THE BRAIN

Alright. It's finished save for the stuff I'm going to do to it for the fair, but you all deserve pictures.

Pictures of what?

Pictures of THE BRAIN.








See more in my Flickr set.

Pins and Knitting Needles

I know I haven't written in awhile, but I have a very good excuse!

I have been knitting!

The "brain hat" (that has no better name at the moment) is coming along rather smoothly. It's basically just a stockinette-based hat with three rows of ribbing on the edge with a crazy amount of i-cord tacked to the top. I only have one 30-inch length of i-cord left, but when that is done, I'll have done 45 feet and 4 inches of the stuff. I'll be so glad when the all the i-cord is done. My left ring finger has been numb for about three days now. I'm lucky that today isn't so bad.

In other news, Husband is off at a conference to talk about bones and lazers, leaving me in the house with the dog. What does this mean? This means that I shall knit i-cord tonight and watch Blackadder. And miss him. Our first anniversary is next weekend (or rather, the first installment of our first anniversary). His present is currently in the hands of the talented framing folks at Michael's. I hope Bruce McCall isn't upset that I scanned covers of The New Yorker in order to peice together a "print" of his "Ascent of Man." Never seen it? Check this out, then:



The only photo I have of the "brain hat" is of it at about.... 25% or so. It's much further along now, so I'll just delay photographic evidence until it is finished. (30" left OMG!)

Showing off kids that aren't mine...

...but they're related to me! That has to count for something.

My little sister is amazingly awesome. Words cannot describe how stupendous she is.

Booties are Done!

I just finished the last bootie while sitting at C. R. Yarns this morning. I wish I'd have my camera on me then, but because I had to wait until I got home to my camera, you get "knitting on bed" pictures.And, because I put knitting the bed and expressed interest in it, Livvy decided that she needed to be on the bed for me to express interest in her.

These booties (and my puppy dog) are far too adorable. I have the gloves almost finished, so I shall post pictures when I have the second one all seamed up.

Dirty Knitting

My husband has a penchant for dirty limericks. He shared this one with me this evening.

There was a young man from St. Paul's
who read Harper's Bazaar and McCall's
'til he grew such a passion
for feminine fashion
that he knitted a snood for his balls.

You have no idea how tempted I am to knit him a joke-gift now. Ball-snoods.

Time for bed, obviously.

Pictures, as Promised!

I haven't taken any of my in-progress works, but here is the photo of the Starsky Sweater from the book I picked up at the library sale. It is so deliciously seventies.



I also got my yarn from Knit Picks in the mail today: Looking Glass and Damsel. I put it on the bed, and the dog IMMEDIATELY jumped up and lied down next to it.

So I moved the yarn so I could get a decent picture of it, but she didn't like that idea.


Silly puppy, yarn is for PEOPLES.

Bright, Bright, Sunshiney Day

The combination of sunshine and snow on the ground is nice, but it makes it difficult to see when walking from a relatively dim interior to the car and then driving to another relatively dim interior. Either I'm not used to life out here yet, or I'm a vampire. I don't have a hankering for hemoglobin, so it must be the former.

I've started the Starksy Sweater, and I promise I will scan the picture in my newly beloved vintage pattern book as soon as I am able. The yarn I'm using is Vanna's Choice in Linen. When a pattern calls for 2,000 grams of yarn (20 skeins!) you can't be picky. Also, "published" kudos to my husband for helping me raid Michael's bins and match dye lots...and then later helping to untangle the knit-with-four-strands mess. It's supposed to be 8 with fingering yarn (100 grams = 330 meters), but I've found that the only place to get decent fingering weight yarn is one of the LYSs.

I knitted the thumb and began the pinky finger for the second Sack glove as well today. I love how fast the fingers knit up. I used to be afraid of smaller needles, since big needles and chunky yarn give you such quick results. But now the 15s for the Starsky Sweater feel odd in my hands compared to the 4s for the Sack gloves and the 1s for the Saartje Booties.

Speaking of Saartje, I have one done! I'm pleased with it, but I'm hoping that bootie number too comes out a little bit better, and that both look amazing once I've got buttons on them and they've been washed and dried. Yay for machine washable/dryable yarn!