skittermagoo!

Back from ??

Okay. Deep breath. Yeah, it's not your eyes, it's an actual post! Whee!

I have no idea what my deal has been lately . . . can I still blame it on the time change? I'm not overly stressed, per se, but I just can't seem to find the motivation or time to, say, blog. Or knit much. Or anything else. I'm not really overwhemed, but maybe just . . . whelmed.

I have been knitting, but it seems like I'm doing just as much unknitting, too. For example, a couple weeks ago (!), I started some Jaywalker socks. I started them four times (due to my own idiocy), and finally "got" the pattern, and was rocking along.

Next thing you know I was turning this:

Into this:

Yeah. I was knitting them on needles a size too small for their own good, and was getting something that resembled sock-shaped boards instead of actual wearable socks.

Never fear, I restarted them on bigger needles and now have something that looks remarkably like the first picture. That's why I'm not going to show you -- it's virtually the same.

In other news, I succumbed to peer pressure and finally got myself some Socks That Rock yarn!

So soft, so pretty. So tempting me to abandon my hard-won (so far) Jaywalker socksinprogress and just cast on for some more socks. Must resist. So I'm going to shove the new yarn waaaaay back in the back of the sock yarn section of my yarn closet (OCD, anyone?) and try and ignore it until I finish the socks I'm working on now.

Anyone want to bet how long I will be able to resist? I'm guessing 4, maybe 5 days at most.

out of the loop

I'm so far behind on posting here and reading other blogs that I think I'm actually looping around and catching up on myself.

I hope to post for-real soon -- please bear with me!