FO: crash, oh dear

we read a book to the wee one that has two characters smack into each other; the narration says, crash, oh dear. we use that phrase a lot around here. this moebius has crashed and burned. it would fit an eight year old. i could maybe fix it with it a much looser cast off but i'm done. to the frog pond.

catch up

the yarn harlot came to town to adjudicate the kw knitter's guild adjudicated show. thanks to the lovely lady lynn, i got to tag along for some birthday drinks at the heuther. jenny, julia, stephanie, rachel, lynn, me.



my favorite pocket people pals bry and beckstar have moved back to ontario avec super sassy pooch sousa, settling in toronto. this makes me very happy though i no have a reason to go to seattle.


i'm knitting another attempt at a moebius. i'm using couple hanks of handmaiden something or other. it has cashmere in it. though the colours are "my" colors, it kinda looks like the dog's breakfast at the moment. it is a quick knit so i will finish it, try it on and you all can help me decide to keep it or frog it. i think the yarn would actually be quite cute as a roll brimmed hat and maybe some mittens.



the wee one turns 2 on thursday. 2! amazing. he's pretty amazing too. we went to my brother's yesterday and he and nephew #1 actually played together for the first time ever. they ran around shrieking and having a grand time. this makes us so very happy.

i got the.worst.haircut.ever last week. i hates it so much. why? in a word: bangs. on the upside i think it will grow out rather well, i just need to be patient.

quest for a moebius

you could either call me determined or stupid, but i am still trying to make a moebius that i will wear. my boy gave me a gift certificate to the LYS for christmas and i knew exactly what to spend it on. gorgeous gorgeous manos del uruguay yarn for a moebius. i wanted to make one that sits rather snugly around the shoulders and arms, across the chest and is about 6-8 inches wide.

(originally i was going to knit my so called scarf but watching 24 while knitting, still being a bit sleep deprived, having only a few minutes at a time to knit, and general ADD caused me to constantly have the wrong number of stitches on my needles. plus, i didn't like that the reverse of the scarf is merely purl stitches. kinda ruined it for me)

using cat bhordi's crazy cast on method, i began the moebius. for reasons i cannot fathom, i am utterly incapable of counting how many stitches i've cast on and so continue until i look like i have enough. ha. and then i knit and knit and knit and knit and finally cast off. only to find the moebius hangs down to my bellybutton and is 3 inches wide. not exactly the look i was going for.

sigh. my neighbour, and fellow guild member, is the one who suggested i use the manos for the moebius. she coached a friend along and they took notes apparently. i need to track down those notes.