action sock! 2

action sock! 2, originally uploaded by katie:m.

I might have been listening to Huey Lewis & the News when I took this.
Even minimum-wage Hallmark-in-Wal-Mart job gave me a ten minute break. So I can take silly pictures while indexing, right?

girasole in the morning; or, more boring shawl progress

How can I tell I’ve made progress?  It’s not really a trick question: the row counter keeps moving up and my skein keeps getting smaller.  Also, because Alice says so.
With the semester in full, overwhelming flower, there just isn’t much time for knitting of an evening.  I’m resigning myself to slow and steady progress on [...]

320

I finally faced facts and ripped.  It was painful: over 20 rounds at 320 (ahem.) stitches per round.  But like so many painful decisions, it was the right one.  My marker placement was just not behaving and though it didn’t seem a problem in this chart, I wasn’t sure what would happen when it was [...]

action sock!

action sock!, originally uploaded by katie:m.

Boring sock progress in action: Friday afternoon in the office addtion.
Perhaps I’d be more reliably, and continuously, productive with an office-mate?

thursday is for socks.

Or so I have decreed.

People, it has been a week.  In fact, that seems to be the main characteristic of all of my weeks lately.  Thursday limps to a close and all I can do is sit on the couch and watch A&E “real life” crime dramas.  Today we had the added tired-making bonus of [...]

Sozialismus socks

Or, rather, the street thereto.
I had to go to the archives for this photo as my apartment is seriously low on light these days — lots of rain, cloudcover, and humidity. It’s completely gross and grumpy-making.
Though I am going to put on my big girl pants and deal with it.
Just like the girasole is [...]

colonnade: spinnery shawl

Ah, precious souvenir yarn from a happy summer in Vermont.  Will anything ever be good enough for you?
I didn’t get back into knitting until after I’d already spent part of a summer in the very same small Vermont town as the Green Mountain Spinnery.  On my first trip to the store, I didn’t know what [...]

319

319.  There should be 320 stitches.
It’s been a 319 kind of week.

Maybe now that I’ve found the missing yo, things will start looking up?

and then there were two.

Just in case you were wondering, it takes exactly three episodes of Law & Order to finish one of these.  Including the commercial breaks.

Cable: the great enabler.

what could it be?

curiosity killed the you-know.

Alice has been spending a lot of time monitoring the neighborhood.  Or, the bit of sidewalk and hedge that passes for the neighborhood around here.  (And totally blocks all of my after-early-morning daylight.)
What could it be?

yep.  I’m a sucker.

If you guessed stray kitty friend, you’d be right.
He (she?) is small, grey, feral, [...]