{"id":1090,"date":"2007-06-19T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2007-06-19T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T20:52:00","slug":"hi-with-gusto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=1090","title":{"rendered":"Hi! With Gusto!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well. Today was a big ol’ day! Super Duper Busy with work, and then a quick lunch trip to the Studio<\/a> to drop off my Emperor’s New Scarf for the class I’m teaching, to discover that the Handmaiden<\/a> shipment had come in! <\/p>\n

Kyra<\/a> & I were like kids in the candy shop, at Christmas, with no glucose issues. It was lovely. Thirty skeins of Sea Silk, and eleven skeins of Lace Silk, all in a variety of colors. The only thing that allowed us to maintain an ounce of restraint was the fact that there’s another shipment coming in, from Fleece Artist<\/a>. Bless Cindy for listening to Kristin<\/a> & me, and ordering the yarn. We promised her she’d sell it, because the stuff is so fab. (My fingers are crossed that our prediction will come true, but I think all anyone has to do is take one look at the stuff, followed by a squeeze, and SWOON! BaM! You’re on the floor with three skeins in your hands, never letting go.) If I could have justified a skein of the lace, it would have followed me home as well. So, so pretty. Silk is just so stunning, the colors are so rich. I’m honestly a little afraid that nobody will bother taking my Montego Bay Scarf<\/a> class (Scroll about halfway down the page to see the pattern. Do sign up<\/a>, it’s in July!), they’ll just snatch up all the Sea Silk they can carry and scurry off to a screened-in porch with a pitcher of lemonade and some shortbread and we’ll never hear from them again. (Yes, my paranoia combines with an extremely active, vivid imagination.)<\/p>\n

I’m just excited to get the scarf sample knit as fast as my chubby little hands will let me. Then I’ll be back to my Monkey Socks<\/a>, which are the equivalent of crack to the sock knitting community. I’m totally behind on this trend, but then, when aren’t I these days? I’m always off in a ditch somewhere, distracted, and then I clue back in and shuffle a little further on down the road. I was stoked about doing a picot-edge, and marveled at the simplicity and beauty of it all, but was still hesitant about the pattern – peeps, I started these on Saturday, and I’m on the 5th repeat of the lace pattern. CRACK. Set these next to a tub of Ben & Jerry’s Chubby Hubby and you have two powerful forces in the universe, singing a siren seduction song in two-part harmony.<\/p>\n

Forgive the manic-level of this post. I announced to anyone who would listen this afternoon that I was as fried as a mushroom at Jess & Jim’s<\/a>. (They’re really good there. So’s the baked potato.) I didn’t really have lunch, and I think that’s why all these food references are horning in on the knitting action. I must go home. To get the house ready for company, to have dinner, and to uh, what’s that? KNIT! (Well, wind yarn first.) Then? KNIT! With gusto!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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