So, while I was waiting for my Kyoto pieces to block, I got distracted and started on a new project that is going to be for a new baby of a friend, to be born early next year. It’s a new challenge for me, in intarsia, my own design, charted from a photo of a t-shirt I found on Google images. Said friend is a fan of a particular comic book hero, and not a common one, so it was fun coming up with the design. This way, father and son will have matching tees. I’ll post pics after Dad gets the gift, sometime in January.
The point of the story is that I am using the same needles I knit my Kyoto on, and so now I am stuck. I measured the blocked pieces so I could cast on for the collar that wraps up the side, around the back,and down the other side, but then had no needle to cast on to. I guess I could have used another needle, but the gauge is right with the needle I started with, so I don’t want to jinx it.
With the weather the way it’s been the past few days, I am thinking my next project will be some fiber trends felted clogs. I bought the yarn and slipper bottoms at least a year ago, but it’s going to be cold this winter and gas is more expensive, and the heat doesn’t work in the master bedroom anyway, so I think slippers are the way to go. When I got up yesterday morning, it was 57F, in my bedroom. You Minnesotans can laugh all you want, but once you move to SoCal, the blood thins or something, and this feels cold! I did my time with the frosty nose-hair and the fingers too cold to bend when I was a kid, and I put up with the 405 for a reason, and that reason is beautiful weather all year. So I can complain if it’s 57F in my bedroom even when the heat is on! Stop laughing.