yarntherapy

underwater

This whole week I've felt like I was underwater. Monday was a totally shitty day where I cried a whole bunch until my eyes burned, Monday night I had several sorely needed and very strong cocktails, and now I'm fighting a cold so I'm all doped up on decongestant.  Ugh. I can't concentrate on anything at all.

I'm still working on the old SKB and trying to decide what to make next. I'm pretty underwhelmed with the new Vogue Knitting. I like IK a little better, but there's nothing I'm dying to make from it. Or Knitty. Or anything on my shelves. Maybe I'll try my hand at crochet again. I have the materials for the Sweet Pea shawl from Happy Hooker which I've unsuccessfully started about six times now.

Am I the only one who looooved last night's Lost? I love all that meta stuff and the inside jokes. The editing was amazing, inserting Nikki and Paulo into the old scenes. I'd love to know how that was accomplished.

 

Also, am I the only one kind of looking forward to seeing Carl Pavano on opening day? It will either be an amazing story of redemption or a spectacular flame-out, visible from the moon. It's a win-win.

OK, I'd better go try to shovel some of all this junk off of my bedroom floor. Later, dudes.

work in progress

work in progress
Originally uploaded by laurelann.

Be happy, people, I just wrote a big old post about how cranky and overwhelmed with life I've been lately but I lost it. So now that I have that out of my system, I will share with you the happy news that there has actually been knitting going on around here. I returned to the SKB and I am nearing completion. I was dreading doing the lace on circulars, but it was actually pretty fun! I also finally learned how to knit in the round using two circs. Between that and Magic Loop, I will never use hateful DPNs again. Ever ever ever.

I tried one of the sleeves on last night and I think I am going to finish off the sleeves to a three-quarter length, with the slight flare from the pattern. It's a flattering length on my long-ass arms and it means that I can add some length to the bodice without running out of yarn. Yay!

in like a lamb

Well, it's March 1st here and spring is creeeeeeeping in, taking her own damn sweet time. I wake up to sunny blue skies and by afternoon, it's grey and dreary again and I just want to curl up and whine about it. I think there is a post just like this at the beginning of March very year I've had this blog.

I am not a fan of winter, can you tell?

Yesterday I made a quick visit to the Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting exhibit at the Museum of Art and Design. Very quick visit, I only had about half an hour to cruise through, but I was in the mood for a little culture, and I'm planning to go back for a closer look. It's a lot to take in - and not as much about knitting and fiber arts as I expected it to be. There were a number of works that seemed inspired by the forms that lace can take, but were made from paper, glass, and other media. I'm not sure if I was disappointed in it as a whole or not, but there are definitely some pieces I am looking forward to seeing again, and with more time to absorb it all. I was definitely intrigued by the lower-level exhibit called Wartime Knitting Circle which invites museum-goers to knit for peace. Perhaps I will go back and knit for a while.

Tomorrow I am making my very first trip to Trader Joes! Woohoo!

And in a sign that spring is, in fact, almost here - the Yankees won their first spring training game of the season - 6-1 over the Twins.