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It’s crazy all up in here. I have way too many projects going at once, and it’s freaking hot. I’m not going to say too much about these pictures, but just wanted to give you a peek into some of what I’ve been working on.

Hooray for summer knitting.

“Time is the longest distance between two places” - T. Williams

A confluence of events resulted in my long absence from blogging life. The precipitating factor, of course, was my lack of internet connection (not even dial-up, people) for an extended period of time. You really don’t want to know how long. The story of my fight to get an internet connection in my new apartment is similar to the plot of a horror movie and it would either drive you insane or simply give you screaming nightmares if you heard it. I’m totally not exaggerating or anything. Anyway life happens, and to be honest, not much knitting was going on for quite a while. I’ve been working many hours, traveling more, and generally not spending much time on the interweb.

But now I’m excited to catch up with what people are working on and I’ve already started on a couple of new projects. The vintage coat has taken a backseat, but has not been forgotten. To get back in to the swing of things, I spied Eunny Jang’s pattern in Interweave Knits for these lovely entrelac socks. (By the way, colors are more saturated in these pics than in real life).

I heart entrelac. It’s so much more interesting to me than just knitting around and around and around… which is why I think I might actually finish these knee-high honeys. If my cat doesn’t eat them first.

I have a couple of other projects coming up that I’ll tell you about later. One which could require audience participation for a good cause, yay! So stay tuned, I will return…

P.S. - If anyone wrote to me or commented and I haven’t responded, I’m sorry. I will try to catch up with everyone’s questions soon. Thanks for your patience!

I started the coat, only halfway into winter. If I keep working on it consistently, though, I don’t think it’ll take too long. I have no idea what a “Size 16″ means in 1938 terms, but it seems a little big for me, so I’m just resizing the whole thing as I go along. The sleeves, for instance, are going to be about two inches narrower. That’s what you’re looking at, by the way - the beginning of a sleeve. Ain’t it pretty?!

Still have no internet. Apparently my apartment doesn’t exist in anyone’s records. By “anyone,” I mean the phone and cable companies. They are supposed to come later this week but I don’t want to get my hopes too high…

I spent the holidays in California, and while it didn’t exactly afford me a white wonderland Christmas morning, I got plenty of “tangelos” (or whatever those things were). It was fun and sunny. I also got to meet my mom’s new dogs: a standard poodle and a poodle/golden retriever mix. “Cute” is a poor word to describe these girls.

Like a little lamb, she is.

And this one has the most ginormous paws I’ve ever seen in real life on an animal.

Oh, and did you want to know about knitting? Really, now. Well, what with moving, and being out of town I obviously have not been what you might call “productive.” But I *did* receive in the mail this lovely yarn I will be using to make the 30’s coat.

I don’t feel too bad about not starting this sucker yet, because apparently it is supposed to be 70 degrees F. in New York tomorrow?! So no rush. Maybe I’ll just go to the beach, instead, or something.

I still don’t have internet access (blah), so thanks to David Fineburg for letting me use his interweb computer. Oh yeah, and my new year’s resolution is to get internet set up in my house. But not really. I’ll tell you what it is later, maybe…

Bet you thought I might never be coming back?! I am, I promise. I know I keep writing that I’m back from an extended break, and then I take another extended break. But I haven’t had internet access in a while since I moved to a new apartment. Things have been busy but I have some pretty new yarn to show off. Just wanted to say hi and that I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season.

Have a wonderful New Year, everyone!!! I’ll see you then.

How appropriate this project is right now; backyard leaves is right, brother! It is about thirty minutes away from being completed, but had to get the pictures taken while it was still sunny. Because, you know, the sun sets at about 3:00 in the afternoon nowadays. I’ll show you the all-done pictures very soon (tomorrow?).

For those of you who have commented on previous posts, or emailed me, I’m working on getting back to all of you… Just have been busy busy lately.

Oh, and exciting news: I ordered Irish Tweed yarn for the winter coat! Oh, yay. Should be here any day, and I can’t wait. What. Is. My. Problem. I mean, there is “castonitis” and then there is the problem that I have, which is beyond human understanding. Help. *

Ah, yes. I’ve been taking a little breather from the knitting (and blogging) life for a while. But it’s been rejuvinating, and lately I’ve caught myself eyeing the yarn again. I’m sure it won’t be too long before I’ll actually have some finished projects to show off. Or at least some new ones started, ha ha ha ha ha! Sorry, got a little hysterical there. Anyway, I also got a new computer. Since I haven’t owned a desktop for years, I forgot how nice it is to use a big screen and regular keyboard. It sure beats the bad posture and neck strain I had sitting with a computer literally on my lap for hours on end.

So here’s a mini addition to my stash. As always, I don’t really buy yarn without at least an idea of what I want to do with it. My plans for this lovely yarn are a *little* nebulous, granted, but I think the finished product will be fabulous. I think. I mentioned in a previous post that I was going to show you my favorite kind of yarn, and this is it. Tweed. I love all kinds of tweed. That’s not exactly revolutionary, I realize, but anyway there it is. One day soon I will be buying some tweed yarn for the 1930’s coat I pictured here once upon a time.

But clearly I’m getting ahead of myself. First I gotta, you know, finish something I’ve already started.