Woe, Woe, Woe

Betwixt and between yesterday and today, I discovered my house-sitting client's premises was left with a door unlocked, and the Jacuzzi cover similarly unsecured. I feel very bad and guilty over these two lapses and cannot fathom why these significant brain farts occurred. On the knitting front, I am looking for the last two skeins of some hand twisted yarn from Sandy "not just yarns" on ebay for the project currently on the needles for a very special lady. After experimenting with the chart for one of the sock patterns (lacy ones, not sure of the artiste) three times, I set the sock thing aside and cast on for the Mermail soy silk/wool fingerless gloves with sad results - the yarn has dis-integrated three times, and I've only knit six rows. So much for me and single-ply yarn! I was feeling a bit morose before my client called, and now I'm really down in the dumps. I have no desire to attend the Home Depot "Do-It-Herself" workshop tonight but should go to find out how to change the flapper/stopper inside of my cheapie toilet installed by my cheapied landlord by his cheapie plumber. I spent 10 years in the prior rental with NO problems like the ones presented in this poor little Craftsman 1920's bungalow, what with the lack of solid electrical wiring in the living room and kitchen (makes me want to cook or clean even less) with encroaching old age, BRIGHT lights are most helpful. BRIGHT lights! What does one do when the socks don't pattern right, your satellite TV is turned off, the telephone and internet are down and there's no Haagen Daas or Stoneyfield Farms in the freezer! I HAVE decided to cast on Sharon Miller's Frost and Ice in black for my sister, although I might use Karabella's Gossamer for more textural interest. Instead of having gold/silver flecks, the little shiny fuzzies are black. Low key, like my sister. I frogged the single row of ribbon married to Douceur et Soie due to a mis-count. If I plan to work the body in the round up to the underarms, I don't need the extra seam stitches which will help pattern continuity. I think the horseshoe stitch will be my signature lace bit in everything I make. I think I will have enough of the ribbon (I think it's Trendsetter - it's $18 for 72 feet or something insane like that) to make the foundation row for another lighter-than-air mohair laceweight top for the same, very deserving recipient). Then there's my cave-mate, who wants something I can make with my stash, I'm glad I invested in all that Anny Blatt mohair early on! And the Bleached Rowan KSH and the Lace Mohair from Karabella, also in white, all 10 balls, not to mention the "Rialto"
Woll Service mohair with the silver lurex. AND the Karabella Festival. Quick to knit up, but whooo will receive these shoulder throws? Hmmm. For being in a depressed state, this is certainly a looooooooong blog. MRI sometime this week to investigate the double vision which did not affect my knitting, only my driving. Hooray for the bus, which drops me off near work and in the other direction near home. Enough distance to get a bit of exercise, much needed around here. I feel so sad; why can't I shed any tears?

Well ciao for now. Tomorrow is another day. Perhaps casting on "Frost and Ice"? Or perhaps progress on those pesky socks which are top-down, not my favorite method but...there's always another sock coming down the Pike!

mary the motorcycle knitting grandma