Maybe I'm just in a bad mood, but I don't really feel like knitting these days. Not counting goof-off things for the girls, I have three current projects, and I find myself looking at them as if they were UFOs in the other sense of the word. Silk Garden kimono jacket -- mindless stockinette, despite my enjoyment of the colors went inches past my goal and will have to rip those out. Ostrich Plume blanket -- too depressing. Forbes Forest scarf -- well, um, I'm just bored with it, you know? I like all of these projects, don't get me wrong. I just don't want to think about them right now.
Maybe I just realized that seven weeks from today, we'll be back home in Southern California. I haven't decided if this sounds like a really long time or hardly any at all. Bought some RYC Cashsoft DK this afternoon, in "Thunder," I see -- oh, thank heavens, I was just scrolling down that linked page and thought, "Oh, my gosh, I hope it's not 'Poison'" and imagining in that eternal split second the finished garment and me screaming "Don't touch it, it's Poison!" then the relief that it was only Thunder, after all.
I'm thinking of changing my hairstyle, so I'm letting the front grow out, and I look like something the cat dragged in. And I found the only bug in Hong Kong that actually likes the taste of Off, so the back of my leg has a welt on it the size of a quarter -- an excruiatingly itchy quarter, needless to say. On the other hand, I spent the evening -- okay, half the night, too -- finishing the Moth Heaven archives. Just discovered her this past week. (I know, I'm a late bloomer, what can I say?) Got caught up on the Mason-Dixon archives recently, as well, so to be honest, I've been reading more about knitting than actually doing it. (I picked up one of the balls of Cashsoft while I was reading "Moth Heaven." It was hard to concentrate for a while, so enticing was the soft roundness of it in my hand, so very perfectly did my thumb fit into the center while my fingers curved around the outside. I could hardly bear to let go.)
Well, it's very late now, so I'll go to bed. Ho-hum.
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