Why I should never be allowed to get bored

So I'm at Lily's and I forgot my knitting. I was pretty annoyed since I'm watching her amazing TV set up and I should be knitting. Anyway I decided to brush her cat, Harry, while I watched and well she has two of those slicker brushes that are very like wool carders and after brushing him a bit I was playing around with them because I don't have carders yet but I do have an alpaca fleece lying around somewhere and I don't want to pay $150 if I don't have to. What if I'm no good at carding? What if I hate it? So anyway I was carding some cat fur and I started rolling it out and twisting it and it wasn't really working, it wasn't staying twisted so I realized I needed a drop spindle. Now naturally someone as crafty as Lily has a drop spindle but she also has yarn on it and I didn't want to screw anything up so I decided to make one. So yes, that is a drop spindle made out of a pencil, a push pin and 4 note cards that I glued together with about 3 feet of 100% Maine Coon yarn. And it only took about 2 hours... send yarn... please...

It's always feast or famine isn't it?

After months of no knitting, even at group, in the past week I have finished two on needle projects and written 3 patterns. Well almost written. Well not so much written, more... knit.  I'm really bad at writing patterns. This is not to be confused with being bad at knitting something with no pattern, because I'm very good at that, it's the writing down part that gets me. Over the years I've discovered that I knit by sight and I do certain things the same way all the time so I tend to want to say things like, "make a toe" or "work the cable for 3 turns then branch off to the sides" and have that make sense to people.  That... is where Lily comes in. The only way I can think to put it is that she knits by row. She is the exact opposite of me, she will take a chart and write it out and then create a spread sheet and work from that where I prefer a chart otherwise I don't get it til after I've knit the first repeat. She is extremely helpful for someone like me who has a notebook full of random words and the occasional picture that for someone like me is a book full of patterns I've written. She will be the one to find order in the chaos. She will be the person to look at my written patterns and say, "No. That is too vague. Write that out clearer." Which happens to be exactly what I need. We are getting together to watch Leverage tonight and I'll run the first drafts by her and maybe I'll have something to post soon! Now if I can just keep up the momentum...

Ok for real this time...

So I finally figured out how to log back in and rig my phone to my blog so I will try to keep up with the posting from now on. I am also going to try and write some patterns and actually make them readable for others so that I can try and sell them on ravelry and such so off I go :)

I'm back! Sort of...