I’m half way through my Lace Ribbon Scarf in Henry’s Attic Prime Alpaca. When I first started this I was all “I’m going to knit this sucker till the end of the skien” With the scarf nearing 4 feet aleady (if not there) before blocking and still a good 1/2 skien left, it’s obviously not going to happen.
I have been really bad about photographing finished objects these last few weeks. I think moving has a lot to do with it, but they also aren’t things I’m terribly excited about.
Like these socks. In DAY GLOW pink. Yeah. I think so too. But they go in shoes right? So um, yeah, I have no excuse for these. I also have no excuse for the Day Glow Lime Green sock yarn in my stash other than, “It seemed like a good idea at the time”. These are a simple two row repeat from Barbara Walker’s A Second Treasury Of Stitches (or something like that). Basically it’s Row 1: *K3, P3 repeat from *, Row 2: * K1, P1 repeat from *. Nice & mind numbing right? They work. That’s all I have to say. Though they came out a bit stretchier than I would like. Oh well.
I also knit two pink hats that I could care less about. What’s with the pink you ask? I have no idea. I must have been having a pink month. I’m over it now. I think. I hope. Time for some earth colors. I decided against all your advice and am going to knit the CPH next. The green Lamb’s Pride is calling my name and I can not resist any longer. Well I can, as I’m not going to put it on the needles until we move into the house, so that’s restraint right?
Did I show these yet? Probably not. These were the second of my sock wars socks. I had to knit them from scratch because my target never started knitting. I think that soured me on the whole thing because when I got my SIP from the person I “killed” I just let them sit. Now I am dead and I’m fine with that. The yarn was OK, but I probably wouldn’t buy it again on my own. The pattern sucked the big one. It was huge (you were NOT allowed to take out a repeat to make it actually fit anyone) the instructions were poor. I could understand and forgive this from someone who’s first language was not English, but the pattern writer was from England (or Ireland) and there’s no excuse. At $2 a head & with 1300 people signed up everything could have been better.
And because I have gotten a few comments like “the house doesn’t seem as bad as you said!” well, it was, it’s hard to photograph filth. But I tried. For recording purposes only.
Let’s examine this picture shall we? Ok, moving boxes, no big deal right? I mean everyone has them. Except these do not belong to us. The belong to the previous occupant and are still in the garage. *sigh*. See the thing on the wall? yes we had to remove that for her so she could “move” that also. The back window? No, that’s not a trick of the light. It’s really that filthy. I guess the morning glories had grown up over every single window in the back of the house which means I have to send the Mr to the roof to make sure they didn’t damage the shingles.
The crap that was left in the bedroom. Look at the floor, now imagine it 10X worse in person, that’s about accurate.
This is house was dosed with a good helping of lysol. The stove is going away forever next weekend, the fridge is leaving this weekend (I have to call & get the recylcers to pick it up (as i don’t want a fridge that stored “whatever it was that bled so profusely” in it.
We are almost there. We have the living room set up, the kitchen unpacked, the office set up (for the most part, more shelving is needed) the guest bedroom set up, and tonight we are doing the master bedroom. This weekend we are moving in. So yeah. It’s been busy around these here parts.
Dude, I see the potential. I do not envy the amount of sweat equity you’re putting in. I’m at the stage of life where I hire people. When I was your age I would do it myself. No wonder you think you want to buy the place. After all you’ve been through to make it live able you must feel like you DO own it.
You have an insane amount of socks! It seriously not as bad as you made it out. You made it sound like a crack house..lol..
Excited to see pics with your paintings up:)
IT DID LOOK LIKE A CRACK HOUSE! I didn’t post the pictures of the mould because I’m sure my parents would chime in saying I was NUTS.
Can you have an insane amount of hand knit socks? Probably nuts that I’m knitting another pair & have enough yarn currently to do about 10 more pairs. O_O
I can see why you bought the house, it does have lots of potential, under the dirt.
With the poop brown tile, you have two options, one cheap, the other not so much. Cheap is add turquoise and green accents wherever you can. Painting the wall between tile and cabinets in a complimentary color to the ajoining room, again in a cool earth tone, will make the poop more poetic. More like bark or fresh peaty earth and less like scat.
Or, you could rip it out and have a do-over. We did, and even did it ourselves, saving a lot of money to spend on floors and appliances.
Random comments on various posts.
I dislike raglans, too. Think the cedar yarn closet is fantastic, as is the loft. The Mr doesn’t like the loft, ergo, new yarn storage. What he doesn’t see, he can’t be shocked by, hm? You are a sock knitting machine! Moving AND fo’s? Amazing. I wouldn’t have spent the money on a cleaning service, either. The ladies from How Clean is Your House have seen worse and they’re still alive. Vinegar, bleach, Windex all kill a lot of germs. I can’t wait to see how wonderful your living room is going to be. The ceiling is wonderful, the sliding glass doors will let in tons of light, and I can see one of those flat screen tvs above your fireplace. Lovely.