Final score: Houston Astros - 8 Milwaukee Brewers - 6
Innings: 12
Knitters: ’a plenty!
Knittas Represent, yo!
The “CLACKers” from front to back: yours truly, Christi (KnittyKnurse), Hannah (tehstix), Kim (Kimncocoa), and Stephanie (nostromosulaco)
HOORAY! I no longer have to “hold the beans”…
Guess who’s knitting queue has suddenly had a tenfold increase?? I’d better get cracking. 
I’d like to introduce y’all to my new “away from home” knitting place. If the weather is nice, you will often find me here on my lunch hour. Sit in a crowded, window-less lunchroom? Or sit a spell here. It’s a no brainer.
Let’s pretend that the parking garage doesn’t exist, mmmkay?
I think Nutkin, my newest sock, looks happy here. Don’t you??? 
I have some knitting progress to report!
Firstly, here’s my first go-round with knitting 2 socks on 2 circs:
You can see that Zipper is very interested in my fraternal socks. I honestly couldn’t be bothered with winding 2 identical balls of yarn. Besides, I think that it gives me “character”.
I had a lot of issues with these socks. Firstly, I’ve come do decide that I much prefer knitting my socks on dpns. Nothing against circulars, mind you. I’ve just found that I’m more comfortable (and quicker!!!) juggling 5 dpns than I am trying to manage 2 measly circs. Will I ever knit socks on 2 circs again? Probably. But not anytime soon.
My other big issue was the yarn. What can I say about the Kureyon sock yarn? I can say that it’s “crunchy”. I can say that it hurt my hands. I can also say that it broke no less than 3 times while I was knitting these socks. I think all of this is a shame, because their colorways are so incredibly beautiful.
So, in order to recover from the trauma of Noro-socks-on-2-circs, I have started another project.
So far I have loved every single minute of knitting this project. The pattern is very well written and easy to follow. And, y’all, mmmalabrigo is the POLAR OPPOSITE of Kureyon Sock. It is some damn fine yarn! No wonder people are addicted to it.
So that’s what I’ve been up to, folks. In the immortal words of Coach P….
More later
I’m just going to throw this out there. I am totally blaming fellow Raveler, Kemtee, for my traffic woes this morning. I read a post of hers sometime last week, and BLAMMO! I got stuck in some of the gnarliest traffice I have seen in ages. It took me TWO HOURS to get past the mess.
Go ahead! Click here if you dare! But dont’ say I didn’t warn you!
As I was sitting in traffic this morning, I had to wonder how in the world people manage to rear end someone else going approximately 0.5 mph? I passed not one, but TWO fender-benders in the back-up this morning. I mean, how is that possible? Are these folks merely impatient, or are they just completely oblivious to their surroundings?
Here’s hoping y’all had a decent Monday morning commute! :)
I work in a lab for a living, which means I wash my hands approximately fortyleven times a day and when I’m not washing them, they’re living in gloves. As a result, my hands are are an attractive texture of mid-grade sandpaper. It has gotten so bad that that my dry patches actually snag my yarn while I’m knitting.
…Ew…
I’ve tried just about every kind of lotion out there, but it just ends up getting washed off or somehow absorbed into my gloves. So far the only good, somewhat “wash proof” lotion that has been suggested to me is The Body Shop’s Hemp Hand Protector. And y’all? It smells like arse.
So, my fellow knitters out there in knitterdom, do any of you know of a miracle salve (that doesn’t smell like fetid feet) to keep my hands from shredding??
My hands (and knitting!) will thank you.
The sorting hat says I belong in Ravenclaw!
Said Ravenclaw, “We’ll teach those whose intelligence is surest.”
Ravenclaw students tend to be clever, witty, intelligent, and knowledgeable. Notable residents include Cho Chang and Padma Patil (objects of Harry and Ron’s affections), and Luna Lovegood (daughter of The Quibbler magazine’s editor).
I walk into the room where my Noro scarf is blocking and immediately encounter a guilty kitty face.
“Honestly, I was only sniffing the Noro. No way was I thinking about sprawling across it. None what-so-ever. You believe me, right?? ”
I started this scarf while waiting around for jury duty. I wanted something that was quick and easy to memorize, and this easily fit the bill. The Noro must have brought me some good ju-ju, because I wasn’t selected for jury duty and was released fairly early in the morning. Woo! That equals more knitting time!
And just in case that’s not enough yarn pr0n for you, I also received the first installment of the Mama Llama yarn club. She sent this as her first yarn:
400 yards of Silken Cashmere. Commence the drooling.
See what those arrows are pointing to? Not the Noro - but flowers. Folks, this picture was taken 2 weeks ago. Flowers in February. It is this picture I will cling to when it’s smack-bang in the middle of summer and I am hating everything about Texas.
