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Tagstonight I became ADD
Perhaps it’s a side effect of the allergy medication I took this afternoon, after hanging out at a cat house last night sent me into a sinus frenzy all day. I slept for 4 hours this afternoon! So tonight I was trying to catch up on my planning for this next pair of socks.
Here’s the deal: I want to make a leaf. Just a single leaf, on an angle. This delightfully soft sock yarn, from Hill Country Yarns, is called “Indian Summer” but has me thinking of leaf-peeping and falling leaves. I’ve been in the mood for pumpkin pie for days now. I decided the “easiest” way to figure out how to make one nice leaf would be to find a pattern and steal a single leaf from it. But of course, I needed to chart the whole pattern in order to pick out the single leaf and still keep all the decreases and yos even. So I did that. For a few different leaf patterns. Then I decided I needed a straightforward swatch before I tried experimenting with leaves.
“Hmmm, this is nice and all, but it would be much more fun to just work on the leaves. Let’s stick a leaf in the middle of the swatch. But I’m going to need stitch markers . . .”
Naturally I could only find one marker, and the rest weren’t where they were supposed to be. So I tore apart the knitting bag that sits next to the couch, which has been a mess anyway. “I should really clean this thing out.” I sorted everything, and even found the stitch markers.
But then as I was putting things back in the knitting bag, some of those skeins that I’d played with were kind of a mess, so . . .
And now I’m too tired to continue with any kind of knitting!
6 Responses to tonight I became ADD
Ha! I have totally had that night. At least tidily wound up skeins are a useful outcome; I probably would have decided to “organize” my stash and left it all over the floor.
We carry Hill Country Yarns at the shop. Yea for Texas yarns!!!
Amy
LOL with the ADD. I can really relate!
I LOVE the neat (!) yarn pyramid with these gorgeous fall colors. it makes me excited that Fall is near, my favorite season.
:-)
That’s happened to me more times then I’d like to think. I think it might just be a knitting related disease. Hrm…
Lovely yarn. Thanks for enabling me. ;)
Okay, when are you coming to my place to clean up my stash, then. ;)
The exact same thing happened to me two days ago! I sat down to do some knitting, decided I’d had it with the state of my knitting bag, and spent the rest of the evening re-organizing stitch markers, photocopied patterns, etc. I give myself a week and a half before it’s back in complete disarray.
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