| Public knitting can get you rock stars... |
[Jan. 15th, 2007|10:04 pm] |
I always mean to get my butt over here and post but it never seems to happen as frequently as it should. Of course, I suppose it should happen as often as I have the inkling to do it. After all, it is my journal. And I'm always under this strange impression that others are too busy to care about what's going on with me so why get motivated to sit in front of the computer any more than I absolutely have to. An acquaintance from UNMC summed it up like this: "Work is so busy right now that you sit in front of the computer all day long concentrating, and when you get home, the last thing you want to do is go sit in front of a computer again." This is so true. I spend about 9 hours in front of the computer a day when I'm at work, diligently entering information and solving people's problems. By the time I get home, I am utterly braindead. Sometimes I can't even muster up the concentration to knit. But I'm not here to complain about work. I'm here to post about my knitting and update those who look at my journal on what's been going on in my own little world of yarn.
I made the Kilted One a pair of Packers socks. I used the Thuja pattern on knitty.com, and the Oregon Ducks colorway from Fancy Image Yarn. And boy, did these knit up quickly! These are my first official pair of socks for the 2007 L&V Marathon.
Luckily, they fit him perfectly and he seemed to be rather excited about them. Between these socks and the Godzilla slippers, his feet should stay reasonably warm.
After finishing the Packers socks, I cast on the 2nd Monkey sock of the pair, made from the colorway Crabapple from Two Loops. I LOVE this yarn! On the day I received this yarn, I fondled it off and on for about 6 hours before I finally stopped everything and cast on the first Monkey sock. And the only reason I made it for 6 hours was because 5 of those hours were spent in front of my desk at work. Incidentally, Monkey is a really fun sock pattern and knits up pretty quickly. I may have to make more of these.
And lastly but not leastly in the world o' socks are these:
Kiltboy ran sound for a Guns N Roses cover band this weekend, so Friday night before I headed out to meet him, I grabbed a skein of STR that was all wound up and ready to go. I think the colorway is Blarney Stone. I decided to use the Thuja pattern for this yarn because I had the pattern memorized and figured it would be easy to do in a dark, loud setting. I cast on the first sock at 10:30 pm and knit until the band stopped playing at 1:00 am. Not many paid attention to the girl sitting behind the sound board playing with yarn, but Kiltboy seemed to be amused by it and would every once in a while peer over at me all smiley to see the new sock's progress. At one point, I got this odd feeling that someone was looking at me and when I turned to my left, there was this little white-haired lady grinning at me and watching my hands intently. It was amusing. I'm pretty sure she's the mother of the owner of the bar, or something. She was there again on Saturday night, and although I found out she was a non-knitter, she was rather excited to see the progress I had made.
I turned the heel on Saturday night after the band was done and the house lights came on. Oddly enough, the guys in the Guns N Roses cover band were actually curious as to what I was doing, and the lead singer even came over and sat next to me while the Kilted One helped the others load out. I didn't think much of it, but pretty soon, Lead Singer boy was making up knitting lyrics and singing them to me. And he asked me at one point if I also knit willy warmers. Well, duh! Poor little oblivious me didn't think anything of this until later when Kiltboy and I sat in the Under the Sea Lounge (i.e., the smoking room in the boys' house that's located under the garage) chatting about things and he commented that I could have gone home with the lead singer tonight. *blink blink* "You mean he was hitting on me?" *blink blink* Kiltboy seemed rather pleased that the lead singer was hitting on me and yet there I was with him in the lounge. Again I say...Well, duh! Is the moral of this story that knitting makes you hot? At any rate, I kitchnered the toe of the first sock at E's this afternoon and cast on the 2nd one.
I have now spent almost 3 hours online catching up on email, getting the new batch of L&V sock yarn ready to ship tomorrow, and updating this site. My brain is mushy. But at least my feet are warm. |
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Warm feet are a good thing. I think I will have to make that Thuja pattern here soon....
And, OF COURSE knitting makes you hot.
i keep thinking i need to make thuja
but i've been too lazy to figure out what weight of yarn they used.
thicker than sock! but which.
of course knitting makes you hot.
duh.
From: (Anonymous)
2007-01-16 05:25 pm (UTC)
Cool Thuja socks | (Link)
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I'm almost done with mine! Love the colors in yours.
Dana
http://mercysmama.wordpress.com
Ooh! Thuja looks wonderful! I also want to do another Monkey but feel I "should" do something different. I don't know why, I did 2 pairs of Jaywalkers! But there are so many patterns out there!
And hey yeah, knitting makes you hot! I'm always oblivious to being hit on these days (not that it happens very often!) but it makes me laugh later when it's pointed out to me. If you were trying to get picked up it wouldn't happen, you know, but when you're not trying....
Maybe that's a metaphor for life, just sit back and be, without pressure or pre-conceived expectations? I don't know, I'm getting back to my socks! | |
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