Knitting is very comforting when you are convalescing. Cozy wool around you and a cat curled up on my lap purring away.

My cat, Minnow has been so sweet since I came back from the hospital—she’s taken to sitting on my lap, purring away as I knit. She has never done this before. Don’t get me wrong—she’s always been a lovely cat…well to me at least… So what is she hisses at almost every other person? Or uses her poops as weapons? But to me, she’s a little puffball of goodness.

Even with all of her mommy love for me, she never sat on my lap for extended periods of time. But now, she is simply content to sit on my lap sending positive kitty energy to my lady bits. My Sweetie thinks Minnow random act of kindness is a ruse to get closer to my always present glass of water so she can knock it over and drink from it. We’ll see…

Anyway, I’m working on Elizabeth Beeton—a different twist on a scarf and mitten set that I’m creating out of Rowan DK Cashsoft and kid silk haze. Holy crap, is it soft! And I thought the Karabella merino wool was spectacular. It may ruin me from ever knitting with anything else. Hmmm… Would it be bad to ditch the wedding and spend all of my money on yummy yarn like this? Probably.

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Yes, I do knit—and finish things! And I pose in such completely uncharming ways. I always think I’m posing with a rueful mockery of Twyla Tharp dance moves, but instead I just look kinda lame. And what shows off my fabulous dance moves than than my delightful nightgown. Stand back Kate Moss–heroine chic is so 1994. The millenium fashion is all about grandma chic.

But more importantly, it is proof that I do finish objects. My delight Lanz nightgown in cream does show off the back lace pattern which hooked me into making this shrug in the first place. Check out the glamour here.

Oh and even included a shoulder shot. Very dramatic, no?

I must say that this is my first shrug and I initially wanted to have it finished before I went into the hospital so I could keep myself warm without getting bogged down by all of the extra fabric of a sweater in bed.

Nice thought, eh? Well, in reality I didn’t even finish one pattern repeat before I went in, but cranked on it to finish it afterwards in less than a week. I think I’ll bring it to work and hang it on my chair, and when people ask me about it, I can spin around innocently and bat my eyes at them as I tell them I made it—truly, I did!

I knit this clever shrug with 10 balls of Karabella dark green 100 percent merino wool and it only had INCHES left of yarn by the time I knit the last stitch. I’m sure it’s just riddled with boo-boos aplenty, but I’ll just blame any mistakes I find in it on the Vicodine.

But alas that’s not all—I will be posting MORE finished objects this week. A little thing I like to call Elizabeth Beeton… You’ll see. I think it’s ravishing! And right now I’m working on that Sweet Mary Jane sweater that you see the picture of below and I knit an inch on before the holidays and then completely forgot about. And that’s not all—I will stitch up those baby devil pants this week too. I know—Too. Much. Excitement. For. One. Day!

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Of not posting in more than a month. But please hear me out during that month the following stuff happened:

- traveled to East Coast and celebrated a very jam-packed Christmas with my family
- came back to 12 hour days of work
- Spent 5 days in hospital having 25 fibroids removed and weaned myself off of morphine
- Dealing with my parents who moved in to take care of me for a month during my recup period-(I’m not suppose to lift anything heavier than 10 pounds, which means I can’t even pick up my own cat, Minnow!)
- And became an engaged lady

Yup! My sweetie proposed. Long story involving my addiction to push-button puppets, tide charts, PMS, and the prettiest ring ever! I’ll bore you with it some other time. 36 and a bride for the first time!

But I have been knitting–nothing like being bedridden to get the knitting going! And it’s not for a baby or presents for other people–nope! This is something for me! The Viennese shrug from Interweave Knits. Man, I could have used that in the blasted hospital–so freaking cold at times… I’m elongating the sleeves, which means I may need to run out and get some more yarn. Hoping not tho’.

I’m knitting it in this gorgeous dark green yumminess. Will post pictures soon–I PROMISE!

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