One Crazy Fiber Lady

I can’t say that I’m entirely happy about this!  The forecast is for 4-7" of that hideous frozen white stuff that falls from the sky.  My Home is in one of those dark blue areas in the northern portion of New Jersey.  Feh.  I’m done whining now.  As some wonderful comments yesterday reminded me, this too shall pass and spring is on its way.  Lets just hope that lamb gets here soon!  There’s a lamb fleece on its way, but that’s besides the point.

BTW, in case no one has noticed it tucked in the sidebar (especially if your a bloglines reader type), I finally got on the bandwagon (better late than never, right?) and did the Frappr map thing.  Please go add yourself to my map, I’d love to get a sense of where everyone is. 

No retail therapy yesterday, though I was tempted.   Oh wait, I take that back.  I didn’t buy any yarn, but I did pick up a few new patterns.  Glutton for punishment that I am, I they are Knitpicks patterns.  Lightning can’t strike twice, can it?  I did sit during lunch and work on my Klara sleeves.  While I like the idea of finishing both sleeves at once and not having to knit a second thing, I don’t like the practice of it.  They progress far too slowly and I spent more time trying to keep the darn yarn untangled, especially this grippy arsed Silk Garden.  I’m a hair away from slipping one sleeve to a holder and finishing them separately.  Anyway, one of the patterns I bought was the Fair Isle socks, with my new love of stranded work, I thought they would be cool.  Surely not as cool as this sweater that Deb sent me the link to, but cool enough.  Following Cathi’s (blogless) advice to cast on something new, combined with the need for the favorite addiT needles
for socks and the impending arrival of the pattern calling for Knitpicks Simply Stripes yarn, the Idle Moments socks were declared DOA this morning.  Mourn not my friends, they never ingratiated themselves into my heart, even enough to pose for a blog picture, and will be reborn in a cool fair isle pattern.  Instead, I present the Blah Buster Sock(s)^TM.  Yarn choice is FINALLY a skein of Trekking (I had amassed 3 without ever trying the stuff) in Color 100.  I started the Turkish Cast on and will obviously work toe-up.  Having caught the express train this morning, combined with making a quick connection both at Secaucus Transfer and Penn Station, I didn’t get overly far with it, but its helping to cheer up this SADD person with a touch of PMS.

Back to coding…

Craft on!