November 7th: Still not knitting

Nope, no knitting today either. I got up at 6:15 because I had a meeting at work this morning. On Saturday, yeah. It was done by 10:15 and I reclaimed my sewing machine (which was still at work from the last time I used it) and headed down to the local fabric shop.

You see, I want to make an apron. More appropriately, I want to HAVE an apron. A particular apron. This Apron. (This apron was featured in a post on Cake Wrecks a while ago.) I became obsessed with this apron. A friend tracked down the exact sewing pattern for it and I promptly bought it from eBay.

So I get to the local fabric shop and tell the woman inside that I have this pattern and no idea about anything else.

Have I mentioned that I have never sewn from a pattern in my life? Also, I don't sew much at all in general? Anyway.

The woman at the shop is very helpful. But I have sticker shock. Most of the fabric is $9/yard. Especially the fabric I like. So I back out. I'm pretty sure I'm going to maul the thing, so I'd rather not use $9/yard fabric.

In the afternoon, Pants and I head down to Yakima. We hit up the fabric stores. Fabric costs less, but it's still pretty expensive and I'm not in love with anything exactly. That doesn't prevent me from wandering back and forth for an hour muttering. Eventually, we leave empty handed. We go next door to Goodwill. I find this:


Fabric! For $1.99! Does it look like an old bed sheet? Because that's what it is. But I like it and I feel thrifty all at the same time. And sheepish. I feel a little sheepish about the three fabric stores and hours spent muttering.

Then we go to Target. And darned if I don't find an apron there that's nearly what I wanted, and in a fabric I like to boot. Yeesh.

November 6th: Not so much knitting

I knit, like, three rows on my sleeves today. And that's all the knitting that happened. I unpacked the rest of my yarn and related materials, but this is not about that either.

You see, the husband and I are Nerds. With the capital N. Mister Comfypants recently bought Dune: The Board Game at the local Goodwill. This game, despite being very nerdy, in a beat up box, and 25 years old, had all of its gameplay pieces. And there are a lot of them.


(I would have included one with my knitting in it, but, look! Patrick Stewart!)

Here we are, after starting the game. Reading the rules took nearly an hour. You can see we are playing the game, and yet Mr. Pants needs to consult, NOT ONE, BUT TWO sets of rules to figure out what's going on. It's a complicated game. But, actually, surprisingly, a good game. It captures the intrigue, which is unusual for a movie tie in.

Knitting content tomorrow, I swear.

November 5th: Partial Cuffs

And we have sleeves. Well, cuffs. Half of cuffs, if you want to get into it. But it's a start. I cast them on last night and worked on them at knitting group tonight. You've really got to pay attention to garter in the round! Not as much as you do to twisted rib though. ;)

I really like this two at a time thing. I am thrilled that I won't have to knit a second sleeve, because I'll already have done it. Just got to keep on, steady as she goes.

November 4th: Cat on doily

The moving process is a funny thing sometimes. Furniture goes missing. Books get un-alphabetized. Pets freak out. Business Cat was getting a little alarmed about the whole process. Late one night she hopped up on the no-longer-ours coffee table and, very very carefully, sat herself down on my hand knit doily.



She did it without knocking over that taun-taun too. Previously, the doily had been out of her reach and I don't think she was even aware of it. Cats just have that knack for sitting on the only thing that is different in texture from everything around it.



And she's not been interested in the doily since.

November 3rd

What's that? It's about 14" of Amelia Cardigan laid out on my lovely couch. It used to be my ugly couch with the cheap white ikea cover, but now it's my lovely couch with the discontinued-but-I-got-it-on-eBay red corduroy cover. I love it more now.

The important thing about the photo above is that it means I stop knitting the body for a while and knit the sleeves. And thank goodness for that. I am not a fan of twisted rib. Especially when I have to twist purl stitches. I complain a lot about the more fiddly knitting things, but they do have a rather lovely effect, don't they?

Still, the sleeves will be an excellent break before I get to the end. I'm going to knit the sleeves two at a time, for maximum excitement. I think I'll go wind some yarn now!

November 2nd

Today we began to unpack in the play room. That's the room that normal folks would call a guest bedroom, or an office, or some such. But it is the Game And Hobby room for us. And it's a mess. And it's mostly my mess. I, you see, have a lot of stuff.

But the knitting stuff is coming out of the packing materials and out onto my much loved, but seemingly discontinued, Enetri shelf.


I'm not sure if I should leave my yarn in its various fabric boxes, or go the open display route. What's your opinion?

November 1st

November, that month where people go insane writing novels because someone said to. Or doing other things. And I, good people, am a sheep. Not a novel writing sheep. A blog posting sheep. I'll try to post to this blog here every day this month! With some kind of content. And a photo.


Business Cat naps on my knitting.

The project my cat is napping on is my mom's lap blanket. One of the four projects I'll be finishing before I start anything new. It's on size 15 needles, which are pretty much the same as tree trunks compared to sock needles. I think I'll do a crochet loop bind off, so I know which side is which.

See you tomorrow!