The good: new Interweave Knits! I’d seen someone post on one of the LiveJournal knitting communities about receiving their copy and was oh so jealous until my lad went to check the mail. When he held up my glorious prize I ran outside like a giddy giddy girl to grab it out of his hands and ran (again, like a giddy giddy girl) back inside.
To thank him for being a lovely sort of chap, I may well make him the Cobblestone Pullover (shush all you sweater curse people; if you want to make someone a sweater, make them a sweater - enjoy the knitting process and let it go), but we’ll see. I suppose I should first ask him if he likes it. Maybe.
So hurrah to Eunny’s first issue, it is gorgeous. I’m really enjoying the focus on organic yarns and the processes involved in making them; being a largely local/organic sort of gal myself and trying to move further and further along that path all the time, I really appreciate knowing some more of the options I now have. At any rate, what a beautiful magazine with wonderful features and fantastic patterns. I especially like the Tangled Yoke Cardigan, the Counterpane Pullover and the Placed Cable Aran.
One final note: the advertisements. This sock yearning I have is not helped by the luscious pictures of sock yarn on what seems to be every other page. And of course Knitting Daily’s newsletter today was all about sock knitting for beginners. Socks socks socks. Socks. Oh dear. As Phil Collins said, I can feel it coming in the air tonight. Socks. I want to knit until my arms fall off. Socks.
The bad: I can’t knit!
The ouchie: my right elbow! Knitting this Taupemato ribbing in Cotton-Ease along with the ribbing for the Baby on a Stick Hat mk II has really got my joints (oh alright, my wrist hurts too) grumpy. No knitting for a couple of days, I tell myself…then knit three more rows of Taupemato ribbing, wincing all the time. Don’t tell me I’m dumb, I already know. Blasted cotton. Hate knitting with cotton, and I now extend that to cotton/acrylic (which I shall never use again). I hope the Mariner’s Gable in deliciously blue Cotton Fleece will be a bit easier on the ageing joints. (Ageing? I’m twenty-eight! O life, you are cruel.) But no knitting for at least a couple of days. So say we all.
Alas, here I am, with my Fall 2007 IK and my IK/Knitscene back issues I ordered sitting on my shelf in front of me, my Taupemato taunting me from my desk, and my right arm threatening me with a revolution should I even so much as touch my needles.
Bugger.
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