This Post Is Brought To You By The Words “Mittens” And “Suck”
Haven’t been blogging. Blah blah family member recovering from surgery needs lots of care no time to knit or blog etc. blah blee. (Yeah, this is not a personal blog, so I won’t go into detail.) So yeah. And now I’m behind on emails and comment replies yet again and will probably just let a few get ignored. And the promised raglan tutorial has gotten pushed aside, but it’s coming, I swear. I’m just tired and stressed and also I am hating hospitals right about now.
But I’ve finally picked up my knitting again and I will make it all up to you with…
… HORRIBLE YELLOW ACRYLIC! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!
What am I doing with horrible yellow acrylic? Evil things, no doubt? Getting ready to pair it with fun fur and create a poncho? I think the Legendary Fun Fur Poncho is at the top of my mental list of horrifying things to knit. But no, that’s not what I’m doing with horrible yellow acrylic.
I’m just playing with stitch patterns, that’s all. Perfectly innocent.
What I should be knitting is mittens, but I’m not. Instead, I’m getting ready to knit up my skein of Lady Godiva into a scarf. After my horrible yellow acrylic experiments (which look like ass, but are still enough to get the information I needed), I’ve already charted and written up most of a scarf pattern, which will be posted if it turns out well. I seem to be having good FO luck lately, so the yarn gods are on my side.
What’s that, yarn gods? No, I will not sacrifice my Lady Godiva to you. It’s mine. Go away.
Great, now they’re going to be angry and wrathful. That’s all I need.
What I really do need is mittens, but I’m procrastinating. I even found a nice simple pattern, but… I’m procrastinating. Because I’ll have to alter any nice simple pattern for my freakish long skinny hands. My cold hands that need mittens. Sigh. At 3 sts/inch I could probably finish them in a single day. How badly do I suck?
(Don’t answer that.)
What I really don’t need is a vest, but I’m working on the Back to School vest anyway.
Er, make that almost finishing the Back to School vest. That thing is a quick knit. All I have left is the neck and armhole edgings, and the happy fun time that is weaving in ends. I’d go ahead and get those done, except that I loathe picking up stitches along curved edges. The question is, is picking up those stitches preferable to making mittens? Tough call, very tough call. So much hatred, so little time…
The vest sort of fits. It also sort of doesn’t fit. It is right in that murky zone of “it fits but we’ll see what happens after a wash and a block and the added edgings ’cause it also might be too big HAHAHA SUCK ON THAT”. I don’t think the vest can talk, but “hahaha suck on that” is exactly what it would say if it could. I’m not sure what it wants me to suck, but I assume it would be speaking metaphorically anyway.
You know what would be even quicker than a vest? Mittens! I suck I suck I suck.
I love making mittens. :)
I’d make some for you, but I don’t have that yarn. ;)
5 Dec 2007 at 8:41 pmMittens seem to be in the air recently. My friends activity on Ravelry seems to be taken over by people queueing mittens. I’m knitting some myself (summer be damned!)
6 Dec 2007 at 12:35 amI finally finished all my knittens!
6 Dec 2007 at 1:55 amer.
uhm.
I havn’t had much sleep lately.
I finally finished all my mittens! and like, everything else for christmas! and now the leafy lacey sleeves of my cashmere (cashmere!) pretty raglan top are making me bang my head on the wall repeatedly.
I can makes you mittens. I has got bulky yarn.
also, that yellow acrylic deeply offends me. just so you know. but it has got monster teeth, so I guess that helps a little.
testing here…. get on those mittens….. or scarf… you’re going to need them both…..
6 Dec 2007 at 6:46 amDon’t be so hard on yourself :) I say knit what you really want to, which sounds like mittens, and just put the rest aside!
6 Dec 2007 at 4:46 pmTo knit or not knit?
6 Dec 2007 at 5:51 pmMittens or vest is the real question :)
Also, how do get those little Ravelry WIP bars on your blog? I want some!!
I’m sorry to hear about family woes and hospital stays!
here’s hoping you get some good calm down knitting time in soon.
8 Dec 2007 at 10:13 amOK. I think you should suck it up and go with the mittens – it’s not going to be as painful as anything you did with that yellow yarn. I promise.
9 Dec 2007 at 8:55 amMy knitting life parallels yours pretty closely. Oh, except I just think about stuff and you actually do it. Yeah. Like I saw that SWTC yarn you have there on sale everywhere and was like “I should get some”. But did I? Nope. And now you’re showing it and I’m like “why don’t I have any? just because I have 20 pounds of other yarn? that’s no good reason.”
And that back to school vest. I even have the yarn all ready and picked out. Some lovely alpaca, which I love touching and knitting with, but which I can’t wear directly on the skin, so how perfect to make a vest. And then you tell me it’s a quick knit, too. And you’re showing it to me and I’m like “why haven’t I done it? just because I have like 10 other projects on the needles/hooks that I need to finish? that’s no good reason.”
And I dare you to make that acrylic fun fur poncho. Do you hear? Dare you! Double dog dare you? Reminds me of the Traveling Fug on Crochetville where a piece of . . . fug got mailed across the country and everyone crocheted their own particularly fugly yarn on it so that it came a great fugly monstrosity. I think you should start one for knitting. Cuz you need more tasks. Yep.
10 Dec 2007 at 12:10 pmDon’t worry, I don’t blog anymore either. Ravelry has taken over my soul. And I second the dare of the fun fur poncho. And I raise it to a triple dog dare. Muhaha.
11 Dec 2007 at 10:13 pmConsider yourself lucky. You have mittens to knit. I have no mittens. Mittens scare me. THE YELLOW ACRYLIC DOES NOT. Mittens made out of yellow acrylic do nmot scare me. Making them does.
And I should go back to my stupid white acrylic hat.
14 Dec 2007 at 12:01 amAnd you should knit those mittens.