I spent a lot of time today photographing yarns that I’ve been hoarding and then uploading and cataloging the yarns on Ravelry. I also FINALLY figured out how to add a progress meter and a gallery of my finished objects to this site, making it a little bit more interesting to look at. Hope you enjoy it!

Today there’s a post on the front page of MetaFilter entitled simply: Amazon wtf. It includes a link Amazon.com, showing items that have been tagged “wtf” by Amazon.com users. To me, that’s funny enough, but the things tagged therein are truly insane. The first was this  poorly-described (and probably equally poorly-written) pamphlet regarding the evils of Christians using birth control and killing their future priesthood (!!!!). The blurb is in ALL CAPS so that you can feel the combined wrath of the Lord and the holy vessel of this who wrote this. All for the bargain price of $135 for the pamphlet. As usual, come for the crazy, stay for the customer reviews.

I thought that the pamphlet would be the most awesome wtf thing I saw on the site, but then I stumbled upon a book that is far more relevant to me: Knitting with Dog Hair, by Kendall Crolius. Upon seeing it, I almost didn’t know what to say, but then I remembered that speechlessness isn’t really my thing and said “WTF??” The marriage of this product and this tag seems almost cosmically designed, it’s so perfect. Honestly, I can think of about six hundred things I’d rather clean and knit with than dog fur. Who would this even occur to? And to take it as far as writing a book? And publishing it? And then seeing it on Amazon and buying it? This seems like some sort of elaborate joke to me.

I’d intended to get a decent amount of knitting done tonight,  and I think I succeeded. Of course, I probably would have accomplished more if I hadn’t received Walking Dead in the mail yesterday and decided to read the first 80 or so pages of that. Still, I’m pretty pleased with what I did do. For the next little bit (I hope), I’m going to be making the Alpaca Silk Bow Scarf from Boutique Knits (out of wool). I decided not to let the intarsia part of my new scarf scare me, so I Googled intarsia techniques until I felt like I understood what I was supposed to do (if not exactly how to do it), and plunged in. I’m going back to Continental knitting and doing the Norwegian Purl, so there’s all sorts of learning and adapting going on here. I had to frog twice; once because I still can’t count, and another time because my knitting was too loose. Luckily, I hadn’t done more than three rows either time, so it was no big loss. Seems like the third time is the charm, and I’m going to quit while I’m ahead here and get some rest!

Pattern: Alpaca Silk Bow Scarf

Source: Boutique Knits

Yarn: Lorna’s Laces Greenline DK in Grapevine and Lilac

I meant to finish weaving in my the ends of my OpArt Blanket. Really, I did. It was too hot to do anything outside, so it seemed like a good idea to try to be useful in here. Unfortunately, I seem to have left my tapestry needles at work after my last In Stitches meeting, so that idea went out the window. Then I tried to work on A’s socks, but by now I sort of hate looking at them. I think I’m going to go back to one sock at a time. Aside from the first pair I made, when I was still learning what I was doing, I’ve never let nearly this much time go before finishing a pair. I considered starting my Buttony Sweater that I bought the yarn for last year, but I haven’t ever made a sweater before, and I wanted to learn more about sweater construction before I start; it seems that the pattern is pretty bare, and others who’ve knit it stated that they had or wished they had added some shaping. So that was out the window. AND THEN I decided to do the gauge for a new scarf that I wanted to start, but I couldn’t find any size five needles, which at first seemed insane, until I realized that most of my size 5s are circulars, and I think the one straight pair that I own is in use by an In Stitches member (not like I know who, though).

Well, there’s always tomorrow, right?