Counting down
August 31st, 2007 at 8:39 pm (Random babbling, To-do, Works in progress)
Only 3.5 more hours to get your vacation stories in! I will close comments on the contest post either at midnight tonight (if I’m still conscious) or tomorrow morning. Any posts made after midnight CDT will be disqualified.
I’m dealing with some seriously soul-sucking allergies here, so I haven’t gotten any pictures taken. I’m also fighting some bad knitter’s ADD, not helped at all by browsing on Ravelry. I’m knitting on the endless sleeve of this Wonderful Wallaby (only sleeve #1, might I add) and since it’s mindless stockinette my brain is flitting back and forth to all of the things I want to knit NOW!
• The Luna Moth Shawl, for which I have some lovely chocolate brown alpaca.
• The February baby sweater from Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Knitter’s Almanac. I have the yarn for this but my copy of the book is MIA.
• I am still coveting the yarn from Beaverslide Dry Goods, but have several sweaters’ worth of yarn to knit first.
• The Peace Fleece sweater is asking to be revived, just as the weather is warming up again.
• The green/yellow yarn from Stonehedge Fiber Mill is screaming at me as well
• My spinning wheel is glaring at me, disgusted with how it’s been neglected
Strangely enough, I am not at all interested in knitting socks right now. My brain has moved on to fall/winter knitting. This will be an issue if we have another month of warm weather, I think, but at least it’s been getting nice and cool at night - then I can wear my nice wool socks to bed 
I hope there’s something on tv tonight sufficiently interesting enough to get me through the last couple inches on this sleeve. At that point, I may reward myself by sewing buttons onto the Baby Surprise Jacket and suffering a little bit of babylust.
jessica said,
August 31, 2007 at 10:07 pm
My fingers are crossed! I think my wheel is glaring at me too!
knittymama said,
August 31, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Wow, that’s quite a list!!
Debra said,
September 1, 2007 at 9:50 am
One of the funniest accounts of Ravelry as time-sucking-alternate-universe that I’ve read is on Claudia’s blog (of Wollmeise fame). Here’s a link to the post that is translated via Google. The two in combination reads as yoda-like wisdom. http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=de%7Cen&u=http://wollmeise.blogspot.com/2007/08/wandlungen.html
Renee said,
September 1, 2007 at 12:39 pm
Sorry about the allergies! Mine haven’t been quite as bad lately, so whatever’s triggering you must not be triggering me, thank goodness! Allergies truly do make me want to cut off my head.
Ravelry is the best time suck ever invented! Last night I was looking for inspiration for a couple of skeins of Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock. Oh my gosh. There are hundreds of projects in that yarn in Ravelry!
April said,
September 1, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Allergies don’t sound like fun.
I just got a copy of knitters almanac at half priced books a couple weeks ago and don’t have any plans to make anything from it soon. You are welcome to borrow it if you want. Just send me an email.
Robin said,
September 2, 2007 at 6:51 am
Gah! I put this off and then forgot to give you a story. Someday I’ll stop procrastinating.
Tanya said,
September 2, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Allergies have been horrible lately! Hope you feel better!
Holly of HollYarns said,
September 12, 2007 at 7:48 am
Hang in there! The stockinette marathon shall end!
I know how you feel as I just went through that with my Fitted Knits Puff Sleeved Feminine Cardi. Gah! How I thought the seemingly endless stockinette would strangle me. But it didn’t, as you can see I am still alive.