A Little Yarn On The Side

Yesterday this arrived in the mail, complete with a bill thanking me for my recent subscription.  OK. I swear I had put somewhere on the blog that I was NOT going to subscribe to any knitting magazines this year--though I have to admit, I can't actually find the post.  STILL, that was my intent.  AND it's what I thought I was doing.  But I have a new magazine subscription here in my hands.  So today's big question is: Am I sleep-shopping now and is there perhaps a large bag of merino on it's way to me now???????? (And will it be wrong of me to be just a wee bit hopeful every time the mailman comes.....?)

5 days left in the month and I'm working with size 2 needles and fingering weight yarn.    WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE???????????????????????????

I have just started working on the heel of the second monkey sock, and if I can finish the rest of the sock within 6 days, I will not only have my May project of the month done--I will be ahead for the year!!!!!!!! Now if I can just finish the sock before the Knitting Gods hear such bragging and blow up my sock or something.....

Last night--and I can't imagine why this seemed like a good idea even after a martini--I decided to watch an Alfred Hitchcock movie to "unwind" before bed.  Two hours later I was wide awake, shaking like our washer on "fast spin," and squealing "Eke!" at every noise in the house.  So, while there wasn't much sleep, there WAS a fair bit of frightened, neurotic knitting (which works best for lace because you later block the daylights out of it anyway), so.... I have finally finished that monstrous 600-yard skein of laceweight and am about 5 rows into the second.  Thank heaven & all the little knitting gods, this shawl will not take all 600 yards of this skein.  I don't think I have the strength.  I don't think Theo does either. The ham. And today's exciting news.....Andy finished the dowel & finials (little end things) for the tapestry, so we hung it in the guest room. I think it's the picture that is crooked and not the...

DRUM ROLL PLEASE................ Project 41 , which puts me on target for the year, is done: Did I mention project number 40? More napkins!  Becoming a bit like the coasters, isn't it? Technically, I think I might look like some sort of Pepto-Bismal mascot in the new ensemble, but it really is one of my best colors.  AND it used up 4 1/4 yards of material that has been in the stash for well over a year, so perhaps I just won't wear it around anyone suffering from a hangover or nausea....... There HAS been knitting, I swear!  The second monkey sock is progressing and it is my fondest wish that this is at least a teensy bit smaller than it was at the start of the week.  I have been knitting from it for the last two hours and I swear that it looks exactly the same, but I keep hoping...... Meanwhile, Theo is finding all his new fame a bit exhausting And Calisto, out of jealousy and a desperate need for attention, has started posing for skanky kitty cal...

Tonight Andy was out in the driveway and a neighbor driving past stopped to say how much everyone loves our cat. As if someone weren't hard enough to live with because of his blog popularity......

.....this "knitting blog" of mine has contained a great deal of sewing recently.  Partly, this is due to the fact that I--in some insane moment of optimism/daringness/inebriation--decided to finish 100 projects within 365 days, and it's much easier to crank out a finished project every 3.65 days when one can throw sewing into the mix.  Don't get me wrong--I love knitting with all the passion that I always have, but unless you usually do even slower hobbies such as cross stitch or painting the Sistine Chapel, knitting is not likely to be one's fastest hobby. A second reason for my new sewing dedication is that sewing can provide one with clothing.  Not to sneer at sweaters, by any means--I must personally own around 50 by now if not more--but I do firmly believe that knitted pants are wrong for anyone over the age of potty training.  It may be just prejudice on my part, but I do feel quite strongly on this point. The third reason:  a friend of mine recently d...