It's a good thing

I thank God for this Friday in particular over all other Fridays because

• I just found out the office is closed on Monday.
• There are 3 NetFlix movies in the queue:
  Season 2 of Coupling (original British version, not flaccid American remake)
  Vanity Fair and
  Eternal Sunshine of the Blah blah blah
• The office is closed on Monday.
• The office is closed on Monday.
• The office is closed. On Monday.

I see a finished sweater in my future.

The price of the Kobe steaks last night were a good 10% higher than last time. I'm not surprised. How many barrels of oil does it take process a 10oz steak, and then fly it over from Japan all the way to the East coast? However much, the kobe was worth it, it's worth aaaaaall of it.

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Happy Birthday to my golden goose

To properly celebrate D's coming into this world, we will eat steak. We will be all kinds of irresponsible while we do it. I don't know if you're allowed to bitch about SUVs out of one side if your mouth, and then eat steak with the other. But I'll do it anyways, because there are always exceptions aren't there, especially when talking about a marblized, beer-mashed, succulent Kobe steak.

So today on the way to work I walked by a Porsche SUV idling in the parking lot. I resisted the urge to smear ripe feces all over it, which I had at the ready for just this occasion.

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Check out my diagonal ribs

I haven't knitted in the past couple of days. Busy at work, trying to get to bed sooner in order to conquer the whole 'early to bed, early to rise' battle. Anyway this past weekend I started the SWDG (sweater with diagonal ribs) from Rebecca 28, using Lion Brand Kool Wool and finished the back.

Back of SWDG. The color is actually more moss than camel.

Love the diag ribbing, and the yarn-overs near the edge. I changed the placement of the double decreases, during mid-knitting, by just a stitch on each side.  Plus I think that's how it looks in the photo. The pattern was knitting up something differerent. Also with such chunky yarn like the Kool Wool, and with the previous two rows also containing decreases right below, the original placement of the double dec looked really messy, all big and bumpy .  

The Kool Wool is knitting up soft, spongy, and very springy.  Boing boing.

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There is love....

Happy Valentines Day

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If Veebs were a ship he'd be the Titanic

Yum.

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Make it stop

My attention span is being held together by nonstick Teflon. I just came across pattern books from Adrienne Vittadini and everything in there is be-yoooo-tiful. Beautiful.  Such as:

   

From AV Fall 2003 and 2004.

I'm squashing the burning burning desire to buy materials for these patterns Right Now as I have more than enough to do...but gaah. All the squirrels in my head are howling.

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More more more!

These just came in, and now my yarn-buying spree is complete. All projects in the project queue have their respective yarns, and I should be all set, if not for the rest of the year, then at least til May. In theory. Hold me!

Peruvian wool for the Ribby Cardy.
Purchased from elann.com

Peruvian Quechua for Angelina.
Made from alpaca and tencel. Oo la tencel, what the hell is tencel!
Purchased from elann.com.

I might have to inflict some hard self-discpline in order to rest my hands and my eyes but not my pathetically out-of-shape bod. Need to get moving. Somehow I pulled a shoulder muscle from sneezing. Who's ever heard of having to warm up before sneezing? I'm going to turn into one of those crabs with the one goofy extra large claw while the rest of my useless body slowly atrophies.

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Yarn Stash 2005

Lately the postman has been doubling as Santa Claus.

Merino chunky is for the Sweater with Diagonal Ribs Sweater with Cables, from Rebecca 28.
Purchased yarn from yarn.com.

 

Kool Wool is for the Sweater with Cables Sweater with Diagonal Ribs, from Rebecca 28 also (they need to come up with prettier names).  It's the same gauge as GGH Savanna Aspen, the yarn called for in this pattern, and it's also made from 50% merino wool and 50% acrylic. But unlike Aspen it's unexpensive, by decent yarn standards anyway. I have this thing with buying yarn for a sweater that will cost over $80 in total, especially if it's made from synthetic materials. I've realized that no one knits for economic propriety, but I still have my limits. If I can purchase a lovely cabled cashmere sweater at Anthropologie or bluefly.com for just over $100, then you're insane if you think I'm going to make that sweater on my own with 10 hanks of cashmere at $30 per unit. I don't like knitting that much.

I'm sorry. I just caught myself in an unscheduled rant. Anyway there's just one more package coming in and that'll be all the purchases for the rest of the...year? Season? Month? Week?

(oops I got my yarns/pattern combo all confused)

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Angelina pattern looks weird

I just received the pattern for the Angelina Vintage Jacket in the mail, read through it, and now I won't be able to sleep at night. It's done in one piece from the back, up to the neck, then down both sides of the sleeves at the same time, and then down the front.

What.

But look! It's so preeeeetty. 

Tomorrow I'm starting one of the Rebecca sweaters in tandem with the Drapey Shoulder one. I'm getting bored with all the 3x3 ribbing.

Look who's been keeping me company while I've been knitting. I could eat those paws.

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