Why God, Why: The Whyening

As I said I would, I would try to knock the U off FO for everything I'm working on. And as of right now, I only have one project on the needles (not counting the Slippers of Which We Do Not Speak) - the second sock of my first pair. I maintain that I do not suffer from Second Sock Syndrome despite the fact that it was almost three weeks between binding off the first one and casting on the second. I needed the needles for the Ravelympics.

I just turned the heel, so I'm about halfway there. Tried to turn the heel while watching Timecop - terrible idea all around, I had to rip it back twice because I wasn't paying attention. As it is, there looks like there might be a weak spot right at the middle, I'll maybe just go over it a couple times in mattress stitch when I'm done.

Now, for the Why God Why: I finished the manthong. This thing is hideous. The rose pink straps are stretchy and crunchy, I cast on way too many stitches for the side straps even though I still cast on about two thirds of what the pattern called for. I don't think anyone's ever going to wear it, though, so it doesn't matter all that much. This is the first thing that my sister has ever flatly refused to model for me.

My good friend Mr. Pillow stepped in, though:




Merkin? Manthong? You decide!

You can see that instead of the stockinette stitch with crochet edging I elected to go with seed stitch so I wouldn't have to do any crocheting. Makes it slightly more uncomfortable for the hypothetical wearer.

And yes, I (and it) did get mentioned in an article/discussion thread on learnhub. You can find the thread and pictures from the game here.

The green Lacy Diamonds scarf I've been working on since forever and a day is finally bound off and is currently blocking on my living room floor. That was an adventure and a half. More and pictures when it's all finished and the tassels have been added, if I don't get fed up with the tassels after three and decide that tassel-less is fine by me.

I will admit that I started a new project, it hasn't all been wrestling with WIPs. Using the leftovers from my skeins of handspun, I knit a couple of scrunchies for my girlfriend.



Her mother spun the wool and gave it to me, and I dyed it in two batches, what I call Kool-aid and Sweetheart. The rest of the Sweetheart is waiting to become a hat. The Kool-aid striped nicely for this little project, and I didn't use more than a few yards, I'm sure. The pattern was so simple. Knit a rectangle, sew it around a hair elastic. I wanted to send a bit of it back to her, because it was really her mother's work, and because I wanted something little and special. No girlfriend sweaters until I can size them properly, so these will do for the moment.

I don't talk about my girlfriend here all that much, but she's amazing. She just came out to her family (for me!), and she's been kind of alienated since she did. They'll warm up again when they get used to the idea, but I just wish I could be there for her during this rough time. Long distance sucks. But the scrunchies are something she can always have around if she needs a piece of me.

Enough sappiness, dammit. Give me a vodka martini and shome asshes to shlap, Moneypenny, shentimentality hash no place here.

Heading off to my last knit night here shortly. Had my last Bitch'n'Stitch at Linda's on Tuesday, it was kind of sad. I'm used to the summers being rather lonely, with my friends either working long office hours with no social life, or spread over the globe. The knitting community has been such a sanity-saver, I'm really going to miss them. There's talk of setting up a webcam so I can still sit in. Linda's just made me feel so welcome, and she says such nice things about my work. Sadness to be going away.

There is a knitting society on campus, but from what I've heard it isn't really my scene. We'll have to see. And I'll always have Maddie. Every day is a stitch'n'bitch when we're together!

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