Dear woefully neglected blog:
Look at that, will you? Two posts in a month! And more knitting - today finally feels like fall might be just around the corner. Also, I am totally a sucker for pretty sunsets.
Apparently I am also easily swayed by colorways named after me. At least, I would like to think it's named after me. I've been desperately wanting to buy yarn lately, and when I saw this colorway, and the name Victoria.. well... There's still some room in the sock yarn stash bag.
I did cast on some lace, even though I should totally be working on the boy sweater (soon, I swear!). It's so pretty, but I've just come to learn that I hate nupps.
I seem to be on a Handmaiden kick, but who could complain about that? Welcome to my wardrobe, Swallowtail Shawl. I hope to finish you soon.
All exciting! Even the parking ticket, because I was not on the receiving end of it. Friday night was gorgeous out, and every time I saw the sad state of my garden (tomatoes in dire need of stakes), it distracted me. I went out to Lowe's to pick up some gardening supplies, came back, and found someone parked across about half of the entrance to my driveway.
The red car is mine. The driveway is mine. And yes, somehow, I managed to drive up onto the sideway, just squeak past in the space remaining, and get into my driveway without hitting the car, fence, or bush at the end. (However, there would be no way to leave again, as I live on a one way street and would completely be facing the wrong way.)
First I stomped around the offending car a bit, hoping the owner would come out so I could yell at them for being a moron and not parking in any of the numerous other completely legitimate parking spots on the same block. No such luck - if they saw me, they also saw I was too pissed off to be reasonable, and stayed indoors.
Still angry, I went looking for some paper, and put a sign on their windshield informing them that if a parking spot blocked someone's driveway, it was not actually a parking spot. That wasn't good enough though, because they would probably just read it, laugh, and toss the paper into my yard. The only other option I could think of was to call the police, which resulted in them getting a $25 parking ticket. (Could have had them towed, but that seemed a little excessive.)
Anyhow, all that was so I could clean up my garden a bit, and yay! I will have produce!
Just put up some wire fence stuff around it too, after losing too many green tomatoes and nearly ripe strawberries to the local wildlife. Hopefully it'll be enough of a deterrent. (Is it too much to hope that the critters feasting on my garden are lazy?)
Lastly, I have been knitting! Really! And listening to podcasts again! I desperately want to cast on for some lace, but decided I needed to finish something first.
Okay, or finished enough. The first one I stopped short on the leg because I wanted to make sure I wound up with two socks that had the same leg length. Now that I have quite a bit of yarn left on each sock, I'll probably pick out the bound off edge and knit a bit more. I dug through my stash to see what I have for lace yarn.. and this is a terrible picture, but will have to do:
I think I have one more skein of the pink Malabrigo lace.. but should probably cast on something on the smallish side, since I (still) need to finish the boy's hockey sweater, seeing as how hockey season is somehow right around the corner again. I'm most tempted to take the Sea Silk and make it into a swallowtail shawl, but am having doubts about knitting up my pet skein. Perhaps I'll do that anyway, and then have an excuse to pick up a replacement. =)
First I stomped around the offending car a bit, hoping the owner would come out so I could yell at them for being a moron and not parking in any of the numerous other completely legitimate parking spots on the same block. No such luck - if they saw me, they also saw I was too pissed off to be reasonable, and stayed indoors.
Still angry, I went looking for some paper, and put a sign on their windshield informing them that if a parking spot blocked someone's driveway, it was not actually a parking spot. That wasn't good enough though, because they would probably just read it, laugh, and toss the paper into my yard. The only other option I could think of was to call the police, which resulted in them getting a $25 parking ticket. (Could have had them towed, but that seemed a little excessive.)
Anyhow, all that was so I could clean up my garden a bit, and yay! I will have produce!
Lastly, I have been knitting! Really! And listening to podcasts again! I desperately want to cast on for some lace, but decided I needed to finish something first.
