Knitting

The one where she wants to

April 9, 2011 mud&stringLeave a comment

self-destruct because six inches into a six and a half inch skirt she’s sees that she’s off two stitches in the eyelet pattern on the Brittany Jumper for Susannah. I kept checking it and checking it but I guess I didn’t do as good a job as I thought. I’m just not believing this and I know that in the grand scheme, this isn’t even on the radar, I mean, it’s no quake, tornado or tsunami, but still…..

I had all my chicks in the nest this weekend and it’s been wonderful. We cooked out and I made two loaves of bread and an apple pie. Now, the main kitchen sink drain is backed up and it’s spewing into the other sink, but we’re all here and healthy and again, it’s not a quake, tornado or tsunami.

Susannah and her Pawpaw –

You know, it’s all good.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Rita Mae Brown

Knitting

The one where she talks about

April 4, 2011April 4, 2011 mud&stringLeave a comment

the book she just started, Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston. Just a few pages in, so the jury’s still out but I think it’s going to be a keeper. I do that with books, there are several, both real paper and ink and audiobooks, that I read over and over, savoring. The Stand is one, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is another. Never get enough of those two.

I (finally) truly got going on the Brittany Jumper. It only took me a weekend. My problem was the eyelet pattern around the hem. If you get off even one stitch, then all the eyelets after get all whopperjawed. Since it’s 208 stitches around, well, entire days can be swallowed up in casting on, knitting, swearing, frogging, casting on, knitting, swearing, frogging. You get my drift. Here’s what little I have so far.