Shut Up & Knit!

A Bumpy Weekend Starts a Possibly Bumpy Week

Photo from Friday night. 

I think it was Friday night.  Who knows at this point?

Yes, it was one of those weekends.  Learned of the death of a wonderful young DJ.  (He was 36.  That's still young.)  One hundred-five Saturday.  Sunday, I finished the stupid stole and watched local news coverage of a wild fire not too far from here.  Heartbreaking to watch, but comforting to know that living deep in the suburbs does protect me from the threat of wild fires.  Today is going to be 80-something F with a lovely cool breeze.

Mother Nature does enjoy keeping us in line.

I should be grateful she doesn't send blizzards or something.

Did I mention I finished that stupid stole?

Now I just need a bigger house so I can block the thing.

In place of a wordy rant...

Isn't it cute?

It's a little wooden spool holding 25 yards of green and white twine.

It's one of those tiny little things that I love because it's adorable and actually serves a purpose.  You may not have noticed, but most adorable things don't serve a purpose.

Yes, I'm so angry and annoyed that it was this or a rant. 

Trust me. 

This is the better/smarter of the two.

Oh, and the pencil roving from the other day?  It's Schoppel Wolle pencil roving.  This site carries it, so we're linking to them.  I, however, got the stuff from the other day at my LYS, who does not sell it online.  This is the colorway I have, and, as you can see, it's not really purple-purple.

Schoppel Wolle seems to be owned by the same people who make Trekking XXL sock yarn.  So they aren't exactly strangers or anything.

& Could someone please remind me to rant talk about people who google for written directions for well charted patterns?  Who are these people and how is it that they aren't smart enough to read a chart but know how to google?  I keep hoping they have not reproduced, but, let's be honest, the dumb ones are great breeders.

feh

I just ranted, didn't I?

Happy Friday, people!

Shall we be honest and call it crappy photo week?

The lace is still in progress, but it's the same as last week.  Just longer.  I'm finally feeling like I'm making some actual progress with it, which is nice after 17 repeats of the same boring chart.  (Should have been 20 but I'm not that crazy.)

(Shut up.)

Then there's this...

My darling Squish sent me her starter wheel. 

It may or may not be going well.  This may end up like the crackers, so don't get your little hearts set on hearing more about this.

Although, maybe after a lube job things will improve.

Lube makes everything better, ya know.

&  Yes, I am feeling better.

I truly appreciate all the love and kindness y'all have offered.  Now if I could just get the cute boy at the deli counter who called me "miss" this morning to put out.

/ahem

Happy Hump Day, people!

Margene misses me

So here I am.

Kindly forward all complaints to Margene.  Clearly, it's all her fault.

Yes, it's bad photo Monday and, no, I don't want to talk about it.  Remember that all complaints should go to Margene.

That'll teach her.

That is slightly less than 2 ounces of solar dyed roving.  The stuff that I over-dyed with the orange a couple/few weeks ago. 

I transfer my singles from the spindle onto a TP roll using the ball winder.  Works like a dream when you remember to crease one end of the roll.  By folding it in half across the opening, it helps the roll to hold onto the ball winder better and helps to limit the number of times that the roll flies off the winder.  This is very helpful.

Trust me.

I think I love all that orangeiness.

I think. 

My opinion may change a few times by the time I finally finish the spindling.

However, I am certain that I love Margene.  For checking on me and just in general.

She's Margene! 

Hello!

&  As I am full of hate and loathing for most of humanity, that's it for today.  There would have been more, but the camera hates me today, I hate most people and my headache says hi.

Happy Monday, people!

Look what the cat dragged in

Or threw up.

That's my lace in progress.  The knitting is simple.  The pattern is a hot mess, which may be partly my fault.  I know how to read/follow a chart and know what I'm doing.  I'm starting to wonder if the designer knows there are people like me out there.

feh

Not much to talk about here because that is all the knitting I have going and I haven't been feeling well lately.  There was very little love on Monday and yesterday's Ten was about romance.  I don't do romance and, if I talk about my requirements for a boy, I'd scare the four people who are still reading this alleged knitting blog thingy. 

So that's my news.

I'm trying to keep from ranting here because, in the long run, none of those annoying, needly, fucked up little people matter.  Short term, I'd like to shake most of them, but I'm trying to see long term over here.

Yeah, we'll see how that goes.

&  A huge thank you to everyone Gretch for checking on me yesterday.

Happy Wednesday, people!