One Crazy Fiber Lady

Two skeins of Louet Gems Pearl in Pure White and a 40″ US0 Addi Turbo sitting on the bench outside Purl. I even had the skeins wound for me for a change. I would have started the socks but the beautiful weather enchanted me into walking back to the office. Stay tuned for cast on.

Craft on!

It has been an interesting couple of days.  Yesterday morning, I got to the train station and couldn’t find my rail pass holder.  I have this little flip folder that I keep my monthly pass, PATH card and a MetroCard all in.  Creates a bit of an expensive problem should I lose it. Compound the daily expense with the fact that since I had gotten my TransitChecks last Friday, on Monday I decided to take advantage of the lack of lines and bought my October Monthly train ticket ($122) and tucked that into the holder.  All of these goodies where nowhere to be seen yesterday morning.  The conductor on the train in understand and since she’d seen me almost every morning this month, let it go. I stopped at the Lost & Found at the station after getting off the train to see if anyone had found it.  No luck, but I did fill out a report.  I then bought a one way ticket (just in case I got a hard-ass conductor) and a new Pathcard which I needed in a few days anyway. 

I was running a bit late so I didn’t check the L&F on the way home, but did stop by the conductor who was standing on the platform next to the train and ask him if anyone had seen it.  Nope, no one had, but having established the loss added in that I showed him the receipt that I got when I purchased said month (and he’s also seen me every evening for the month) didn’t hassle me as well.  ‘Good thing September is almost over’, he jested. 

This morning’s ride in I got one of those hardasses, who when I explained the loss and showed him the receipt, he said "Means nothin’ to me".  Ass.  I gave him the oneway I bought yesterday, fearing he’d charge me the $5 surcharge for buying a ticket on the train NJ Transit instituted a while ago.  I seethed most of the ride in.  In 10 years, I’ve lost 2 tickets, both the last week of the month.  9 out of 10 of the conductors are nice guys but that 10th.  Sigh. 

I stopped in at the L&F when I got to the station.  Miracle of miracles (okay maybe not such a huge miracle), someone had found my ticket holder and had turned it in.  The lady behind the counter had just called my office number to leave a message that they had it.  Whew.  Seems it had fallen out of my bag in the parking lot when I pulled out my keys.  Well those two items aren’t sharing the same pocket anymore!  Thank you to the nice lady at my station.

I’ve made more progress on Kat’s socks.  I turned the heel during the ride in and am in the home stretch now.  Last night after paying some bills and getting two toddlers settled, I worked on Ivy.  I’m now into the stockinette portion.  Both projects will be going to Modern Yarn tonight.  I really love how Ivy is coming out.  The color of the Silky Wool is closer in this picture than the one I posted the other day, though still a hair darker than the actual yarn.

Is it so very wrong that I want to toss aside everything in the current and future todo list to start these socks?  Other than Kat’s socks, which are almost done, and the Koigu socks, which too are almost done, I don’t have any other sock projects.  I did abandon and reclaim needles from the Lombard Street socks.  I wasn’t feeling the love.  They are afterall, the ideal commuting knitting, though add in the cable-y goodness and it back off of perfect by a tad.  But really, how many plain knit socks can one person knit?  Wait.  Don’t answer that.  The siren’s call of Purl with its Shepherd Sock or solid colored Koigu is very loud right now.  A betting man (looking at his watch 12:34PM ET as I write this) figures that as soon as the CFL hits the "Save" button, she’s probably out the door heading for the Broadway subways and a quick ride to Prince Street.  I’d put money on the betting man (good thing I got my metro card back this morning)!

Craft on!