finally be achieving personal growth as a knitter--not the sort of personal growth that would automatically slide it right back on the needles and start knitting again, but the sort of personal growth that admits that I would be strongly tempted to ignore it the moment it was off the needles. I know I'm that sort of knitter. 27 WIPS--we all know I'm that sort of knitter.
The only good thing about long flights is the uninterrupted knitting time. At home, I could be doing other things--laundry, cleaning, taking care of the garden, painting the dining room, cleaning out that back room--but in a plane, there is NOTHING else I could be doing except sitting. In fact, those cheerful airline attendants would get quite cranky if I really did try to be up cleaning something, so this is the ultimate guilt-free knitting time. Which is perfect, as Theo chose to inspire some last-minute guilt as we were leaving:
Could he possibly look more forelorn?I finished the front of the aran baby sweater:
which is by far the hardest part & the part that landed it in the Project Time Out Bin in the first place. The back still isn't to the point it was when I had to rip back for the sleeve shaping, but it's getting there. 
Brace yourselves, this one is going to come as quite a shock: dem fischer sin fru went with me and actually got some attention!!!I know--how surprising is that? Does anyone even remember that I had started that one?
Clues one and two (out of 7, unfortunately) are done, and I'm even a few rows into clue 3. I realize it's a bit hard to see in this picture, but it's more than doubled since we left. I could take it off the needles to get a better picture, but then it might not ever make it back ON to the needles, and this project has a hard enough time getting attention as it is. I think I might finally be achieving personal growth as a knitter--not the sort of personal growth that would automatically slide it right back on the needles and start knitting again, but the sort of personal growth that admits that I would be strongly tempted to ignore it the moment it was off the needles. I know I'm that sort of knitter. 27 WIPS--we all know I'm that sort of knitter.
Comments
Poor Theo, he does look upset at the prospect of you leaving him. Has he recovered yet, or is he giving you the evil cat eye still?
And you are so right about guilt-free knitting on airplanes. I look forward to air travel gleefully as 'free time'!
And I'm sure Theo will forgive you if you take a break for some sewing. :)
I'm longing for some good uninterrupted knitting time. All I get is bits and drabs of time... 15 minutes here or there (except for knitnight... but I still do more talking than knitting at that!).
Thanks for the ecard... a Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours as well!
But have to wonder if the spooky coincidental area of my life is trying to tell me something... my parents gave me a musical birthday card last weekend. The song? The same.
So I guess the message is... I Will Survive!
Anyhoo - love the green of the "dem fischer sin fru". Is this a shawl? Beautiful.
Missed ya!!!