October 10, 2009

Technological black thumbs strike again

So I still fail at blogging, but at least this time I have a valid excuse.  My computer (can't remember if I'mat 4or 5 now) died.  My techy friend said he could be bribed with beer to come look at it and give it the verdict.  I'm hoping I can get it working, or Frankenstein together a working laptop from the crashed one, and the old one that got destroyed in the car accident.  But if not, well, yarn budget gets repurposed to computer replacement budget.  Which was not part of the budget.  Le sigh.  And my lovely, occasionally forgetful Yeti took my memory card out of my camera and put it on the windowsill.  Is it there?  Nope. Behind the bed? Nope.  Do I expect to find it someplace weird, hopefully not in the cats litter box? Yup.

Anyway, to today's regularly scheduled program.  I'm being a little knitting ADD right now.  My sweater is coming along.  I'm having to make up the sleeves as I go, because I wanted long sleeves, and the pattern was written for either short sleeves, or long flared sleeves, and I have a VERY strong hatred for flared sleeves.  They always remind me of the witch costumes I wore as a kid for Halloween, and not in a good way.  I have also discovered that I abhor knitting sleeves. They're so damn fiddly.  This is likely why I will never be a sock knitter.  I will fondle, and love, and appreciate, but knit them?  Bwahahahaha.

So currently, I got these mitred squares I'm whipping out to ostensibly make a throw pillow with, some apple core shapes I going to piece together to maybe make a rug with (it works in my head, don't know if it will in real life though).  I also have resurrected my Moderne Log Cabin blanket. Now that it's getting colder, it would be nice to have, but all that garter stitch just gets incredibly dull, so it's being alternated with other fiber experimentation. I would post pics, but well, with no camera card, and minimally functional computers, you all in internet land will just have to deal with the anticipation.