Thursday, April 16, 2009
State of the Knitting Address
In November I started Camden from Knitty Fall 2008. I had three skeins of Sundara Yarn in Arabian Nights (delectable combo of rich browns, purples, blacks). Rather than knit it flat, I knit it in the round and got as far as the armpits.
It's been sitting in my knitting basket since December, and is now covered in cat hair.
Rather than figure out the yoke situation for Camden - which isn't going to be hard, really, I just didn't feel like thinking about it - I decided that if I didn't finally knit with Aran Silky Merino once and for all, I was going to die. So I winded up one skein of ASM in Charcoal over Blue Lagoon and started the Just Enough Ruffle scarf.
2.5 rows and one bind-off away from being completely finished, I used up the one skein and didn't feel like unwinding another. And then I didn't feel like knitting altogether.
A couple of weeks, maybe a month passed before my fingers started to itch, itch specifically for US 1 needles and some sock yarn. Out came Sundara Yarn in Bronzed Forest which I have been stashing for awhile. It's now or never.
What is this pattern, you ask? It's a Wackadoodle sock, a strange mix of Child's First sock, some random ribbing, and slipped stitches on the foot. I didn't have any intention of knitting it other than a full-blown Child's First sock. My wandering brain had other ideas. I decided I wanted to only knit the first 6 rows to see how that would look (spirals!), but then after a few repeats of that I decided to break up the pattern and do some ribbing in between. And then as I was doing the heel I decided it might be cool to use the same slipped stitch pattern on the foot.
I would start the second sock, except the first looks so schizophrenic that I am slightly afraid of what might happen with the second...and also because recently at the bookstore, I spied Cookie A's new book Sock Innovation and snagged it without so much as opening it.
I had to start right away. Out came Sundara Yarn in Candied Chrome, also cooking in my stash for god knows how long.
This is Wanida. It is freaking brilliant. I can tell it's going to knit quickly.
But I'm not going to know for sure just yet because I just got my hands on another Cookie A pattern that I've been pining for - PINING FOR I tell you! - and I have to set Wanida aside (for which I set aside Wackadoodle, for which I set aside Just Enough Ruffles, for which I set aside Camden) in order to knit Marlene.
So that's the State of the Knitting. No. It's not pretty.
My head is very elsewhere these days.
I'm going to be hanging some of my prints at a local and popular bakery-by-day and restaurant-by-night. The foot traffic - both bi and quadrupedals - is huge here, so I'm really excited about this marketing opp. The owner doesn't care WHAT I put up, just as long as it's "big." He even wants prints in the bathroom. EEEE!
Duck and I went over one evening just before closing to do some measuring of the wall space. This is the bakery/coffee area, with my mockup of what prints will go where. Not a ton of wall space here, but that's good actually. If I have to spend another minute trying to decide which photo I should use and where and in what size, I will go absolutely mad!
The little wall space next to the sugar and cream station I think will display a framed 5x7 of Logan, the puppy I just photographed.
No it's not a big size, but I figure I HAVE to squeeze something in there. While people stir sugar in their coffees, they'll glance up and see that Logan with his baby eyes and oversized paws, and walk away with a big smile on their face. It's inevitable.
The column in between the large windows will have a 30x24 canvas of the owner's three dogs.
You can see more photos of them here. :) With their own cupcake incarnations, they truly live the sweet life.
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