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Oh my god - it's March!  How did that happen?  I fell off the face of the earth for the entire month of February.  woops.  I promise to revive my knitting life this month.  I'm clawing my way out of the dumps.  February was a total bust.  in general.

I hated February.

February was the first month in probably 20 months that seemed to involve no knitting whatsoever.  I don't care about picking up the needles and I have no projects currently going.  I need a shot in the arm, I guess.

What I have been into is trying to lose weight for the Italy cruise (102 more days!!)  I've been working out like a maniac, the scale hasn't noticed.

I've also been reading books at night, and fiddling around with a jigsaw puzzle. 

Lots of wistfully creative ideas are running through my head.  Visions of me painting, and changing things in the house, making things different colors, and brighter, and warmer... writing more, sending letters to people, starting a newsletter for the school, writing articles for a magazine, taking little day trips, learning how to sew on my machine in the basement. 

but i'm not acting on the thoughts.  I'm not acting period.  I'm so boring this month!

Jigsaw puzzles???  For christ's sake - someone help me!

This superbowl weekend was pretty uneventful - in knitting events, anyway.

I decided against buying the winter Vogue after finally looking through it in person instead of on the web.  There was only one thing, or 2, inside it that I would even "maybe" make, and that would be highly doubtful to begin with.  I'm in another knitting funk.  2 many projects poorly begun, and poorly attended to.  I keep dumping them 20 rows in, and changing my mind.  starting something else. 

I need a project to get excited about.  any suggestions out there?

I did stop in at the Tangled Web and buy 3 skeins of this yummy art yarns supermerino, after much deliberation (they also had a lovely blue... it was hard to choose)  I've started a scarf with it, but since then have dumped it back in the bag - only barely begun.  again - cuz of the funk.

also finally bought the Reader's Digest book of Knitting and Crochet stitches from my amazon wish list.  I spent most of my knitting time this weekend leafing through that over and over again, rather than actually knitting...

hub is out buying groceries.  he's also been tending to dishes and other odds and ends upstairs (litter boxes, putting things away, cleaning up in his office/room)  I haven't heard a vacuum cleaner yet, but I wouldn't be surprised.  he's really pitching in today.

again - cuz of my funk.

seeyalater.

I'm debating whether or not to buy the vogue winter magazine (I know I'm relatively behind the season).  I haven't actually looked through the magazine in person, but I did see this on the website, and it looks really cute.  What do you think?

also this interests me, too.

hmm. 

i need a new project, ANY new project.  Anything to get away from this Kid silk haze.

a rowan kid silk hazey daze

So I've started "Karis" from Rowan 36.  For those of you who don't have the book, it's this short, lacey mohair poncho kind of thing that I think will look really cute over spring and summer dresses and with jeans, and etc. here's Karis Anyway, the pattern calls for 3 balls of Kid Silk Haze - a yarn I really thought I loved, before I actually started trying to knit with it.

Painfully, painfully SLOW. S-L-O--------

---W!!

Before this yarn came into my life, I thought I had unlimited patience.  I thought it was a strong skill of mine, that I could persevere for hours on end at virtually any task in which my brain was actively engaged. 

But I was wrong.  This yarn has broken me.

If I compare this knit speed to typing - I'm knitting at about 2 words per minute.

ACK!

snow day!!

Yesterday was a beautiful snow day, today Michael and I spent mostly inside looking outside.  When we were finished shoveling the lot and buying a couple of things at the grocery store, Mike and I spent the afternoon having hot citrus cider, and little red velvet cakes and cupcakes that I baked with my new rose pan that I got for christmas.   When they were finished, they were too pretty to icing, so I cut them open like whoopie pies and put the icing in the center...  We watched the Eagles win the championship (I don't really care - but everyone else does - they're still beeping their cars outside on the street) and now we're just casually wasting the evening away.

I finished the hat for Mike this morning over coffee.  This yarn is SO soft!  It's Plymouth Yarn's Baby Alpaca "Grande", which is a bulky weight alpaca for big 10.5 or 11 needles.  if you don't have some of this stuff, go get some.  The feel of this yarn (both as you're knitting it, and later as you're wearing it) is like the hair on the tummy of a baby kitten.  I keep rubbing my face in the hank I have left.  Seriously.   Go get some.  1 hank is 110 yards, so 2 would make a super luxurious scarf, and it's bulky, so you'll be finished before the evenings over.  Here he is looking handsome.

I also finished crocheting the edgings of the Artful Yarns sideways sweater.  I decided to shrimp stitch around the neck, sleeves, and waistband, and now I'm much happier with the "hang" of the sweater, and the strength of the neck opening.

Tomorrow morning will be back to laundry, and cleaning, and the gym.

But the snow this weekend was nice.  Being lazy and warm, and having nowhere to be and nothing important to do is SO NICE.  ahh.

Can I get an amen?