My Three Gaiters

Woohoo! Finally a blog entry with picture...lousy picture, but picture nonetheless. These are three gaiters (they don't drape so I hesitate to call them cowls) that I made from some fiber I spun-some of the first spinning I ever did. The one on the bottom was a batt I bought from The Sanguine Gryphon called Wild Mountain Thyme, the one in the middle is called Western Jewel and was purchased from SpinningMoonWool etsy shop, and the third was one of the Plurktest fibers Coby of cjkopeccreations etsy shop sent me. The pattern is just 2 rows of garter stitch at the beginning and the end and a diagonal rib stitch from Vogue Stitchionary 1 in between...I think I cast on something like 88. I made them a few months ago so memory fails me. The little hanks of fiber you see in the back are the other fiber sent for me to Plurktest by Coby.

Sorry there are no links :(...I can make an Excel spreadsheet sing, but the whole html thing...not so much.

I am so sad today. My husband and I have been living separately for almost 2 months and today I had to tell him that while I could be his friend, I couldn't go on as his wife. It was so, so hard. I feel like the lowest lifeform on the planet.

Re-inventions

Alas, I deleted my old blog during a drama llama moment and must begin anew. I'm beginning anew in other aspects of my life as well. We lost our home and my OH and I are living separately, both by necessity and design. I have moved in with my son, back to the city I lived in for 30+ years-feels like home. I'm busy re-connecting with old friends and making a life for myself. I'm thankful to be released from the worry of how on earth to come up with the next mortgage payment. I'll be spending the next 6 months or so clearing up our other debts.

On the knitting front, I quite purposedly only brought my UFO's with me hoping to finish up...yeah...you can imagine how well that worked. I've since started the Amused Sweater from knitty.com and a pair of Charade socks...so much for all the UFO's. If those talented designers would just take a 5 year hiatus on new designs, I might get something finished.