Needles & Hooks

22
June
2005

Another Cap

While not knitting during my moving-haitus, I bring you yet another example of someone’s Clapotis Cap:

Maus at Knits ‘n’ Things made one to match mine in Mixed Berries. You have to see the photo she posted — hilarious!

Update on the move: everything is in the house. My stash bins were sacrificed for their true purpose - holding hanging files. So my stash is now piled and overflowing a large laundry basket. It was in two laundry baskets, but then my husband wanted to actually do laundry. *hmmph!*

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15
June
2005

Did I forget how to knit?

Moving really takes a lot out of you. And really, we haven’t even moved much stuff yet, we’ve just been painting. And painting. And painting. Fortunately, there’s only one room left that’s a painting disaster. It needs one more pass through to cover some thin spots and then the tape can come down and the outlet covers go back up. Unfortunately, it’s the kitchen/dining room, so the whole place still feels really messy. The rest of the rooms need tiny touch-ups here and there. Hopefully we’ll get the rest of the painting done tonight and can actually move stuff.

However, I did get some knitting time in this past weekend. Sunday was my birthday and we rented a van and drove down to the Ikea in New Haven, CT (we live near Boston). Ikea has been a favorite for us since back when we were surrounded by them in Southern California. A couple years ago, a friend and I had to go all the way to New Jersey to get our Ikea fix. Fortunately, it’s getting closer (in fact, there will be one in the greater Boston area in the fall — we saw the building on Saturday and it’s blue! Can’t be long now!).

So during the 2-hour drive each way, I managed to add a few rows to my second Clapotis. I’ve dropped a couple more stitches and still have a ton of yarn left for the straight section.

And just so you know what my hands will be doing this week, when they’re not packing and moving boxes, here’s the mountain of stuff we got at Ikea:

That’s a bookshelf system for my craft room, a dresser and two beside tables, a bookshelf for my husband’s home office, and 8 dining chairs. Tiny allen wrentches, here I come.

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5
June
2005

Whoa, where’ve I been?!

I’ve been doing plenty of things with my hands, just nothing with pictures I can post. We just bought a house last week and we’ve been busy planning and painting. The last 10 years we’ve spent living in apartments that are all a lovely shade of “apartment white”. And the previous owners of our house were not that daring, so the walls are the homeowner versions of “apartment white”, i.e. tasteful and unoffensive, yet drab, colors like taupe and olive. So now we want color!!!

Transformations are happening all over. Our living room will be a saffron-gold. The adjoining kitchen a rich bold olive green. Our bedroom is a dark green/teal. My husband’s attic/office will be dark and light shades of royal blue that will look like sky with the white slanted ceilings and skylights. My craft room will be two shades of purple. We spent at least 24 hours painting over the weekend and we’re beat. My hands are all colors of the rainbow. And while I didn’t do any knitting, most of my stash is living in the closet in my new craft room and I did peek wistfully in at it a couple of times.

I really want to have the time to sit on my ass and get back to the knitting. Wouldn’t that be a luxury? But for the next few evenings, it’s more painting. And expect to see lots of “I made curtains!” posts over the summer as I find the right fabrics and spend some quality time with my sewing machine in my craft room.

But, I’m not totally devoid in fiber content today — my mother in law sent me a photo of her wearing her Charlotte. She wore it to a dinner this week and attracted lots of comments from another yarn nut. She plans to wear it often because “it goes with just about everything in my closet!”: