Hi everyone!  I’m moved in, and hopefully, blog posts will become more frequent.  Well, as soon as I finish unpacking.  Here is the current view of the apartment.

The stash is in its new home.  It’s a good thing I’m not much of a clothes horse:

The big tubs are on the floor to the right - mostly hidden by the clothes.  The stash says its quite happy, but its not sure it likes being up so high.

What, your stash doesn’t talk to you?

In knitting news (Yes, I still knit.  And Laurel and I did have another Project Runway party, but I forgot to take pictures.  I swear, we’re not alcoholics - I hardly ever drink, unless Laurel is around.  Hahahahaha.), I’m working on Alice Starmore’s Queen Anne’s Lace from Stillwater again.

I’m actually up to the sleeve steeks now - that’s an older picture.  Also, that is the last picture that will have the Khaki couch as a background.  Let us all appreciate the niceness of the khaki as a neutral background for a moment.

Okay, moving on!

I also finished my Lorna’s Laces Swirl DK socks.  While I was on the train, leading to…

SOCKS ON THE TRAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hehehehehe.  I swear, that joke will never get old.

Wow, I’m an amazing knit blogger, aren’t I? For its been a week since I posted, and once again I am posting about…

Project Runway! Yay!

Laurel and I got back together. Unfortunately, I brought along my completed sock and my two sheepy tape measures. Lynette bought me the black one in thanks for helping her and Monica get their new blog up and running. Well, to make a long story short, the sheep got into the wine, and, well…

Who knew that first socks knit from Lorna’s Laces Swirl DK liked german wine so much? And what are those sheep up to?

After a night of debauchery and god only knows what, I woke up to this sight:

I don’t know what they were doing, and I don’t want to know.

In knitting news, I’ve been working on my Queen Anne’s Lace from Alice Starmore’s Stillwater. I’m about to start putting in the arm steeks. I should take a picture one of these days.

Today, there will be two blog entries! The excitement!

First, let’s start with pictures from the three magazines I recently bought. I’ve been on a Starmore collecting kick. It’s a damn expensive collecting kick, I have to admit.

First, I won Interweave Winter 99/00, which has the famous Jade Starmore Adult Beadwork. Unless you want to pay Virtual Yarns a zilion dollars for the kit, this Interweave magazine is the only place you can get it.

(Note - I used auto correction on these pictures, so colors may go completely wonky.)

It’s a gorgeous design, but knit on a very tight gauge with gansey yarn.

Then, I bought Vogue Knitting Fall 94 and Fall 89 from Monica.

Both issues actually have great designs beyond the starmore ones. But, the starmore ones are pretty good too. This vest is in Fall 89:

Here’s a little better picture of it:

I think its gorgeous. I love how the colors just glow. I did read that it is called “Thoroughbred”, and is also in the Scottish Collection, which is very out of print.

The design in Fall 94 isn’t quite as good:

I think the reason why I don’t like it quite as much is that its so horizontal. It’s very stripey. Also, the colors aren’t very subtle, even in the magazine. Maybe if the red bands were switched out with something more muted, I’d like it better.

I am not going to buy any yarn until Stitches Midwest. I’m not. I don’t care about the ebay yarn I find, or sales I find. Such as the sale at Beaverslide Dry Goods. Especially not that Glacier Blue. Or any of the great bargains at Knitwerx. Including that very low priced Jo Sharp Classic DK Wool that would work with the designs in Debbie Bliss’s Alpaca Silk Book 2.

I’m not. So stop looking at me like that, you evil yarn.

Oh, and my own powers of yarn tempting evil are so great that I don’t even have to post about specials on my blog, or even talk to the person. Just my very temptiness evil is enough to make Monica buy yarn.

Or maybe I just told Dee about the auctions on Cotton Patine, and she told Monica.

Speaking of Monica, she very kindly sold me Vogue Knitting Fall 1989 and Vogue Knitting Fall 1994. Yes, those are the issues with Alice Starmore patterns in them. She was going to eBay them, but I begged and pleaded and paid market rate. Yay! I’ll post pictures of the designs after I charge my camera.

KM
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Okay, the above is an example of what happens when I try to blog at work. I”m filing a bug and writing this post at the same time, and just posted SPSS syntax into my blog window. I better check that I’m not going on and on about Alice Starmore in my bug window!

Anyways, Kevin’s family visited this weekend, and one of his brothers bought us a very nice dinner, so I offered to knit something for him. (Yes, I’m turning into One of Those People. I swear, my reaction to everything is “Oh, let me knit you something!”) It turns out that they used to have a great grandmother that would knit them “booties” - more like house socks, but without a cuff. So, having to go to Knitche to pick up some size 2.50 doublepoints, I grabbed two skeins of Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sport sock yarn in baltic sea.

It’s really pretty, and I think fairly manly. You all are going to help me do the math to figure out how large a pair of booties for a size 12 EEEE foot needs to be, right?

Yes, I broke the rule I already stated. But it was an emergency!

In my own knitting news, I’m about done with the first sleeve on my baby sweater.

It has issues. I’ve already restarted twice because I’m getting lose purl stitches, especially at the joins. I’m going to knit the second sleeve, and if it looks better, I’ll redo the first. Yes, I’m keeping things tight between joins, and I’m even moving stitches around on the needles. It just leaves looser purl stitches all over, instead of in one spot.