Fiber reappears

     Fiber returns chez Rob. 

• Some knitting happened last night, on the Easy and Free Pie-wedge Shawl from the Helen's Lace label.  First knitting done since everything went into the moving van.  Unfortunately the label itself was not where it should be, in the ziplock bag with the yarn and the shawl-in-progress.  After sitting and staring at it a bit, I remembered what to do on 8 out of the 10 rows in each repeat.  I cannot for the life of me remember what happens on row 9, though I know it is different.  So I got 8 rows done.  Now I either have to find the label or find someone who knows what happens on row 9.
• The first yarn to arrive at the new address -- 5 balls of Jojoland's Melody in colorway 8. But the first Internet purchase to arrive at the new address?  The Studios issue of Cloth Scissors Paper.
• Why?  Well, here is a picture of the studio.   Nope, forget it, that is way too depressing.

Still waiting to happen:

• While I have missed several opportunities to attend knitting get-togethers here in San Antonio, I now have them on the calendar, and even programmed into my cell phone's alarm.
• I really want to get to some silk spinning, but that has turned into an infinite regression problem.  Before I can unpack the spinning wheels, I have to make some space in the studio.  To make some space in the studio, I have to unpack the boxes.  To unpack the boxes, I need to take a lot of yarn out of them.  To unpack the yarn I need a place to put it.  To (re)make my yarn storage, I need to measure the walk in closet and get closet rods and shelves in there.   So I have to head back to Lowes or Home Depot (!!#%***!!!#*#*!) in order to spin silk.  My response to that? Let me know if you know what happens on row 9 of the Free and Easy Pie Wedge shawl.

Comments

[KimB]

Arrange the yarn and you will be really happy and motivated! GO to those knitting meetings...please...you need to make new knitting friends. Don't forget we old ones but you need to make them in your new community.

[ffortsa]

Glad to see you're settling in enough to communicate with the outside world again!

Is it my browser, or did you move the column starting with 'photo albums' to the right when you redesigned the site?

[Roberta]

Welcome to Texas from another Roberta in, dramatic pause, Dayton, Texas. In addition to shawls/sweaters for the always freezing indoors may this transplanted Yankee recommend mitts for the summer? Steering wheels and gear shifts in August can be toasty.

[Rob]

Hi Judy, yes, both sidebars are now on the right. And Roberta (boy, I don't get to call someone else Roberta very often), that's a great idea -- fingerless mitts for the car. What fibers have you used for this?

[Roberta]

Yes, we Robertas are a small, select group. ;-} For the mitts I've used KnitPicks Gloss (merino/silk combination). I'm planning another pair in bamboo. Really, any sock weight should do with a very open pattern for the back.