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Seriously, I need to bite the bullet and admit to myself that this is what I do almost every night. Luckily, Minchie likes to help.
(I also need a hair cut - it almost looks like a mullet back there. Can you tell I dyed it blonde in January? After an hour of highlights, I was surprised to find it almost exactly the same colour as it was when I went in. Oy. Also, I did not get implants. I just haven't been running.).
Sometimes I just play around with yarn and an FO magically appears. This is not often the case, it's rare, but it sometimes happens. Sometimes I even write down the "pattern" in hopes of recreating the piece, but sometimes I forget before it is sold and in the mail. Oops!
It's a good thing I took some pictures.
Today was a particularly long day at the office because I had absolutely no work to do. I hate those days. Luckily, the yarn fairy came and made it all better. I love getting yarn in the mail.
These are both hand-dyed, handspun skeins of Falkland wool from a fiber artist in the UK. They both look like they should taste like candy.
One downside to knitting for my etsy shop is that there isn't a lot of time left at the end of the day for personal knitting. In fact, lately there has been no time left for personal knitting. This is a big problem because I still have outstanding Christmas presents to whip up. Christmas presents! It's freakin' March and I need to find time to make belated Christmas presents. What a disaster!
Tonight I hope to start one of these cowls I found on Ravelry (cashmere cowl no. 2 - lace rib or quickie cowl) . I have some Berroco Ultra Alpaca Light that I think will be amazing. Of course, it won't be until I actually "swatch" (a.k.a starting knitting and ripping) that I'll know whether I will actually knit either of these cowls out of this particular yarn or something else entirely. Hopefully I'll be able to suppress the guilt of not working long enough to make some headway. This would be a perfect bus project.
