Restless Knitter

I have a twitch in my eyelid. So annoying. I was going to take The Man’s truck for an oil change today but I feel like I’m winking at everyone and I don’t want to be winking at the oil dudes. Yeah, that’s a lame excuse but it’s the one I’m using.

Y’all know how often I knit socks, right? And do you know how much I need more yarn?

You know, my only excuse is that it feels like I hardly have any yarn (since mine is you-know-where). And it was pretty. And it has tencel. And merino. And one skein is enough for a pair of socks. And, uh, I was caught in a moment of weakness? It’s Seacoast Merino/Tencel Sock in the Watercolor colorway. Who cares that I have an unfinished sock on the needles (from month’s past), I want to find a pattern and knit with this instead.

Progress has been made on the baby blanket

I’m not really bored with it. Yet. I do find that I need to take breaks from knitting on it. I just don’t like knitting with Cotton Ease. I feel pretty stupid for buying as much of it as I did. But, you know, it was being discontinued and it was on sale and everyone else likes it so must buy it before it’s gone omg! I really wish I could trash the entire stash and start over. That’s a fib, I wouldn’t want to trash the stash. But I will make wiser choices in the future. You know, like buying sock yarn when I don’t knit socks.

When they say to put the pizza directly on the oven rack, they mean it. I tried cheating. I didn’t want anything to get all over the clean oven, so I put foil on the rack. I ended up having to remove the foil because the pizza didn’t want to finish cooking. It was a floppy mess, and tomatoes still found their way off the pizza into the bottom of the oven. Lovely smell. Hope someone wants to see the house while that stench is still hanging in the air, I’d hate for anyone to miss it.

In other exciting news, the dog’s nose is turning pink. It was pure black until recently.

The Man: Have you noticed that her nose isn’t all black now?
Restless Knitter: Yes. She licks so much that she probably licked the black right off of it.
TM: I’m serious. I’m worried about this. Go get a black marker.
RK: Uh, okay, because if it is because she’s sick or because she licks so much, coloring it with a black marker is going to make it all better. Dork.

When we went to the vet for her vaccinations, I asked about it and the vet didn’t seem worried since she doesn’t have any other strange symptoms.

Here’s something you’ve never seen before

Ha, I lied. This one was made with Plymouth Encore DK. The red one in the previous post was Caron Simply Soft Tweed, and the brown one before that was made with something I got at Hobby Lobby.

Next up is a baby blanket of blocks. Here’s block 1

Daughter previously wanted a ripple blanket. I had just picked up the Spring 2007 issue of Knit It so I had the crazy idea to give her a choice. She chose the blocks. One down, 34 to go. The ripple would have been so much easier. Who wants to place bets on how long it takes me to get bored with blocks?

I swore to myself that I wouldn’t do any more blogging about the house but I just can’t resist one more comment. People are using the restroom here while house hunting. How do I know? There are a couple of ways. One is that the lids are always down on the toilets here (don’t need the cats jumping in one or the dog drinking from one, and I think it just looks nicer to have the lid down) and I’ve come home to a lid up a couple of times. The Man suggested that maybe they’re just looking to see if they’re clean but I don’t think so. I don’t normally keep close tabs on the toilet paper but when it’s hanging way down and I didn’t leave it that way, well, someone else did it. I can’t imagine going into someone’s house and using their bathroom. I had wicked thoughts of putting itching powder on all the toilets in the house each time I have to leave. That wouldn’t help the house sell but it would sure as hell give me a laugh!

Second verse, same as the first

Only in a different color, and on a post outside instead of on a table inside.

After going to the CHG open house last weekend, I’ve been doing a bit of internet surfing. After the first excitement wore off when I got the loom, I began to wonder if I’d really gotten that great of a bargain. After trying in vain to get the rust off the reed, I knew I’d have to buy a new one. Those aren’t exactly cheap so that adds to the cost of the loom. I’ll have to buy shuttles, bobbins, lease sticks, a reed hook, etc. But after looking at some of the sites where people are trying to sell their looms, I’m back to the thought that I did get a bargain. I’ve seen similar looms going for hundreds of dollars, and while some do come with some accessories, I haven’t seen one yet that comes with everything. Sure, I’ve had to do a little work to get mine looking “pretty” but that makes it all the more special for me. I still have a lot to learn, especially how to warp. If no beginning classes come up soon, I may rent a few videos from SmartFlix. And since the two books that I have are in storage, I’m planning on going to the library today and picking up a few books.  There’s only so much staring at a computer screen that I can do.