YAY. Premature worrying yesterday. My order arrived this afternoon and has been properly stashed (har).

CRAP

I placed a large Knit Picks order last week (I even scaled it back a little bit...see, I have some control). As is everyone who knits, I am always extremely eager to receive wool in the mail. This time I'm hoping and praying to the knitting gods that the shipping is slow. It was shipped from KP on Wednesday and the tracker says it was in Ohio yesterday with no new updates thus far. My experience is that it takes 2-4 days to arrive on my doorstep after the Ohio stop. The likelihood it arrives on one of the two days I DON'T want it to are looking mighty. Saturday and Monday Jim is home and can see what the mailman brings. Were it a simple envelope, I could easily hide that, but this is going to be a big ass box and I fear there is no hiding that.

Plan A is I've been devising ways to get him out of the house, but this is not at all likely. Plan B is that I have also been trying to think up lies as to what the order consists of, but I'm coming up short - there's only a couple of things in the order that qualify as presents. Plan C involves me trying to develop a plan where I'm outside when the mailman arrives (and Jim isn't) and I can stealthily throw the box into my car for opening at a later day.

Cross your fingers that my order either speedily arrives tomorrow or slowly arrives Tuesday. I need to plan my ordering days better, I think. I ordered on a Friday and their stuff usually gets to me in a week. In my eagerness to touch new wool I didn't even consider that. Bah.

oooh shiny

I'm oddly intrigued by this new (I think?) Glow in the Dark yarn. I may have to make a trip to Michaels to check it out. I'm a total Halloween hor anyway, so this may give me an excuse to knit something Halloweeny.

enamored

ENAMORED, I TELL YOU.

Is it possible to be completely infatuated with a knitted item (or two)?

Because I am. I want to whisk these socks away to a deserted island and have multitudes of babies with them.

Pattern: Knotty or Knice
Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks That Rock lightweight
Colorway: Valkyrie

Further details in Ravelry :)

castonitis

I have an acute case of Castonitis at the moment. Nothing is holding my interest.

Jim's socks I'd been working on? Haven't been touched in weeks.

The vest I'm working on for myself. Can't abide the endless stockinette.

The half-completed Endpaper Mitts I began quite a while ago? Those actually did hold my interest the other day. The only problem with those is I must have absolute concentration to work on them and that's something I don't get very often around here.

So, I wound up some really colorful hand-dyed yarn, hoping that would quell it. Nope, had to cast that on: a pair of socks. Think that would satisfy me? Nope. Halfway down the first leg and they've already been set aside.

Thought maybe if I bought some yarn I've been coveting for a terrifically long time, that might tide my unfulfillable mind for a bit. Um, no. Because I can't knit it until it arrives.

I've contemplated casting on about a million other projects amongst all of that, but have managed to abstain.

And then today...my Fall Interweave finally arrived. I want to knit nearly everything in that damn magazine! So, I wound up and cast on the wrap because I do have (some, not all) yarn for that. And I think I found something to keep my interest for a time. I hope. However, I still feel like casting on a ton of other projects. Sometimes it's a bad thing having so many sets of knitting needles. Oh, and I'm going to have to make another Knit Picks order soon. The wrap which will run out of yarn gives me that excuse at least. *nods*

TV

This may be really, really old news, but I just recently discovered that HGTV runs old episodes of Knitty Gritty. This is very exciting for me because I don't get the DiY network (I used to ages ago and when they reshuffled the channels it got yanked out of my package...grrr)!

I am very sad that my local PBS isn't carrying the new Interweave Knits TV show though. Fail PBS. Fail.

Y HALLO THAR

God I fail at having more than one blog.

I got a free $25 for signing up for something and so...I spent it on yarn. I bought some Knit Picks Shimmer (in Stained Glass) to make a Clapotis (finalement!) and also picked up the Georgian Sampler because I thought the projects looked cute and quick(ish). It was a tough decision on which sampler to buy, but the colors in this one won out.

Currently I'm working on a yoga mat bag and the Lace Ribbon Scarf (in Knit Picks Gloss in Serengeti, which was in my stash), both of which are knitting up very quickly and easily. Clapotis will be cast on when the Lace Ribbon Scarf is complete.

Wow, it's been awhile. I've knit two entire pairs of socks, a pair of yoga socks, completed a half-finished Booga bag to give to a friend, cast on a blanket, and cast on another pair of socks since I last updated. I think that's it.

Unsurprisingly, no, I do not have photos. I've taken photos of the FOs, but have yet to DL them onto the comp. I'm also searching for photos of a couple items I *know* I took photos of. Jim sometimes clears the memory cards and then I have to hunt for where the photos end up. Joy.

The two items I'm knitting currently are really colorful (though are not colorwork...just stripes...except for the heel in the socks is intarsia) and I'm using up a lot of stash, which is such a weight off. All my scrapped colorwork projects (a pair of socks, a pair of mittens, and two hats...none of which interest me anymore) left a heck of a lot of unused yarn behind, so I took some time to find projects that would suit them. This means lots of stripes, which is cool, 'cause I love multi-colored stripes.

quiz

Here's a fun quiz for knitters. I'm mohair and some of that description is accurate.

http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/pottercraftnews/fiberquiz/index.html

My MIL has commissioned me (except y'know, for free) to make her sister a scarf. I didn't have much desire to do so, which I told her, but said I'd do it anyway because I am too nice. I loathe knitting scarves because they're so monotonous and are soooooo long.

So I ask MIL what her sister wants and she says that she said she wanted 'one of those hairy ones that everyone is wearing'. O_o I can only assume she means a Fun Fur scarf as those were VERY in several years ago and she lives in a town that is very behind the times. I flat out said no to that.

MIL basically had no clue what she wanted though and that was only my assumption, so she said to knit her whatever as long as it was red. I was then informed that she has a wool allergy (which my husband doesn't actually believe lol) and I have to knit it in acrylic. Joy. Not. I told my MIL that I'd look at the craft store and see what I could find, but to not hold out much hope because their choices are very limited.

I'm now searching for a pattern that will be interesting enough, but not too intricate since I really don't want to do this anyway. Hope I can find some sort of yarn.