I'm dreaming of post-Christmas knitting...

Yeah. Already.

Even while I'm sitting here thinking of what to write next, exactly, I'm knitting. Because the deadlines are approaching, and I might be in love with two scarves at once. I needed a break from the Fuzzies.

On Thursday I had this wild idea and left the house. I bet some of you do this all the time but I actually need an occasion of some sort. Unfortunately I brought home some more yarn and did this:

Well, my keyboard is dark.

This is lace knitting (not to be confused with knitted lace) and is the pattern for Cozy, except only one repeat and only 19 stitches wide. Oh yeah and the needles are WAY smaller. Torture. I was thinking of making a completely useless scarf. The question is, do we like the one on the top or the one on the bottom better? Remember that blocking cures a multitude of sins. And the top one is on size 4, the bottom is size 6.

In other news, Campbell's chunky canned soups (and their generic counterparts) are NOT, I repeat NOT NOT NOT healthy!! 18g of fat in one serving and two servings per can is NOT good for you, no matter how badly you are craving chicken and dumplings. This is what I must repeat to myself. Also, I bet I could make this from scratch better...

Also, I am not young enough to not get hangovers anymore. That little joy is now lost. All day yesterday Darby and I both were hurting due to massive alcohol consumption on Friday because SHE DEFENDED and is thusly awesome. But we knew that. We brought her chinese food yesterday. And now Darby needs a bloglias (blog + alias) so she doesn't get a legion of stalkerific fans, cause she totally would. Or we could just call her Darby and let all of you (and the stalkerifics) wonder what her real name is. Hmmmm.

Well apparently my "husband" is "hungry" and making noise in the "kitchen" so I better go stop that.

Stephacue, or how to distract yourself from cleaning or finishing grad school

Okay. Honestly. How often do you work on some knitting for a while, go about your (non-knitting) business - I know it's difficult to imagine, but work with me here - and then hours after knitting discover a knitting needle stuck through your hair?

This just happened to me.

I'm taking it as a sign.


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I need better horizontal rules. And the hr tag doesn't work (boo!).

Sooooo Grumperina (whose site, incidentally, taught me that when I used to twist every stitch I was not knitting wrong, I was knitting Eastern) has been blogging a lot about the Grumpicue.

Original pattern

Love

Hate

Dealing

Now after perusing all of these, I thought the short rows might be kind of fun. But I didn't wanna buy a pattern. Or commit to making anything large. And who wants to buy a pattern just for the sake of curiosity? Not me, oh no.

So I cast on 10 stitches with the yarn closest to me (cone o' cotton, sugar and creme or something) and the needles closest to me (size 3 dpns) (ouch). This is what I have:

• This is a repeat of 4 rows. Essentially, anyway

Each RS row is shortened by one stitch...

I really don't know.

Also, the way the colors are changed on the Grumpicue, she must be making the last stitch (the one that gets short rowed) has to be in the new color.

I have no idea what I'm doing. But I may have made a coaster.

Why did I do this.

The Daily Grind

I know you guys are sitting there, refreshing your screens waiting for an update. Well, this isn't much, but it's what's going on right now.

In no particular order.

The coffee is Folger's, and the wine is Cavit Pinot Noir. Yummy delicious although I'm a bigger fan of the pinot grigio.