PetuniaLu

Sorry! Still no camera, so no pictures. I think it was a casualty of the missing purse after all, or at least of the end of our holiday excursion. My mother-in-law is coming next weekend, and I am going to finagle a camera then.  But good news! We are planning on replacing it soon… and with something nicer, too! It may be another month, but we are looking! So it won’t be to very long! Meanwhile, you are going to have to suffer through my prose!

I am not what you would call adventurous. I play it safe more than anything–  generally take plenty of time to become competent with one skill before I move on to the next.  Let me tell you, for someone who has been knitting for as long as I have, it is crazy that I have never seriously cabled or done any color work. Everything has been pretty tame. For the longest time I simply made scarves! I haven’t made any nice lace things- open work is a mystery to me! I can knit and purl to make lots of lovely textures. I must say I have the knits and the purls down pat. It is time to branch out. But I am loving this sweater-making kick that I am on. I have started a new one, and it is another rather quick knit! It is so far along already, and I have been working on it for just about a week… It is another Stephanie Japel pattern- this one. In this yarn. And for the first time, I am going to get to do cables!

This adventurous break-out has been inspired by two separate bloggers (Ranger Sarah and MariKnits)  that I keep up with.  Each have finished new skill projects- both fair isle hats (and oddly enough they finished at the same time!!!) I am still not quite brave enough to for the fair isle. Maybe later this year. MightCould made a lovely stocking this year, and I might have to break down at some point, because I really want to have one for my house next year… For now, I am content with the cables. And I am sure they are going to occupy me for perhaps a few projects, at least! Because after all, you can’t change my nature. I may be trying something new, but I am sure I will get obsessed with it and want to master the skill before moving on.

By the way, I chose to read The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao next. almost half way done- my first piece of fiction in a while, and it is moving so much faster than nonfiction! I’ve also had my nose stuck in E. M Forster’s Aspects of the Novel. I am in the process of evaluating my 800s (classic literature, poetry, essays and short stories, plus style and writing guides…) at work, and fell upon it. I love my job!

News Flash, everyone! At 7:20 AM it is 18 degrees here! I know for some that would be a blessed relief ( I hear the midwest hasn’t seen day time positive numbers for a while!) but for Alabama that is COLDDDD. I am kind of excited!

My purse did come, with everything I expected. Not my camera though. I now don’t think my camera was in thereto begin with- I must have left it somewhere else during my gypsy tramp across Tennessee! Which is unfortunate, because my vest is all but finished. Literally, i just have to do the neck and arm-hold lining, and then voila! Finis! I tell you what, that pattern is QUICK AND EASY. And I love the yarn, too! Pale green with flecks of white and blue;-) … My parents are coming down on Saturday to say hi and have a hamburger (they will have to stay the night for this pleasure, as it is quite a drive) and I will take pictures with my mom’s camera.

Happy Friday!

It is only when you loose something that you realize how much you love it.

I have misplaced my camera. It’s been gone since the holidays, and I suspect it is in my misplaced purse, which has also been gone since the holidays. I left it at a restaurant, (apparently in an exhausted stupor,) and am waiting for it to be returned to me. The restaurant is some distance away from where I live, and one of the managers agreed to pop it in the mail for me. It’s not come yet… I am getting a little more nervous than I already was. I know it is naive to even trust some one else with that kind of thing. Anyway, I miss my camera, and my glasses and my inhaler. I really miss my inhaler.

So, since I don’t have my camera, I cannot take progress pictures of the yarn that I have been spinning, or my new turkish spindle that I am learning to use, or of my lovely Back-to-School U-Neck Vest in green Tahki New Tweed that is a bit more than half way finished! Maybe I can find someone else with a camera in the next couple of days who can let me shoot it. It is actually quite lovely!

The new year has been productive so far. I am falling into the swing of a more tightly-scheduled life, getting lots of reading done, and lots of knitting, too! It is good to be busy, and I really love the weekends now that I am not working on Sundays any more;-) I am on my third book for the year- The Pages in Between by Erin Einhorn.  It started out slowly, but I am hooked now and about half way through.  I am thinking Alfred and Emily next, but it has been staying checked out at my library, so I might have to put a hold on it. I’ve been looking forward to reading it;-) Any book suggestiongs from out there? I’d love to hear what you’re reading right now!