Fiber Dork

Finally

2006-02-01T07:20:00.000-06:00

I've found a lace stitch that I can live with. I was looking for something to use to make a little lap throw that would nicely show off the fiber of the Rowan Color Spray (in the landscape colorway). I'm doing it in the seafoam stitch, which is surprisingly simple. The only thing I don't like is when I have to knit the row *after* all of the YO's; it takes longer than I like. Oh well, the rest of it seems to go by pretty quickly.

This stitch has everything that I wanted for a throw; a bit of strutcture to it's shape as well as a lot of open areas to show off the funky cold medinosity of the fiber itself. I really will do my best to get some pictures of it soon.

I've been taking a little knit-vacation lately, mainly because I haven't had a project that I've been in love with (and if you don't love it, why do it?), but also because I'm saving up my money for an upcoming yoga teacher training with David Swenson- ashtanga yogi extraordinaire- and consequently don't have the mad money I usually spend on expensive imported fibers upon which to writhe. Naked. While singing Donna Summer (I'm old school like that, yo).

But now that I've got this new favorite stitch, I kind of want a seafoam stitch scarf; of course, I think it's a bit femme for me, maybe I will make one for my sister...

The Sun waves bye-bye!

2006-01-22T20:25:00.000-06:00

or, the scarf post that should have been done last week.

I've said it before folks, and I'm not ashamed to say it again: I like a few of the fibers in the Joann Sensations line. I *ALMOST* bought more in blue today to make my own scarf, but then I thought "Self, do you really need a new scarf?" I think I'll limit myself to one personal scarf per year.
This one is called Thick 'n Thin; It's two fibers plyed together. One slubby woolfiber in a sunset-esque purple-pink-yellow colorway, the other is a laceweight nylon that's dark blue and kinda hairy. Not eyelashy (how I loathe that stuff), just like it needs a shave.

So yeah, it's a trendy yarn, but it's perfect for the recipient. A few people said "Um, a scarf? for an 8 year old's birthday?" and it made me second guess myself. See, that's never a good thing, cuz you know what? I'm always right! Except for when I'm wrong, which is almost never.

I finished the scarf in just two nights; it was done on US 19s, and anything done on 19s knits up quickly. I did most of it in one night, and the next night I just kinda fiddled with it. I woke up on a Saturday morning (day of the party) and added the fringe in about 10 minutes, and then went to work.

...Only to find out that someone had picked up my shift but no one had told me... so I got some coffee and the super awesome gay-owned coffee shop nearby, got an almond latte, and then came home to hang out with Rich.

So I was thinking "a scarf will be nice, it's supposed to be getting chilly soon, and she likes clothes."

Well, she LOVES clothes. That's all she got! Clothes from Mom, grandma, great grandma, and the aunts. She's very girly, and almost everything was pink, so this was the perfect thing. Her eyes lit up and she yelled "MY VERY OWN SCARF", wrapped it around her neck and then proceeded to open the rest of her gifts.

She's fun. She knits! I bought her the Lion brand kid's needles at christmas and gave her a bunch of my crappy acrylic stash. I gave her great grandmother a copy of "how to teach kids to knit" since she spends 4 days a week with them after school (I spend one day with them), and so now she knits! We're going to work on mitered squares this week.

I am ashamed to admit this- I bought some acrylic today. Red Heart Super Saver, yo! IN RAINBOW MULTICOLOR. I did all of this on purpose, y'all! I'm gonna make a bag out of mitered squares, and well... GAY PRIDE! That's all I'ma say on that.

Here's mom wearing the scarf. She says that she's going to steal it, because darling daughter forgets it when she goes to school and she can't resist it. I can't blame her, I like it a lot too.

Oh hey! I realized what I did to screw up my entrelac project... It's embarassing to say, but I will share it anyways. The yarn over bit? and k2tog? Okay, I was doing the k2tog and then PURLING a stitch- totally skipping the increase. I was sleeping and I realized- HEY WAIT A MINUTE! I know what I did wrong! So I'm going to try it again soon, because I really do think it looks neat. Want to see what I did end up with though? :)

F'real! I made that while trying to do entrelac...it all decreased, and decreased, and decreased until all I had left was a nub. See, I'm using my chibi to sew it up and make it into a little sculpture! yay for art!

Hiccup!

2006-01-17T21:51:00.000-06:00

I just wrote a long entry about my weekend, which was pretty knit-centric, and then even talked about what was coming up. I lost it...and I don't have the energy to redo it... I'll post again tomorrow, put the pictures back up and everything...I'm so tired. I've been up since the butt crack of dawn and I'm tired, y'all.

I'm also rockin' the pedicure, y'all. Me and the folks from the yoga center (my coworkers, that is) all went to Dream Snails (actually, it's Dreams Nails, but I like my name better) for pedicures today. My feet are soft and smooth and the nails are a nice shiney black. I'm so goth, y'all! OHMYGAWD!!

...love, BritBrit Spears

What's next?

2006-01-11T09:01:00.000-06:00

Well, I was trying to think of something to do since I decided not to work on the two projects I thought that I wanted to do and I thought "hey, let's make a purse for Hannah!" See, Hannah is the daughter of a very close friend, and I thought she'd like it.

I took two fibers; the leftover Magallanes from a hat project earlier in the fall (#304) and some white wool/cotton blend (also leftover from a hat project).

that's it over to the right; it's mutli-plyed,and kinda loose...giving it a sort of wavy look. What I was hoping for was for the Magallanes to felt a lot and the and wacky icelandic stuff (I can't remember the name, but it meant something like 'vikings killed my parents and I all I got was this drop spindle') to felt a little, that way I'd have stitch definition with just a little felting action. Well, I put the finished object in the wash last night, and I'm less than pleased with the results. Now, they are the results I wanted...I just thought it would look better than it does. Ah well.

And hey! I have time to whip out a wacky scarf... This is a little girl who can appreciate a crazy scarf, so I think it will be okay. Perhaps I'll post pictures of that when it's done. Still, I'm tired of scarves. If anyone cares to recommend a good pattern or a kit, feel free... I've done too many scarves and hats, so please- nothing along those lines. Afghans, socks, boots and booties are all cool though...

Your Daily dose of "Did someone actually make that on purpose??!"

That's a thong, y'all. A THONG!

ps- it's crocheted,and I praise Jeebus that there hasn't been a way to make these on those loom-circle things, or we'd be seeing knit thongs on sorority girls across the US. And that would make the Baby Jeez cry.

Not pale enough to be goth

2006-01-09T08:21:00.001-06:00

*sigh* I'm feeling very blah today. My allergies are KILLING ME, INTERNET! And even though they're the only things that make me feel human when my allergies are bad, I can't bring myself to take the stupid allergy meds. I just don't want to rely on them; I'd rather feel like crap than keep pumping myself full of artificial chemicals and whatever. If they could make a pill out of like, rainbows, or love that would fix my problems I would so take it.

I don't like either of the projects that I said I would work on this month, so I've decided that hey, I'm not going to work on them! You know why? Because knitting IS A HOBBY, and well, If I'm not enjoying it, THEN IT'S NOT A HOBBY. I wish I had realized this attitude at a younger age and been able to tell my sorry excuse for a mother that Hey, you know what? I'm not liking this, so I'll just see you later.

Ugh. So. Bitter. I'm sorry y'all, I'm just sleepy. The allergies kept me up, what with the not breathing, and the coughing, and the SECRETIONS! Good lord, who knew that a single human being could make so many interestingly colored fluids?? And oh my, wouldn't you know that I would drift off to sleep FINALLY at 2am, only to have to get up at 5:30am for an early morning shift at the front desk of my yoga center. It's so hard to be a ray of sunshine this morning.

On the bright side- I'm trying out a new phone. A palm Treo; it's nice, but a little more gadget-y than I need. I think I might pass it on to my guy; he needs a new phone, and I'm really fond of my teeny tiny little barely-even-there celly.

Alrighty now folks; I'm done being a negative Nancy. I'm going to skip along to the kitchen and pour myself a bowl of organic bran-O's with honey and then cheer myself the hell up by singing songs from musicals.

Tools of the trade

2006-01-07T09:01:00.000-06:00

I think that we've covered the fact that I dig me some fibers, right? I really love the tools, though... I have a lot of size 10 needles because I use that size a lot and I keep running across fancy wooden needles. Just the other day I was *this close* to buying some in ebony, but I talked myself out of it. They were swanky!

Those are my straight needles (and one pair of circs I was using this week). I bought the case at Joann Fabrics a while back...it's really nice, and was only 15 bucks. Yay, good buy! See the crochet hooks stickin' out? A set of Susan Bates hooks that I got for 3 bucks last month... nice, but they haven't proven too useful to date.

My mother in law gave me the box you see here for Christmas this year, and my first thought was "OH! It's the perfect size for my circs and DP's!". And it is. Notice the wood inlay...intarsia!

Yeah, i'd like to write more...but my stomach demands that I feed myself, and since it's a Saturday morning, I will make myself some eggs and then head back to bed to be lazy! Yay!

On the needles this month:

2006-01-03T09:31:00.000-06:00

I only have two projects this month... the first one is an afghan for my couch. You can see parts of my couch in some pictures below; it's a dark moss green. So I decided to spend some money (and christmas gift certificates) at my LYS and get some Rowan Color Spray in Landscape (I think that's the name of this colorway...I can't really remember). It's yummy... Mmmm.

I just really liked the way that it looked. I think I'm going to do it about 5 feet wide by 8 feet long, on circs. What do you think, internet? I want some detail that will show off the fiber itself, so I might drop every third or fourth stitch so that you can see the fancy graffiti-like spray of Toxic Avenger green on the fiber. I knitted up a swatch last night and dropped every other stitch, but I think I want more structure to it than I saw. Does anyone have any pattern suggestions? Remember, I want to show off the fiber, but I also want some shape or structure to it. Thanks internet, YOU'RE THE BEST!

I'm also working on a shawl for my teacher; she's moving to Taipei and I wanted to make her something that would remind her of home and me at the same time. It's a very simple little shawl, done in Paton's Evita- I bought like 8 balls of it because it was kind of neat and on sale for like 2 bucks per ball...It's been in my "medium good" stash for about a year, so I figured that it was about time to use it...

I don't really have a lot to work on though; it's been in the 70s and even the 80s here in Austin lately so I don't even need a scarf, much less a sweater. Sigh, Oh well, maybe eventually.

Boring Saturday

2005-12-31T20:36:00.000-06:00

So after the Horrors of Entrelac, I have just been working on a scarf while I have been lazing about. On Thursday I made about 6 feet of scarf while watching the Bourne Identity, then I frogged it Friday morning. I worked on it again Friday and frogged it again on Saturday. This morning (Saturday morning!) I started workingo n it again, and decided to keep it. It's a plain ole' garter stitch, done while sitting on the couch. Dude, have you seen The Soup's clip-off ? Hilarious!

So yeah, the scarf... garter stitch, done in Lion Brand Wool Ease thick 'n quick with US 13's (bamboo, natch). the scarf itself is kinda boring, even if it is like 10 feet long (hey, what can I say? when it comes to scarves I'm a size queen). So when I got to the end, I dropped a stitch and then worked it free down it's length.

I blocked it to stop it from corkscrewing around when I wore it, and the Virgin Mary TOTALLY approved of it!

I like the little ladder-y look of it, and thought it would look nice with some fancy yarn woven between the ladder-y bits, so I busted out some Bernat Bling-Bling, yo! And then, Eww! Or, in French: Iue!

So I took the bling out andwill probably wear this thing out to a New Year's eve party that we're going to in a little while... So, g'night everyone, and have a wonderful holiday :)

Horrors of Entrelac, part 1

2005-12-29T13:45:00.000-06:00

The entrelac! Oh,the horror of it all! Oh, Internet, I wish I could show you pictures of what happened to my entrelac trial, but I can't find my trusty digital camera (I think I left it in Rich's car, it's probably hiding under the seat).

Something went wrong, but not horribly wrong. My entrelac looks nothing at all like the picture I posted in my previous entry (that was just a google image search results, I'm not that gifted). No no no, not at all like that. I think I skipped ahead and when I should have been doing left hand edge squares I did right hand squares, and then vice versa, and hell I don't know what happened, but all of a sudden I have 8 stitches on a needle that previously had 48!!

Okay, so I look at this thing, and it looks like a freaky elf hat. Then it looks like a bouquet from land where homos have never heard of Marth (Wyoming??), and THEN it's looking to me like the Norse tree of life!! So what does a quarter norwegian homo do?? Breaks out the chibi and knits that shit up into a sculpture! I'm gonna stuff it and do *something* with it. Really, it's kind of cool looking, I just wish that:

A. I had meant to do that.
B. I could remember what exactly I did.
C. That I had heat vision.

I need to take an entrelac class at my LYS; I'm really a kinesthetic learner (learn by doing!), but with this I think I need to see it done and not rely on just a book. Sometimes I have to read instructions a few times, dig around the abbreviation list at the back, then read a few more times... The p1 fb instruction confuses me; I'm 70% sure I'm doing that wrong. Oh, and SSK ? Huh-wha? I need something to soothe my soul, so maybe I'll make a quick scarf. I want to do a drop stitch scarf in black ad weave in some recycled silk that I got at the local toy store (yes, the toy store carries recycled silk, how cool is that?).

I have a friend who works there (at the toy store), and she loves my KO's...she has a few hats and a scarf- her ladyfriend would probably appreciate a scarf too, so maybe I'll just whip one out for her tonight. Or maybe I'll go price some knitting machines... anyone have any recommendations?

ps- I'll post some "horrors of entrelac" photos sometime soon, I promise!

Oh, my achin' skull

2005-12-27T08:52:00.000-06:00

Okay, because I love you folks, I will share something special with you. If you are trying to "figure out" entrelac (you know, because you're the only person capable of doing so), DO NOT think that an amaretto sour will somehow aid in the process. I don't know if it's the amaretto or the math that's making my head hurt now, but something needs to stop killing me. Oh wait... cedar is in full effect here. Argh, I need to move to a less allergen-y area.

to make a long and boring story short and somewhat interesting, I will tell you that I *did* get the hang of it, but my squares are somewhat oddly shaped, and I didn't really follow the very strict guidelines set forth by the gay french gods of entrelac, so they're all wonky, like little gnome hats made by little drunk gnomes.

But hey, internet! I did get the hang of it. Okay, not "it" in "it's" entirety, but I did get the hang of knitting the base triangles, and hey, that's important, right? Remember folks, I taught myself how to knit from a book. FROM THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL STORE! And this was just a year ago, so hey, cut me some slack. Damn internet, back off.

I'd post some pics of the hat I just finished, but it was kinda boring. I do have some neat pics of the bind off of the scarf that I gave Rich's mom for X-Mess, but they're actually not neat and are rather boring. Surriously. So yeah... I'll work on entrelac some more, and then maybe I'll post some pictures, okay Internet? Okay. See ya later. Apropos of nothing, here are some super fine ladies in hats, enjoy!

If you're asking yourself "Self, WWJD?" the answer is "hit it."

Christmas gift summary

2005-12-21T08:08:00.000-06:00

I tried to make as many gifts as I could this year, because I'm poor. Well, not really poor, but I do have an expensive fiber habit to support... I made that muppet scarf for Rich, and well... I'm not sure that he likes it. You know, that's fine with me, since I like it and will definitely wear it (My moebius scarf is wool. I chose it because it's beautiful...I guess that's what I get for buying winter wool in July and not taking it for a test drive...but I digress). I made a hat for his mother, and am in the process of finishing up the coordinating scarf. Honestly, the scarf started as a way to use up the last of the hat yarn left over from the giant hat-making orgy that was November as I prepared for a holiday gift bazaar that I was showing at. I would have finished last night if Rich hadn't insisted on seeing King Kong. Dude, I laughed so hard when the dinosauruses were trying to eat Naomi Whatever while they were all trapped in the vines! so! funny!

Where was I? Oh yeah..hat and scarf. I gave a few hats away here at work (I can whip out a beanie-style cap in a few hours, and sometimes just make one while I'm watching a movie or wh ile we're driving to San Antonio) and also a few to some folks on my softball team. I'm also going to make some sugar scrubs for someone at work who emailed me last night- stocking stuffers made by homos, who KNOW how to stuff stockings, yo (see photo at left).

I guess what I should do is figure what I'd like to knit for whom, and begin working on projects a little more than a month before the actual holiday. I WOULD like to tackle some projects that have been on my mind for a while. I need a new sweater, and I think that would be a good time to take on the great beast Intarsia. But what design/logo should I use? Any suggestions??

Things that have been said about me...

2005-12-20T10:02:00.000-06:00

Hi folks :) With the holiday season looming right on the horizon, I thought I would look back and think about some of the things that have been said about me...let's begin!

It's been said that:

I put the "dream" in Dreamsicle. I had absolutely nothing to do with either Cream or Fudge-sicle.

I make the best chocolate chip cookies in the western hemisphere. Totally true.

A crone visited me on the day of my birth, but they're not sure if she cursed me or everyone around me. Tee hee.

If you multiply the length of my thumbnail by the width of the bridge of my nose, you will have a prime number that will allow you to crack the Da Vinci Code, The Code of Hammurabi, and the Lost Language of the Cranes.

I am an enigma inside a mystery wrapped in a tortilla. With a side of guacamole and sour cream on some days.

I want to put that where?? (also: you can't be serious! {and then "okay"})

My favorite color is pink, for sure. (but it's not- it's not even in the top 5. It's green, btw)

That I have the best ass below 14th street.

That I should use my inside voice.

Why FiberDork?

2005-12-17T16:25:00.000-06:00

I dig me some yarn, yo, but I'm not an elitist. I don't require that everything be handspun, or hand dyed, or be 100% Unicorn. I just like all kinds, In fact, I really really dig synthetics. A friend of mine was over and when she stumbled over my stash of yarn, she said "oh my god, I think I found your treasure trove, wow, you're like some kind of fiberdork aren'tcha?"

And it stuck. I'm not a yarn snob, just a dork for the fiber. Oooh, sweet fiber, how I love you.

So we bought stinky candles today while we were doing some christmas shopping, and we found some neat ones... Autumn Fig is really great, but we also got Fresh Picked Cotton and Vanilla + Cashmere. The Vanilla + Cashmere is really really nice, ya know? It's burning in the living room, just a few feet away from me...

Okay, I go now...we bought ourselves some fancy new glasses and I think I gotta have a holiday cocktail. Stay warm, Internet!

Holiday party with the yogis

2005-12-17T00:17:00.000-06:00

I wish I could maintain my supercool internet blogchild exterior and make fun of the hippies that I hung out with tonight, but I really can't. The people that I work really and truly feel the amazingness that is the human condition, and I can't make fun of that because I feel it too.

I laughed my ass off tonight- I laughed so hard that my throat jumped out of my body and told me that it hated me for making it laugh so hard. Seriously- it was amazing! I would show you pictures, Internet, but there aren't enough pictures to capture the hilarity. I would like to say that I feel special for holding the role that I do. I got to talk, and people know who I am, not because I'm such an amazing knitter, or an amazing yogi, but they know me because I'm just chatty. I'm me, they're who they are, and we all had fun tonight. I came home with an artichoke sculpture, a dvd, and some juice. Yum.

Really, I'm a lucky guy, and I know that. Y'all are lucky too, and hopefully you know it as well.

Death by Scarf

2005-12-14T21:54:00.000-06:00

I'm not going to post a picture of the mother in law scarf because I'm not talking to it right now. I hate that scarf, it bores me. I think I'm going to frog it, because you know what, Internet? I don't like it. Yeah, I'm frogging that bitch tonight and restarting it.

Here's Rich wearing his new scarf. Now, I'm totally not telling him to hide his face, he didn't even know I was going to show this to the World Wide Webs 'n stuff. But he did, so that's what you get.

The scarf. Oh my. So. Gay. I'm so glad that I live with him, so I can borrow it. Interesting factoids about our relationship:

1. We've been together for almost 8 years.

2. Our relationship is powered by clean burning natural gas. We have to filter it through kitten stomachs though.

Also- he was eaten alive by the scarf shortly after that picture was taken. I'm a widow. Bring on the boys and cheap domestic beer! Yeehaw!

So have I mentioned that I'm a yoga teacher? My initial training has been in Ashtanga yoga (trained locally by Sharon Moon, also by Manju Jois, Mark Darby, and soon to train with David Swenson), Hatha flow yoga, Gentle yoga, and Prenatal yoga. So yeah, that's a big part of my life, because I also work in the center; my life centers around serving the people I meet in any way that I can. Sometimes it's teaching yoga, sometimes it's vacumming the floor so that we never look messy. One of my students brought me a gift today and said "I'm so much healthier and happier now, this is just a small something to say thank you."

It's a silk wall hanging... very pretty. Touching too. It's really pretty cool to have people tell me that, hey Chuck, you're on the right path. Goddamnit Internet, YOU HAD ME AT HELLO!

Also, a friend of mine is moving to Jerusalem. JA-ROO-SELL-UM, folks at home! She's a teacher also, has been a student of mine for 3 years, and we had a mentorship thing going on while she was in teacher training. We're close, and grew as teachers together. Ugh, going to miss her! I knitted her a headband using yarn that the yoga center owners gave me on my birthday as well as some yarn that she gave me for that same birthday. Dag, I should have taken pictures of it for you, Internet.

Okay, before I go frog that scarf... I'm going to have to find something pretty to wear to a company holiday party. These are always fun, I'm so looking forward to it. I'm thinking of actually wearing real wool slacks, and not just cotton pants. Oh my! I will feel like a pretty, pretty princess, just like the picture below

She's pretty! And also of debatable talent (melisma is nice, but cut down on it, pleasenthanks). So. Sparkly. Just like my dreams!

Finally!

2005-12-14T07:44:00.000-06:00

I finished Rich's scarf on Monday. I'm torn on it... part of me thinks that it's kinda fug, but a bigger part of me thinks "Oooh, Fraggle pelt! it's awesome!"

He likes it, that's what matters, right? I started his mom's scarf. I will admit to using ONLY fibers found at Joann fabrics. I dig 'em. They're fancy, and also synthetic... I love it when something is both soft and washable. And also- I've been caught in the rain in a wool scarf. Not only are they heavy when they get soaked, but they s-t-r-e-t-c-h and need a good blocking if they're ever gonna be wearable again. But I digress...

Her scarf is purple, and stripey, and fringey. I'll post a pic of it after I get more of it done, as well as a pic of Rich in his new scarf. For now Internet, I leave you with this knit-trocity from the past...

This is so fug, but I would totally wear it. Commando, of course.

Some fiber, a little dork too

2005-12-11T14:18:00.000-06:00

I've been meaning to reorganize my stash, and since I don't want to work on my current scarf (you know, since it's almost done I just can't be bothered...) I thought I would do that. So I have three stashes- good stash, medium stash, and acrylic stash inherited from my mom last winter. Good stash lives in a schmancy little yarn project bin on "my side" of the sofa. Yeah, it's pretty damn nelly, but hey- it actually matches my brocade living room curtains in color AND pattern (almost exactly on the pattern, but dead on in color). So yeah... I had lots of stuff in there that needed to go to the medium-good quality stash hideout, which is the armoire in the guest room. Coincidentally, that's where I hide my comic books after I read them.

Some of the yarn I kept in the pretty stash bin, but most of it went bye bye since I don't have a lot of some of it. Some day I'll get bored and make a pillow out of scraps, but until then I'll just pack them away in the armoire.

The medium good stash didn't get organized today, mainly because I don't have a lot of medium good stuff. I have a lot of handspun and kettle dyed remnants, and some synthetics that I love... I gotta say, but Joann Fabric's angel hair is nice. It's not hard to work with, it's easy on the hands, and it's just so soft. Mmmm, washable too. I have some bits of in blue, dark green, light green, and purple. MIL is getting a scarf that is partially dark purple angel hair.

Oh, delicously citrusy mohair, why must you be so scratchy? I will find small glass squares and sandwich you between them, because hey,that would be the rockinest coaster ever.

You really can't take me shopping anywhere, you know? I tried to go Xmess shopping today, and while at Williams Sonoma I couldn't stop dancing! They played Culture Club and Pat Benatar, so I really can't be blamed for it, right internet? My 'tumble for you' dance was good, but (here's where I dork out, internet, watch for it) I know the "love is a battlefield" choreography and I did it in the martini glass aisle. Shimmy-shimmy, stalk-stalk-stalk, FOSSE! I hope to jesus that I wasn't security camera'd. Because I'd hate to be caught on film doing something crazy, like, I dunno, modeling a feather trimmed throw blanket inside Neiman Marcus or something...

Um, that's not me? Okay, it's my twin, he's not only dorkier, but also gayer. F'real. Dang, y'all aren't buying that, are you?

See, I told you not to take me shopping...

Where's my motivation?

2005-12-10T21:20:00.000-06:00

I'm so. close. to being done with the scarf that I'm making for my partner. He picked out the yarn hisself, so he better like it. I'm sure he will though...I like it a lot myself and will probably gank it a few times (that's one of the perks of waking up early).

Don't skip ahead for more details yet, folks- let's talk about this scarf. It's a scarf. Plain ole garter stitch. I'm SO. BORED. WITH IT. I think that's why I'm so tired of working with it. And you know what's next when I'm done with this one? ANOTHER SCARF. His mom wants a scarf for Christmas... She's been on me since last Christmas when I showed up with my monstrous scarf (It was 11 feet long, it was AWESOME. I wore it to a party last winter and the hostess loved it, so I gave it to her. Eh, I can make more. But I digress...). So yeah, more scarves on the horizon. Ugh.

The little fuzzy bits that stick out look kinda like foxtails. I wasn't sure how it would look when it was knit, but it turns out it that it looks like I've skinned a fraggle. This is a two ply yarn; a variegated boucle and another strand that is just black nylon with the little foxtail-y flags on it. It's not hard to work with, but I do have to stop and pull the flags out after every few rows (they get caught up in the knitting, you see).

My cat has totally demolished that bench too. Kinda sad, because it's a nice little mercer bench by mitchell gold. Oh well, as long as the cat leaves my yarn stash alone, then I'm good, right? Yeah, I knew that you'd agree with me, internet. Are you ready for some more detail? Yeah, let's do it!

It really will be a great looking scarf when it's done, I just really need to buckle down and do it. The scarf for his mom should be done US10's, but I will probably go for 13's... the fibers I'm using are pretty forgiving, so it should look fine, and I really just want to get it done so that I can get on to other things. I'm hoping to work on an intarsia project- I want a baby blue cardigan with Mr Rogers' on it, el Che style.

I bought a little spool knitter, aka french knitter, aka knitting nancy. I am here to tell you, Internet, that it's not as easy as I thought it would be. I'll keep it the glovebox and play with it on long drives. Is it really worth it though? That's what I'll be thinking the whole time. Okay, now I'm really going to start working on that fraggle scarf...

Here I am, folks.

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yeah, I have a boner for yarn. Synthetics that are soft and fluffy totally make me into Traci Lords. But did I mention? I have a penis! and I knit!
I know, I know... how many sticks does a guy need, yo?? I'm the only guy that knits that I know, but I hear friends say things like "my husband knits", but the husband never wants to hang with the raging homo who wants to talk about kettle dyed peruvian (jeebus, it sounds like I'm talking about heroin, right?).
So yeah, this here's my blog, yo. I've kept a personal one for almost seven years, making me old school. I won't tell you where and who I am, because hey! it's personal, bitches! Stay tuned for more on my raging hard on for yarn and pictures of shit that I'm working on. Yay!