It wants to be a liesl. Really. It said so.
It’s a good thing yarn doesn’t go stale because this yarn has been sitting in my stash since about this time last year, when I realized that “potato” is not a shape that looks good in a Cherie Amour.
I’m still debating my next project. I’m tempted by a sweater using the persephone yarn, but I know that Cherie Amour isn’t that sweater. I went back and looked at all the Cherie Amour projects again and I just don’t have te body confidence some of the larger ladies who’ve made it had.
I’m thinking about swatching up Eiffel and doing a yarn substitution as I think the overall look of the sweater will be better for my figure. I also think it will be easier to add short shaping in the ribbing top section to accomodate the girls.
Then again, maybe that yarn just wants to be Liesl and doesn’t know it yet. The yarn is brown with silvery gray brown patches and a soft lavender undertone. It could could be very pretty as a long sleeved Liesl and I need a new sweater for work. I’m freezing already.
On the stole front, I’m still torn on which comes first between Muir and Oakwoods. I’ve got some Woolen Rabbit Laceweight in Morrocan Spice (like this one in a Ravelry Stash), which would make a nice fall colored Muir. So would the Knit Picks Campfire. Oakwoods, on the other hand, is calling too, and would be so perfectly seasonal.
The ideas are still bubbling, so I haven’t cast on a darned thing yet. Cursed indecision, anyway. If I haven’t narrowed down the pattern for the sweater by tomorrow, I’ll probably cast on Oakwoods next, simply because I’ve figured out both pattern and yarn.
Sarah Blanch is off the needles. Hopefully, I’ll get to block it tomorrow and take some blocking shots of it. There aren’t terribly many of this shawl on Ravelry, and it’s a shame because it’s a very pretty and easy pattern. The main complaint is that the shawl is knitted side to side instead of up and down, so the pattern repeats are extremely long.
My biggest problem now is trying to decide what to make next. I have several options, so it’s just a matter of deciding what I want to do next. I’d like either something more challenging to knit thatn Sarah Blanch, or I’d like something quicker to complete.
We’ve come to a point in our life where we’re starting to look at the slim possibility of building a home that better fits our needs. With the current financial crisis, we may not actually do anything simply because we may feel it prudent to take on more house, but we haven’t ruled out the possibility yet. We’re cleaning, and fixing, and (as is inevitable in these sorts of things) downsizing.
Some of the books have gone away, to be purchased by other people and loved in another home.
Clothes and useful household items we’re not using have been donated to the charity store. I’d been hoping to be able to hold onto these books until the public library can accept direct book donations again, but they’re really not at that point yet and the books had to go now. I took them to Half Price books and used the money I got for them for white paint to freshen up the basement walls.
I even hired the Ninling and the Ninlette to help. The Ninling did a bunch of yard work for us and the Ninlette helped with some inside and outside chores. They earned every cent they were paid.
Tonight we talked to the builder about what we might want. He’s going to run some numbers and see what he can do for us. If it works out, we may be building a house. If it doesn’t, then my current house is spruced up and nicer for us in the meanwhile.
The Sarah Blanch Feather shawl continues to grow. I’m on the seventh pattern repeat now. Two more pattern repeats after this one, and it’s ready to block.
I have a rule about only having one project on the needles at a time and working on that project until it is done. I call it “project monogamy,” and it’s the best way for me to get finished objects. Simply put, I work on one project, and only one project, until it is done.
In this particular case project monogamy has turned into project monotony. While I’m expecting this shawl to be very petty and I will look forward to wearing it, I’m no longer engaged in the process of knitting this piece. Maybe it’s the long rows. The pieces is cast on along the length and then rows build up the width. Maybe it’s the fact that it’s all garter stitch broken up by the occasional row of dropped stitches. Maybe it’s the combination: long rows of not much else than garter stitch.
knit, knit, knit, knit, knit, knit
Whatever it is, I’m ready for this piece to be off the needles so I can move on to something else.
Blame Ninniachriel. This is all her fault. She suggested the idea and I had to get more mellowcreme pumpkins to try it.
Of course that meant I had to eat some of the mellowcream pumpkins, too, which directly lead to the sugar fed fantasy sequence which follows.
I don’t want to know the truth (according to wiki) about mellowcream pumpkins. I don’t want to know they’re made of mostly corn syrup (bad), though according to the Brach’s label, at least not the high fructose kind (possibly worse).
It’s my “must have” candy of the autumn season. I know not everyone agrees that they’re great. They’re too for me sweet to eat more than one or two at a time and certainly too sweet by alot of people’s standards. They’re certainly not vegan due to the real honey flavoring, and they’re not vegetarian due to the geletan content. Even if you loathe them for reasons of flavor or dietary concerns, you can’t deny they’re adorable.
fields of mellowcreme pumpkins
I dream in heaven, there are of fields of vegan honey flavored mellowcreme pumpkins you can eat with no tooth decay, no weight gain, and no belly aches. I’ve overdosed on mellowcream tonight, but it’s okay. I can space out the rest of the one pound bag I bought throughout the remaining weeks until Halloween.
When we were girls, Pookie always loved it when hot air balloons would drift over the house. She would hear the balloons fire and go running from the house shouting “Balloon! Balloon!” and looking all until she spotted it high in the sky.
To this day, when every I see a hot air balloon I think of Pookie, running out of the house, her piggie tails flapping in the breeze, exuberant and free, yelling “Balloon! Balloon!”
A balloon went over my house so low that we could see the lovely couple in it very clearly. Rosie and I waved hello and they waved back. I was concerned they were going to land in the neighbor’s back yard. Then I realized I was an idiot and they were aiming for the parking lot of the building where I work, which is within a stone’s throw of my house.
I ran inside, got my camera, and snapped some pictures as it came down.
Pattern: Foliage by Emilee Mooney (knitty.com = free)
Yarn: Goblin Flower Homespun by Collette at the Lazy Perry Ranch (snatched from Ninniachriel’s stash)
Needles: US7 / 4.5 mm
Modifications: None
Yes, I loved this yarn enough that I snatched the only remaining skein of it in existance from my sister and made myself a hat to go with my mitts and neckie.
I have this problem with making hats. It’s not that I can’t make hats. I can and the majority of them are darned cute, too. (Really, I have no problem with modesty. I’m not currently practicing it, but I have no problem with it in theory.) The problem becomes photographing the hats once I’ve finished them. I hate to resort to the popular “mirror shot,” and I hate to depend on my roommate’s schedule to get pictures taken, because her schedule isn’t always as timely as mine, so I “hired” myself an assistant.