Almost there

The other day I was poking around the garden picking up random litter that had blown in our yard and had my first sign of Spring: tips of daffodils and tulips pushing their way just past the surface. Huzzah! Spring is coming...Or is it? Snowing cats and dogs now, again.

sweater front all soft and dreamy in the sun

I'm still working on the SWDR. It's dragging because after a few rows, my hands turn to concrete on fire. I finished the front. The neckshaping scares me. I never quite understand the directions. For this pattern I think they gave right-side directions for knitting from the edge to the neck edge/center, even though the right side should have been from the neck edge/center to edge. So I flipped the pattern directions mirrorwise and it seemed to turn out ok. No holes, purls and knits where they should be. The next thing that I'm not looking forward to is seaming the sleeves. Ooo. Spooky.

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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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