I tried a new-to-me restaurant yesterday, and was unpleasantly reminded of why I don't try new restaurants. MSG headache for 2 plus hours. I hung on at work as long as I could, and then gave up and went home. Of course, by the time I was leaving, it was nearly gone, but whatever. I walked home, stopped by the yarn store (because I didn't know when next I would be outside when the store was open for circular needles (#7) and misti alpaca lace weight in lilac. That's right, baaaaaaby alpaca. oh, so soft. The plan is to simply put it on the needles and knit until i've used up all the yarn. :) It's not like I can't use the practice with just knitting (I'm having some tension issues.), and I can do that while watching tv or a movie. (I have the Prestige waiting for me at home, and maybe my super ex-girlfriend.) I am having some problems with the casting on--I do a knitted cast on, and while usually my stitches end up on the needles like this: | | | | | | | | | | , every now and then I get | | | | X | | |. I think I must have put the needle through the wrong part of the previous stitch. I shall have to analyze it further. Messing up has already taught me things like how (and why) to start with the slipknot slipping on the right side, and what a knit versus purl stitch looks on the needle. Circular needles are a little weird though, and I twisted my knitting last time, and was starting my own little mobius strip. so that got removed, and I'll just start over again, and be a little more careful this time.

To make sure I wasn't doing anything insane with the yarn weight/needle combination, I was flipping through a book about folk shawls , since I figured that was the material weight that I was looking to duplicate, and I was reading the yarn requirements. One shawl calls for 2220 yards of yarn. That's more than a mile! And it's not that big of a shawl! Also, I think maybe what I need for work purposes is a nice (woollike, but not necessarily wool) shawl. So that'll give me something to plan for, once I finish knitting a lilac tube scarf, and a blue ribbed scarf.

My radiostation is making fun of American Idol for not recognizing a 311 song. I laugh.

I may be moving to brookline. More details to follow, once I actually have them.

Tags: knitting