Moving the computer. I have a few things I want to take care of first, because I hate to leave folks hanging. But it’s time to vacation-ize the Etsy shop for a few days and shut this thing down. Might be a little weird, but I think I can live with it.
Cast on for a new pair of socks yesterday. Yay! I’m trying out my brand-shiny-new 4″ Harmony dpns, and so far I’m a fan…might switch back to the 6″ when there’s more fabric to manage, but I’m not sure. We’ll see. Forest Canopy is coming along beautifully. I am so in love with both yarn and pattern!
I really need to dig through my WIP basket and see what’s up there. I haven’t been using my Rav notebook to its full potential for a while now…time to actually take advantage of it again and see if I can get some things finished! I have a terrible hankering to start another shawl, which would mean picking more yarn, and I’m trying to resist because I really don’t have the money…maybe I can make a deal with myself. *grin*
Anyway, I’ll post when we reach the away-for-a-few-days point here.
I got home last night and immediately ordered myself a skein of this: Knitivity Dura-Lace. I adore the yarns I’ve gotten from Ray and I can’t wait to see this one. Yay!
It’s been a long few months, with big personal changes and the utter chaos that those can bring. Now that things are closer to moving in some direction rather than just flailing about wildly, I wanted to return to the blog if for no other reason than to talk about all of the fun I’m having knitting in the few moments I can manage to steal in my current schedule. I recently finished my first pair of socks, for one thing, my first lace project is underway, and I finally made a trip to WEBS a few weeks ago.
Still have to kick the camera into working, but stay tuned…
I was hoping to end the year around here on a more inspired note, but there has just simply been so much going on in the non-blog, non-fiber world for me that I’ve got nothing to talk about here. I’m very much hoping that will change in 2009.
To anyone still wandering through: Happy New Year, and may the next year be kind to you and yours.
I’d forgotten just how exhausting it is to work retail at the holidays. Yikes.
Anyway, for kicks and to see how it works out (and because I think a little competition might be good for Etsy), I opened an ArtFire shop: Neatly Tangled. Had a sale already, which I’m going to take as a very good sign, seeing as how I’ve only managed to list two patterns.
I hope the holidays are bringing you joy rather than the appallingly common misery.
Has pretty much been a bust from the crafting perspective. Between the insanity of pre-Christmas retail work and trying to work through some things at home, it’s been more than wild. And now to add to the chaos I’m relocating my workspace to another room, so I’ll be ripping it all apart and putting it back together again and no matter how I try, that will take days. But we’re cruising along here pretty well, for all that. So yay! LOL.
~Chasing kids, mostly. The little booger-heads are hell to civilize. Stupid phases.
~Working an annoying mid-shift schedule at the Mega Lo Mart.
~Knitting a hat on my lunch break. Slowly, because knitting invites conversation and even though I can knit stockinette in the round and talk at the same time, the split in concentration slows me down.
~Not working on the ripple, because I need the kids to be in bed to haul that project out. I have a pic of the start of it, though:
~Made Evangeline:
and a New York Scarf:
and New York Hat that is too big to really be worn, but will have a photo taken eventually because it was my first hat knit in the round and so is cool anyway.
~Making sets of dishcloths for a friend.
~Did I mention chasing kids?
~Did I mention our schedule being all shot to hell?
~Oh, and I had some sort of flulike bug that knocked me out for a good solid week and is still hanging around a week after that. And I’ve been trying to finish winterizing the apartment. And trying to get things clean-clean instead of just barely good enough. And stressing out about Christmas, because we’re wicked broke and because the family shenanigans are exasperating. And…well, you get the picture…
Hopefully I’ll be able to find some sort of rhythm here soon.
Really. I should be in bed, but instead I’m wandering through Twist Collective’s Winter 2008 issue. Yum.
But then this post would be as delayed as all the others around here. I keep thinking that I’ll post when I clear off the camera…
Anyway, my absolutest BFF, who has been putting up with me since I was 8 years old, sent me a birthday present. Janet Evanovich’s latest hidden in a huge box of odds and ends yarn. Seriously…the girl sent me a huge helping of random stash. The sort that takes years to accumulate. Scraps, but sizable ones. Nothing matches, and that’s the beauty of it…
Anyway, it’s almost all acrylic, and almost all worsted weight, so I’ve decided that it needs to be an afghan (or two!). And since I have never made one before, and this sort of assortment is perfect for it, I’ve decided that I’m going to make a ripple. And I’m so stupid excited that I think I’m going to set it up right now, instead of going to bed like a sensible person.
Yay!
A year ago I knit my very first little garter stitch rectangle. I’ve come a long way since then:
Crochet will always be my first love, but knitting is my wild crush. What can I say? I hope the next year is half as much fun as the first one. 
Blogging, Knitting, Life | deb | 
March 31, 2009 8:33 am | 
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