Too Much to Explain, Let Me Sum Up

Life just gets away from you, and more specifically, from your blog.  You buy a house.  You start singing with a new chorus.  No, two new choruses.  (Choroi, I suppose.)  You adopt another dog.

But you keep knitting, oh so many wonderful things, and you definitely don't want to stop talking about them.

So while you wait breathlessly for further details of Camp Loopy 2013, I leave you with a few photos and a truly wacky pair of socks:

The truth?

The truth is that I have nothing for you.

I finished the Rose of New Mexico, but it is not yet blocked, and taking (let alone posting) pictures of unblocked lace is an exercise in masochism.

Sadly, a woman in one of my Ravelry groups has had a breast cancer recurrence, and I have knit two  squares to contribute to the patch blanket being made, but I don't have pictures of those, either.  Also, they are squares.  You can use your imagination, like people did before television or the internet.  (Get off my lawn.)

I've been knitting on the first Animal Crackers sock, but it doesn't look substantially different than the last time I showed it off, and the next one is going to be (spoiler alert) pretty much the same.

I haven't even started my second Camp Loopy project yet--still waiting on the yarn to arrive.  (I changed my mind at the last minute.  Typical.)

So . . . got nothing.

With luck that will change this weekend--I have blocking to do, if nothing else, and I will photograph the stupid blanket squares for some color.

But in the meantime, here's a picture of my dog being silly:

(It's hard to tell, but he is actually fast asleep like this.)

Ladies and gentlemen, a special guest

Introducing Sashimi, a very special shiba inu.

I really don't care what you humans are up to.


No, seriously, I don't.


Hey, what's up here?


What's that funny-looking box in front of your face?


*sigh* I suppose you can take my picture if you really want to.


Damn straight I'm fabulous.

Back in the Saddle

At long last, I am home again. Everything seems to be as before, and it's frickin' freezing outside . . . hooray?

Travelling Roses is done and awaits blocking--I'll probably do that this afternoon. (If I don't freeze to death, brrrrr.)

Work on the second toe-up sock continues, as does work on the North Star mittens. In this weather, mittens are top priority. I'm about half-done with the first, but they're quick to knit up.

In the meantime, I leave you with . . . kitteh pictures!

Mickey, too, has a yarn habit:


I can quit anytime I want to, I swear: