Tuesday early morning musings

I am yearning to knit and just not doing it. The weather in New Jersey is 5000% humidity, perhaps I exaggerate by the teensiest bit, but it's made all of me stiff and lethargic. It is 4:42 am and sleep is nowhere to be found. I have made some progress on the Best Friend sweater for my best friend and am awaiting the rest of the yarn I need to arrive at my LYS, Woolbearers, in Mount Holly, NJ. Heaven knows there are dozens (at least five dozen) other projects I could be working on, but I'm not.

Instead, I received the new KnitPicks catalog in the mail and am thinking of NEW projects. After all Christmas is coming. Everyone could get felted bowls from the "One Skein" book. Brothers could get felted wine bottle bags or laptop bags with their initials monogrammed... Do I seriously have time to knit a sweater for Dad if I'm already trying to knit a sweater for Carol, one for Sarah, crochet one for Abby, make another one for Mom AND a beaded purse for Kelly? Plus a top for Rose once I have an idea of how much weight she's lost since her surgery? And I did want to make Cat Bordhi's Christmas Stockings, too.

Still, nothing makes me happier than pouring over the books of Ann Budd, Sally Melville, Cat Bordhi, Nancy Epstein, Meg Swansen or EZ. Then there are the magazines. I probably spend as much time dreaming of knitting as I do actually knitting.

Blogging: Day One

Hello, should anyone but me discover this blog, my name is Cate, I live in Trenton, NJ and I love to knit, to read, to feel the warmth and comfort of my miniature schnauzer sleeping nearby, to dress in 3rd quarter 18th century American style clothing and re-enact as a Hessian camp follower and to spend time with friends. I am recently (as of 8/11/06) unemployed, so am job hunting. I live in a large Victorian house that is in desperate need of organizing, cleaning and de-cluttering that I share with a housemate; we've had an arrangement that somehow works for us for over 15 years now.

I am an inveterate stash collector, of many things, and will amuse you one day soon with my to-do list of knitting and other needlework projects. At last count it may have been over 70 items.

When I cleared out my office last week I packed 9 boxes and two large plastic bags of books that I've read related to the Revolutionary War time period: militaria, biography, social history, anthologies, fiction, children's books, activity books for children, magazines, cookbooks, books on food or taverns, poetry or poets and much more.

Right now I'm working on the Best Friend Sweater from the Knit Book by Sally Melville. I'm doing it up in Nashua Chunky, color Khaki, which is a lovely evergreen. I'm also working on the Christmas Boot from Cat Bordhi's Book of Magical Knitting, aka her magical moebius technique which is charmingly addicting. That's being done with 2 skeins of bulky Lopi in red and 1 skein in green, I just finished the handle and am about to take out the invisible cast-on stitches to begin the boot portion. Many more Christmas presents to be worked on and here it is August 18!

Happy Knitting to all and to all a Good Night!