I am making some progress on the Promises. We finally hauled out the hot glue gun so we could put the felt paw prints on the grandkids’ mitts. Then when we put them on Max and Gwen this morning we found that the finger tubes on Gwen’s were too small! Grrrr. We were able to stuff her fingers in, but it was a struggle and the mitts will clearly have to be fixed (i.e. the finger tubes will have to be pulled out and re-knit). I confess to being relieved that she forgot them at school today since I really did not feel like facing it this afternoon. With any luck she will forget them again tomorrow.
Today I found myself wishing that I had — by some prescient burst — busted out Jeff’s Seahawks Hat over the weekend as Sarah is mailing him a package tomorrow which will reach him before he leaves North Carolina to drive cross country (and wouldn’t it be nice for him to have a warm Seahawks Hat for the trip?!). But I did not find out until today that she was mailing the package — and tho I began to imagine that I could maybe finish it this evening if I hunkered down in my chair and refused to move, I had to admit that blocking it would take longer than overnight and that mailing a soggy hat was simply a bad idea….But I did work on it a bit while helping Max with his homework and then FaceTiming with Geoff — making very slow progress and having to pull out half a round.
What I really want it do is knit on Colette’s Jacket — because it is the only thing I have going that is simple enough to work on while reading Game Of Thrones (and pretty much all I want to do these days is read Game Of Thrones — seriously, pretty much the only reason I go to the gym is so I can read Game Of Thrones for an hour on the cross-trainer machine — it is pretty much crack reading…).
What I don’t really want to do — aside from re-knitting child-sized finger tubes– is weave in all the ends on my Stephen West Vertices Unite Shawl. Tho I did do a little of that today too. It was truly a fun piece to knit — surprisingly so since it was a million million garter stitches finished off with the I-Cord Bind-off That Never Ends. The weaving- in is, sadly, not as surprisingly fun. Not awful, just sort of “Gee, I could be actually knitting something instead of doing this — like maybe Colette’s Jacket with my nose pressed up against the Kindle getting another hit of Game of Thrones.”
Still, all in all, I am fairly happy to be working on my Promises — and looking forward to moving on to more Promise projects when I finish these.
So what in the world am I going to do at The Madrona Yarn Market this Thursday!!!?!!! No projects to buy yarn for!?! Which means going to the Yarn Market without a plan! Which means just walking in and letting the yarn attack….Well, I have been trolling through knitting magazines as a self-defense measure, but nothing has leapt out at me…So maybe I will just have to let something leap out at me at Madrona. Or maybe I can think of it as “visiting the yarn” much like going to the zoo and “visiting the animals.” I mean, I don’t come home from the zoo with a bag full of tigers, right?