Terror Kitties Strike Again
It has been a slow recovery from the weekend. PT and I got back into Chicago around 5 Sunday afternoon and we were both out for the count. We had sad tummies from all the eating/drinking and we were tired from all the lack of sleeping.
We had a little vacuuming to do before we could relax, however! Somehow Pudge Rodriguez and Velma found a bag of instant oatmeal, ripped the crap out of it, and framed that poor bear.
But, now it’s Wednesday.
And despite how it looks, I have been knitting!
… for myself.
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I feel very passionately that you need to be a selfish knitter to really love knitting. Knitters get a lot of shit for being selfish, but non knitters have NO IDEA how much time goes into knitting something.
I only knit for knitters, my family, and my very very closest friends. No, I’m not going to knit my friend’s boyfriend a pair of socks because that would take me like 16 hours. No, you can’t pay me to make you a pair of socks because if I charged you minimum wage for the time it takes me to knit a pair of socks it would cost you, in Illinois, $128. Yeah, they are sweet socks. But damn!
So, yeah, it’s the holiday knitting season and I’m knitting myself a sweater. What’s it to you?
I’m loving the Girl Friday sweater! The stitch pattern is great, though it did take me quite a while to memorize. The pattern blocks down flatter, and I’m really looking forward to seeing how it turns out.
The pattern calls for making the back and both front pieces, so when I cast on the sweater, which started at the bottom, I just figured out the ribbing and went from there. When I got to the lace pattern I had to do a little adjusting; a decrease there and an increase here, just so the pattern would be even over all three of the pieces and match up. It’s working out! I’m almost done with the back panel.
Glorified Necklas #2
And I haven’t ONLY been knitting that sweater. My mom demanded I knit her a Glorified Necklace, and I can’t blame her. Have you been noticing how much I wear this thing?! I ripped up another sleeve and am a few rows into the lace pattern. I love it! I just wish I had the yarn to make it in a different color. I feel like an OCD freak when I’m wearing the same project I’m working on.
I’m also working on PT’s Christmas Present, but I’ll get to that later.
Roasted Potatoes, Beans, and Veggies
Lentil Soup
We were putting off the grocery shopping because of our trip to Minnesota last weekend, but now we just don’t know what to do. We need to go grocery shopping, but we need a car sized grocery trip. With no car and no real solution to this problem, we are pretending it doesn’t exist! And you know how good I am at pantry eating.
A winter go to meal is roasted potatoes, beans, and veggies. It’s filling, costs like 3 pennies to make, and is delicious. We will recipe this one out soon.
And yesterday I made some lentil soup with pinto beans and carrots. I finished it off for lunch today! How much do I psychotically love lentils?
I stopped by Emilio’s Produce on the way home today for a 1/2 gallon of milk, a bag of onions, broccoli, and an impulse buy – an avocado. That should get us to the weekend.
… SPEAKING OF THE WEEKEND! YARNCON! It’s Saturday! Come say hi to me and my hot sign.
ooh, that girl friday sweater is looking gorgeous!! and all those yummy meals look delish….
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Comment by Julie — October 15, 2009 @ 12:11 pm
The picture of the kitty mess is priceless!! So similar to what goes on in my house… as they say, when the people are away the cats will play! Love it! I was cracking up! Poor bear!!
Comment by Julie — October 15, 2009 @ 6:08 pm
hey! you sent me the vogue cropped jacket pattern a while ago, and after a frustrating go of it on an airplane (trapped without the right needles to get the gauge right!) i’ve decided instead to make this girl friday cardigan with my lionsbrand wool. i know you knit it a while ago, but do you have any memory of how you adjusted the pattern to knit the fronts and back at one time? i always seem to get myself in trouble when i adjust patterns, but it just makes so much sense to do it with this one. thanks for any help, and thanks for the inspiration! the sweater looks great on you!
Comment by jess — October 3, 2010 @ 12:41 am
Thanks Jess! I loved knitting this sweater and wear it all the time still! I know it took a couple rows to get the pattern correct once I got to the lace pattern, but what I usually do is just CO 4 fewer stitches than the total amount of stitches for both fronts and back, eliminating the seam allowances. Then I just go and make it happen, placing markers at the side seams. Let me know if you can’t get it! But I believe in you!
Comment by allyson — October 3, 2010 @ 7:43 pm