Knit Addict

On the Swing Coat.  At least I hope so.  I’ve knit and ripped more this week than I have in a long time.  There’s NOTHING hard about this pattern, but I seem to be having a problem with paying attention to the directions.  So I’ll knit a miter and realize I didn’t switch needle size.  Or picked up too many stitches, or did the colors wrong.  Whatever - just stuff that had to be pulled.  But I seem to be moving again.

Working my way up the bodice.  The black line I drew in (yes, I know I don’t draw a very straight line) runs just below the start of the bodice portion.  I’m getting excited, this is starting to look like something other than a long strip of miters.

Flash really washed out the color, it’s a rich, intense garnet color and black.

This is from the ice/snow storm last weekend.  Jim used the tripod and the remote shutter control, and the whole thing was taken with only the ambient light.

It was actually taken a day or two after the storm.  I just thought the way the light came through the ice on the branches was so pretty - and then when he took the picture and we got the color off the wind chime I was just blown away.

Squeek (and yes, I spell her name that way on purpose) has been really friendly, lively, and playful lately.  She’s been playing with whatever she can find.  Which usually means yarn….

One of her favorite things to do is bring it down the hall in the middle of the night yowling.  Sometimes she waits until morning after I’ve left.  Like the morning Jim caught this:

The sock was still on the ottoman in the living room.  The yarn came through the kitchen, across the short hall, around the corner, down the long hall, through the door, onto the bed, then back off the bed.  She was quite pleased with herself.  I don’t care what she does as long as she’s healthy and happy.

And finally one more ice/snow picture.  Brandi can go over the fence, so we have the yard athlete-proofed from the inside.  One way we judge how bad the ice has been is by how much is on the wire.  This one was actually taken about 3 days after the event.  I was fascinated with how the ice/snow had oozed it’s way through the squares then refrozen on the other side….

They’ve laid off the shrieks of “blizzard!!” for the storm currently coming in, but we’re supposed to get still more snow tomorrow.  I’m getting tired of it.  But we’ve got nothing compared to what Nancy and Russ are dealing with.  They’re supposed to be here next month - I’m really looking forward to their visit.  Just hope they don’t run into the same crap here they’re trying to dodge in PA.