Pickles & Dimes

So, four months after I started it, and many, many times after I messed it up and swore at it, and even chopped it into itty bitty pieces over the garbage can while Jason backed away slowly, I finished the scarf I was knitting.

I think it turned out really nice. And since I finally overcame my inability to accurately knit row 13 of the 16-row pattern, maybe I’ll make another one, since this one will be a gift.

On second thought, maybe I’ll just keep it for myself.

From Tina, who sent me the link to my next knitting project:

This is so completely awesome, you have no idea. Thanks, Tina!

The pattern can be found here.

Remember that scarf I talked about? The one that I had restarted 12 times and once hacked to pieces with a scissors, so great was my rage at messing it up YET AGAIN?

Here’s what it looks like.

This photo was taken one day before I messed it up. So then I started over, concentrating like never before on this pattern, ignoring my husband, work, life in general. And I got well past the mess-up-point on my new attempt.

And then I managed to mess it up AGAIN. There was no rage this time. Just a mood that could be described as “sad” and “depressed” and “sad.”

So I’m taking yet another hiatus from it, and will have to buy another skein of yarn because there’s not enough yarn left to make a full scarf. And I have Friday and Monday off, and you can bet I’ll be mouth-breathing my way through this pattern, locked in a room, until I finish it.

Pray for me.

Anyway, here’s some things I’ve completed lately. These projects are also proof that I need to learn how to use circular needles because I don’t get the whole “invisible seaming” concept.

My iPod cozy. Notice that the seam is the exact opposite of invisible, and instead, is proudly flaunting itself along the sides. Also, I don’t know why I chose purple yarn. Or added letter beads to spell out what’s inside. It’s not like my dresser’s a haven for thousands of purple, yarny, seam-sticking-out monstrosities.

Here’s a hat I made for Jason. I choose these colors because I thought they would be perfect for his trip back to 1976. It was my first time working with more than one color and it was so easy, I wish I would’ve tried it earlier. Also, the seam is actually invisible, until Jason puts the hat on his head, then it becomes a giant billboard announcing my failure as an invisible seamer.

In neon, avocado-green letters.

Extra busy today. (NOTE: if you are a paper vendor, please stop coming to my place of business and LOUDLY HAWKING your eco-friendly paper products. Thank you.)

You get nothing from me today but photos.

This is not a sickness.

This either.

Sunny: “And then Abby said, “˜RECTUM? Damn near killed him!’ Ha ha!”