Category: yarn

Almost done the scarf for my aunt. One skein should be just enough for a good-length scarf.

I dressed as goth-y as I get for a party tonight. Black corset laced with satin ribbon (made it last summer, ie. 2003), a sheer lacey top over it, long black skirt, black knee socks, spiked leather collar, eyeliner.

I have received a credit card bill (which I just paid, hooray for the internet) and the Elann newsletter. I have yet to receive a) the yarn from Elann, or b) the book I ordered off amazon (third-party seller).

Grr. Argh.

So my camera batteries died and I have no photos. And I won’t be home tomorrow, so no nothing then. Boring blogger!

Anyway, tonight I watched “Possession” with Gwyneth Paltrow and the yummy Aaron Eckhart, and knit various things. I finished the first sleeve of my sweater, which is just the right length. There are a couple of major things about the sweater that bother me.

1) The raglan is too long. Thanks a lot, raglan generator (I even made it shorter than it said!).
2) The ribs on either side of my main cable don’t stand out because I was stupid and only did 1 purl stitch before the two-stitch rib.
3) The sleeve is weird and baggy in the upper arm. Probable cause: a raglan that is too long, and I picked up too many stitches across under the arm (I bound off 10 and picked up 8). I think this sweater may have to be put in the corner for a time-out.

Argh. Today has not been my day.

Other knitting news: Started a scarf for my Aunt J. It’s beige Cotton Fleece, in a lacey pattern (it’s just yo, k2tog across). It’s quite pretty actually, and getting decently long for only 1 skein. I was going to rip and restart narrower to make sure I get a good length, but who wants to rip 3 feet of scarf (which took several hours)? Not me, at least not enough to actually do it, anyway. I should be able to get….oh, hopefully 5 or 5-and-a-half feet done from one skein, which sounds like a good scarf length for me!

Worked a tiny bit on my Lotech, but I haven’t done much of anything on it. It does seem to knit up quickly, though.

Oh, and I’m working on getting up a gallery of sorts, but I don’t have much time, don’t ya know – so what’s up now will suffice (at least it works) until I get a better format going. Oh, and let me know if anything doesn’t work.

After hearing Stephanie’s rules on what her family can eat (no trans fats, no tropical oils, nothing with sugar in the first three ingredients), what did I do? Why, I came straight home and had a cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows and a mini Oh Henry! Mm, sugar. I definitely can’t take as much straight sugary food as much anymore, though. Although….the hot chocolate seems to have settled my stomach some, which was hurting pretty badly for awhile tonight.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about winter. The weather’s getting cooler, the heat’s on (except for Stephanie, of course…), the leaves are falling and there’s that certain crispness in the air. Perhaps it didn’t help that last night I was reading last winter’s issue of Food and Wine from the LCBO – it was full of hot wintery concoctions and yummy stews and things, as well as icewine dessert photographed amidst snow and ice.

It’s also the Christmas gifts – I mean, thinking about them means that Christmas is coming! Freaky. I’m starting to the same wintery feeling that I tend to get every year – although this year, I have this feeling as if the season is going to whip by really quickly, and then it’ll be spring again, and another summer. Anyway, that’s my ramblings.

I started my first Christmas present today, a lacey scarf for my aunt. It’s moving at a good clip, I think. I’m so tempted to pick up more yarn for presents at work tomorrow, but I’m going to exercise restraint and wait until at least next week. Then I won’t feel so guilty about spending so money during the month of October.

I’ve pretty much decided that I’m going to make another ribbed cardie out of my Jo Sharp aran tweed, like the one I did in Cotton-Ease. I was contemplating Lara (by Debbie Bliss) or some kind of cabled cardie like a friend of mine has (it’s really cosy and nice-looking, and wouldn’t be difficult to figure out) but I really want to knit the yarn into something that a) I know will turn out, and I’ll like it and wear it, and b) I will be able to wear for years. I really want to have it as my default sweater. Plus I’ll have my Must Have as a cabley sweater, once I get around to making that.