My Knitting

Favorite Quotes & Miscellanea

Winston Churchill:
"We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm."
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Katharine Hepburn:
"Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating!"
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Winston Churchill:
"I know history will be kind to me, because I intend to write it."
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Kaylee, in the TV show Firefly, "Jaynestown" episode:
"Hamsters is nice."
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Bill Slease, paraphrasing John Beck & Mitchell Wades' book Got Game:
"The hunger for a challenge that requires your full attention is a hero's desire."
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from a refrigerator magnet:
"I used to jog, but the ice kept falling out of my glass...."
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from Mike Doughty ("American Car")
"I'm done with elephants and clowns
I want to
Run away and join the office"

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from Dr. Who:
"Are you in charge here?"
"No, but I'm full of ideas!"
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2010 Knitting Olympics Gold Medal!
2010 Knitting Olympics

It was an exciting week on the knitting front.

My catnip mouse was done on Sunday:

I finished (finally) the mohair garter-stitch scarf:

It is very light and airy, and I love the colors, so pretty.

Everything was going along just fine, I had started the garter stitch shaping on my "On the Wings of the Ocean Breeze" Arroyo shawlette, when right there, in the middle of everything, there was an explosion of yarn. Flying expletives, muttered comments about bloody this and that, and finally just whimpering. I had pulled a giant rat's nest out of the middle of my nicely wound ball of beauty, leaving it a gutted mass of chaotic string. It was tangled beyond all hope.

I tried to untangle it, but deep in my heart of hearts, I knew that this was a two-handed mess of untanglement. My husband offered to help "clean it up" but I could tell that he would swear a lot, wind the ball too tightly, and then put it aside "to do later".

"No!!" I shrieked, pulling the yarn out of harm's reach. "I'm emailing Lynne right now!", and proceeded to send a yarn-911 immediately.

That was my only knitting. What to do until Lynne got here the next day to fix it? Luckily, I had pulled a project from my Bins of Mystery that fit the bill nicely. I had found a pair of plain mittens that I had completed one of, and started the ribbing on the other, and then for some unknown reason, put them away. I have no idea when it was started, no memory of knitting one complete mitten (but thank God I did, so I could figure out the pattern for the mate!), no memory of what yarn I used. The yarn appears to be 100% merino, hand dyed in a pretty pinks and purples with a splash of gold, and it's worsted weight. There also were #5 needles in the ribbing, and it just begged for completion. So, since I had nothing else started, I started the mittens again.

They're very pretty; too bad I don't know what yarn it is. The mitten on the right is the one I recently knit. It looks slightly smaller, although it has the same number of stitches and rows as the other one (although *I* counted them, so who knows, really). But the mittens were done, after a day and a half knitting them, and I feel good about that.

Lynne came Monday afternoon and untangled my mess:

I knit the rest of the Arroyo:

It looks ugly, but that is the nature of the unblocked. So I blocked it:

Nicky's helping with the blocking, good kitty.

Then I started my Muckle Mitts:

I have one more round of the pattern before the top ribbing, and then I do the thumb, and they'll be half done! I can't believe how quick they are! I could knit a pair a day. Knitting with two colors is a piece of cake, just like old times. I just switched how I held the yarns, but other than that, it's easy. Keeping the right tension was no problem. Is that another glow of satisfaction I see escaping? Yes!

Soon, I can get started on the cardigan that somebody I know will look adorable in!