Where did May go?

Sheesh, it's June already!

I keep getting design ideas, they won't stop hounding me! And if I don't work on them my brain pesters me unmercifully as I'm trying to go to sleep, so that I dream tangled knitting dreams. (which, frankly are no worse than the nonsense my brain typically flings at me, like this morning's bizarreness of a bear cub an ostrich, terrorising the countryside. I attacked the bear with a bread knife and the ostrich was about to peck me when I woke up)

Despite the fact that most of me thinks it's an idiotic idea, part of me keeps thinking that I should write a knitting book. And that's why I keep getting all the design ideas. It's not merely good enough to just design one blanket, no, my brain keeps flinging these designs at me, through headaches, just before I go to sleep... I don't know how to get a book published! I don't even think that many people would be interested! But several people from several boards have shown interest, maybe not in buying a book, but at least in my designs. But I keep feeling like I'm just re-inventing the wheel and why would anyone buy that?

But I am actually writing out a proper pattern - for possibly the first time ever. And I have a notebook and drawings and everything I see twists its way into my skull and tries to become a pattern. (ooh, skulls!) See? :)

Latest projects and general babbling

SOCKS! I finally got bored enough to make socks. I am project-less and Gina convinced me to try making socks. I found a pattern on Knitty that I adored, but when I got to the yarn shop I fell in lust with this brown and green and gold wool/bamboo yarn. So I made plain socks.



I wish I hadn't done 3x3 ribbing - it's stretching a lot as I wear these socks. Plus, I couldn't find a really stretchy cast off and did this sort of sewing method that I think is effective, but sloppy. Also, I should have used size 1 needles, not size 2.

But, Devlin demanded socks for himself, so I let him choose the yarn and I finished one. I like the cast off method/improvisation that I did and perhaps I'll write about that later after I upload some new pics.

I have yummy yarn for socks for myself (it's cotton and bamboo) and size 1 circular needles, after visiting the yarn shop in Centre Hall.

I had a lovely visit with Giabow and Limertilly (from the World's End/Neil Gaiman message board) It was such a wonderful thing to fondle yarn and knit with them. :)