So, fall is upon me. Almost five years have passed since I picked up the parts of my life that would fit into my Ford Countour and relocated to the North East from Texas. It has been a shocking experience, mostly because my dear love of snow and winter was crushed pretty quickly and transformed into a bitter disgust for anything that remotely looks like snow. Especially brown snow. The cold has also been terrible. Who knew that those bitterly cold winds that attack in North Texas aren’t really all that bad when you compare them to the daily temperatures in Southern Connecticut. The good part about the Connecticut weather is that fall is breathtakingly beautiful. Right now the leaves haven’t quite gotten to their full potential and look like a muted photo of what is to come, but I know, and I am excited that 5 days a week I will make my hour long commute staring at a blend of reds and golds. At least for a short period of time, before… well we won’t talk about that anymore.
One good thing about the cold weather is it inspires me to pull out the knitting needles or crochet hooks and get to work on a project that will eventually keep me warm. I am obsessed with cowls and mittens. Also arm/wrist warmers, because let’s be honest, it is impossible to knit wearing mittens. Believe me, I have tried. My fingers still get a faint tint of blue to them and get a little stiff when I knit, but I just keep on going.
I am working on a few different projects right now as well as trying to write up a couple patterns I have been working on. You should know that I am in love with cables. Cables basically do it for me, and therefore I am currently working on a very simple cable that I can do mindlessly while in class. It is nice having some classes that don’t mind that sort of thing. Not that it really matters what the cables are on, they are cables! But, I think I am making a slip cover to keep my notebook in. I don’t know why I need such a thing, maybe just so that I can look at cables constantly, but it seems like the best idea I have ever had at the moment. Ask me again in a week. I am also working on a cowl using fair isle in an argyle pattern in green and brown. Basically those are my two favorite colors and I have a hard time breaking away from them, just a heads up.
Also on the needles is this scarf I have been working on for a year now. There is no good reason for it, because it is a gift for a friend, but I committed myself to the most boring thing ever and sometimes I feel like I would rather walk on hot coals than touch it. It is basically a tube scarf knit all in Stockinette stitch in Vanna’s Choice. At both ends there is a small entrelac piece in the picture of a Tri-Force from Zelda. That part was a ton of fun! At least the one that I did is, maybe someday I will get to the other end.
I was all set to post some pictures of all of these things but I just realized that the cable that hooks the computer up to the camera is in a box somewhere. Seriously, my life right now is like a mystery treasure hunt. I could pick a box and maybe if I am lucky I will find what I want, but most likely I will dismantle all the hard work we did in preparing to move. So instead I will sit here and ponder where it MIGHT be.
