Shut Up & Knit!

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.

Stuffs

An ORANGE Sockhead Hat!

The yarn is a merino/cashmere/nylon sock yarn from Invictus Yarns over on the etsy in the Sweet Clementine colorway.  I knit this for a friend, who picked the color.  Loving the yarn was easy.  Now I love the color, too, and will miss it when I've used it all.

Remember my Clap-ish scarf?  I've been wearing it quite a bit lately and love it.  I need to finish the other one I have in progress because it's the perfect thing for current weather conditions and hate of wearing proper coats.

Oh, and it's raining off and on.  Windy on more than off with a side of flood warnings for no reason in my area.  Non-locals are making happy sounds about the drought being over.  Locals are trying not to laugh in anyone's face.  Not sure how long that will last.

I know I shouldn't be watching it but I am watching Stalker and enjoying it.  I can't say no to Maggie Q, and don't exactly understand why CBS is acting like she's not the lead when she clearly is.  Then again, it's CBS.  I shouldn't expect better.

Speaking of not expecting better, I am suffering through NCIS: New Orleans for the time being.  While disappointed in the casting, I can't be surprised given the fact that it's CBS, again, and that Mark Harmon is an executive producer.  That explains the lack of diversity on a show based in NOLA.

I've been spinning rather a lot lately.  Inspired (or feeling challenged) by an incredibly baseless ego, who thinks it knows all when it knows less than nothing in reality.  I don't know it all, but I do know how to spin like a motherfucker. 

Not exciting, but you don't read me for excitement, now do you?

Another Go...

Exactly two years after I blogged my handspun $5 In Paris, I cast on for another one.  This time, with store-bought yarn.  Drama-free, solid colored, lovely, happy, friendly, store-bought yarn.

The colour is slightly off, of course.  I haven't gotten far with it yet.  Still working on the increases, but I already love it.  This one, I will wear.  This one will not have the color issues or karma problems that the other one has.

I had planned on starting a different sweater yesterday but I don't exactly understand how a swatch can get smaller with blocking.  I shall ponder that oddness while I knit happily away.

Possibly while wearing these...

I cast on thinking they would be for a friend.  Then I got into the knitting and realized there was no way in hell I was giving them away.  The yarn is soft and lovely.   While the colors are not my norm, I am charmed by them.

Naturally, this means that the yarn has been discontinued...

Still spinning away on that beautiful Bullseye Bump.  Coming to a place of peace about needing another blanket on the bed, and thankful that things are looking up.

Can't blog... Socking!

 

 

Not dead.

Not doing time.

Not in Ebola lock-down...

Knitting socks.  Spinning.  Mocking the clueless.

Ya know, the usual.

Back on track

After an epic fail with some bad fiber karma handspun, I am back in the swing of sock knitting again.

Sometimes, simple really is best.

Speaking of simple...

My usual 2 x 2 rib socks.

New to me yarn, though.  Online Supersocke 100 Alpaka - Color.  I didn't realize it had alpaca in it until I got it home.  Since the yarn is machine wash and dry safe, I hope it will be okay.  Yes, I bought the yarn for the colorway.  I kind of love it.  I don't really mind that they aren't perfectly matchy-matchy.

Oh and we had some rain the other day.  It was wonderful.  The rain knocked all the smokey junk out of the sky.  I'm hoping the bright blue skies last for a while.  Air should not be chunky.  Looking forward to a wonderul fall weekend.  Are you?