Yesterday I made this:
Another Moebius basket from Cat Bordhi's book. This is Malabrigo, and it felted like BUTTER, people!! Butter! Well, perhaps that is not the correct simile, since butter doesn't reallly felt. It felted like ..........uh ...........well.....really nicely feltable yarn. This is for niece Grace as a birthday present. It will contain these:
This is the Raha Scarf from Estonian Lace Knitting by Nancy Bush. It is the least lacy project in the book. The other shawls are gorgeous, but they're kind of 2005/2006 for me. But I will hold on to the book, because I know I'll get back in to lace knitting someday. The yarn is Arucania Ranco Solid, which I picked up at Hildreth's. I'm not familiar with it because it is a KFI product, but it is absolute heaven to knit with.
You might notice how much these projects are adult sweaters for Momogus Knits, yes? Yes? No, Diana, they're not anything like adult sweaters for Momogus Knits. The adult sweaters you swore you would work on starting January 1? It's only 6 weeks later. I did think about them a little last night, as I lay awake staring at the ceiling because I suspect I was given regular coffee instead of decaf at dinner last night. We went out with friends to Earth Bread and Brewery last night, which was mighty awesome. But at 1:00 am when I was still up watching Hugh Grant movies on Oxygen, I suspected foul play by our server. As a former waitress, I'll admit that I often served people decaf when they had asked for regular - because someone else had the coffee pot or there was no fresh coffee or whatever - but there's a code of honor that you don't serve someone regular when they ask for decaf. [Then Gus and his friend Kenan woke up at 6:30 am this morning and asked for eggs and waffles for breakfast and that's why I'm writing this crazy rambly post......]
Having been admonished for being silly by many many folks, I am trying to get more excited about the Phillies. It's not that I don't think they'll be good; it's that even if they do win the World Series again, it won't be as great as last year. That's all. I guess when the season starts I'll be more into it.
Another Moebius basket from Cat Bordhi's book. This is Malabrigo, and it felted like BUTTER, people!! Butter! Well, perhaps that is not the correct simile, since butter doesn't reallly felt. It felted like ..........uh ...........well.....really nicely feltable yarn. This is for niece Grace as a birthday present. It will contain these:
Spool dollies!!! From etsy ("ericadaley" is the seller). Once I saw these I went out of my mind at the extreme level of cuteosity. I bought 9, and that was because I was restraining myself. Look! Couldn't you just die??!!!
I also knocked out this:
Tweed Beret from Interweave Knits Winter 2006. Plymouth Tweed, which is softer to knit with than I thought it would be. I'm a sucker for rustic, crunchy, tweedy yarn and kind of accept its "rustic quality" (euphemism for really scratchy and rough) as part of the package. But this was nice. It also demonstrated why you should never throw out Interweaves - I never looked twice at that pattern 2 years ago, but it was exactly what I'm interested in right now.
Finally, I started (and finished) this:
Tweed Beret from Interweave Knits Winter 2006. Plymouth Tweed, which is softer to knit with than I thought it would be. I'm a sucker for rustic, crunchy, tweedy yarn and kind of accept its "rustic quality" (euphemism for really scratchy and rough) as part of the package. But this was nice. It also demonstrated why you should never throw out Interweaves - I never looked twice at that pattern 2 years ago, but it was exactly what I'm interested in right now.
Finally, I started (and finished) this:
This is the Raha Scarf from Estonian Lace Knitting by Nancy Bush. It is the least lacy project in the book. The other shawls are gorgeous, but they're kind of 2005/2006 for me. But I will hold on to the book, because I know I'll get back in to lace knitting someday. The yarn is Arucania Ranco Solid, which I picked up at Hildreth's. I'm not familiar with it because it is a KFI product, but it is absolute heaven to knit with.
You might notice how much these projects are adult sweaters for Momogus Knits, yes? Yes? No, Diana, they're not anything like adult sweaters for Momogus Knits. The adult sweaters you swore you would work on starting January 1? It's only 6 weeks later. I did think about them a little last night, as I lay awake staring at the ceiling because I suspect I was given regular coffee instead of decaf at dinner last night. We went out with friends to Earth Bread and Brewery last night, which was mighty awesome. But at 1:00 am when I was still up watching Hugh Grant movies on Oxygen, I suspected foul play by our server. As a former waitress, I'll admit that I often served people decaf when they had asked for regular - because someone else had the coffee pot or there was no fresh coffee or whatever - but there's a code of honor that you don't serve someone regular when they ask for decaf. [Then Gus and his friend Kenan woke up at 6:30 am this morning and asked for eggs and waffles for breakfast and that's why I'm writing this crazy rambly post......]
Having been admonished for being silly by many many folks, I am trying to get more excited about the Phillies. It's not that I don't think they'll be good; it's that even if they do win the World Series again, it won't be as great as last year. That's all. I guess when the season starts I'll be more into it.
posted by diana at 6:45 AM
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