Much ado about knitting

I have WAY too many things about which to post. The pressure to keep up with my blog starting to get to me (don’t be worried )! So for today, I again will take the easy way out. I really, really, really, really need to start some crucial house cleaning since my brother and sister in law are staying with us on Friday night and my Dad and his wife (not my mom and I wouldn’t really call her my step mom since I never lived with them and really don’t know her well…long story) are coming for dinner at Chez Kemp on Saturday.

The knitting has been prolific the past week…really the past 5 days. It began with a dog sweater I am knitting for Annie Modesitt. Yep…you read that right. Little ole me knitting for Annie Modesitt…published author of no less than three books and knitting teacher extraordinaire. My assignment is a dog sweater for the MWK&TDWLT project; a joint collaboration between Annie and the fantastic Drew (aka the crochet dude). If you know any male knitters, be sure to pass along this link. They’re looking for stories to include in the book. Unfortunately, I began the sweater in the hospital waiting room on Friday (Jim was in AGAIN to try to reattach the lead that had fallen out of place) and didn’t notice a couple of “inconsistencies” in my knitting. I am use to doing the bar increase and the pattern calls for a different increase. Although I am doing the increase she specifies correctly, for some reason it is looking a little wonky. I’ll be starting over (any minute now).

Saturday I realized a friend’s birthday was the 10th and of course, the present must be knitted. In this case it actually does make sense to knit for her. I taught her to crochet and knit a couple of months ago, but in the meantime she has had twins and is working on her dissertation so there has been understandably little fiber fun in her house. I made up a pattern for a scarf using Knit Picks Palisade (30% Superfine Alpaca, 70% Wool, color: Garnet) and it only took a couple of hours to finish.

Once the scarf was finished, I didn’t quite have the stomach to frog the dog sweater yet. So I continued to work on Jim’s sweater. I haven’t mentioned that one yet…remember the chicken post? Well, I cast this sweater on the night before so I’d have something mindless to work on at the meeting (K2, P2 rib). I didn’t pick it up again until this weekend and I have been working on it each night as we watch DVR’d CSI, Gilmore Girls, etc…This pattern makes me feel like such a “fancy” knitter. The cables are really pretty…definitely click for big on that one!

Oh and OMG, OMG, OMG…my “soul mate” has left me a comment. Bliss :jump:

Coming soon: Palm Springs, Knitting Road Trip, Diva Challenge Entries, Secret Pal Package, a Tale of Two Yarn Stores, and whatever happened to that Filatura di Crosa Ruffled Jacket?