862 yards
Linky added for the sake of my stalker in AZ, who isn't smart enough to move it along on her own.
Yeah...
It's been an amazing year and I thank each and every one of you crazy in a good way people who helped make it so amazing. May the new year be bright, lovely and full of the things and people that matter.
xo
An Into The Whirled batt and braid were purchased for a spinner, who lives on the wrong side of the country and has fabulous friends. At the end of the day, the fabulous shopping friend realized that she had gotten the batt and merino/silk/yak braid in the same colorway. There was laughing and reassuring noises because it's just fiber.
When the box of sexy lovely stuff arrived on the wrong coast, the spinner with the fabulous friends realized that she wasn't so much in love with batts any more. While lovely and charming, the spinner just wasn't that into batts. No hard feelings, of course. Sometimes, things just don't work out.
The spinner with the fabulous friends mentioned the batt on the Twitter Machine and, next thing you know, the batt was jetting off to a new life full of love, happiness and being petted while being called George.
At some point, the spinner with the fabulous friends sat down and turned the 4 oz merino/silk/yak braid into 636 yards of chain plied yarn. There was much rejoicing in the living room, and amusement over the fact that the colorway was too perfect because the yarn and the fabulous friends really are the Cat's Pyjamas.
The End
Fabulous day for a fake rage-making holiday Monday. At least, the wind stopped.
Isn't it fabulous?!
This arrived in the mail over the weekend. It is a Stitched By Jessalu wedge bag. She did two different prints for Halloween this year, and this is the one that I fell for. Not hard to see why.
Had a wonderful, supportive chat with a much loved friend this morning. We don't talk enough but, when we do, I always come away feeling better for it. Now that all the (bad) crazy, judgy, and downright dreadful is gone, it's a joy to have the people I have in my life. This morning was a wonderful reminder of how lucky I am and how loved. It's that whole thing about making your own family in adulthood.
If the weather apps are to be believed, it's looking like summer is over. Time to switch around the wardrobe and ponder going boot shopping. No switching of bedding until next month because I don't trust the weather apps.
There are still man socks happening...
The color of the yarn is off but we're not surprised by that.
Love the pattern! Love the socks!
I had to add 2 stitches on each side to get the right stitch count but that was an easy thing to do. I knit this pair of socks toe-up with CCSRs and a sewn bind off. The chart is fun, easy to follow and easy enough to memorize.
Planning on re-watching the new Lewis & Hathaway mystery and perhaps spin a bit. Yes! The new upright for my wheel arrived over the weekend also. Changing things around wasn't too involved and I'm back in the spinning business. Good thing with Rhinebeck this weekend..
Hoping your Monday is happy, too.
Okay. Not really, but it seems like retailers here think ice picks are weapons...
Thank you, Big Alice*, for the fabulous ice pick!
Current knitting, that I'm not in love with. Ice pick and the next project. Unless I return to the dud of a pattern with major issues and fix the issues enough to finish the thing.
Yes, that blog post will be epic.
Happy Weekend, people!
* Big Alice, who is not big and is not actually an Alice.
Hai!
I got the sweetest note from a semi-lurker occasional commenter the other day. Made me realize that it was more than just my best friend who missed the blog.*
So it's been a month. I know most of you didn't miss me because I didn't hear from you bitches. And that's okay because I did not miss the blog. I rarely read blogs these days. There's a huge lack of interest on my part and, if you do that gutless stolen meme thing, chances are good I don't read you at all. Let's be honest, I'm not missing much. I talk to friends here and here, and who else matters when you think about it?
There was spinning for the Tour.
A lot of spinning.
I'd joined a couple of new to me teams for the Tour. Had so much fun and actually won a prize for spinning daily. I was the lucky winner of this pattern collection. I need to toss the stash to find something for the first one I want to knit.
After the Tour, however, I put away the wheel. It's the first time since it arrived that it is living in the travel bag. It's nice to not have the wheel sitting in a corner, pouting and trying to me feel guilty. Yeah, not that kinda girl.
Beautiful summer days and much cooler summer nights. It was only 106F/41C yesterday.
A lot of blissfully boring and mindless knitting, which makes for really boring blogging. I'm in a scarf/wrap kinda mood and am loving the database on Ravelry. Also enjoying my friends feed because I see amazing things and the occasional really bad project that reminds me that they can't all be winners.
In others words, it's been business as usual and you haven't missed much.
Shocking, right?
What have you been up to lately?
* He counts but can call me if he wants to know what I'm up to. He doesn't really need the blog when he has me. Hello!
