Forecast: word cloudy

So what's your word cloud?

Just keep knitting ...

Hilarity, thy name is fourfour.

So I just finished filling out an insurance form, and in the family information section, there's a little spot for your significant other. On this form, in the column marked "Relationship", it is labeled "Spouse/Dom. Partner". Hooray! I'm taking that as a good sign.

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This is the work I did last night. I'm beginning to transition from Blue Hawaii to Chartreuse using a simple overlapping Fibonacci sequence — 1 1 2 3. In other words, 1 row C, 3 rows BH, 1 row C, 2 rows BH, 2 rows C, 1 row BH, 3 rows C, 1 row BH, and then solid Chartreuse from there. (Well, except for the Bluestone, which I knit every other row anyway, since this is a pseudo-mosaic project.)

As I get farther away from the bottom, I am beginning to notice that the bottom is kinda flimsy and thin, as it's just plain stockinette and one color, as opposed to the psuedo-mosaic work along the sides that bulks up the material. I'm hoping that felting will take care of it. I'll probably end up lining the bag anyway, so it won't be so bad.

Another thing I neglected to take into account: size. When I felt it, I'm getting the feeling that the bag will be less like a satchel and more like a tube. Maybe I should have cast on more stitches to make the bag wider ...

I also hope I don't end up hating the way I'm doing the striping, because the colors are very pretty together on their own. But I think I'll feel better about it once I leave off the Blue Hawaii and get more Chartreuse done. We shall see.

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I also decided to go back to a three-column layout, as the knitting stuff was trying to take over the rest of my links. I fought with the stylesheet for a few hours, but I think I've managed to reign it in to what I like. Let me know if it displays weird or something.

UFOs!

I've been listening to classical music solid for the last couple of days. It's beginning to make me restless. It's a good thing there's an oboe playing right now, or there could be chaos. Because I have a new position at the paper, I've had many more things to do than usual, so there's that, too. And next week I get to fill in for our obit / legals person, because she thinks she needs to go on vacation or something.

I managed to frog my knitting for the KO last night, but i haven't cast on again yet, because I had to wind all of that mess into a couple of center-pull balls. (Oh, and I used a plastic sword sheath for a makeshift nostepinne.) While watching the X-Files. (UFOs, eh, Fyberduck?) I am all set to cast on tonight and get some serious knitting done.

That is, if I ever get out of here.

Knitting Olympics — frog

I am knitter — watch me frog. I was working on a funk-ified version of Knitty's Satchel, and then realized that the needles I was knitting on were going to use way too much yarn. More than the four skeins of Cascade 220 that I bought at String of Purls while I was in O-town moving out this weekend*. Duh. The colors I got were four different ones: Blue Hawaii (a bright aqua shade), Bluestone (a darker turquoise color), Chartreuse (a bright green), and Highland Green (darker than Chartreuse). They're very pretty together — my mom even thought so.

I drew up a new schematic on the table at Macaroni Grill tonight while my mom and I were waiting for food, and I photographed it so I'd remember. I'm going to start over shortly, using smaller needles and only one strand of yarn.

Did I mention what team I am knitting for?



* In essence, I have a new job in W'set, and O-town was starting to make me stir crazy. I still love Dustro, though. ;-)

Brokeback, Olympics

Brokeback to the Future is a fabulous trailer. The link is to YouTube, although the movie was initially posted on chocolate cake city.

I'm still tying to work out the specs of my pattern for the Knitting Olympics. At this point, I'm thinking that it would be easier to just use the smaller version of Knitty's Satchel as a base and add mosaic patterns it from there. (Heck, why not? I was going to use I-cord detailing anyway ... and it's felted!)

Cast-on time is tomorrow at 2 p.m., but I'm supposed to be working (at a church! yikes!) then, so maybe I can sneak in a few stitches to be official. Of course, I don't really have any of the yarn I want to use picked out since I've changed my mind so many times, but that's not a problem, right?

A bloggers (silent) poetry reading

A great idea for celebrating six (!) more weeks of winter: a poetry reading. The idea came from Grace's Poppies, and I caught it via the Harlot this evening.

I chose Robert Frost because, well, it just seemed appropriate.

Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

—Robert Frost