green.girl knitting: commentary

23 october 2011 comfort

there are few cities in this country to which i hold an antipathy, but atlanta may be close.

the coca-cola museum and chick-fil-a redeem it, just a little, and one day maybe i will make it to the aquarium [it would help if it stayed open past 5pm] and that will give it another check in the pro column. but, having been there four times for conferences, always in the same area, i find it does little to give me joy. but it does give me time to do a little knitting so there you go.

this is going to be a christmas present for the small child and her stuffed cat barley. barley loves bacon so a bacon shawl seemed in order, with a matching neckerchief for the cat. i should probably knit that now, from the other end of the ball, to make sure there is enough for each.

i also started the first of the gnome mittens for my mother but then promptly ripped it out as the needles were too short, and the pattern blurred in the copy i had, and, in general, the colorwork was just not working. so i decided to work up to it by practicing a little bit with some corrugated ribbing, which will eventually be the brim of a winter hat to match my shawl and mittens from the loopy challenges this summer.

and just because, sunday dinner: chicken stew with sweet potato dumplings...

09 october 2011 hug

i am still working on that eyelash fluffy miracle thing, but it holds no joy for me. and there has been precious little knitting of any sort at all of late what with end-of-quarter craziness and the beginning of quarter do-all-the-things-you-ignored-end-of-quarter, but that is hopefully about to change.

someone, again at the office, once gave me a skein of dark blue boucle yarn. it sat on my desk for months, and many a person would pick it up and squish it -- sometimes in frustration, sometimes just because it was soft. one particular person eventually claimed it as her own personal stess ball. after a while it migrated from the desk to a bag, and eventually found its way to my home. and last week it found its way onto a set of size 15 circular needles, where it was knit and knit until there was hardly any left at all.

i didn't follow much of a pattern, just did an increase on each edge and also double increases in two place on the body, making a lovely, soft little shawl that sits upon the shoulders quite nicely, without trying to fall off one side or the other. and i gifted it to she who had previously claimed the skein. it is the time of year when it gets cold in the office, so she will get a lot of use out of it and, if not wearing it, can squish it to her heart's content.



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