knitters = angry mob

This is way better:

(Image shamelessly stolen from Pan-Dan)

Yet again. First, you were dicks and went after a perfectly harmless knitting Dr. Who fan (FAN being the operative term here).

Now, you’ve put an excellent video up on the internet, which I have heard about through various British bloggers, in which Stephen Fry builds a Gutenberg press, and I cannot watch it because I’m not in the UK (and you subsequently removed all YouTube versions of this video, something that I can kind of understand). I would link to photos, but I can’t even do that in the US, either.

I’m on the lookout for a watchable version of this.

I learned to crochet last night.

I know, I know. I said I’d never learn, but I got a book (see previous posts for the link), and it’s really awesome, and it’s all crochet, so I had to learn. It was unavoidable. However, I am learning crochet faster than I learned knitting, and I think I will probably never crochet anything other than amigurumi, and so I feel pretty safe.

So far, I’ve crocheted 6 square inches of test stitches, and I feel pretty confident with single, half-double, and double crochet stitches. I need some more practice, but I feel I’m very close to a yarn-based Cthulhu.

Another thing I discovered was that if you feel groggy, like when you’ve taken Benadryl (or the morning after you’ve taken a sleeping pill) the best way to combat this is to take a sleeping pill at night. Or at least that’s how it works for me. Or maybe it was because it rained. I dunno. All I know is that I don’t have malaria.

Just discovered, much to my chagrin:

Anthropologie is Urban Outfitters, all grown up (i.e. aimed at 30-40 year olds).

I’m not old enough to be an aging hipster! Or perhaps I’m just ahead of my time… Yes. We’ll go with that one.

The Super Secret project has been gifted and it is (drumroll, please)

A tea cosy! Yay!

Alas, I have no teapot, so I’m stuck with putting it over an incense burner and photographing it on the couch. It’s the Broken Rib Cozy, and I made up the colorwork myself. I’ve got all of the leftover yarn still, and I’m planning on making a scarf to send to the cozy’s owner.

I made the cozy for a lady at work who is awesome (and who writes for Surface magazine) and is leaving next week to move to England. I decided that no respectable English resident could be without a proper tea cozy, and since she drinks a lot of tea it was very appropriate indeed. I have also learned what it means to “wear a tea cozy as a hat” since this one is just about the right size for the head and has convenient ear holes (the hole for the spout and handle). I’ll have to mail the scarf to her later. They could make a very stylish matched set.

Next time I update the Super Secret, it’ll be the first one, which I’d really like to finish in time for the end of next month (but am not optimistic about finishing).

I’m currently having issues with Ravelry and its photo uploading via flickr; I uploaded photos last night using the flickr uploading tool, and although they appear in flickr, they won’t show up as options to select in my Ravelry page, so I can’t update the super secret project to show its FO glory (though I can update its status). I’m going to try again this evening, by uploading photos directly to flickr, which seems to be the only way Ravelry will find them.

Last night I watched six episodes of Moonlight, since it has been back on the air for a little while, unbeknownst to me. Although it didn’t take as long as Heroes seems to be taking, it took a bit of time for it to recover from the writer’s strike. The new episodes do not disappoint, though they were as cheesy as any ever were. And the husband made fresh butter cookies, so I had those and a little bit of real food for dinner. So this morning when I woke up feeling all groggy like I’d taken a sleeping pill, he blamed it on Moonlight and I blamed it on too many cookies (I’m sticking by that one). On the positive side, I slept well without the sleeping pill. I’m hoping this grogginess is temporary (it appears to be slowly fading).

Tonight I plan on finishing the other episodes of Moonlight, catching up on Gossip Girl (which I missed because I was watching Moonlight), and knitting on the other Super Secret project, which needs to be finished by the end of next month. It seemed like I had a lot of time when I first started it, but now it’s not looking so hot, so we’ll see how far I get.

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Hey - I shared it with everyone at work, so I can share it with the rest of the internets. I am both disturbed and amused, all at the same time.

Or lose, depending on how you look at it. Probably lose (and my wrist hurts):

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And you know the weird thing? I haven’t had any caffeine in almost a week.

I finished Super Secret project #2! Go check my Ravelry page for photos, since I won’t post them here until after I’ve gifted it.

This past weekend I helped make over 200 raviolis, using won ton wrappers and some incredible filling that contained (among other things) fresh thyme. Which I had picked off its stems the day before. I feel immensely accomplished, and I now have a solid ravioli brick in my fridge, or did until my husband ate it for lunch (I don’t know for certain, but I’m pretty sure he ate it cold, with his hands, biting into it like a giant floppy slice of pizza). I also helped make a tasty cucumber salad and some awesome donuty apple fritter things which I could eat a lot of if I didn’t remember that they are rich enough to make me sick.

And I discovered that Georgia + May + flannel = sauna, and I’ll try to wear something less warm next time.

Yesterday, after the making of the ravioli, I sat on the couch and knit on the SS Project #2 while watching a mediocre Jane Austen film marathon on PBS. And then I watched Gossip Girl (shut up, I’m one of at least thousands), and then we went out to eat with the Chickengoddess and her husband and got some excellent ice cream afterward. And she bought me a book! I am probably going to give in and learn to crochet, but just for this one book and whatever other amigurumi comes my way.

This week is a lot of frenzied doing while I prepare for a road trip to Baltimore next week to go to a dear friend’s wedding. Mostly I have to clean house so that I can pretend my house is always clean when the Chickengoddess comes to cat-sit. I don’t think the cats really care (and in fact, I think they like it messy since it means more places to hide and more papers to sit on).