So I thought I'd have a FO to show you. The "green" thing from a couple of posts ago is all knitted up and blocked just waiting for it's finishing touches (seams, ribbon etc). But no. The gremlins got in the way.
You see somewhere between my desk and the ribbon shop my wallet disappeared into the ether. Vapourised. I can't think that someone would have had the opportunity to steal it (two layers of Velcro to rip open to get inside my laptop bag, plus a lab full of people) but also I didn't have the opportunity to loose it. It's not at work, at home, in the bag, in the store. It's gone. So my credit cards are canceled, my UK drivers license will have to be replaced somehow (probably when I go home in two weeks), and I'll need new health and dental insurance cards. And the two yards of ribbon that were going to cost me all of 80 cents? Still on the counter in the store :(
Needless to say, I wasn't in the best of moods at the Sit n' Knit event last night. Even the bluegrass couldn't really lift my spirits. And the knitting? There's no love there either. I grabbed one of my languishing UFOs since it was my only portable project and, well, fuck me if I could figure out where I was up to, how I'd managed to mangle the row counts so badly in the cable pattern, or how I'd gotten that loosey-goosey gauge. But hottdamnit, the Snickets are out of hibernation and they will be finished.
These were the first set of DPNs I ever owned. They came from a bag of thrift store goodies, along with miles of seam binding and hundreds of pins. They were the first DPNs I ever knit a sock on and while I may have moved on to bigger and better and more aluminium things, these needles remain with me. Why? Not because they are bendy and give me hand cramps, and not because they are a size I normally use for socks. I keep them because they are invisible to X-ray and can fly. As an added bonus, if you bend them too far they can also fly of their own volition.
