Restless Knitter

The baby wanted another baby hat, only leave off the earflaps please Nana. Okay.

Look, it has a pop top.

I started this 2 days ago. I might have finished it that day, but I tried to poison myself by eating some bad food and ended up in the emergency room. I’m assuming it was food poisoning, mostly because I don’t remember ever being that sick in all of my life. There were 3 other people that came in around the time I did with vomiting also, so who knows. None of them were doubled over, moaning like they were dying, though. It was bad enough being sick, but it was worse that someone had to see me sick, take me to the ER, and I tossed cookies (again) on the way there. After some nice drugs, I was sent home. Yesterday I still felt a little queasy, and today I’m feeling pretty much back to normal. And that’s why I didn’t finish the hat until today. Aren’t you glad I shared?

Next I’m going to do house complaining, simply because I like to complain. But you don’t have to suffer through it unless you want to…

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Since it wasn’t completely dry before I had to remove the pins, I’ll have to block the shawl again. I’ll show you pictures anyway. I couldn’t get a full length shot but here’s most of it.

I’m happy with the shawl but I could use some improvement on my corner action. You most likely wouldn’t notice it when I wear it unless I pointed it out to you, but look at this

Can you see where the double and triple joins started on the corners? Suddenly the join has long threads. I’d like to keep this from happening on the next shawl because it bugs me. Hints and tips on solving this would be great.

Saturday I met Beth at Borders for a little knitting time. I got to see her recently finished hoodie and it is so pretty. Someday I WILL make something I can wear. Out in public. Don’t hold your breath. I took a sock that I’d started long ago and tried to figure out where I’d left off. I didn’t have much luck with that so I worked on a hat for the baby. I ended up ripping it out and starting over on a larger needle. When that’s done, baby wants the blanket that’s in the latest Knit It! magazine. It calls for Cotton Ease, which I just happen to have.

Today I went to the CHG open house as planned, where I saw Jane, who won a door prize! It was a smaller event than I imagined. I didn’t expect large-large but I did think it would be larger than what it was. There were people demonstrating different types of weaving. I saw card weaving (which made so much more sense once I saw it in action), weaving on a 6 or 7 foot triangle loom, an inkle loom, a rigid heddle loom, cane weaving (I think), and 2 floor looms. They had several finished items that were amazing. There was a small child’s coat that was sooo soft and pretty, and some chenille scarves that were gorgeous. They let you try your hand at some of the weaving. The only one I tried was one of the floor looms. I spent quite a bit of time talking to one of the floor loom ladies and learned a few things. What fun! Now that all the house stuff is done, I can get back to de-rusting my loom. I still don’t know crap about the warping but I don’t care, I’m still excited.

Done done done!! As of 10:54 pm, the shawl is done! Well, it’s off the needles. Tomorrow it will take a little swim in the sink, then be pinned to the floor.

I’m looking forward to this weekend. Hubby comes in tomorrow morning. The realtor comes tomorrow afternoon to take pictures and sign papers. Saturday will bring a little knitting at Borders. And Sunday the Chattahoochee Handweavers Guild is having an open house, which I plan on attending. I don’t know if I’ll really learn anything but I’m excited anyway.

The grandson says he needs more hats. He also wants a handknit blanket. I have some yarn not in storage but not sure exactly what is in there besides Cotton Ease. Hopefully there’s some suitable hat yarn, otherwise I’ll have to go buy some.

You know, I feel like all I’ve done for the last several months is whine. Hey, guess what. Here I am, back to do it again. I have gotten so far behind on my bloglines, there’s no hope that I’ll ever catch up with everyone. It’s really odd that I feel compelled to keep up with the lives of complete strangers. Eventually I will have to hit the magic Mark All Read button to feel like I’m not so far behind. I still manage to read a chosen few and reading them tonight made me a little depressed. People are knitting these beautiful things and it makes me want to knit them and I can’t. If I’m not doing something relating to the house, I’m pouting because there are things I need to do with the house that I don’t want to do and I don’t want to hire someone to do. I just want my life back. I want my yarn back in my house. I want to stop worrying about wallpaper and painting and window glaze and how I will deal with the pets when the house is on the market and omg where did that spot come from and what the hell else will come up in the inspection and I hope it sells fast and… that’s just the tip of the iceberg. I need to just chill out. There are people who would love to have my problems

The good news is that I’m about done. We’re leaving the windows alone. We know it will come up in the inspection but we can’t do anything because it’s too cold to apply the glaze. The realtor suggested we paint the garage doors from off white to white (to match the trim outside) but it’s been too cold to do that too. The house goes on the market this coming weekend, ready or not. I’m tired and ready for it to be over with. I’ll even admit to being depressed about all of this from time to time. I love this house and I’ll miss it. I’ve not been the world’s biggest social butterfly but I have met a few people and I’ll miss them, even if I didn’t see them in person that often. I haven’t been able to do any knitting because my arms are sore from painting and moving things. I don’t have to knit to live, but I do enjoy doing it and I’ve needed the stress relief it provides. But with everything mostly done, and a good couple of days of Aveeno Daily Moisturizer, I should be able to pick up the needles and work on finishing the shawl. I’m itching to start something new!

The blog may disappear for a bit as I’m in the process of changing host providers. It wasn’t really something I wanted to deal with right now but I couldn’t put it off any longer.