Shut Up & Knit!

The Return of Take No Prisoners Tuesday

Someone spent five hours poking around this blog yesterday, according to my stats app. They left two comments on the last post before they figured out that I had removed the comments and blocked them from posting. After that, they joined Rav with a fake account, trolled a group I'm active in, and deleted the account once they realized that no one cared about their nonsense.

This may or may not be the same person who has been following several of us around disagreeing. Seriously, who has that kind of time? Anyway, since they wanted attention so badly, I figured I would go ahead and share...

My crime?

I'm snarky, outgoing, and funny as fuck. Yeah...

My stats app also said this ISP is located in West Bend, Wisconsin and the provider is Chart Communication.

Just saying...

Not so much a miracle

More reclaiming what was once mine.

It was a wild summer. Full of friends, laughter, and healing. I even managed to fall in love. There was crappy stuff, too, because life is complicated. It's all good, though. It is what it is.

But here's the thing...

I no longer knit.

Yeah, I know, but it's true. There's a story and I'll tell it when the time is right.

Part of my extended break was being busy being happy, taming some monsters, and evicting the thing that was living in my head rent-free. Another part was trying to figure what to do with this blog. I'm still thinking about that and am hoping to have an answer soon.

In the meantime, I truly appreciate all of you who've kept me on your feed reader thingies. You can stop worrying about me.

xo

Holy Shit!

I remembered my password!

Orange

Last week was orange.   Clothing, a new handbag, and socks.  Truly fabulous stripy socks that make me happy.  March always sucks, but this one has sucked more than usual.  Therefore, orange.

 As I am waiting for yarn to arrive, I started another pair of socks to fill the time.  With luck, I'll have all the socks out of my system before the Summer of Socks ever starts.

While I am trying to not torture my east coast friends with weather updates, I do have to report the earliest EVER spotting of the garage lizard.  Although, to be honest, I think it's the judgy lizard from the patio slumming in the garage yesterday afternoon. 

He looked good, chubby for a lizard, and perky.  He did not seem to enjoy being called a mothafucka, but I can understand that.  His fault for being where he's not allowed if you ask me.

My Handspun Stella

Stella

This is the 3rd and last pattern of an ebook that a wonderful friend gave me last fall.  Two are mostly garter.  This one is garter and 2tg/yo type "lace".  Simple increases and wonderful mindless knitting.

I used two different skeins of Malabrigo Nube I had spun last year for Tour de Hoars.  I did a total of three hanks with one looking very different from the other two.  I wanted low contrast and got it.  Much better for me than using the cream I had pulled at first.

This scarf is a bit on the shallow side, and, if/when I do it again, I will make it deeper and more shawl-like.

Continuing on my trend of lots of garter stitch, I'm trying my hand a French pattern with lots and lots of garter stitch.   I don't seem to be allergic to my second choice yarn, I may survive this one after all.  I should know for sure in a few days.