A Little Yarn On The Side

That should make me feel better--like I'm not being singled out by life--but it doesn't. Even when I can't knit, I like to know that knitting in general is going on, even if I can't be part of it. Like it's some big cosmic merino thing. I have decided--we don't need a Knit In Public Day (June 14). We need a world-wide knitting holiday!!!! Start recruiting folks. We need voters!!!

Nothing. Zip. Nadda. Nothing. Got off work late, did the grocery run as we are less willing to live on soup when it's 90 degrees out, unpacked groceries, had dinner, put the dishes away and WHAMMO! It's already 9:00! That pesky work thing is SO getting in the way of my knitting. Too bad I need it to actually finance the knitting. Life is so unfair sometimes.......

4 more swoopies to go!!! And then of course, two corners, the side, and the back of the neck, but it will FEEL like it's done after the mind-numbing-bottomless-pit charmingly consistent edging on the bottom of the lovely shawl. (soothing herbal teas are doing so much for my outlook....) The true love of my life lately is Sitcom Chic This lovely work of art is knit on size 8 needles and worsted weight yarn that comes in skeins of a delightful 82 yards . I have now used up my third skein and will be joining the fourth after some, er, " quality time" with the Fluff Monster--formerly known as the Lady's Circular Cape.

Last night I just couldn't bring myself to face the mind-numbing-endless-abyss that is the mohair edging, so I spent a little time with Sitcom Chic: And the Top Secret project: which is safe to photograph for a while as it is still in "amorphous blob" stage and could be anything--sort of like knitting in general. I don't want to get distracted from finishing the Lady's Circular Cape after having come this far, but I just couldn't face the mohair again. To put things in perspective, I dug this out: Many of my friends cross-stitch and they absolutely rave about it--how relaxing it is, how enjoyable it is, etc. I can actually see how it can be relaxing--there is something very soothing about doing little thread x's all over a piece of material. What I don't get is how there are ever finished cross stitch projects. It takes forever . I worked on this thing for at least half an hour and do not even have a square inch to show for my efforts. Know who w...

Actually, 8067. Even better. Tomorrow night I'll be ready to face the swoopies again, but for tonight, I'm in it for the yardage!

The never-ending-mohair and I needed a little "apart" time tonight, so I spent tonight's knitting time with a project that I can't show you because it's a surprise. Since I can't show it to you, it would really be better manners to not talk about it as it makes me sound like either a spy or a 5-year-old with a "sharing" problem, but I just had to mention.... 7985 yards of stash used up so far this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is over 4 1/2 miles of yarn used in a productive, knitterly manner, which has been a rule lately added as I don't think it really counts as "using" my stash if I am using it to insulate the walls of the sewing room. In moments of desperation, I am capable of almost anything.

See this? It's an entire ball of yarn. Completely used up & out of the stash. Bringing me to 53 balls used this year. That was SO rejuvenating! Rejuvenating enough to spend some time with this: We've reached 7 swoopies now, which would be REALLY exciting if there were 10 swoopies. With 12, it's just one past the halfway mark. But at least it is PAST the halfway mark. Slowly, slowly, slowly......