Deja Vu

What's this?  Have I lost my mind and because of a lack of stuff to photograph, I'm posting an old photo again? 

I started socks for the little monkey girl last night on the train home.  I started reducing for the toe on the PATH train ride in this morning.  Whoa.  Talk about instant gratification in the knitting world!  I love socks for their quickness.  I totally adore toddler socks!  I'm not using any particular pattern beyond my basic one with some math done to scale down for the short blocky monkey feet.  Since I'm pretty much winging it, I have been making notes so I can duplicate it for the second sock. 

While Wednesday night I was on the insomnia side of the weird walking coin, last night I couldn't stay awake.  I tried.  Hard.  I found myself dozing off on the couch and didn't have any energy for the SSSBG.  I plan on finishing that this weekend.  I want to get it wrapped and in its recipients hands next week.  This super secret stuff is killing me! 

Other than finishing the thing, I really have no plans this weekend.  Though while I'm finishing things, I should really just finish Trellis once and for all.  The poor thing has bee languishing seemingly forever!  Hopefully the weather man has it right and this stiffly HHH nastiness that has been lingering will move on by tonight.  I'll probably fill up the twins pool on the front lawn and let them go to it.  My parents took Alexander for a haircut yesterday.  What a huge difference a few minutes with scissors makes.  He looks like such a big boy after a haircut.  We won't get into how shaggy he'd been looking before the cut.  Hell its been some 4 months, or maybe more, since my last trim.  I've had to cancel the last two appointments due to some injury the day before.  I'm scared to make another one! 

I've been doing some thinking about the sweaters that I've lined up on the queue and the yarns that I've purchased for them.  I've come to the decision that Rogue is going back into the "someday" pile.  I'm going to do Eris first in the Araucania Natural Wool.  I've had ChicKnits LoTech Sweat on the queue since I finished Ribby.  I could use either the Patons Classic Merino I bought way back or the Wool of the Andes.  I don't think I'll have that many needs for a hoodie that I really need to make two of them, but you don't know.  Hmm.. I wonder if I could just put Rogue through a pattern shrinker and make it for Kat-Kat instead.  (Kat-Kat is what me and the rest of the crowd, including her brother, call the monkey girl.  It was only a matter of time before I started typing it.)  That might be a challenge I could take up. I like the cable patterns and Kat-Kat needs a new fall sweater so maybe that should ook its way to the top of the queue.  I have that pretty bright fuschia Jaeger Shetland Aran for sweater.  Its the right guage.  By George, I think it could work!  It also fills my burning need right now to knit with wool.  Ahh wool. 

Thanks to its being non-wool, that Soleil in the bamboo yarn is going to be no more.  I'm not enamored with it.  Will it go into dormancy along with the Big Sack Sweater?  Probably.  Until something else demands I use that yarn for it. Maybe back to the FBS that I pegged it for until that butterscotch yarn turned my head. I'm willing to call that Summer Ribby in the CottonEase a forever UFO.  Talk about languishing!  I can't remember the last time I worked on it.  I do know I swiped its needles for other projects:  one for Trellis and the other for SSSBG.  I have to admit, I'm not liking the CottonEase so much.  I don't like its very splitty ways.  If I ever get around to doing a summer ribby in a cotton blend, I'll get a new yarn for it.  I'll inventory my stock of CE and put in in the Looking for a Home album (hopefully this weekend) and will post when its there.

I'm out of the office at 1 today.  I'll have 3 hours to myself before I have to pick the monkeys up at daycare.  Oh what to do with myself?  Shop?  Excellent idea.  'Cept the ankle isn't thrilled with lots of walking.  I know, I can finally do all that post office stuf that I've been meaning to do for ages.  Speaking of which, that Sockotta is winging its way off to Rosemary in a trade for some of her extremely lovely looking Merino-Tencel blend sock yarn.  Yay!  Everyone have a good weekend.  Stay cool in the Northern Hemisphere, stay warm in the Southern ;)

Craft on!

Comments

[Janette]

Love the kit-kat socks! Reminds me that I need to crank out my first pair for Peanut. She's been a bit neglected in the knitted gifts from mom dept. Do you have a suggestion for a pattern?

[Laurie]

Lucky you, longer weekend, and merino/tencel to boot! Sounds like the Ankle is occupying less and less thought.