etc.

I had no idea yarn stores could induce such rabid jonesing. I’ve scoped out all the yarn stores within a 10 km radius of where I live, and I even found a little gem in a town close to where I work. And then yesterday, I stopped in at Michael’s on the way home from work under the cheap guise of needing a row counter (which was, in fact, true), but really, we all know that what I really wanted to do was fondle ball after skein after hank, including the acrylics. Turns out acrylics are a bit of a guilty pleasure for some, who knew?

I’ve made paltry progress on the kitty afghans, even though it is my project of choice at the moment. Mostly not enough time, but also the fact that I mistakenly assumed that the same number of stitches on the same size needles using the same weight of yarn would produce squares of equal size. Not so, I learn. Lucky for me, the squares in question are 5″x5″ so ripping one out and starting again means the total of about an hour’s work lost. Plus the fact that you don’t need to knit the whole square to know that it’s smaller than the last one you knit, also really helps. I’ll get this right one of these days, but in the meantime the afghans are affording just the sort of practice and experience-building I was looking for, so that one day I’ll be a sage-knitting-goddess, able to answer questions about gauge and tension and all those other things I don’t even know to question yet.

Oh and look! I joined the Toronto Knit Blogs Ring. If that’s not committment to the craft, I don’t know what is.