Cottage46 Knitter

Serious knitting ADD

Since the big Oregon finale my knitting has been all over the place.  Seriously.  I've had a cold so that hasn't helped.  It's a good thing my current project basket is large because I can't focus on anything for very long. 

There have been numerous sock projects cast on and tossed aside. 
Salida:

Bayerische (which I think might work better for me on US1s instead of 0s):

And this poor yarn is on its 3rd or 4th incarnation. I don't even remember what it is anymore.

When I am able to concentrate, I've made pretty good progress on Must Have Deux.  Although checking the Ravelry page I see I started it last April, so not exactly lightning speed here.
       

And even when I can't hold myself upright, I can work on this stockinette alpaca vest. 

I did a few rows of Abalone's swatch.  Spindrift is scratchier than VY's 2-ply, isn't it?  I'll get back to that when I don't have to stop to blow my nose every 20 seconds.

I survived celebrated by 41st birthday yesterday.  Whoopee!  No big yarny gifties to show, but VK always pays for my summer knitting retreat.  I hear that I have some lovely flowers from my parents at the library.  (My gift to my co-workers was to keep my germy self home today.) 

VK was home sick today too.  When we're both sick we call ourselves Pneumonia and Congesto Sniffiletti.  Funniest if said with a fakey Italian accent.  Anyway, VK was in the kitchen fixing lunch when I hear, "Ouch!  Oh, I need some paper towels."  He had dropped a knife and the blade landed on his big toe.  By the time I managed to get to him, his flip-flop was full of blood.  Honestly, I've never seen so much blood from something that wasn't a head injury.   It bled for a long time, but finally it stopped and we got it neatly bandaged up.  So the day was not totally without excitement!

A proper post

With pictures and FOs and everything!  Kauni is done and blocking.  (yay!)  I have the directions and the materials to make a wooly board, but I just don't have the concentrative abilities at the moment to put it together.  Hence, I'm blocking on a towel on top of a pile of clothes.  Model shots and details when it dries.  Shedir is done too, but not blocked yet.  I'm really hoping that blocking will even out some of the stretched stitches so no pic yet. 

Why don't I have a concentrative abilities?  Well, because Friday I finished an index for an academic monograph on motherhood in 18th century French art and literature.  Oy.  I didn't have the foresight to take French in high school or college.  All those diacritics. 

But!  VK and I did to see John Mellencamp last Thursday!  I've only wanted to see him live for about 25 years.  I can't really figure out why I never did because I went to a lot of concerts back in the day.  Anyway, it was a
great show and we had a great time.

My uncomplicated, no thinking required project is a v-neck pullover vest out of Briggs and Little Regal.  The back is done; the front is just started.  The yarn came from Jenny Raye at Loves to Bike and Knit.  It was left over from her FLAK which I thought was one of the prettiest to come out of that knit along.  She had about 2 1/2 hanks left which is just enough for a vest. 

I've been intrigued by Rogue forever, but hadn't knitted it because I really don't care for hoodies.  (Hair's too long.)  But Jessie was talking about what fun it was to knit and I caved.  I'll just have to ponytail when I wear it.  It's Cascade 220 which I had forgotten how much I love.  I'm cardiganizing it and plan to install my first ever zipper.  Hopefully my concentrative abilities will return by then. 

I don't like sewing on buttons

I've made the leap to Typepad.  Lynda hopped on over to Wordpress, and her post got me thinking it was time for change at Cottage 46 too. 

I finished this vest months ago.  But since I procrastinated on the buttons, it's now almost too warm to wear it.  I got away with wearing it today, but that's probably it until fall.  This picture made me realize that I must throw this turtleneck in ragbag.  And lose 15 pounds.

Pattern: Basic Black Vest from Folk Vests

Yarn: cone of Baby Twist Fireworks from Alpaca with a Twist (My LYS had a batch of mill end cones at a great price.  I have 2 more cones!  Bwaaah ha ha!)

All other projects details have been long forgotten.  I know I enjoyed knitting it.  I did make it too long and had to cut off a few inches, then it was too short, so I had to pick up stitches and reknit about an inch.  I'm generally pretty pleased with the outcome.  Alpaca is like buttah.  I have quite a bit of the cone left over.  I recently got a food scale, so I think I'll wind it off the cone and weigh it so I can figure out what I could do with it.

I'm finally getting to knitting group tomorrow after missing it for over a month.  Can't wait!  The first spring sock is at the point of doing the heel.  I was going to post a picture but I was dinking around with the new blog and now it's too dark. 

Speaking of the new blog, could someone explain trackbacks to me? 

And was anyone else nearly driven to violence watching Karl Rove do his rapping dance thing at the Correspondents dinner?