Monday, March 24, 2008

The Amazon and the Pict are moving along at an even pace with astounding project fidelity. The Pict (that's me) is thiiiiiis close to finishing sleeve #2 of 2 and the Amazon is about halfway through two sleeves at once. Lest you think ol' Kade's a slacker, check out the relative size (below). They should be ready just in time for summer!
Erm...yeah.
I've also got some corn yarn in the queue for some toe-up socks for summer.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Why, hullo, readers!
Yeah, I'm talkin' to both of you. Okay, so I've been busy. In fact, I'm busy right now. Anyhow, last night was Sober Ride, As with last year, I did a count of cowboy hats, kilts, and street guitars. Here's last year's count. And this year's follows:
  • 17 Cowboy hats
  • 1 kilt (though anecdotal evidence brings the number up to four)
  • 6 guitars
  • 11 drunk people safely home
  • one dead 'possum
  • 3 tips refused
The kilt count is down, as is the Cowboy hat count, but the guitar count is up. No crackheads, just one guy that wanted us to take him to his car. Headdesk. He was a bit dense - and tried to tip me $20 (which I refused).

I took my knitting, of course, and managed to make some progress on sleeve #2 of the Man-sweater. More later, of course.

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Good day, my spring chickens!
With all the wind and rain and robins singing, it's beginning to look like it might be spring soon. February has ended and I haven't finished a dang thing. But, March is for Making Mates, so I'm good. Meadow socks are done and ready to be some kind of nearish holiday present.
Mostly, like m'lady Kade, I focused on my Man-sweater, making a decent amount of progress during the month of February.
I'm halfway up one of the sleeves and would be farther along if I hadn't started a pair of Jaywalkers. For a few moments there, I only had the one thing (the sweater) on the needles and lest my fellow knitters think me some sort of yarn-faithful pervert, I cast on these puppies:
Jaywalkers in Opal Traumfänger in a kind of bluejay-lookin' colourway. Hence, Bluejay(walkers). These are super-secret socks for someone who occasionally reads my blog. Only my fellow Ravelers know the secret! Mwahaha!!
Seriously, these socks are going to be wicked awesome.