hand eye crafts

The new Knit Picks catalog got here today, and there is so much  tweed! Not sure when I'll be able to buy some, but I do so love tweed yarns.  They may be a sort of Autumnish, but I love them year round.  Tweed yarn and confetti yarn --- which are sort of the same thing, I suppose. I'm non-tweed knitting right now.  The blue shrug I showed last time, and a green raglan pullover that had to be restarted because I was following the wrong pattern. Also, I'm to "I" now: I read this book years and years ago;  even taught out of it regularly.  This seemed like a good time to revisit it.

 I'm working on this Florentine Shrug, which won't really be Florentine because mine will be a solid color. What I'm wondering is, though, does anyone else keep count of rows on a piece of paper like me?  I've never had luck with stitch counters, so it's old school tally marks for me.

Have you heard Wanda Sykes' run on a woman's moment of silence ?  Well, here's mine. Did you know there are caramel Tootsie Roll Pops?  If something has caramel or butterscotch or toffee or sour cream or sour cream and onion in it, I'm in.  Sour cream and onion chips are the only potato chips that should be put on a sandwich.  Did Mama really never know I stole penny candy from Ben Franklin?  If Daddy didn't give me a quarter and a dime for lunch, the whole day felt off.  A quarter and two nickels, or three dimes and a nickel just felt weird. When does that Kroger coupon expire?  I need to put those tow socks together before they get separated again.  But I'll think about that in the morning.

  You can see the circulars jog in the bottom photo.  Still, the character the short rows give the design is really creative.  It's big enough to pull up and use as a hood.  The yarn is real wool, and I will admit that it got little scratchy on my fingers past a point.   When I work short rows, I don't do the wrap-and-turn thing.  It's never worked for me.  So, yes, there are visible holes there, but I choose to call them "eyelets" and move on.

 I go through the day, not posting, then look at the clock and it's 11 or so, and I still haven't come up with anything to say. Sorry.

 I started a new sweater.  Not until the raglan sleeve shaping did I realize I had been following the chunky yarn instructions instead of the worsted.

A short rows cowl.