Or What I Knit On My Fantastic, Brief, Beautiful, Star-struck, Brief, WARM, Romantic, Wonderful, did I say brief? Vacation! Thank you Georgie Mou!
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Front of Picot-Boo
It wasn’t started on the vacation, but it was finished there, so it counts!
Swatch for baby’s blanket
I tried out the All Season’s Cotton for my new niece or nephew’s blanket, and of course, I love it. Wouldn’t you know, the color, Tapestry (#172), a nice, pale, gender neutral yellow, is discontinued. I’m going to try to find enough of it in Internetyarnland. Not sure what I’m going to do with it – the pattern in stockinette is so soft and I think if I wash it will get even softer. A nice knit/purl stitch would be nice, but I don’t know. I think I might like a nice satiny border on it as well.
Key Biscayne Socks
Annie was right. I was being ambitious to think I’d come home with a pair, but I did almost finish ONE! I’m using Koigu on size 3 needles – the color is like a nice cabernet (very difficult to photograph though). The pattern I’m using is from Ann Budd’s The Knitter’s Handy Book of Patterns, fast becoming my bible. I have something like a hole, let’s call it a gap, where I picked up stitches at the heel, but otherwise I’m pretty pleased with it! It’s too loose around the calf and will probably slouch, but whatever. I have to finish the foot and the toe, but the hard part’s done.
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Hey! Get a load of my super-fine manicure! I had fun hanging with the salon girls and getting all the gossip. Nice tan, huh? I’m trying to keep my lower calves, not to mention my toes, wrinkle free, dontcha know! Oh yeah, and are socks supposed to look like ribbed casts? |
Back to the vacation…can I go back to the vacation?
It was really wonderful. The hotel was very, very, very nice.
And we saw Conan again, on our last day. In one of the most surreal experiences in my life, I read this Op-Ed article about Johnny Carson while sitting lunching by the pool. When I got to this line:
There is another thing that never came back: late-night television for grown-ups. I know, there’s Jay and Dave and Conan, and guys on cable, too. We were supposed to get excited a while ago that Conan O’Brien was being groomed for the big one. But no one cares now.
I looked up across the pool – and there was Conan. It was definitely very weird. Never did talk to him. He was busy with his family and I didn’t want to interrupt. I’ll catch him next time! 😉
If you want to see some pictures from the trip, keep reading…
