Little Wit Knits – Unplugged

Things I accomplished today and/or have going on. (What an awesome lead in…)

• So at the gentle nudging of a member of the Mid Ohio Knitting guild I created an event page on Ravelry for Sticks N Stitches. I can’t believe I forgot to do that! You can find the page here. That should be a much more effective way for me to get an idea of attendance levels.
• I have a napping boy and dog on the couch. It’s pretty cute.
• Karaoke is in store tonight to amuse the Iowan who is in town for the holidays.
• I also need to set about looking at stitch dictionaries but I am feeling rather lazy.
• Ravelry has new sorting features for stash yarns. I love it. I also love looking at my stash by color because well for some strange reason I just love my color sense! Shocking I am sure Not to mention all the awesome yellows I found recently are all at the top of my page saying “hello good morning it’s a beautiful cheery day!”
• I managed to locate the recipe for dinner rolls for Thanksgiving dinner Thursday at the in-laws. They look so delicious. (the rolls not my in-laws!)
• There are 6 completed repeats on the Christmas knitting I am working on. I think there may be 15 repeats total. We shall see. I am only knitting until I run out of yarn. I would like to get this finished this week. Thankfully there will be some car trips and oh that’s right a four day weekend!!!
• I have potentially 3 more knitting projects and a crochet project to be done before Christmas. Anyone taking bets on whether I will finish?
• The boy made dinner tonight. Potato and double corn chowder in bread bowls. It was awesome. Oh and he went to the grocery store and bought me yummy juice. Win!
• On that note I need to wake those two up so we can go to karaoke.

So I got some new yarn tonight at knit night and I need some help coming up with projects for the yarns.

• First up we have 200 yds of sport weight cashmere in a soft green. Clearly this is something I want to wear frequently in the cooler months but not with the kind of rough wear that happens with hiking socks.
• Second yarn is  fingering weight, 370 yards and 100 grams of superwash merino in a yellowy orangey color. Merino is one of my favorite yarns ever and I love wearing it. In theory I could make socks but in reality, I never do. What’s a gal to do?
• Third yarn is another fingering weight yarn with 370 yards and 100 grams of superwash merino in a browny rusty awesomeness. Ditto what I said earlier with regard to socks.

So any ideas dear sweet blog land?

The boy and I drove to VA this weekend. We were off to visit his uncle who is in the hospital, rehabilitating from an aneurysm and a minor stroke. It was great to see him and he’s doing amazingly well all things considered. We also got to hang out with his cousins for a little while. I even let them talk me into going off roading. Holy cow. It’s a bit unnerving when the whole vehicle kind of rocks and you’re near a little cliff and it can’t get a good “footing”. Fortunately, we made it out alive so all is well.

After hanging with his cousins we drove closer in to DC to visit my friend who is working up there on a TDY from her TDY. Ahh government jobs, they always keep ya on your toes. We had a good visit and she took us out to eat to celebrate our engagement. The boy spent a lot of time playing with her cat by getting the cat to chase a laser around the hotel room. It was rather fun to watch. Sunday we moseyed into town and I finally got to go see the wonder that is G Street Fabrics. For those of you local to the c-bus, it’s a fabric shop that is probably bigger than the old Lazarus basement. I was a bit stunned at all the selection. I wish we had such a shop closer to home. Alas, the only project I knew the exact quantities of fabric I needed, they did not have the fabric I needed so I left without buying anything. But I did take a picture.

G Street Fabrics - View down 2/3 of the store

Then we headed into Alexandria where I went to Knit Happens and snatched up some Yarn Love – Charlotte Bronte Worsted. I have been wanting to try their yarns for awhile and I finally had a chance to see them in person before buying. I also snatched up a lovely little shawl pin to use with the shawl I was working on during the road trip. (More on the shawl later) All in all it was a good visit and I was happy to make it home and fold myself into bed.

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Hello! It’s high time I break the radio silence. It seems I may be forming a pattern which involves taking June and July off from blogging and a good portion of July from knitting. Works for me. I have missed summer break all these hard, laborious years since I became a full fledged, tax paying adult. This week I have been working on a super adult type decision. A view of the decision making process is below.

What to knit next and which pattern to go with which yarn? I am sure you didn’t expect anything else. Oh and the boy says it looks like I am building a yarn castle. I am not sure what type of yarn invasion he is expecting but I would be pleased with the kind that gives me fancy pants yarn! Talk to you all soon!

My chum Sairy managed to score some Campari Orange for me in the last TLE update. I really liked the bright orange and reds and had told her thus. Well the yarn arrived at my door today! Isn’t it grand?

Campari Orange

Ok so reds are hard to photograph. This is actually a much deeper color of the shades shown here. Looks like I need to get some good sunlight and try again with the pictures.