Skeptic Knitter

A big happy april fools to everyone. I’m not doing a gag because I just woke up, and I haven’t planned anything.

I should have had yesterday off, but I decided to take a co-worker’s shift to let her do an early easter with her family. I’m such a friggin softie. So, of course, an hour before we close a huge project turns up that we have to get done before close. Why wouldn’t it? Plus, when I get in today I’m facing two more projects, unless more turn up.

People in our office love to pile projects in on the weekends when only two of us work, beg and plead it be finished that day, but then complain to our boss when we make small mistakes because we’ve rushed it for them, instead of just having us change it. That does so get on my nerves. We shouldn’t make mistakes, but we shouldn’t have to do two times the projects of a weekday with two hours less to do it. rargh.

On top of that, if we work 5 hours we are supposed to take a 30 minute break, with only two of us working. Yeah, right. We’re not allowed to have one person working the office, but they expect us to give up 30 minutes of paid time, out of an already pathetic shift. No.

On a more pleasant subject , I finally purchased One Skein for myself (which had to sit in my bag unread all through work), as well as the accompanying yarn to make the cupcakes in it. I already have a list of things I am planning to make after the blanket is finished. The problem with the blanket is I need a good quiet stretch of time to sit down and concentrate. Why do I like lace so much? It’s too pretty for me *not* to knit.

Well, time to get a start on the cupcake before work.

Well, my co-worker’s grand baby has been born, she was induced yesterday, which means I really have to get a move on on this blanket.

I am doing a blanket patterned with Elfin Lace from Barbara Walker’s first treasury. I think I will crochet some kind of edging, although I haven’t decided quite yet.

It was 80 degrees yesterday, so I thought some kind of lace would be appropriate.

It is a disgusting day, and I agreed to take a co-worker’s hours. I’m such a sucker.

For my birthday, hubby got me two lovely skeins of malabrigo-my very first skeins of malabrigo! Squee! To his credit, Hubby did offer to buy me more, but these two will do me for a while. My mom’s skein is a dusky pink with brown, and mine is vibrant and varied greens.

I decided that this was the perfect yarn to try a scarf I have seen on Knitty. I have attempted a couple of times to start Branching Out but I keep messing it up. The most recent incarnation (the third) I cast on around 11 pm, and managed to complete an entire pattern repeat before I realize that I had cast on two too many stitches at the start, which buggered me up later on. It turns out I have to knit lace in a very quiet room with no cats or husbands to distract me.

I did take a picture of it before I messed it up. Hopefully it will be back to this state sometime in the next hour. I have to say my camera cannot capture colors properly unless it is the middle of the day. The flash washes things out, and my apartment is so terribly lit. The colors are not quite this deep, but I think this gives the idea.

I guess it’s time to start knitting again while Hubby is asleep (he works nights). Wish me luck!