Mikknit

I’m in the middle of Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter, by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee - The Yarn Harlot herself. It’s a very enjoyable book so far. Many of the stories I remember from her blog, but there are a lot of new ones too.

One of the ones I read last night caused me to bawl my eyes out, though. Yes, the Yarn Harlot made me cry. The story “One Little Sock” was what did it - she was the doula for a woman whose baby died in utero, probably while she was in labor. I was lying in bed next to my sweet little boy and once I set the book down I scooped him up in my arms and just held him and cried. I feel lucky to have my children every day, but a story like that reinforces how lucky I am. Arlo had a true knot in his cord, so it’s possible that things could’ve gone a very different way than they did. I shudder to think about it.

While doing my Amazon search for The Yarn Harlot’s book, I see that they have the info posted for her next book - Knitting Rules!: The Yarn Harlot’s Bag of Tricks. Should be another entertaining book!

There is some knitting going on around here - I’m making slow but steady progress on the hood of Grace’s Robin Hood Jacket (seed stitch. Miles and miles of seed stitch) and also a hat for myself out of some Malabrigo Selección Privada. I cannot find a picture of it online and Photobucket isn’t cooperating with me this week, so I won’t share right now. Hopefully I can take an in-progress photo tomorrow to share. It’s looking like I may need to frog it - I guessed at both the gauge and my head circumference… never a good thing. It’s looking to be around 19″ around instead of the maybe 21.5″ I need to fit my 22.5″ noggin. Curse my big head!

Ah well, knitting is as much about the process as the final product for me!