The Plot Thickens

Sweater Grrrl

OK, I know this is a knitting blog. But the last two days at my workplace have been so completely horrible! I am so wound up, I can’t seem to focus on anything. So I have drifted in and out of meetings, lunch, over to the executive office, and back, and while I don’t feel like I have accomplished anything, everything on my “to-do” list has been neatly crossed off. I know there has to be something major that I am forgetting, but I seem to be too apathetic and brain dead to care. I’ll remember it when I have come back to my senses, which is unlikely to happen until I have been at home and unwinding for an hour or so, when it will be too damn late to do anything about it and I will torture myself about it incessantly all night until I get to work on Thursday morning, where that one thing I forgot will inevitably be the first thing my boss asks me for.

Golly, I’m just a little ray of sunshine!

I started on the scarf for my sister today, and it looks like I am going to need two- I want one for myself! It’s turning out really cute, I am knitting with two strands- one black chenille, the other a black wool blend with wild white fuzz woven in (I think it’s Berocco, I have to look it up when I get home) So much for the vow of “no more garter stitch scarves.” But at least I know I can get it done in time for Christmas. And my co-workers say it reminds them of Cruella DeVille, which in my opinion, is a great compliment. I will take pictures tonight, I swear- In the land of no digital camera, it’ll be this weekend before I can get stuff posted!

As for the Yoga mat bag (of which I also have to make two, since I bought one for myself last night) I looked at Michael’s for black cotton and they were totally out of it. I tried using acrylic, and ewwww. Definitely not a good look. But it will work for practice. That being said, I am a little put off by the lace pattern. I need to get that lace stitch down. I have a feeling that the stitch-by-stitch instructions I have are not going to be enough to get me through it, so I will have to do some homework. S n’B isn’t clear enough, (remember, I am the woman who cannot make I-cord from written instructions) but I do have a book that I think I can get a better idea from of what everything should look like. I also suspect I shouldn’t have tried to do it late last night, when I was so emotionally drained from work, I could not even think straight. Frustration plus yarn plus sleep deprivation equals bad situation.

Other than that- plotting to go to the yarn store with my buddy tonight!