My chest is so vile today that even I don’t want to know me. Whatever you do, don’t allow me to tell you all about it. I think I am supposed to be doing some work today so I’d best hie mesel off to the kitchen and fashion some lunch to have on hand. My …
Author archives: Scattered Thinker
Ingrid, not Bergman
Ingrid has been on the needles for 28 days. It’s true, my geek-knitter-girl spreadsheet tells me so. It also tells me that the scarf is 50% done. What is doesn’t tell me is the number of active knitting days on it – which must be 4 or 5. There must be at least as many …
Success!
The target has been seen wearing the new scarf – willingly and voluntarily! The unaccustomed frosty weather is helping no doubt, but I have definitely seen that man exiting this house with his My So Called Scarf about his neck. A success. Perhaps I’ll unpick the Pine Cone scarf (last year’s gift and worn but …
Bleugh
The Butternut Scarf [Ingrid at Ravelry] is now making gratifying progress. It has moved from that horrible stubby stage into something which does at least flap, if not drape. According to my Geek Knitters Spreadsheet[TM] it is now 30% complete, after four and a half pattern repeats. It’s looking beautiful and I already want to …
What to do now?
My Spin Off came today. Do I read, or do I knit? Perhaps, as I am currently listening to Richard Burton reading Under Milk Wood, knitting might be the best bet. Apparently my Jumbo flyer has arrived too but I don’t feel like going out to collect it and SpinningGill also has the lurgy so …
SO-called FO
That’s one off the checklist of UFOs for dealing with. I love the textures in this. I have one ball left over and have listed at at Demiurge as available for swaps.