And I wasn't even drinking!
I was gonna be all cool and churn out a Kate (for Matthew's five-year-old(?) step-sister) using some stash yarn. I cast on once and got partway through the first color section. "Wait," I said. "This can't be right." For some reason, I got it in my head that the yellow wasn't the main color. So, I cast on again, this time starting with my white floofy recycled angora (which has served me well time and time again; won't it make a perfect kitten?). Well into the third color change, I thought to myself, "Hey, this doesn't look like a kitten face at all." Know why? IT WAS A KITTEN BUTT.
I'm not exactly the smartest girl in the world sometimes.
I was lucky enough to get a copy of Jess Hutchison's Unusual Toys for You to Knit and Enjoy (they're sold out - again!), and it came in the mail today. So cute! Matthew has requested a robot. I'm partial to Spherey.
My JB19 also arrived in the mail, yesterday, and it makes me want to buy a bunch of Mohair Art. However, the sheer massiveness of my stash prevents such a move. I finally got smart and got rid of the yarn that was multiplying beside my main knitting spot, which Sophie tends to get into every single day (it took me a week to realize that she was, in fact, going to do it until I got rid of it). Now my funky green stool/chest thing contains works in progress and works in progress only, and I will only work on as much as will fit into that at one time. For now, there's a sizable number of projects:
handspun socks for Matthew
sweater to seam
socks that need their ends sewn in
argyle slippers for Matthew (actually, just the yarn, since Sophie managed to destroy my one inch of progress - not that it mattered because I was going to start over anyway)
yarn for sister's convertible mittens
yarn for Matthew's mittens/hat
one ball of Chamonix for swatching
my Fair Isle Jazz scarf
I have enough to keep me busy for awhile.
Knitting spotted in the wild!
Target has some knitting kits that are surprisingly nice. For $15.99, you can get a kit (each in two colorways) for a pillow, a scarf/hat set, and I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting a third thing. The yarn is decent (probably acrylic, but it's soft and in nice Target-y colors) and the projects look challenging. I was thrilled to find them, even though I have no use for them. Viva knitting!
I also saw a new knitting magazine put out by - I think - Vogue Knitting at Barnes & Noble. For the life of me, I can't remember the name, nor can I find anything about it online. It was on par with Family Circle Easy Knitting and the like - a lot of chunky, plain stuff. There was another new magazine on the shelf nearby - it looked interesting, as it combined sewing, knitting, crochet, and various other crafts with a retro flair. I would have purchased it, but the format is a little loud and chaotic and the things I was really interested in were just being referenced (i.e., cute coats, with the pattern being offered by Vogue as XXXXX).
Have you seen any new knitting things in the wild?
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