FemiKnitMafia

Back in early 2005, I got a heaping pile of Cotton Ease at Building 19.  Now they’re unloading a pile of craft books (including knitting books).  I have NO idea if they’ll be good books or not, but I’m going to take a peek.  For locations, go to the Building 19 website, and if you’re interested in how they’re advertising it, here’s the flyer:

Wednesday night, I had a nightmare. In the dream, I woke up and went to my stash wall to grab a specific WIP bag. I needed a quick and easy project because I finished the Stripey Mittens and needed something to bring to my Thursday lunch with the MIT SnB. Despite how neat the stash looks in this picture:

those top bins (designated as the WIP bins) are perpetually overflowing with bags. And at the top of that pile, sits the bag I was looking for — my mother’s poncho, which is 98% done.

So … in the dream, I walked over to the stash wall and noticed that it seemed terribly neat and tidy. Then I tipped one of the bins toward me, and noticed that my stash was gone. I dropped to the floor and thought, “holy shit, she took my stash!” Then I woke up.

Prior to that moment, I always thought of myself as a lower-case-k-knitter. But if I’m having anxiety dreams about Xifey stealing my stash, clearly I’m a capital-K-Knitter.

With two weeks of not blogging, there are more stories to tell than little Ms. Mafia has time to write up. Grad school has started, and the administrators repeated over and over again the importance of setting low expectations for our non-work & non-school obligations. Because I always do what I’m told [snicker], I’m here to set some low expectations.

Will I blog less? Yeah, probably a lot less. Email less? Yep. [as if I was ever good at emailing.] Comment less? Yes. Knit less? I’m afraid so. Spin less? Uh-huh. [she pauses to shed a tear.] Perhaps I’ll switch to a photo blog? Or post less frequently? I don’t know. For the next month or so, there will be changes, and I can’t anticipate what it’ll look like ’round here.

But I know one thing — I’m not going to stop blogging. After 2.5 years, it’s part of my life, and I would really miss you guys. In fact, I may need you now more than ever.

I have knitting pictures on my new computer, so stay tuned for those. In the meantime, here’s a heart-melting Nora picture and some yarn p0rn.

Med Student Kristen bought this emerald cone for me during the early days of the stash bust, and it lived with Cate for many moons so I could honestly say that I didn’t own it. But I’ve taken a flying leap off the stash bust wagon, so why not just confess. I present two pounds of pure tweedy emerald lust:

It’s mine. I love it. I can’t wait to use it. And while I contemplate an appropriate DK pattern, I’ll knit up a pair of Marina Piccolas with this Jaeger Matchmaker (which are sitting on the cone to emphasize how truly enormous the emerald lust is). Beth enabled the Jaeger purchase and we’re about to begin a wee two-person-Marina-Piccola-public-transport-KAL, so hopefully these won’t take too long to complete.

For additional lusting, go see Beth’s amazing Shetland Triangle and Cate’s stunning Autumn Rose sleeves. Enjoy!

Yep, all of this was 70% off. It was almost immoral.

That’s 8 skeins of Debbie Bliss Pure Cashmere and 1 ball of Reynolds Odyssey in a color that I’ve been ogling for months, and it cost me just over $30. Meow.

ETA: Sorry for being unintentionally vague.  I got this haul on Saturday at Three Bags Full in Newburyport.  The shop is closing and Saturday was literally the very last day, so everything was 70% off.  I didn’t expect to find anything, considering that the shop started with 20% off sale pricing many weeks ago and has been slowly offering better and better prices.  But it wasn’t totally picked over.  Hooray!