Shut Up & Knit!

Ready Or Not!

Tree full of bees.

Songbirds singing at 4 am.

Head full of snot.

Springing into Summer is just as much fun this year as every other year.  /falls over

Busy working on wedding lace for a dear darling friend while hating people, blocking people and wondering why I even bother.  Yeah, business as usual...

hotlinked from our Joan

Eishexe is the pattern.  STR but don't is the yarn.  This is the pair where the yarn fuzzed up while I was knitting the heel.  I know how they stay in business but it still amazes me...

The pattern!  It's in German but is fully charted and easy enough to figure out.  Hello!  I did it!  The pattern is knit cuff down with a great treatment of the cable toward the toes.  Being a slacker, I did them toe up with my usual CCSRs for toes and heels.  I know you can't see it in the photo, but there is a cable on both sides of the foot and one running up the middle of the back.  Love the pattern and will knit them again.

(Project page)

If you click through to Joan's blog post, you'll see the two cables on the top of the foot and a pair of socks I do not remember knitting.  That will not surprise anyone who knows me.

Pet Peeve Moment: In the comments for that wonderful pattern, there are a lot of lazy English speakers who whinge on about how they wish the pattern was in English.  They are a wonderful representation of one of the things that is wrong with our culture/nation/hobby.  It would never dawn on them to download the pattern and see if they would figure it out.  They are spoiled and stupid and unwilling to put out an effort.  Even though, by making the effort, they would be benefiting themselves.  Honestly?  They are the sort of people that keep me from ever mentioning that I knit when I talk to people.  I NEVER want anyone to think I'm like that.  I do not read or speak German but I've managed a few German only patterns  with more to come.  It's a shame that so many Ravelry people are unwilling to move out of their comfy little box and challenge themselves.

Don't even get me started on the people who need everything written out for them.  If you want to be a lazy knitter, knit garter stitch dishcloths and shut the fuck up.  Just like in life, if you work hard, you learn shit, get better at things, and get ahead in whatever it is you're trying to do.  Be it knitting, career or weight loss.  Quit your bitching and move on!

/ahem

A Megillah of Nipples

Some weeks end up with a theme or a word of the week.  You know the thing.  A word that keeps coming up or that you keep using because it just fits.  Mine was megillah*, which is Hebrew, which I did not know but now do.

Yes, someone, who is not me, is having a Nipples kind of week.  Complete with lots of bra and posture talk.  Yeah, it really is that fun over here. 

Btw, if I was going to be an old school Bond Girl, I would have to be Nipples Galore.  Not true, but such a good name...

I did not go to the Joanns for fabric but that doesn't really  matter, now does it?  Not entirely sure what it will grow up to be.  The solid green is Kona cotton, which I did not know when I bought it but does explain why I spent as much as I ended up spending. 

There was a flannel in the same green with a different tiny print.  A part of me is thinking quilt because I've got all kinds of spare time/brain power.   o.O  Yeah, no idea.  Yes, I'll keep you posted because I know you're all dying to know what I end up doing...

Not a lot of knitting going on right now.  I've been dealing with some hand/wrist pain.  Yes, again.  This morning, I figured out what is causing it.  My new hair. 

Okay, not really, but kind of.  It's really the over-sized brush I'm using when I blow out the new hairstyle.  Yeah.  Bigger brush.  Bigger handle.  Lots of hair.  Major pain.  I'm hoping that a few days of messy hair will rest my wrist enough.  Of course, we'll see how long I can stand to take it easy.  Maybe I'll return to my life as a quilter.  It's not like you need to use your hands to quilt. 

Oh wait...

 

*  Recently told a young MD that getting us to the lab would be a megillah.  He just looked at me.  For just a second, I really wanted to make him call him mom to make sure that she knew where he was.   There may have been chores he was avoiding for all I know.

Coming Up For Air

Yes, mine are blooming.  If I had the time to spare, I'd get outside and whack them down.  Luckily for the poppies, I don't have time right now.

We're doing well, I think.  I am now able to stay awake past nine at night.  For a while there, I was sound asleep by eight.  Not good but what my body needed.  It's been a crazy few weeks and I'm starting to feel a bit more like myself. 

Shut up!

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Unconscious Mutterings

1. Pork ::  Back-fat
2. Work ::  Out
3. International :: Pain In The Ass
4. Board ::  Room Table
5. Idea ::  Man
6. Spinning ::  My Wheels
7. Relations ::  /ahem
8. Dresser ::  Too small
9. Poster ::  Child For Needy Knitters
10. Inappropriate ::  Children

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Ravelry rumor has that all patterns by GoddessKnits are 50% off without a coupon through the end of the month.  Even though, I've sworn off buying more patterns, I still somehow ended up with a couple of her sock patterns. 

Better or worse, summer is coming, people.

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My latest pet peeve is the overly needy knitter.   You know the ones.  All shiny and new and just so darn excited all the fucking time.  The ones who start threads about having seen someone knitting in a movie or in public.  The ones who want everyone to know that sweaters and knitwear in general will be huge in the fall without realizing that knits are always popular when the weather turns chilly.  The ones who see the word "knitting" in any kind of article anywhere and just have to post a link without any kind of commentary or attempt at starting a discussion.  As if a vague link or mention of something having arrived via email is enough.

They are the annoying kid-sisters of the people who are too lazy/stupid/spoiled/friendless to just fucking google it.  Yeah, don't get me started...

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Trying to finish a pair of socks, while juggling a surprisingly busy schedule as I love my fabulous new hair and sit here yelling at the television.  The Following cannot end soon enough...

Too Tired To Whinge

Hot-linked from here!

What do you think that print is?  I say pussy willows.

The pattern is The Georgia Sleeves found for free on the Ravelry machine.  Wonderful pattern, lovely designer, a total win.  I went up a needle size on both needles used for this pattern because I know my knitting and knew I did not want my hands to fall off while making the first one.

Love the pattern.  Will do it again for the Joan and for me at some point down the line.  Did not take very much yarn at all.  In fact, I used less yarn that I thought I would.  Kinda nice for some of those smaller skeins that some dyers put out.  You know the ones... if you have bigger feet, you need enough to knit 3 normal sized socks.  Yeah, I hate that.

As directed by darling Ruth, I am working on a flounce.  Well, I was.  I hate the yarn.  Shocking, right?  And have started a new sock that is wonderful in its mindlessness.  Can't remember the last time I had two different socks going at once...

Thanks for all the love, kindness and support.  Y'all are the wind beneath my wings.  Yeah, no, not really but still... love!  Everyone is home, I did not need bail money and, if everything goes according to plan, I will get my hair cut tomorrow.  Fingers crossed, people!   You have no idea how tired I am of having black and white pony tails.  o.O

Did I mention that a complete stranger told me I look 35?  No, I did not tell her my secret.  Please...

Have found a wonderful new RSS Feed Reader thingy.  The only thing it's missing is the Next button, I'll be okay.  I just need the time and brain power to get caught up.  Yeah.  No one hold their breath...

Unconscious Mutterings

1. Travel :: Voucher
2. Eager :: Beaver
3. Boobies ::  Hello! [Shoulders Back!]
4. Supreme ::  Whack-job
5. Toss up ::  Toss Who?
6. Plants ::  Killing me
7. Small talk ::  No thanks!
8. Haven ::  Sex On A Stick
9. Starring ::  Eric Balfour
10. Bahamas ::  St Croix, Please

Oh, and don't those sleeves look like her Gauntlets of Power or something?  :D

So good

Made the day I bought & ate it!

Yes, I know.  It's just a fancy burrito, but it was fabulous.  Much better than the tuna salad I had the day before.  The one with the label that lied about what was in it.  Like I don't know sweet relish when I taste it.

Yes, I had to pick the tomatoes out of it but I've been picking tomatoes out of stuff for at least the last 39 years.  That doesn't really slow me down anymore.  At least, I saw them before they saw me. 

Yes, twice the calories of the tuna salad but tuna salad will never make me as happy as that fancy burrito did.  In fact, I may have to go back and have another.  Just to make sure it really is as fabulous as I think it was.

What?  Yes, hospital food.  Everyone will be fine in a couple/few days. 

In the meantime, I am embracing my true nature.  Yes, I'm being a raging bitch, holding people accountable, and not letting anyone get away with anything.  While charming everyone who does not annoy me, thanking people profusely, and doing what must be done.

Yeah, just being me.

Oh, and meeting men who used to knit with their mums as teenagers, charming old ladies to kiss their doctors (!!!) and a complete stranger who thought I was 35.  Yeah, I don't get it, either, but I'm done asking questions.

Sadly, will get to replying to comments when I get to them.  Y'all know.  xo