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viva las vegas

Just wanted to check in...I've been working on the CNR like a madwoman (no pics today).  I'm done with the redo of the back and the fronts are ready to go (reworked those as well when I forgot to add the neck shaping-geez).  They just need to be blocked and the sleeves need to be started, 'cept I'm heading to vegas for a conference and I'm not going to be able to post while there. 

Should be interesting.  I'm not a gambler.  I'm sure if I had zillions of dollars, I might throw down on the craps table...but until then...I'd rather go shopping.  Speaking of...I need a new purse anyway! 

I went to get some ca$h for the trip and one of the twenties had the "Where's George" stamp on it.  I went to the site and entered in the info.  Lo and behold, it left North Carolina in March 07.  Well, it's heading to Vegas now baby!

And oh...knitting and blogging will resume next week--really...

frogging frogging ribbit.

This might explain why I haven't been blogging much. 

I wrote to Z saying that I was ready to take ALL of my yarn to the dumpster outside (oh, what a lovely dumpster dive experience this would make for many).  I am in a knitting funk and it's not funkilicious.  Eg:  I have decided once and for all to frog the Simple sweater.  It just gets TOO short in the front when stretched across my chesticles.  Yes, all that needed to be done is put a zipper in.  gah.  What should I make instead with the frogged yarn?  A baby blanket?  A hangman's noose?!

Last night...after losing my place in the damn cable pattern yet again of the CNR...I finally got back on track and continued on.  When I measured the front panels...I remembered to stretch them slightly to the correct width before measuring the length.  Yup.  Good.  1.5" left to go before starting in on the shoulder shaping.  la la la.  Knitting away...K4, Tw2R p3, k2, Tw2R, p3, P1, [Cr3L, Cr3R, p2] twice, Cr3L, Cr3R, p1.  la la la.  WAIT. 

OMG.

I threw the knitting down to get out the back panel...measured it.  Sure enough it was short if I stretched it to the correct width THEN measured the length.  Luckily, I had kept the skein of yarn attached and frogged the shoulder shaping...not too devastating...sure.  Back on track.  Knitting more length.  La la la.  The back is just a series of K2s and Tw2Rs.  la la la.  WAIT.  geezus.

The length would need to come in the body...NOT the armhole.  Argh.  I laid them out next to each other.  (The armhole shaping on the back panel really does look better, but I threw it down in disgust to take this picture for you all.)

Geezus F. Christ

Man.  Ribbit.  Ribbit.  Ribbit.  sigh. 

I'm going to go sit in the corner in the 74° incredibly muggy weather with my hair puffed out into an afro sipping a cool beverage.  I almost feel better already...well except for the frizzy afro thing happening over here.

in the sun

With it being 94° yesterday and oh, a mere 90° inside my place, there was no knitting to be done yesterday.  Heck, I could barely even move once home, not to mention the no-sleep thing.  The weather has been crazy...70° at 6:30AM?!  It's too much for me, so imagine my relief when it only hit 80° today.  PHEW.

I took a look at my knitting...the poor Cables and Ribs.  I haven't worked on the CNR for quite some time.  Yet, for some reason, w/o even looking at the kacha-kacha, I knew that I left off on row 14.  It's SO weird how the mind works.  I somehow space on my doctor's appt and missed it, yet I can remember that I left off on row 14 more than 2 months ago?!!

Anyway...after a few minutes of re-acquainting myself with the pattern, I was off and running.  At least the knitting can safely sit in the sun.  Me?  I burst into flame.

cables and Tw2Rs!

she lives.

Yes.  It is true.  I am still alive.

The sore/swollen throat thing really knocked me out, put me behind at work and stressed me the hell out.  I knew I wasn't feeling good when I couldn't even watch my favorite music videos or DVDs during my recovery.  It's gross, there were a lot of people at work with the same thing.  Creepy how that works...and we weren't even in the same bldg or campus. 

Then came the 4th of July holiday and some much-needed time off...from everything except for cake.

So, back to the nbat...I had knit the collar a couple of weeks ago and um.  It flopped down!  What the...?!!  I was too out of it earlier to even attempt to retry and I guess I needed a break from that as well.  I picked it up again tonight, frogged the collar and tried it again...I knit 6 rows instead of the prescribed 5 and started back in.  I have to say it's laying much flatter already...check it out.

ignore the blue behind the brown up there, the collar isn't finished on the back yet.

phew.