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Happy Happy, Joy Joy

I'm a whole year older today, and there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it. What with the knitting, the back twinges and the new glasses I'm turning into my grandmother faster than I had ever imagined. Just pass me the sake, already.

Kickin' graphic is from toothpastefordinner.com.

Spoiled By Circs

Today I left the house all excited about starting Bright Autumn, a fabulous pattern from Mad As A Hatter Studio, and five minutes into my commute I realize that my needles are ALL WRONG - - I've knit my last 10 projects or so on circulars, and suddenly my straight needles just did not feel right. Especially for knitting on a bus - - I forgot how awkward it is to work with them in such close quarters, always feeling like you're millimeters away from skewering the person sitting next to you. AND they slide out of the damn knitting so easily. AND they get really freaking cold on a subway platform. So after cursing myself roundly, I gave up working until this evening, when I could swap needles. I may never go back to 'straight knitting' again.

Headline of the day

"Naked Man Crosses Britain - - Barely"

And here's my Knit-Round Scarf; 3 skeins of Kureyon, much stripey goodness.

Tube-Along!

Presumptuous of me, perhaps, as such a newcomer to both knitting & blogging, but I'm going to put this in a bottle and chuck it on out there, and see what comes back. I love the idea of the knitalong, am participating in WKFF's Knee-High Knitalong, but am just too much of a slowpoke to get jazzed up about the bigger projects in other knitalongs - - as fun as they seem, I know that the pressure to keep up would end up taking most of the fun out of it for me. So I'm proposing a knitalong for a small project - - the Tube-Along! Whatever you're knitting has to be a tube of some kind - - whether a chickie dickie, scarf, capelet, boob tube, leg warmers, socks, as long as its tubular. I just finished the 'Knit-Round Scarf' from The Knit Stitch, and am loving it - - I'm ready for more, maybe Loopy Velez from Stitch 'n' Bitch. Who's with me?

Man of many hats, hats of many men

Or at least two. I had made this one about a month ago, but added the earflaps last night in a midnight knitting frenzy, to make it a little warmer. Also, it has a much better chance of staying on his head if we can tie it on. Pattern is a modified 'Everybody Hat' from Fibergraphics that I got on eBay (the earflaps are mine), yarn is Lion Brand Woolease Thick & Quick, I think the color is 'Lumberjack'. If it isn't, then damn it, it should be.

Also finished a hat for my husband, so he can finally stop bugging me about never making anything for him. Truth is, this will the the third hat I've made, I've always woefully underestimated the size of his enormous noggin. Hopefully, this one will be neither too tight nor too short.

1 skein of Kureyon, baby.

Right round, baby

I needed a break from the Burly scarf (another endless k1p1 endeavor), also my stash of Kureyon was getting out of control, so I browsed through a few of the new knitting books on my shelves and settled on the Knit-Round Scarf from The Knit Stitch. More of a capelet than a scarf, it's a big tube that goes over the shoulders, and will be perfect to throw on over t-shirts at work, where I'm always too warm in a full sweater. I feel a bit guilty about not turning out more sweaters for Mr. Martian, but he's gotten so many as gifts this year...maybe just a 'holiday' sweater for Passover.

I'm going to try to put in a few solid hours of Final Cut freelance this afternoon, so I have the whole evening to dedicate to Sex and the City and The L Word. Prioritizing, as best I can.

Mr. Martian

The Martian hat, however, is alive and kicking. Actually, it's mine, but it looks much cuter on him.

RIP

Where once there were stitches, there are none.
Where once there were rows, there are none.
Where once there was a hat, there is none.

The Elf hat is history.

Unmaking the Elf

I'm not at all pleased with how the Elf hat is turning out - - I love the Kureyon colors, but the shaping is weird - - either I'm not understanding the pattern, or it's just not suggesting the best way to taper things off smoothly. Oh, well - - to the frog pond it goes. I found a pattern a few weeks ago for a 3-pointed jester hat, and will try that one instead. I have to make Mr. Martian a 'cute' hat while I still can, before he becomes old enough to go, 'Mom, are you kidding?'

Left it at home, because commuting is about knitting, not unknitting. Brought the Burly scarf to work instead, hope to finish that by Friday, in anticipation of another round of bitter cold weather.

A whole new me

...at this address, anyway. It appears that free weblog + free photo hosting = no pictures appearing in the blog EVER, hence the move to a spiffy new locale, that will hopefully be more photo-friendly. Then I'll have no excuse not to post pix.

The super-long scarf from hell, she is FINISHED. I never thought I'd see the day. If I ever mention starting a 1x1 rib scarf again, please confiscate my needles until I return to reason. The big, fat black scarf I'm currently (not) working on doesn't count, since Burly Spun knits up so fast.

Casting on for a Kureyon elf hat for my baby, while I put off a freelance project I should be starting tonight.