Lost: Mojo

I’ve been feeling really listless lately in terms of knitting. I have all these plans for knitting, but actually haven’t done a whole heck of a lot stitching. I’ve been pretty pre-occupied by…

A boy.

There. I said it.

I’ve been spending a good amount of me week with him and work is really kicking my butt so I’ve been coming home and relaxing and not knitting. I started the year off really strong, but I’ve really lost my oomph with knitting as of late. I’m much less bored now that I’m in this great city and I have people with whom I can spend my time.

So! Onto the knitting:

The green Madeline Tosh hat still needs the decreases to be done again. I’ve managed to lose my stitch marker case so until I find that, I can’t really finish the hat without lots of concentration.

I have lots of plans for more hats and scarves and cowls and cuteness. There’s been two skeins of handspun sitting on the coffee table and I finally started knitting something. I’m going to be knitting a cowl with 10 rows garter stitch and 10 rows stockinette stitch. Oh the purling…

I want to knit up a pair of worsted weight socks but I’m not sure how useful they’d be since the weather is changing to warmer loveliness. I’m about ready to kick snow in the butt. It’s seriously the most amazingly ADD weather we’ve had and I really would rather not have snow on my birthday.

I have had a bobbin of fiber waiting for the other 3 oz for a good month or so and I haven’t even thought about spinning up the other bobbin.

I’m really starting to figure out just how listless I am lately.

I know I said that I was going to try harder to knit more often, and eventually I’ll get there. It’s just a matter of time before the ennui subsides and I can manage to finish something or knit anything.

Long Time…

It’s been 12 days! I’m so sorry! It’s been a crazy February. I know that’s my excuse a lot.

I haven’t really been doing a whole lot of knitting, but since we last saw each other, I’ve knit a hat for an adorable 1 year-old Ellie. I knit it in four hours as well because I couldn’t figure out what to knit and/or get her for her birthday so I started it at about 10 p.m. on Friday night and finished it on the hour-drive to Illinois.

I adore the stripes and it looks a bit like she has a target on her head. Katie also loves how they match her mittens. I had her try the hat on Ellie and she immediately got frosting from her smash cake all over it. At least it’s machine washable!

Earlier in the week I balled up a bunch of yarn and started working on a tam out of MadelineTosh 80/10/10 Wool/Cashmere/Nylon in a gorgeous green colorway called Tannenbaum. I brought it to knit night this past monday and knit for a few hours only to find that my fingers were turning green. I’ve never had this happen with Madeline but I’m sure a good soak will allow the excess color to escape.

The orange tam was a bit too short so it looks great when my hair is down but my ears peek out when I have a bun up. I still have a skein and a half to make another if I really want to but until then it’s marinating on the nightstand waiting to tell me what it wants to become.

I got a couple gift cards for Joann Fabrics from my cousin and a girl I work with for Christmas. Since I put myself on a yarn diet, I figured it’ll only apply to yarn, so I went online and ordered a bunch of ChiaGoo needles. They finally showed up and I eagerly ripped into the packages. They’re all happily resting in my circular needle holder letting the cables relax.

It finally snowed the other day in Wisconsin and I got to experience the fat flakes falling from the sky onto my knits. They weren’t quite perfect snowflakes but they were all bunched together and they looked adorable, like little Fortress of Solitudes. ***NERDALERT***

It was great getting to experience them. Then I rolled my ankle going from the car to the house later in the afternoon. That’s what I get for trying to run. In the snow. In heels.

Friday night I speed dated with nerds. Saturday I spent shopping, buying knits. If some of them had been cheaper I would have bought them just to take them apart to make something prettier out of them. Today I’m keeping warm in bed knitting the MadTosh tam. Tonight is my best friend’s birthday party. I have a nook cozy and a scarf for her Christmas and Birthday presents. I’ve run out of things to knit her so I guess she’s getting a sweater at some point…

I need my swift. There’s a red scarf that needs to be finished and I need to get the skeins balled up but they’re so large that I worry about ruining them. I am the queen of knots, after all.

I’m going to make a concerted effort to post more often; it’s always my resolution to post more often but we all know how that ends. The stashbusting endeavor is continuing so I’ll try to update more often; especially since there’s a yarn diet until two bins are gone, and they’re all still full. This is going to be a long drought.