First UFO: Mom's Ribs of Hell halter. The picture above is what it WILL look like. One day. It really is an easy pattern for all my pissing and moaning, and the yarn (King Tut cotton) is very nice to work with, very soft and not that splitty. So why do I keep putting it down, bored out of my mind? Probably a combination of the color of the yarn and the ease of the pattern. Not much challenge and did I mention the color of the yarn? I am not and never have been a pink person. My mother tells a story of how she tried to dress me in a beautiful, crinoline-poufed pink dress when I was a toddler. She stepped out of the room for a minute to get a hair bow and when she came back I had literally ripped the dress off my little body. Ripped into two pieces, that is...what can I say? She also says I haven't changed a bit since then. This is usually said with a disapproving hiss. Well, if you hatch a Scorpio child, that's what you get... we love deep reds and indigos and luminous colors and hey, at least we're semi-predictable.
Second UFO: And just above that (because I can't figure out how to insert the photo where I want it, heh) is a long-promised baby sweater, also incomplete. It's a raglan knit in the round from the top down. My favorite quickie baby knit courtesy of a Plymouth Yarn pattern. (top photo) Baby Musik (yes, that's her name) is now 19 inches around and 10 months old, so I better hop to it before she starts asking for the car keys, yes? I love this pattern because you can easily adapt it to whatever outfit or gender (if the parents are into that pink and blue gender rules thing) by running a different colored ribbon (ribbon yarn in this case) through the lace eyelets around the neck. Simple, elegant and high in the oooh 'n aaah quotient, at least for doting friends and abuelas (grandmothers, latin-style).
So am I working on any of these fine, feathered UFOs? Not a chance. Koigu Frolic is still licking my ears and whispering, 'Sweet Thang, knit me NOW..." WWED? (what would elvira do?) Anybody remember Elvira, hostess with the mostess from Tales From the Crypt? heh. Rhetorical question. Now you know what-all I did last night, mostly. NSMJ...
Gratuitous Daily How-to- Be-a-Southern-Knit-Blog-Yarn-Ho Lesson: What does NSMJ mean? (Used as a final salutation) NSMJ = 'Nuff Said Mung Jennelmen (sic)
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