Knitting ADD

Okay, this last week has been a bit nutso with my knitting. Serious ADD. Which is leading to a case of startitis. Don't know why, but it is what it is. Slowly moving along on the Nagini socks. Finished my pretty pretty Clapotis, it's currently blocking.

Mildly disappointed. But only with me, not with the knitting. I don't think I made it long enough. I followed the directions, but I think it's a bit short. Of course, this is something that can't be realized until it's too late. Too late because the stitches are dropped, and there's just no way to go back and pick up and knit again. Oh well. It's still gorgeous.

And then, the other night. I got a message from knitting pal Maggie with a question about her current lace project. So I sat there looking at the pattern and trying to work it out in order to help her, and was unable to. So I finished the last few rows of the Clapotis, and had the urge to cast the shawl on in order to figure it out. It's how I am with puzzles, I can't help it. So, the Luna Moth shawl is now on the needles. I'm halfway through the second repeat. It's a nice easy repetitive lace pattern. Much less concentration than the Mystic Waters. I'm using KnitPicks Gloss yarn, in Dolphin. It's 70% merino, 30% silk. So great. And then on Saturday, I had to start the November Ruffle by Kate Jackson. The yarn has been sitting there for petting, because, seriously, the 100% alpaca Peruvian Tweed yarn, is so incredibly luscious. That's the only word to describe this yarn. LUSCIOUS. Don't know why I was so intent on knitting this, I won't wear it until the fall, and it's like 15" of stockinette. Oi. Oh well, it's dummy knitting, and everyone needs a little dummy knitting in their lives.

Yesterday, I got something finished. Here's my Wrightwood roving, all spun up and plied up into some yarn. It ended up being 100yds of sport/worsted yarn (It's 11 WPI which is right between the 2 weights).

Very glad I finished this. It was for the Project Spectrum Earth cycle, which ends at the end of this month. So I actually got it done on schedule. Yay me.

Alright, well, that's about it from my land of knitting distraction.

Getting There

It's been a rough week. I got really really sick on Monday, and was just able to ingest food again yesterday around 2pm. And that's all I'll say about that. The weather has been less than spring-like, the rain is spring like, the temperature is not. But here's hoping that it's on the upswing. The sun is shining today, even if it's only in the fifties.

Yesterday, we managed to get in a baseball sectional. The weather was not cooperative. It rained most of the day and all of the game. But as we were winning, we really couldn't call it and expect the other team not to protest. So they played on, and won 10-1. Woohoo. I missed most of it due to the LAX game going on simultaneously. We won that 10-3.

Sunday was Mother's Day, and the joint celebration of my brother Paul's birthday (it was actually last Friday, but we didn't see him until Sunday). Elliott was most entertained by the musical card I got for my brother.

Mason, as it runs in the family, has a penchant for tissue paper. Paul appreciated the MP3 player and North Face.And then we moved onto mom, who loves anything that comes in a shoe box.She's totally going to kill me for posting those photos.

I haven't really gotten much done in the way of knitting. The Temptation sock ist kaput. The little pooches that resulted on the sides of the heels were present in other people's socks on Ravelry and the designer was unable to give me any tips on how to avoid them, so the yarn will get knitted up some other day. So I started another sock.

It's the "Nagini" pattern from Gigi Silva. I'm knitting it up in "Sour Grapes" by Rio Del Plata, purchased from the Loopy Ewe (not surprisingly). I'm loving it to this point. The way the yarn knits up in the pattern, it reminds me of snakeskin. So awesome. And I'm past the bulk of it, it's now just the mindless pattern up the leg. Which means I should get it finished relatively quickly (how often have we heard that?)The most exciting knitting though - I'm onto the decrease rows of the Clapotis!It's the home stretch now. I'm thinking that I'll be blocking this bad boy this weekend!! Which makes me very happy. Once again, I'm jinxing myself by making predictions. Gotta learn to stop doing that.