Tcepsa's Thoughts

Because I haven't updated on knitting in far too long...

The first of the pair of tabi socks is ready for me to begin the toes. Yup. Just gotta get them toes started. Then it'll be smooth sailing from there, for sure. You betcha...

The Einstein Coat is on perpetual hold, and at this point I am highly likely to rip it out and rededicate the yarn to some other purpose. Some purpose not involving yards and yards of garter stitch. Possibly some of it will become the cabled laptop bag from Knitting With Balls... we'll see.

In the meantime, I've been kicking around the idea of knitting a candleflame scarf ever since I finished the shawl back at Thanksgiving '06. This past weekend, at the Maryland Sheep and Wool, I decided it was time to start it. I got myself a pair of circs and some lovely yellow/orange/red/brown yarn hand-dyed by the wonderful folks at Springwater and am about 6" into it. So far I am really liking how it is turning out. The variegation does obscure the pattern a little bit, but not so much that I don't like it (and the variegation itself is pretty). I'm hoping that, at the very least, it will be one of those things that someone looks at and goes "Oh wow I love that colorway... wait a minute..." ~looks closer~ "Oh! That's a really neat pattern, too! Cool!" (~grin~ That's my story and I'm stickin' to it)

... waking up in the morning and not being able to get back to sleep because you've started trying to calculate, in your head, how many stitches you have left on your project before you can start binding off. (About 4,360, in case you were wondering... ;) )

( Cut for knitting ramblyness ) And now I think at some point I'll have to write up an entry on Algorithmic Knitting Patterns...

That, or a book, just because I think there should be a book out there with that title ;)