Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Much Sighing

Life has not been pleasant around here recently. Much angsting over DH's ex-wife wanting money we don't have, taking over bank accounts, generally making life Not Happy in the household.

Even my knitting has suffered; no knitting mojo. I am barely managing to do simple knit stitches and wasn't even excited about the color of this Month's Rockin' Sock Club shipment (and I usually really like green). I totally blew the next tier of entrelac socks and wound up with a little poofy pyramid thingy instead of a nice orderly entrelac square.

Court date is Wednesday to sort things out for now, but knowing that this will go on ad infinitum according to her whims makes me not feel like Wednesday is the end of the tunnel, but rather the start of a long road.

So, apologies for a dull, boring, and semi-sad post, but that's just it for today.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Entrelac Knit-along!

The Eunny Jang Entrelac Socks Knit-along has begun! Kadootje (D), GromKnit (M), and I are doing it; tonight was cast-on night. Unfortunately, M couldn't join us tonight, so we had a bifurcated cast-on night, with D and I at Madonna's and M at home. Not to worry; we'll be together next week for the base triangles!


Maybe it was because Friday the Thirteenth fell on a Thursday this month, but we wondered if these socks were dooooomed from the start... First I cast on only 8 stitches (this was immediately after we had agreed we'd cast on 12), then I cut my sock yarn along with my reinforcement yarn (Duh-oh!!) and had to Russian join the two pieces together (yes, I should have just backed it out since I had only increased 2 or 4 stitches, but damn...) Somewhere in there, D wound up with both socks' working yarn in the middle of the needle points, so she had to move ‘em and do a little shuffle… Oh, did I mention we’re doing two at once on one circular needle??? Yes, we're sick and twisted...
Here's the picture from the magazine. No shots of ours yet; they still look like twisted caterpillars impaled on needles right now.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

I Know, I've Been Bad

I guess I'm sort of missing the point of a blog, huh? It's just... well, it's just that Ravelry is more fun! Oh, and I've been busy doing that thing that funds my yarning. Well, there's been some knitting, too. Like thus - my Serendipities are done! They fit most wonderfully, and the pattern, while not difficult, is very elegant and goes very well with the yarn.



So here they are!



And now, DH is calling me to dinner - yes, he cooked for me! I love that man!