knitabit

A good read

I actually read a book this week - something I haven't done in quite a while. This was a good one. I wish the author had included more photos. I went here to get a better visual sense of the 1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition.

Mindless tedium

I don't care what anybody says, knitting is the superior craft. Crochet wears out its welcome after only a few hours. But this tried-and-true pattern results in a very practical baby blanket that has more than once become one of those "binkies" that has to go everywhere (to the parents' dismay).

I've got about four inches and the border left to finish.

Another pair of socks

Here is another pair of socks completed while I was on blogging hiatus.

They're a bit scrunchy, having just come of the dryer (and oops, that's generally not a good thing to do with handknit socks.)

I'm too lazy to go look at what kind of yarn it was.

The pattern was from from the afore-mentioned "Sensational Socks" book. This is a "Twin Rib" from the six-stitch repeat chapter. I found that it was easy to make a mistake on this pattern (well, without reading glasses it was) so I spent more time than usual ripping out and re-doing stuff.

While I was on blogging hiatus, I really trimmed down the number of blogs I've subscribed to. The ones that survived several rounds of cuts are the ones that have regular postings but which are short and to the point. This is something I shall strive for.

I Have Returned

I've been sidetracked for the last several months with a big work project and just today we delivered the draft report (thanks, Kendal!) so I finally get my life back.

I've felt like any time I would have spent knit-blogging (normally in the morning) should have properly gone to various work assignments. But I am now re-claiming life and reducing work to the extremely part-time job that it was intended to be in the first place.

Here's what's on my list for the next couple of weeks: I need to make an appointment with the eye doctor to get bifocals or something (one of the hazards of being in my mid-40's, I suppose), I'm going to clean my house from top to bottom and clean closets and the office and stuff like that, I'm going to play my piano more, and I'm going EXERCISE EVERY DAY. Wa-hoo!

Even though knit-blogging had to go by the wayside, actual knitting did not (although output was reduced). Here's a recent FO:

These are knitted with my new favorite yarn, Lorna's Lace Shepherd Sock Yarn, and according the instructions in my new favorite book, "Sensational Knitted Socks" by Charlene Schurch - the BEST SOCK BOOK EVER.

These socks are intentionally a bit big and even baggy so that they are more of a slouch-around-the-house kind of footwear.

I'm taking a break between knitted projects to crochet a baby blanket for a friend who's expecting:

Yes it's a cheap acrylic yarn, and yes it's not that attractive but they don't peak before the baby's born so I had to pick something that was suitable for either a boy or girl.

See you again real soon!