Mystic Lights KAL

I've been working on the Mystic Light KAL. It's on clue 3 now, but these are the first pictures I've taken of mine. I think mine looks a lot different than everyone else's. I'm guessing that it's largely because I used a different double decrease than was called for and the yarn I used gives a lot less definition than most the others used.

Mystic Light shawl after clue 3

Close-up of Mystic Light shawl after clue 3

The pictures aren't the greatest, since Kitty kept attacking the shawl while I was trying to pin it out. She was trying to eat the shawl. Then she tried to use it as a scratching post. I had to lock her in the bathroom just so that I could get this. She has been a big brat lately. I didn't want to leave her in there long, so I just pinned it out as fast as I could on the floor and stuck a couple pieces of paper under it to show the lace better. High quality, high class, no? But Kitty thanks you for forgiving me. ;-)

I've still been knitting

I know that I haven't written in forever. It really is inexcusable, I know. I also know that this is a bunch of whining, but I don't know that I felt that anyone was reading, so I just kind of let it go. Since then I have been informed that there were at least a couple people interested in the knitting of Cindy, but I kept not writing. What can I say - I'm challenged. ;-)

What I really wanted out of having a blog was to be able to connect with all of my knitting friends, so that they could see the things I'm working on and we could discuss. I don't know if a blog is the right forum for that, but it was all that I could think of. Would it make more sense to have this as a group space, where several people could post? I really want to be able to use this space to build a community. That's the whole reason I wanted a blog in the first place.

All of my friends are far away. I wanted a place I could go to find them, even though they are all over the country. I miss everyone.

If you all can forgive me, I think I'm going to try again. Maybe this time I can get this going. If you have any ideas on how to get people more involved, I would love to hear them.

And I'm sorry for getting all melodramatic and pouty on you. ;-)

OMG it's been over a month

Hey all,


There hasn't really been anything interesting or exciting to talk about, except the magic of allowing a new furry little person into your life. She is a little angel. Maybe the Angel of Destruction and Insomnia.


Here are some pictures to make up for some of it:














Now back to work.

New Kitty!

Orion and I have added added a member to our family.





Meet Tatiana, our little kitten from the shelter. We took her home on Tuesday, and she has settled in quite nicely. She is eating from her dish, uses the litter box correctly, and loves all her new toys. She's still a little scared after a night alone in the living room, since she won't come sleep in the bedroom, but I think she's decided our place is okay. She's even purred a couple times.


More photos can be seen on this slideshow.

Happy Halloween!!!

This is totally not knitting, but I thought y'all might want to see my costume.











It is surprisingly expensive to go goth.

Fast blanket

Okay, can't talk long cuz I've got to get to work, but here is what I've accomplished this week.





This is the Hemlock Ring Blanket from Brooklyn Tweed.


As always, before blocking, the lace pattern looked like ass.





But after blocking, even clumsy, unsophisticated blocking like mine, the project looked right pretty.





And finally, the socks that I've been working on. I worry that they are a little tight, but I think they should be okay.





Now off to work!

That didn't last long

I've cast on three projects since the last post, and I haven't finished a single one of the projects that had been hanging over my head. But I'm an adult now, and I don't have to finish my stuff if I don't want to!


I think everyone should take a look at this site. Awesomest useless knitting ever. If I could go to the gallery show, I would.


So yesterday, instead of working (which I really should have been doing), Orion and I went on a road trip to Devil's Lake State Park, going over the utterly creepy cable-driven Merrimac ferry. After that, we came home and watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with RiffTrax. We then were trying to figure out what else Gene Wilder had been in, and saw an ad for Nightmare Before Christmas 3D. Within ten minutes we were out the door and on the way to the theater. It was an awesome day, full of hyperlinks. Maybe that will make up for the lack of pictures.