Frosty February Friday

The weather was nasty over-night, and supposed to be nasty all day, so Mr. Pointy Sticks and I decided we were too old for such nonsense and called in to work to take the day off.

And I've been pretty productive, if I do say so myself.

I folded and patted Monsieur and wrote a little note and stuffed him in a mailing envelope and will send him off tomorrow. I'll be sorry to see him go. I hope his new owner loves him. Niki asked about the fringe yesterday, so here's a picture.


Just hangy-tangly long fringe. But soft...well, as soft as Kureyon gets. Not bad really. Here's another picture. He really relaxed after his bath.


Funny story about the fringe. I don't usually fringe my scarves...I say it's because I like them better without and that is usually true, but also it's because I'm....cheap. I mean, it takes a lot of yarn to make fringe. Yarn that could be better used for knitting.

But this scarf really needs fringe to look finished. So I bought a fifth skein of yarn and, when I was about halfway through the fourth skein I took the fifth one and pulled out what I needed for the fringe. Knit away and finished the fourth skein and ripped through the fifth one as far as I could. I had a wodge left of the fifth skein but didn't think I had quite enough for another two rows of blocks (you have to finish with a row of left leaning blocks). Finished it up and started fastening fringe...and realized that I had only cut enough for one end of the scarf! So then I had the fun experience of cutting the remaining yarn up into fringe...and doing it really fast so that it wouldn't run out before I had all the pieces I needed. I think I ended up with about 8" of yarn left.

So...I packed up Monsieur L'Entrelac.

I packed up birthday presents for my cousin. And I got some other mailing sort of stuff done.

I made chocolate chip scones.

I worked on Margot's hat.


I was working on this at work yesterday and came home without the fifth needle. No problem! I just shifted all the stitches on three needles and knit with the fourth. Ta-da! But then I put it down this afternoon and now I can't find the fourth needle! Argh! I may be making a run to Michael's tomorrow.