WooHoo!

My Ravelry invitation came today. I guess that means I no longer have the joy of checking to see how many people are ahead of me in the list... But now I can photograph yarn and projects and organize needles to my heart's content. :)

I see much procrastination in my future...

Lots of stripes...

That's what I'm working on right now. Lots and lots of never ending, woolen stripes. I can't say much more, and there will be no photo posting until the last stripe is complete. You'll just have to imagine the woolly stripes for now.

As of midnight tonight (or whenever UPS delivers my copy to me) I have a new dilemma: how do I read Harry Potter and knit woolen stripes at the same time? If only I was obsessing over a new movie or tv show - then I could multi-task. I think the plan is going to have to be as follows for the foreseeable future (or, at least, the free-time portion of it): Knit as long as I can stand it, then read until I feel guilty for not knitting.

Let's just say that by the time comes for me to start school in August, I think I might be tired of knitting. Maybe. :)

Ideas

Ok. I'm going to have to add this pattern to my list of ideas for making blankets. It looks great. And like it would be lots of fun. And I've never done a blanket in the round. :)

Credit goes to Grumperina for introducing me to it.

Wicked

Last weekend, among the many activities that demanded my time, I had the chance to go see Wicked in Columbus at the Ohio Theater with some friends and both siblings. The theater is gorgeous. The show was amazing. And this was my view:

I would make a snarky comment about tall people with good posture and big hair, but Marianne might feel she had to retaliate (and I wouldn't want that). I'll just say that things got much better once my seat-neighbor started slouching a bit. And I feel sorry for whoever was sitting behind me - I'm sure they got tired of me moving from left to right and back again to watch the show...

Update: I feel I should mention that Marianne is not featured in the above photo. She was sitting next to me, getting frustrated at the person in front of her who was moving from left to right and back again to watch the show... :)

Elmore-Pisgah Update

I'm a little late with this, but I didn't want to leave the impression that I was having difficulties with Elmore-Pisgah or their yarn. It turns out that my purchase was returned to them as having been damaged, when the box had only been crushed a bit. So they repackaged it and sent it out again (without charging me more for shipping, wahoo!), and I had fun tracking it on the internet. Now I have my yarn, in colors that I had forgotten I'd ordered, and I am proceeding to feel guilty about not using it very much. :)

Yikes!

I can see that I'm quickly slipping back into the never-posting-anything mode that this blog suffered from for quite a while. So, in the interests of preventing any further slippage, here is a small update.

Somehow, I have gone from being a "one-large-project-at-a-time" knitter to a "too-many-small-projects-to-keep-track-of" knitter. I spent almost a year doing nothing but blankets. Want to know what's on the needles (or stitch holders) right now?

• Irish Hiking Scarf Reversible Cable Scarf - started on the way to Colorado in February. About 1/3 done. No progress since February.

• Fingerless gloves - Started sometime this spring. No progress since I realized I wasn't sure how to do the thumb.

• Cherry Tree Hill socks - Started not too long ago (0k, maybe 2 months, or 3?) Approximately 1 1/2 socks done. This would go faster if I stuck it in my purse, I suspect.

• Lorna's Laces Jaywalkers - Started more recently than the CTH socks. Making slow progress, because I keep ignoring them for too long and then forgetting the stitch pattern.

• Mason Dixon Knitting washcloth - Started somewhat recently. 1/4 done.

• Funny looking hat. Started on a business trip. Tried it on Dad, the intended recipient. It's going to need to be frogged. It just didn't look right. At all.

• Fuzzy soft lovely gift something - Bought yarn Wednesday. Not started yet.

• Big huge gift something - Bought yarn Wednesday. Waiting for it to arrive from KnitPicks.
• Mason Dixon Knitting Baby Kimono - Bought two different types of yarn to try this with. Not started yet.
  

I'm sure I've forgotten something in there. Probably. The comparison to my old "one-blanket-at-a-time" method is making me feel rather guilty.