Feeling Flopsy

Thanks in no small part to my family (and especially to Phillip, who volunteered to guest blog when he noticed I was neglecting you), the swatches and the last two project samples for the book are done.  And now we can start rewriting the thing.

To celebrate, I took a nap.  And by nap, I mean mini-coma.  I lost a day somewhere in there, and so far I haven't missed it.

When I woke up, I didn't even want to knit.  To those of you who sensed that disturbance in the force, let me reassure you:  the burnout was only temporary.  What I did instead was spin.  Nothing sexy, but a nice, solid bobbin of Romney that I got at last year's OFFF parking lot sale to practice using my mini-combs on.  Kind of a nice, oatmealy-gray-tan that soothed my ragged nerves after the technicolor whirlwind of all those swatches.  Did I mention that each chapter's swatches are done in a different color of the spectrum?  The Stripes chapter are in reds, Slipped Stitches oranges, and so on, all the way through to violet.  Soft gray-beige is delicious after all that.

And then I decided I had recovered sufficiently (well enough to sit up and take yarn, so to speak), to make the second sock for Mom's birthday.  The birthday last August that I totally missed.  For which I presented Mom with a single sock, in October, with the promise of a second one when possible.  I located the second skein and proficiently wound it.  I found the pattern and narrowed the needle choices to one of two sets.  And could NOT find the first sock, for reference.  It's lost.  Naturally.

As everybody knows, the only antidote for that sort of frustration is to make bunny slippers.  These bunny slippers.

The Smallies got so excited when they saw this gorgeous pattern that they have decided to make bunny slippers, too.  Lindsay's are going to be "extra fluffy", and Campbell's are required to have fangs.  Phillip has not placed any special requests for his bunnies, but I'm sure we'll think of something to set his apart from the rest of the warren.  The flagship pair look like this at the moment:

Thanks in no small part to my family (and especially to Phillip, who volunteered to guest blog when he noticed I was neglecting you), the swatches and the last two project samples for the book are done.  And now we can start rewriting the thing.

To celebrate, I took a nap.  And by nap, I mean mini-coma.  I lost a day somewhere in there, and so far I haven't missed it.

When I woke up, I didn't even want to knit.  To those of you who sensed that disturbance in the force, let me reassure you:  the burnout was only temporary.  What I did instead was spin.  Nothing sexy, but a nice, solid bobbin of Romney that I got at last year's OFFF parking lot sale to practice using my mini-combs on.  Kind of a nice, oatmealy-gray-tan that soothed my ragged nerves after the technicolor whirlwind of all those swatches.  Did I mention that each chapter's swatches are done in a different color of the spectrum?  The Stripes chapter are in reds, Slipped Stitches oranges, and so on, all the way through to violet.  Soft gray-beige is delicious after all that.

And then I decided I had recovered sufficiently (well enough to sit up and take yarn, so to speak), to make the second sock for Mom's birthday.  The birthday last August that I totally missed.  For which I presented Mom with a single sock, in October, with the promise of a second one when possible.  I located the second skein and proficiently wound it.  I found the pattern and narrowed the needle choices to one of two sets.  And could NOT find the first sock, for reference.  It's lost.  Naturally.

As everybody knows, the only antidote for that sort of frustration is to make bunny slippers.  These bunny slippers.

The Smallies got so excited when they saw this gorgeous pattern that they have decided to make bunny slippers, too.  Lindsay's are going to be "extra fluffy", and Campbell's are required to have fangs.  Phillip has not placed any special requests for his bunnies, but I'm sure we'll think of something to set his apart from the rest of the warren.  The flagship pair look like this at the moment: