Atlas "Shrugged"

Yeah so much for clever titles...

Here is the latest garment of mass construction: I bring you the shrug/capelet...whateveryoucallit. A little garment that serves barely the function of warming your upper torso and when you are umm..endowed it doesn't cover much and draws all the attention to your ummm...upper torso. I'm just not feelin' it.

I followed this pattern. I used this yummy fuzzy alpaca yarn I got at my LYS (8 -50g balls for 20 bucks!--used 5 balls) what a deal, but it is so sheddy I just don't know what to do? I need a cool broach. I am not the best model for this creature...it belongs on my cutie pie 8 yr old with some novelty buttons me thinks.

In other news I've been on a crazy hat knitting obsession/quest. Those I'll post later. In other other news I am now a chicken mama...to 4 lovely girls who lay us a dozen eggs a week.

We are off for the week to Silver Falls, OR to meet up with our friends and some good times. How is all this in non cohesive writing.

eh...that's me.

Knitting ADD

I cannot commit all of my attention to a project lately. Exibit A: See all those projects. Is this normal?Perhaps, but my world view is small lately. My whole frame of reference pretty much exists within the confines of this house (winter blues much?). Here I sit comparing my attention span to 3 young children and my intrinsically motivated over achieving hubby. Hmm...sooooo unfair it just isn't really an objective comparison. Dr. Laura would suggest that I just put my children on a bike and take a ride outside to clear my head then I could come back to "focus". It's great advice, but I live up here in scary rural driving land with no bike lanes. One child on the back of a bike...yeah that was easy... 8 yrs ago! Phew got that out. ;) Where was I?

See. Vicious cycles of not ever getting to my point ending in yes....craft derailment.

My ADD isn't limited to knitting. It also floods my ability to keep my house in any order. To be fair to correct diagnosis I'd say my housekeeping skills are along the bi-polar diagnosis. I fluctuate between a house that is super duper tidy and one that is plagued by disarray.

In other totally unrelated news I have a huge ass spider bite upon my face. It is accompanied with 2 lumps on my neck below my ear and a pinched nerve/sore neck thing. So along with my bipolar sense of housekeeping, my ADD knitting, I now am a hypochondriac wondering if I've indeed been bitten by the infamous brown recluse or maybe I have cystitis. I really should stop googling NOW! Wikipedia is too much too much. Information overload!!!

Forgive me, sometimes a girl's just got to exercise her degree. Put down the mouse...pick up the needles :) Now that is a serene picture.

Lace, dishcloths...yo, psso, ssk, s1 I now know those pattern abbr.!!! Horay for me!