Good Lord!

It worked! It worked! The library system wins! (or I do, and it's other users, if you want to be factual...) I requested several Elizabeth Zimmermann dvds and books a few months ago, and THEY ARE HERE!!! I have of course spent as much time as possible watching them since picking them up Sunday afternoon. (bad, negligent mommy, I know...) In about a month or so you too (if you reside in the state of Maryland and know how to use interlibrary requests...) may be the proud/happy/thrilled/engrossed temporary owner of Knitting Workshop and Knitting Glossary!

In other news, I have finished the heel on my jojoland toe-up sock, and now have decided I'd like to insert a couple of cable-y type things, or maybe a nice traveling stitch up the leg. It's on 52 sts, and with this color way I'd like to keep it simple to show the slow gradations of green to purple and back. I am thinking one 'Rhombus' cable over 12 sts starting at each side of the ankle. I also like the EZ 'Sheepsfold', but I have to find my books to look for it, and I want to just get knitting, so.....

Initial Post

Tranquil knitting is what I would like to be doing, but until I am old and gray (or just go deaf, or the kids move out…) I will have to do as the blog title states. At the moment I certainly have more opportunity to think about knitting than I do to actually partake in it. In any case I grab my needles and work furiously at a sweater when the baby sleeps, or stuff a sock or sleeve in my pocket to occupy myself with as we spend a morning at the playground. (Did you know that if your cable isn’t too long you can hold a baby on your hip and walk/dance with them while getting in a few stitches here and there on a magic loop sock? Well now you do.)

All this thinking about knitting brings designs to mind much more quickly than I can try them out, so I also have a little notebook of sketches and “Ideas to Try” someday. Who knows, maybe I will get one or two sorted out and will post them here.

I am under a sweating nursing baby and a laptop, in August, so that's all for now folks!