Thursday, September 16, 2010

Ah the joys of knitting





My brother brought over his dog and guess she found her inner cat. She had disappeared in the house and he asked me to check where she was. I went to the stairs, called her name, she comes prancing down the stairs with yarn wound around a leg and proceeded to lay on the carpet and just unwind the yarn all over, as you can
tell by the pictures. I actually had to soak the yarn to get the major slobber off of it and it is taking FOREVER to dry and its going to take more time to untangle the damn stuff. I kind of like this yarn, which is the the stuff I made the pouch out of, which I posted a pic of.
I emailed the TSA about knitting on a plane trip to Maryland, I don't want to read the whole 5 hours on a flipping plane. Metal needles are risky, no scissors, plastic or bamboo are safer but 'please bring a self addressed stamped envelope with you in case' bull hockey. Gotta remember to stick my lighter in the suitcase so that doesn't disappear. I really hate flogging flying! So I guess I am going to be bringing more than one book and save all my long podcasts for the plane trips. Maybe I can take a couple of chop sticks from work, see if I can use a pencil sharpener and maybe try to make some wooden double pointed needles out of them. It's an idea, right????
One other thing I am trying are knitting the anklet socks without the ribbing on the top of the foot and am finished with one sock. I feels more comfortable than the ribbing one. Boy I hate wide German peasant flat feet! Really gotta start playing with sock patterns to see what I can do. The lengths are good but its the width.