Wines and Patterns

If you want to read an absolutely hysterical, and sad, and beautiful and wonderful blog, check out www.crazyauntpurl.com

I am hard-pressed to choose a favorite part, but the fact that Laurie recommends which wine to drink with which patterns, like they're items on a menu, has to be up there.

And today is her birthday. So send her some lovin'.

Regularly... you know, every six months or so...

So I've been posting every six months or so. Not good. I'll try to be better. And now that I'm done with the first year of law school, maybe it will be with a little more frequency.

Now that I've finished Dad's sweater-vest, I get to work on the shawl my mother wants for the holidays in September. I thought I would be able to start it Tuesday night when I got home, but I left one ball of yarn at her house, and the shawl is created by knitting with two strands at the same time.

I find that all I want to do is pet the yarn. It is by far the most expensive yarn with which I have ever worked ($18 a ball for I don't even know how much) so I'm a little afraid to start it. The shawl is gorgeous, with beads and lacework and everything. Mostly, I find, I just very much enjoy petting the yarn. I hope it is still as soft when I am done.

I got the yarn (and the pattern) at Knitting Nation in Nyack. Jane and Joanna are FABULOUS. They are so kind and they run their knitting store the way it should be run. The space is open and light and welcoming. The selection is large and soft. The help is ever-available, and the conversation is plentiful. I intend to go back as much as I can.

Father's Day, Two Years in the Making

This weekend, I finished a sweater vest for my Dad for Father's Day. It only took me two years. He was supposed to get it last year for Father's Day, but then I wasn't finished, and, well, then I went to law school. For quite some time, it sat in a bag in my bedroom, OTK and unfinished. The better part of a year, at least. But then I found Knitting Nation in Nyack, and they're fabulous. I went in with questions, and happened to catch Joanna the day before a finishing class. So I signed up, came back on Saturday and had great 2 on 1 instruction with Etta. I was so scared to finish it, but now, it's done. A picture will follow soon. Tres exciting. And it inspires me to create more, take more classes, and work on other projects. I may just tackle something with sleeves this summer...

Long time, no knit

I love law school. I love the reading, and I love the interactions. I don't love the lack of time I have for knitting. So now that I've been off for two whole weeks, I have been knitting up a storm. I am a little more than halfway through with the vest I'm making for my father, and I made about half of a sock. Of course, now I can't figure out what to do next with the sock pattern, so it is sitting on the cirucular needles until I can find someone to ask.

This abstract blogging is interesting. It's kind of like throwing a note in a bottle into the ocean not knowing if it will ever find anyone. Sometimes I think my blog is like the line, "What if you threw a party and no one came?" But I have fun writing it... when I get around to it...