Rested and Refreshed
I’m relaxed today after a full day of staying home. What a luxury that was! Of course, I’d love many more days of the same, but I need to work a few hours today, and I need to dance hard with the Habibi Dancers (preparing for our spring show) this evening.
I finished hot green wristwarmers in Bulky Lamb’s Pride. I also worked long and hard on a beautiful brushed mohair for a beret, but if you are as picky as me about hats, you end up disappointed a lot.
The fabric for this hat is gorgeous but the shape is wrong. I need to frog it, either ripping about 2/3 of the hat or just ripping the whole thing and using the beautiful (and pricey) yarn for something else. Sigh… Knitting multicolored brushed mohair on size 3 needles makes a beautiful reverse-stockinette fabric, and it was pleasant to knit. However, I am spoiled by typically having many successes in knitting and I don’t like ripping out a day’s worth of work. A few hours, OK, but not a day. Ugh.
A friend in Pittsburgh just wrote me. She takes public transportation to get around, and her nose is cold these days. She has requested a nosewarmer.
I knit myself one last year that was very satisfactory, and I’m delighted to knit one for her as well. That is something that takes only an hour or so to knit, and is easy to make a success. I’m waiting for her to tell me what color she wants. I’ll knit it out of the Debbie Bliss washable Merino DK. It’s dense and shiny and stands up to wear very well. That will be great fun. The photo here is a nosewarmer I knit from the Debbie Bliss yarn last year. Great fun for all! It’s nice to have a friend who understands the same passions I have.
Just now, I tried to show you some pictures of socks I knit on my trip. Unfortunately, right now my FTP program for connecting to my webserver, won’t let me connect to Colorjoy.com. It lets me go to Altu’s restaurant’s website which is on a different server, so I don’t know exactly what is wrong.
My computer is acting OK after about 8 Windows upgrades (I had not done any since I left on my trip), but FTP often is the thing that goes screwy after a security upgrade. I’ll see what I can do, but meanwhile I’ll have to post just text today and an old photo.