Just Sad

Really.

First, I love the woman's hair cut in the photo.

Second, the color of her hair is cool, too. Hmm...maybe not on me.

Third, if I thought the shrug was never ending, WTF is wrong with me that I want to knit this for myself?

A Much Better Model!

Here's Crash wearing her belated bday gift!

FO!

About damn time, too.

I'll get better photos where the shrug's not so wonky tomorrow, when the CoM picks it up.






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The down and dirty details:

Yarn(s): Cascade 220 - 12 skeins (because I knit with two strands)
Colorway(s): Teal and White
Purchased: The Yarn Shoppe
Needles: size 10 circs
Time: for me, eons

Whip It, Whip It Good!

All that's left is to whip stitch or mattress stitch the sleeves and sides, then the Never Ending Fucking Shrug will be finished!

"Those who are here can place no hope in death"

I have come to believe that I now inhabit a circle of Dante's Inferno that was never described.

It's for those persons who have annoyed others, switched lanes without a proper signal, bought store cookies and passed them off as their own and felt slightly guilty about it but never 'fessed up, and possibly outright pissed off several people along the way for various reasons.

Welcome to the Never Ending Fucking Shrug circle of hell:




I have been knitting on this thing and knitting on it, and yet more knitting. I have been so good to my word about not starting anything new to take the edge of the crankiness that's growing with this shrug. Does it progress better then for my virtuous behavior? Of course not. Thank the uber geeks for iPod and podcasts and audio books.

Only Garrison Keillor reading his work, "Stories," can make this endurable.

I Fall Down, Luckily On Yarn, Quite Often

Today, due to an unexpected yarn sponsorship, I picked up a few things. My Poems Sock order came in:




And found a pattern for a baby sweater for Miss M., when someone I knew from our SnB came in with a completed sweater from this pattern here. And I picked up the green yarn she used:




Meanwhile, I was possessed and justified picking up a multi-purple colorway of Lorna Lace's:








With a free pattern on the inside that I think I can handle knitting:






In the meantime, I've some yarn that I washed that must be wound into yarn cakes, to wait their turn to be knitted into a shrug this fall.

UN Launched International Year of Natural Fibers 2009

How did I manage to miss this announcement? Okay, I've been a bit distracted by the whole being unemployed thing since January, but really!





Click the photo for more info!

What A Honey

This is adorable, even if I say so myself:






With the tea cup inside:





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The down and dirty details:

Yarn(s): Kraemer Yarns Mauch Chunky - 50% of one skein (60 yds)
Colorway(s): Beeswax (really!)
Purchased: The Yarn Shoppe
Needles: size 10 DPNs
Time: for me, a total of 6 hours