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March 12, 2006
Misery week whatever
No I haven't dropped off the face of the universe. I have been feeling rather funky. Cannot wait til my tulips blosom. Their leaves have popped out and I recall how, last year, the pink blooms really cheered me up. Weds rain was followed by even more Thurs dreariness. Not even my sockapaloooza yarn could cheer me up and I didn't even think of knitting. Friday was Nece's birthday.... my baby is 3! Saturday I went to knitting group and knit a bit on the socks. I was paid a grand compliment actually two the first was that I should teach knitting !!! and the second that they were always real pleased when I showed up cause no knitting problem would go unsolved. Isn't that the bestest compliment ever? Anyway today was a knitting bust again. For a problem solver I sure seem to run into several of my own making. I CO for some Red, Red, Red cause I couldn't bear it another millisecond and decided the yarn was too drop dead for my ingrate of a daughter and should be for me. Mind you my mittens would take more yarn than hers but I ripped hers out and started some for myself. Then I decided that EZ was just plain wrong. I have been greatly admiring the Mitered Mittens on My Knitting Life and pulled out my Almanac. I adore the little Icord tie and wrist shaping~ so girly girl. I decided right off the bat to go at 5spi instead of the called for 4.5spi cause I like snuggly nether garments. Even with the tighter gauge the mitts are humongous on my hands:
I guess I need to actually measure my hands and do math. Heaven forbid. Anyway after I ripped the mitten I decided to work on my MKAL and spent the required time sorting out my yarn. Somehow I have misplaced 2 balls of yarn for this project. If you recall I took all my yarn upstairs and dumped it allover the place and I think it got packed up with all the non WW& heavier stuff that I sent downstairs. After all manic behavior did lead to my gathering up all my heavier yarns into cubby land. So now that you have the bad news: lost yarn I will share the good news: I didn't go into a wicked yarn buying frenzy Whew!
yarny days and knitterly evenings
Posted by Elka at 10:12 PM | Comments (2)