Wool & Words

One Sockapaloooza sock done...one to go.

The wire, it approaches.

While you're waiting, take a minute to check out what's happening with Carrie!

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....so it's time for a KAL report.

Sockapaloooza

I'm going to be a sockapalooser...I'm so freaking slow. I'm still slogging along on the foot of Sock #1. What's taking up my time?

AWARD CEREMONIES.

I've been here for 5 years and this year was the big "whiz-bang-you're-great" year for me. Don't get me wrong--I'm not knocking recognition. I'm flattered and all. Really. I am. But this week I've had 3 events to attend. I'm writing. And I just don't seem to have the time or the mental capacity to knit LACE socks (even though the lace is wicked simple) AND go to these events AND work on my dissertation*. Sigh.

Back to the socks. I'm not giving up. I'm not going to be late, by jingo. I'm just kvetching a bit.

Other KAL

Am I in any others? Oh, yeah, the Sock of the Month. Well, you see how that's going.

Other Thursday Business

Thanks for all the loverly compliments on my sweater. I like it quite a bit myself.

OK...enough chitterchatter. Back to the salt mines for me.

*The diss business was mucked up mightily this week, courtesy of Microsoft (of course) and a buggy security patch (gah!) that rendered all of my MS Office software teh stupid for several days. All is repaired now, but I was really raging for a few days. Really. Ask Ruth or Tina.

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The KPS Tee is done. Finis. Finito. Well, mostly done--a few ends to weave in.

Pattern: Knitting Pure and Simple Raglan Tee
Yarn: Elsbeth Lavold Silky Wool (thanks sweetie!)
Needles: Size 6 & 4 (the pattern calls for a gajillion needles--I used a 40" in each size--love that Magic Loop)

Thoughts:

I will knit this again. And again. And again. I will, however, make the next one longer in both the body and the sleeves. I heart this pattern.

I see a Rowan Calmer version (or 4) in my future. And maybe Cotton Classic. Or something linen-y. Oh yeah.

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It's Thursday and that means you're owed a KAL report.

First, Project Spectrum. No knitting, but here's some orange and yellow for you.

These hang in my living room. I didn't realize that I had so much yellow staring at me all the time.

And here's the textbook I'll be using for this summer's teaching assignment.

And some sassy orange and yellow reading for fun (or, in the case of Pound's Cantos, torture).

OK...enough of that.

Sockapaloooza

4 sock patterns later, I finally found inspiration in Cara's completed Simply Lovely Lace Socks (pattern IK Spring 2006). So sock #1 is begun and # 2 is waiting in the wings. These will be done on time. I just won't get to knit anything else for a while.

Other Knits

You really didn't believe that business about knitting nothing else, did you?

I'm thisclose to finishing the Knitting Pure and Simple Tee in Silky Wool. The socks, they slow me down.

I'm trying to resist the siren song of the sassy skeins of Cotton Fleece in Robin's Egg Blue that are sitting on the shelf at Main Street. So far, I've swatched some CF I have laying about and I keep chanting to myself "Resistance is futile."

Knit on.

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I'm a sucker for this kind of contest. Thanks, Kat, for the stroll down memory lane!

5 Places I've Knit (not home or LYS):

1. 99X 2005 Concert Series. Outdoors. In the rain. I kept my socks in a special baggie.
2. The 99X Mistletoe Jam 2004. Gwinnett Arena. VERY LOUD. The socks I was working on needed to have their hearing checked.
3. The emergency room at St. Mary's Hospital. In a gown. Waiting for my kidney stone diagnosis. (Do I get extra points for posting a photo of this extreme experience?)
4. The Atlanta Botanical Gardens on the day that Steve proposed. Yes, I put the socks away when I sensed a Big Moment was coming.
5. Braves games. Great sock knitting time.

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For the religious, Pope Benedict XVI's Easter Message.

For the secular, a Peeps celebration. The Peeps Research entry is particularly amusing.

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Nothing to report on the KAL front...Sockapaloooza socks (pink. garter rib.) are started and being knit.

Raw and Unedited Sapelo Pictures are here.

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So I'm trying to find something to say today.

Thought about sending you to read a poem in celebration of National Poetry Month.

Or maybe I could rant about the tax code.

Or dish about the latest Knitty (I'm thinking about knitting Convertible, by the way).

But I think I'll just let you look up through the trees.

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Sapelo was incredible. My bed is calling. More later this week.

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First off, Project Spectrum (which I've actually joined now).

I searched my desk for orange and yellow, but only found

A yellow mug

and another mug...with a cheery golden friend!

There. That about does it for me and the yellow/orange month. I'll keep my eyes open, though.

Other Knits:

Sockapaloooza Update: Not the Elenora Socks. I will make them (they are beautious), but I'd need to resize and my brain is so not there right now. So I'm hitting Charlene Schurch's book for a simple lace pattern. And I'm doing them in pink Wildefoote. And that's all I have to say about that...for now.

Other socks:

--Steve's socks are stalled.
--I'm STILL working on the Socks Falling on Cedars--I think I'm going to rip them out and begin again. Which is just tragic and sad--they're plain stockinette, for crying out loud.

Other knits:

No pics, but the Henley is coming along, as is his sister, Top Down Tee. He's fushcia, she's brown--no gender business here.

Haven't touched the Pearl Buck (sorry Ruth!). I need to get back to that.

And, I'm off for the weekend to Sapelo Island for a retreat. See you all next week!

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Go to Bezzie's stash blog, Lupe and Shawnee Do the Big City. WARNING: May not be suitable for work viewing or easily offended eyes. Oh, yeah, and there's a contest.

There. I bet THAT made you curious!

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Maurice insisted on showing you around the stash today, so without further ado...

First, the tub, in which we find our meddlin' monkey relaxing:

There's some Elann Baby Cashmere, Nature Spun Sport for a sweater, and Cotton Fleece. All tasty, all waiting to be knit into something grand.

Next, the cedar trunk, home to more treats:

An entire bag of white yarns that will someday become something. cones of garnet wool, crochet cotton, a bag of brown Brown Sheep, lots of luscious laceweight. You can't see to look at it, but there's some snappy stuff in that trunk. Maurice is enjoying his visit. He's not too keen on the cedar smell through.

And the cubbies, which are Maurice's usual domain. See how he's the master of it all:

A ton of Brown Sheep for felting, hats, and those awesome mittens from that Interweave a while ago. Sock yarn--oh the sock yarn! And some Cotton-Ease stashed before it all disappeared.

I have to hand it to him, though. Of all the skeins, he wanted to hug this, the precious Balmoral, the longest:

Yes, that is Red Heart in the stash--Cotton Plus. Don't know what it will be just yet, but it will be something.

He's whispering in my ear that I've forgotten the coat closet, which is secret home to some items gotten at SAFF. And the other plastic tub, which holds the leftover skeins from projects past. And the yarn in the living room (about 5 sweaters worth). And the stuff that's probably at Steve's house in storage.

Sigh. It's obscene.

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