Rudder just casually mentioned that when he was home at lunch, my box from Lamb's Ear Farm had arrived and he took it inside. This is in all sensible ways a good thing because I'd been figuring it would arrive just in time to stand out in the rain; however I have to work another hour and a half and then I have to go fly (a simulator, actually). So I won't get home for another four hours or so and now I know I have YARN! waiting for me .... fuzz and shine and color and distraction, rainbowy silky Noro that will let me get on with the Clapotis decreases so I can wear it and look French (or deluded), stretchy Fixation and accompanying sock pattern to learn on, tiny needles and skinny pretty yarn for when I get the gist of it enough to start something I can make for my husband that he might actually wear.
No wonder other knitters seem to finish projects every few days; one woman wrote today on Knitlist that she knits two hours a day but is trying to get much more time for it. I, on the other hand, last night got 7 narrow rows in, one more twist in the cable of the Irish Hiking Scarf I started when I put the Clapotis down pending my yarn order. My knitting time is also my reading time, my eating time, and my talking-to-Rudder time, so it has to share space. On the other hand, I'd probably get extremely bored doing the same thing for two hours every day.
One thing I do plan to do to make sharing my time a little easyier is to buy a bookstand. I don't know yet whether this will work out; I do have a little tray table in front of my chair that it could rest in, but the problem is that while knitting or reading, I don't exactly what you'd call sit in my chair. It's a big cushy chair, and I inhabit it, back against one arm, shoulder leaning against the chair back, legs propped over the other arm, with my book on my thighs, needles in my hand and yarn trailing down to a basket on the floor. A book stand would require me to sit straighter, which would doubtless be better for my back but would feel less like a nest, me and my yarn and my book removed from the rest of the world.
New yarn waiting for me!
Posted by dichroic at January 26, 2005 02:49 PM