Mikknit

I bought my sweater drying racks at the evil Wal-Mart last summer, but when I went back to pick up a couple more yesterday they didn’t have any and not even a tag on the shelf for them. Great. Now I’ve got to track some down at another store. Haven’t gone to Target yet but maybe I’ll do that this weekend when I can leave the kids home with Chris. Arlo is in a screaming phase and it’s just too much to handle right now. I suppose I could look for one online and skip the trip to the store, not to mention the impulse purchases! Not to say that I’m immune to online impulse purchases, but it’s a little easier to abstain when there are shipping charges involved, for some reason. (Let’s not mention how many times I’ve increased my order to get the free shipping from KnitPicks!)

I did come home with a 1# cone of Peaches & Creme, though. It’s white, nothing terribly exciting, but good enough. I had an idea to make myself a bathmat out of it, á la Mason-Dixon Knitting or One Skein, but one uses a heavier weight of the stuff and the other is crocheted with a double strand of yarn. I didn’t feel like winding off half the cone and finding a size J crochet hook, so I cast on for one of the dishcloths from the Monthly Dishcloth Knitalong Yahoo group. I’m about 2″ into it already, hooray for speedy, just-mindless-enough projects!

I left my sock in the car and haven’t felt like going out to get it, plus it’s just too much concentration right now. Hence the mostly-mindless knitting being a very good thing. Sleep hasn’t exactly been in high supply here this week. Lots of movies for the kids, too. We’re watching Shrek tonight for the first time, hopefully it’s as good as I keep hearing. If not, they’d be happy to watch Charlotte’s Web 923409810 times a day.