One Crazy Fiber Lady

Progress is indeed being made on the Olympic knitting.  Never thought of myself as a downhill racer, but Laurie’s classifications seem fitting.  While the pinkeye did give me an extra day at home yesterday (false alarm on Kat, definitely not false on my second eye), I didn’t get as much done as I would have liked to.  By last night, it was so uncomfortable that I called it a night at 9pm.  Thank goodness the trusty ReplayTV grabbed ’24′ otherwise I would be a terribly unhappy puppy this morning.  The first eye is feeling much better, but the second eye is downright miserable:  swollen, teary, RED and very yucky.  I did call the doctor and he prescriped antibiotic drops so hopefully this will be over soon.

The knitting was good for at least one thing, keeping the hands busy and away from the eyes.  I started the two color orange section.  There will be 5 pattern repeats with these two as well.  I took this picture just as I finished the second repeat, so there are three more to go.  Thanks to Kim at the KAL, I frogged back to the end of the 5th repeat in the dark orange and started the next section.  The 6 repeats make for a very LONG vest, which she’s about to frog back.  Ouch as I know she was into the snowflake section.  Sorry Kim.  But thanks so much for the heads up!  I was able to get three rounds done during my commute this morning.  I’ve also got a new sock tucked in my pocket for the standing around waiting knitting as this vest just isn’t friendly for that.  Right now I’m digging the whole steek business, but talk to me again when it comes time to take a scissor to this baby.  {shudder}

I thank everyone for their confidence my being able to finish this and medal.  While I reminded a few in email, there’s a lot of finish work on this piece that is totally absent from most of the other projects I work on.  It has way more handsewing than I am used to, including a zipper and the bottom hem.  I need to finish the knitting fast to give me optimum time to daudle on the yicky parts. Not to mention the whole attention span/monogamy to a single project (ignore standing around sock please) that I haven’t exactly demonstrated an ability to do.  So the quicker I finish, the more likely I’m going to finish regardless of deadline.  I also work better with a hard deadline as my director was kind enough to mention in my review last year.

Thanks to everyone for their compliments on my fine spinning.  I took this picture the other night as I was spinning to give a better idea of what it is like to spin that fine.  Not exactly a perfect shot, since it is tough to get this alone, but it should give you an idea of what’s involved.  (You can click for a larger view).  How’s that for some w00l p0rn.  This kind of spinning can make you blind unless you have a nice contrasting color as a background.  For a change, I was actually dressed in the right color, witness the black pants to make seeing the light colored wool easier.  I’ve also decided that since I have 4+ lbs of this CVM, I’ll put aside about 8 oz of locks, and send the rest of it off for processing.  I certainly don’t need to keep it all for laceweight yarn.  Heck, it would take the rest of my lifetime to finish the whole fleece at that rate.  Besides, I have a escorial merino fleece (oh and a shetland lamb fleece.. and two icelandic lambs fleeces.. hmmm) sitting in stash for lace spinning.  I could free this one, and his cousin Zeus, up for thicker/quicker spinning.

Call me a bad mom, but I avoided the whole dragging of the kids out in the snow thing for another day.  The snow actually came above the bottom of my storm door on Sunday.  Living on the ground level does have its drawbacks.  Thank goodness, for a change, the landlords actually shovelled right to my door freeing us to exit!  Must be a blue moon or something.  They usually stop about 5 feet from my door making me do the rest.  Nice huh?  I was {this} tempted to give them notice Sunday while I was out shovelling. When I went out to clean my car, they’d been gone for a while.  I cleaned off one side and to get to the other, I figured I’d move the car.  The street was a mess leaving no room to put my car for a while so I pulled it into the middle of the driveway.  Wouldn’t you figure that 2 minutes after I got out of the car, they pulled up the street.  Grrrr.  Have to chat with the folks as to when we really want to do this so I can plan better and give that notice I want to give!

Some kitty zen for you.  In addition to sleeping Sara draped over the back of the chair (she sleeps in some of the weirdest positions – butt end on one thing, front on another), I snapped a picture of the elusive Duchess of A’Rat, the undisputed alpha cat in my househould.

Craft on!

The games have indeed begun.  Scanning around blogland reveals everyone working very hard.  Things are no different in my land of the short people.  Friday night, while watching the odd opening ceremonies (with a ReplayTV dictated break for Battlestar Galactica), I cast on for my vest.  All 291 stitches worth.  That’s a lot of stitches.  It became especially daunting that as I collapsed at the end of the ceremonies at MIDNIGHT with all of 9 rows of 1×1 rib knit.

Saturday, we had a visit from wonderful Juno.  She so wonderfully bought that extra knitting machine from me, getting it out of my house.  She kept looking at my Lendrum Saxony and asked if she wanted to try it out.  I even pulled out a big bag of romney roving that was in stash hiding.  I think it was only the impending storm that had her leave, but you should have seen her enjoying that wheel.  Not to mention the snugglings she gave Sara and Earl.  It was a lovely, if too short visit.  I hope you enjoy the KM!  Bad blogger me did not capture any of the visit with the trusty camera.  For some reason, I go pretty dopey during a blogger get together and forget about the documentation.  Oh well.

After Juno left, I had some time to myself as the twins were still napping.  They went down shortly after she arrived so I got some work done on my vest.  It is an easy pattern, well except for the whole fubar number thing for sizes other than small, but I’ve long since memorized Chart 1 and by last night’s primetime olympic events, I was one repeat shy of starting the alternating orange colors.  Between the still not quite familiar English knitting motions, and that whole shoveling thing yesterday (18 or so inches) my arms and hands were sore so I decided to take a break before injury would force me from the games. 

I am hampered by pinkeye.  Blech.  Started in my right eye on Saturday.  Sunday morning I discovered that I’m one of the <1% of people who have "additional adverse reactions" to the eyedrops and awoke to a swollen eye that I could barely open, even after removing the goo.  It is better today, but it has managed to spread to the left eye, which is now presently gooing up a bit.  Though Kat might have had a part in the spread as she awoke with a gooey eye, giving us all another day home.  Swell.

Anyway, to prevent hand injury, I took a break from the knitting thing and did some spinning.  I’d had been fighting the spinning yen since Saturday when I watched Juno enjoy the Saxony.  Having washed my hands so many times because of the eye goo situation, they were a bit chapped.  I figured grease fleece spinning might be the ideal cure.  I pulled out my Suzie Pro, put a chunk of that CVM fleece in a shoebox and set about spinning a handful of locks in 2 hours.  Want to see how to make one lock of fleece last for 30 minutes?  That line down the center of
the penny is my CVM single.  It probably is about 8 fibers wide. Holding that greasy lock in my hand, with my body warm melting the lanolin was just pure joy.  I listened to the olympics and kept an eye on my drafting zone, making sure to take a consistent number of fibers out of the flicked lock.

This is a length I plied back on itself.  I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to do with yarn this fine, but it is sure nice to be able to spin my own fine laceweight.  I have dreams of knitting an Orenburg shawl.  Wasn’t there an Orenburg stole in a recent issue of IK?  Now there’s an idea.  I have a substantial amount of bombyx silk, bought a pound of it at MDSW a couple of years ago when Little Barn ran a show special that could not be passed up. I could ply this CVM with the silk.  Now there’s an idea!  I’ll have to figure out where I put the silk to age.

Finally some odd kitten zen for you this Monday morning.  The funny little girl was helping me with the dinner dishes last night. 

I’m off to watch Lunette learn how to knit on Big Comfy Couch. 

Craft on!

First I want to give a warm and heartfelt thank you to everyone who took the time to comment about my big announcement yesterday.  Your support has been overwhelming and further enforces my conviction that I made the right decision.  This community continuously surprises me with its response and support, and is one I wouldn’t trade for the world.  Thank you for letting me be a part.

I’m know I tempted the Knitting Goddess yesterday with my gutsy post of hoping to have finished the second sock in the Claudia Handpainted before the Olympic start (and not so coincidentally before my mother’s Feb. 12th birthday).  I was just shy of starting the heel before lunch yesterday.  I managed to complete the heel during lunch and during my ride home I made some progress on the leg.  Last night, just as "ER" was ending, I bound off.  The replacement, belated holiday socks cum birthday socks for mom are now done.  They are definitely fraternal twins and I’m quite okay with that.  Mom is as well.  We have a thing for frat twins you know.  That’s the joy of handpainted yarns.  Two socks never match.

Now I’m all ready to begin my Snowflakes & Arrows vest tonight after the twins go down, oh and I finish the grocery shopping. We’ll need to eat at some point this weekend… and then there’s the east coast blizzard that is due to hit Saturday afternoon.  I might have to give up some knitting time on Sunday for shoveling.  I’ve been itching to start this now for some time, especially since the whole two color knitting doesn’t seem so foreign anymore.  There are a couple of aspects to this project which make it a challenge. 

• staying focused on one project (not usually a strong suit of mine)
• steeking (never done before)
• fair isle
• zipper

That zipper bit is definitely going to be a challenge as I haven’t bought one yet and I seriously dislike hand sewing them to knits.  I wonder if it would be a cheat to replace it with a couple of pewter frogs.  Not like I have any of those either, but have a general idea where I can pick some up.  Time to collect the pattern fixes from the KAL and get psyched for the opening ceremonies tonight!  Let the games begin! Weeding, packing and stash sale will commence when the vest is done or the Olympics are over, whichever comes first.

Before that though, I need to write my Self-Assessment of the annual performance evaluation process at work.  I so totally hate writing it and I need to have it done by Monday, which really means end of today.  Blech.  I’d rather write in code!  Anyway, I leave you with a moment of kitten zen.

Craft on!

Sorry for the whole drive by blogging yesterday.  There have been things going on that have distracted me from the whole knitting scene.  Bad timing what with the Olympics starting tomorrow, but thems the breaks.  What it involves in the whole living situation.  Before I get to those, I’ll throw some fibery goodness at you first. 

While there was no knitting again last night, I skeined up that bobbin worth of BL/Wensleydale that I plied last week.  A quick weigh in on the postal scale and a loop count revealed numbers that I was pretty content with.

I must say, I’m pretty darn pleased with this yarn.  It is about as even as I’ve ever spun and it appears that plying during "24" is a good thing.  Nickel is there for reference.  The numbers?  308 yards @ 5.9 ozs. (167.26g).  Doing the math, that is approx 184yards for 100g.   Yardage is darn close to the Jaegar Shetland Aran (180y/100g). My brain is too tired to do the full math as to how much total yardage I should wind up with. 

Sara did her duty inspecting the new yarn to make sure it was safe for its intended purposes.  Nice of her to risk one for the team.  Tonight I’m hoping to work on the second Claudia sock.  I’m about a round away from starting the short-row heel.  If I push, I can finish these before tomorrow night when I’ll cast on for the Olympic Vest!  I could take a late lunch and start it then, but I really am not all hot and bothered to cast on 200+ stitches at lunch.  I can’t begin to imagine what my buds would think of me after they watch me count the same number of stitches three times to come up with different totals.  Thanks, I’ll do that in the privacy of my own home!

Now, for what’s been going on.  I’ve posted in the past about my living conditions.  That post was at the height of my discontent, but for good reason.  Actually it has been much better recently, especially since the gloss of the trampoline did wear off pretty quickly.  That didn’t obviate the need to go running upstairs two weekends ago to tell them to quit it as I was watching my living room ceiling bow and form a few cracks.  Anyway.  My moving options were and still are pretty limited due to the high property costs in northern NJ together with the daycare costs for 2. 

That was when my father put forward an option.  We’d put an addition on their house and the monkeys and I would move in.  I gave it some serious thought and decided to go ahead with that plan.  We’re there 5 days a week anyway, returning to my place simply to sleep and get ready for the next day.  So this kind of move would make both ends of the day easier, especially since I wouldn’t have to pack up the kids after dinner and take them home only to put them to bed.

The addition would add a master suite, giving me and the kids the original 3 bedrooms.  Fabulous as the twins would have to be separated at some point in time, but definitely not a possibility in my current 2 bedroom apartment.  Another plus.  Not to mention, the school system is far superior to the one where we live now. They do miss the kindergarten cut off by 9 days, but hopefully I can fight that when the time comes and I’m not entirely sure when the cut off is in our current town.  It wouldn’t be a free ride as the budget for the addition would result in payments approx. what I pay for rent now and I’d be responsible for that. I’d be a fool not to take the folks up on this offer and while I’m crazy about fiber, I’m no fool. 

The folks have already consulted an architect and are getting ahold of a builder (though he seems to be a bit unreachable at the moment) with the aims of starting construction after the summer, hopefully finishing by Thanksgiving.  Two nights ago, dad added a new wrinkle.  How about we move in before the summer, before construction.  This way the kids could enjoy the backyard, the pool, the big house.  All good things considering that I spent a number of hot days this past summer sitting on the front lawn with a tiny blow up pool and no lawn furniture.  I doubt the in-ground pool is an option with two little ones (though bigger than last year), but it is fenced off from the rest of the backyard, I can still use a smaller pool and there’s a girl next door who’d make a fine mothers’ helper.  There’s also the fact that at the end of April the folks’ boat goes into the water and they disappear during the weekend until the end of the summer.  The transition period, I think, would be a little bit easier with my being at work during the weekday and their being gone almost all weekend.

So in the end, the short people, the animals and I will be moving.  I see a light at the end of the tunnel and it makes listening to the damn noise upstairs tolerable.  I do look forward to giving them my notice!  What I don’t look forward to is packing.  Just wait for the stash clearance sale.

Craft on!

You know, it was a huge relief to find out that I’m not the only one to have gone around with two odd shoes.  Actually I knew this as my previous boss did the same thing a couple of years ago.  Not to mention I did it before about 5 years ago with two different black velvet flats.  Go figure.  With the disruption to the morning routine being what it is, I’m now surprised that I haven’t done it before, but I paid serious attention to which shoes I was putting on this morning and made a point to put an actual pair aside.  It also helped that I only had one kid in my room with me whilst the other dreamed on. 

Remember the whole got the Latvian Mittens book from Amazon for free ’cause I bought some diapers there excitement? (If not trust me, I did.)  Well they’re running another deal on Huggies.  So all of you with not quite potty trained short people, here’s your chance.  I upped my stash of Huggies.  Not like they are going to waste.  Though, big news, Kat actually told me after dinner last night that she had to go pee-pee.  I quickly ported her off to the bathroom where she did just that on her little potty.  That was the first time she actually asked to go.  We’re getting there.

I didn’t do much knitting yesterday.  Added a bit of foot to the second Claudia sock but it really isn’t picture worthy.  Looks much the same as the first foot.  I didn’t knit at all last night as I was busy futzing with my iPAQ trying to get it to send the emails I’d written out.  My apologies to anyone who got duplicates from me this morning.  I think I have the wrinkles ironed out now and that shouldn’t happen again.

Hopefully I can distract you from the lack of anything else going on with a new picture of Sara.  Sadly she is breaking one of the house rules (which reminds me, yes HOUSE so totally rules.  I LOVE that show..) by sitting on the kitchen table.  She looked so cute though that I had to take a picture before I shooed her butt off it.

That’s it, drive by blogging today.  Hopefully something more substantial tomorrow.  I just wanted to pass along the good Amazon/Huggies vibe

Craft on!

Yesterday was a very interesting day.  It served to remind me that while I think I have it all together, I really really really don’t.  That whole new baby/sleepless goofiness that had me doing all sorts of weird and sometimes dangerous things, I thought was  past.  Well the dangerous part seems to have disappeared, but the goofy periodically makes an appearance.  Its been a while so I thought I had really gotten my act together.  Then I went and did this yesterday:

This is how I went to work yesterday.  Two different sneakers were on my feet.  Sadly I didn’t notice I was wearing different shoes for the first hour of doing so.  They don’t even feel alike inside.  The Fila on the right is stiffer and a smidge higher than the Nike on the left.  The Nike has better arch support but softer sides.  Heck they both don’t even close the same way.  You’d think I would have noticed when I put them on!  Nope.  Sad.  I could try and cop out blaming the short people who were in my room at the time touching stuff, playing with my chapstick, chasing cats, etc.  But really, how much blame should I lay on those marvellous angels.  {choke gasp}.  So I hid at my desk for as much of the day as possible.  If anyone noticed, they were kind enough not to say anything.  Thank you.  I just checked, I have matching shoes today, and not just a coordinated pair to yesterdays!

My first order of hurt books arrived yesterday.  Wee.  They are in pretty excellent shape.  Except for the Folk Vests, which has a visible tear at the binding at the upper left corner of the cover, I can’t find any damage on the others.  These were all books that I’ve been considering picking up in the past and happy to have them in the collection.  Now to make some more space in the book stash library.

Since 24 was on last night, and the spinning thing went so well last week, I felt like spinning again last night.  Monday might actually be spinning night, though I hesitate to proclaim a routine with the Olympics starting so soon.  Spinning will probably be pre-empted like all the NBC shows for the duration of the vest knitting.  This bobbin was empty at 8:45 last night.  This is more of the BL/Wensleydale roving that I’ve been playing with.  I bought 2.5 lbs of the stuff hoping to spin for my own gansey, so I should be spinning this for a while to come yet.

Finally, your kitten zen for today.  Goofy little cat turns out to be off the spinning helper variety.  I had to continuously remove my helper from my roving last night.  She would sit under my chair, reaching up and grabbing the roving as I spun it.  Nice kitten.  The other cats have pretty much ignore the whole spinning thing, except Duchess who would jump in my lap and invariably get her coat stuck in whatever single I was spinning.  Or maybe that was Casanova.  The memory isn’t so good right now.  Could be the week plus now of being awoken far too early by a small child coming to cuddle.  6:01 this morning.  Now, I love a good cuddle as much as the next person, not to mention the alarm clock starts at 6:00, but geez. 

Craft on!

Where to begin?  Been a couple of days, hmm, where did I leave off? I was pretty busy at work last week and with the early "mama wakeup" was crashing pretty early as well. I finished the "had to" things on office task list and am now cruising along on the remainder.  Do need to do my self evaluation/yearly review by the end but I’ve learned the trick to that thing a couple of years ago.

Anyway, Marina and I went off to Purl on Thursday.  She wanted to get started knitting socks and while she had beginner yarn at home really wanted to get some good yarn for the next pair.  What’s better than Koigu right?   I had to check the sale basket where huge skeins of Woolpak sat discounted 40%.  Sadly, I couldn’t find two skeins that coordinated in the same gauge and left without.  Believe me, I tried very hard.  Marina picked up two though for seperate projects, as well as a couple of skeins of koigu.  Me?  Well I flipped through the Folk Mittens book on the shelf and found a pair that I wanted to make.  I ordered the book in the Interweave Hurt book sale and am awaiting its arrival.  I picked up a couple of skeins of Cascade 220 in colors that match my winter coat for some serious coordinating bliss.  Yes my winter jacket really is that color combination.  It’s a wonderfully warm Land’s End parka with umpteen pockets.  It also is a petite and fits beautifully.  No, those colors wouldn’t have been my first choice, but it was the only one left in the store in my size.  No, the pink isn’t the accent color.  Sigh. 

Anyway, like Rosemary, I can’t seem to leave a store without picking up more sock yarn.  So naturally I had to pick up more this trip too.  I needed more brown sock yarn and it was nice of Koigu to put together this lovely blend for me.  Will match the nice chocolate colored sweater I happened to be wearing for the trip perfectly.  Now to finish some of the wips in progress and I can maybe make myself some brown socks.

Two new electronic devices entered my life on Friday, which prevented me from getting much done on the "softer side" of Risa   First, I have a laptop from the office.  I initially got it back during the summer of 2003 when I was pregnant with the twins.  We fear, correctly, that I would wind up on bed rest.  I had planned to carry on working but figured that a laptop would allow me to code from the couch.  My boss agreed and the helpdesk gave me an old Toshiba Portege 7200 basic bare bones computer which really required a base station but was good enough to connect to the office with and remote into my desktop there.  Little did we expect my bed rest to be in the hospital, where I lay for 8.5 weeks.  I’ve used the old Toshiba at home since, but last week it started to "chunk" and kvetch periodically and a scan indicated that the hard drive was failing.  I chatted in passing with someone from the helpdesk about it.  She suggested I bring it in and once she found out how old it was, told me she could upgrade me slightly without having to get director approval.  Sweet.  So I schlepped it in on Friday.  After lunch, I got a call from her, my new laptop was ready.  Slight upgrade?  I owe her some handknitted goodness for the massive upgrade I got.  While its nowhere near the cool goodness of Deb’s recent laptop experiences, this is worlds better than any laptop I’ve ever had!  She handed me a "new" Toshiba Tecra 9100 with all sorts of goodies, include built in wireless!  Life is good.  Needless to say, I had to spend some time Friday getting to know the new girl and tweaking her.  Had to make some changes to my wireless network at home to get her to talk to the router, but all is functioning normally now.

The other new addition was a purchase.  I’ve had Palm pilots for years, even had one of the original "personal" models.  The last was a Sony Clie SJ20.  An efficient little baby, but getting up there in years and asking to be replaced.  I’ve gone back and forth between upgrading to another PalmOS based unit or moving over to the PocketPC world.  The microsoft developer in me really liked the idea of the Windows based unit that I could actually write my own applications for (and believe me there is a dirth of WM Knitting apps out there).  Still, I was leaning towards getting a Palm T|X until Kevin pointed out this little news item:  Treo 700w brings Palm to Windows.  Huh?  A Palm running Windows?  Can’t just be this one model they are doing this with.  Hell if Palm is moving to Windows, maybe I should too.  Purchased online Thursday, arrived at the front door on Friday, I’m now the owner of a HP iPAQ rx1955. This little bad girl has Wifi built right in and had no issues connecting to my little wireless network at home.  In a blink, I was online, accessing my gmail account and answering emails.  Nifty.  I’ve also added a new ebook to her so if I get bored knitting on the train (or I can’t get a seat which does happen periodically) I can read.  What am I reading?  Something from the Gutenberg project?  Nope.  Stephen King’s newest book:  Cell.  So now with two new tech toys in the house, you can understand why my craft time was minimal at best.  Ignore of course the two short people who are still kinda demanding of my time too

I did do some knitting though.  I started the second of the Claudia Handpaint socks.  I’m trying something new though.  Deb posted last week about the Turkish cast on and provided a link to an online tutorial.  Always on the prowl for something to make the cool socks even cooler, I had to give it a try.  Saturday night, I spent about 20 minutes knitting, but by the end of that time had the toe done using this technique.  I’ve done the figure 8, but my this one is easier by far.  You don’t need to use the two circs indicated in the tutorial.  The magic loop is perfect for this method too.  The color representation in this picture is a bit closer to the "real" colors though I can’t say as I see all that pink that my camera picked up. 

I also swatched for my Olympic vest last night.  I’m getting the requisite stitch/row on a size 2 needle.  Oy.  Fair Isle Vest, with never before done steeks, on a US2, in 16 days.  Someone reserve a room for me in a rubber room because I’m definitely going to need it. 

The next FLAK installment has been out now for two weeks, with the newest one out any moment, I finally got down to business and picked up the stitches for the back.  I sat down to do the match after swatching for the vest last night.  Much to my surprise, because of my tiny frame, I need NO filler stitch on this sweater.  The back is ALL cables and the 2 purl stitches between cables.  Should be interesting.  At least it won’t get boring to knit and not such a bad thing as I have a tendency to royally futz up Moss Stitch. I didn’t get very far before it was time to call it a night, but I do hope to make some progress on it tonight.

Lastly, I spotted this view while peeking into the living room from the kitchen door the other night.  I couldn’t have asked for more from this little kitten.

Craft on.

Wow, would you believe another day went by that I didn’t cast on for a new project NOR bought anything?  Amazing.  I was tempted though.  Email turned up sale at Kyarn on Lamb’s Pride and well I have sold some stash yarn (hi Claudia, box is set to be picked up tomorrow morning by my postal carrier!) Won’t be able to say the same tomorrow.  Two reasons:

The first is that Marina and I will be going to Purl.  She wants to start knitting socks and asked me if I wanted to take a field trip there.  Always!  Not to mention the opportunity to spread the sock bug to someone else. Yessiree.  She’ll love it.  Purl has some great choices for sock yarn.  Between the Lorna’s Laces and the Koigu, she can’t go wrong. I figure if you’re going to do it, you do it with something that you love the look and feel of otherwise you wouldn’t get a true experience and might be discouraged early.  I do need to pick up my final better pal gift and Purl is the perfect place to do it.  Can’t spill, don’t know if she’s a reader or not and I’d rather not spoil the surprise.

So that blows the whole not buying anything, which brings me to the casting on portion.  I just finished the first sock while watching Veronica Mars.  Colors are gorgeous though the effects are different on the foot than the leg.  The leg you can see it spirals, but it pooled on the foot.  Odd, but definitely a gorgeous sock, even better in person than this picture, though thanks to the OTT light, the colors are pretty true.  It fits me like a glove so I hope it fits mom okay.  So I have to cast on tomorrow, for the second sock. 

I realized I missed something in my last post.  No one has called me on the carpet for it though.  I forgot the whole kitten zen photo thing.  Must be this posting at night thing.  It has me so confused that I just plum forgot it.  Mea culpa.  Please forgive.  I do hope to atone with this nugget of kitten goodness.

My Noro Silk Garden arrived today.  YAY!  It is gorgeous.  I told Deb in an email exchange that I was so tempted to toss aside the whole FI thing and do Klaralund for the Olympics.  But she was right, Klaralund wouldn’t be a challenge and the Olympic spirit called for something better.  She’s right.  I’ll just have to content myself with fondling the yarn until after the vest is done. 

Short one tonight as the little people had me up at 5:30 this morning.  While they went back to sleep until 7, I only got a few more minutes of shuteye.  Add in the grueling day of writing code and you got yourself one tired fiber lady.

Craft on!