It’s Furious Balancing

A sweater affords the scientific-minded a chance to experience the phenomenon of the Knitting Black Hole. At some point in your work (although you have definitely knit 34 rows since you first noticed), you stop making progress. You knit and knit but the sweater doesn’t get bigger. Then, mysteriously, you are released and discover that, even though you’ve been obsessively measuring every two rows, it’s suddenly five inches too long. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Knitting Rules!

That’s about how it feels at the moment. I tried on Tempting last night, and decided there was an inch left to go. I’ve been knitting for an hour and a half (through 3 VHS episodes of Monty Python’s Flying Circus), and I still have an inch left to go.

I am going to finish this sweater in my lifetime.

I hope.

And Now For Something Completely Different (in my best John Cleese voice).

This photograph is in honor of my friend Tarre, whose comment that she is working on an amigurumi Cthulhu has made my day.

My Fellow Knitting Conspirator¹ found this design on cafepress² a few months back. Of course I had to have it on a t-shirt. I have absolutely no idea how it came about, but I like to think there’s a Providence Stitch-n-Bitch that meets every Thursday night to swill absinthe and knit miles of i-cord.

Or something like that.

1. We plan on smuggling a spinning wheel plant stand oddly reminiscent of a spinning wheel and an alpaca past the ever-vigilant nose of her husband. He’s a lovely man, and he makes one helluva frozen margarita, but he simply doesn’t understand the Power of Yarn. [↩]
2. I just found a Cats of Ulthar design over there now. Excuse me while I squeal in Japanese. Kawaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ! [↩]

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