Time to put it down

I wasn't on the deck of a sinking ship when I took this. My only explanation is that I believe I must be sitting like this all the time now. I can't muster the energy to fix it (or apparently to sit up straight so it's a good thing I'm at work) this morning so just tilt your head a little to the side to fully appreciate the wonder that is the near done-ness of this afghan.

I'm going to need to find a very small baby to fully appreciate this small afghan, but I can't face one more row of garter stitch.

It still needs a border. My options are garter stitch rows joined at the corners with a mattress stitch as prescribed in the project instructions. OR a knitted i-cord which I did not do the first time around but I believe is in my powers this time. OR the quickest of them all...a crocheted edging. I know...mixing genres. I'm not sure about it either. I'm going to set this aside and come back when I've had a little rest to make the decision. At this point, I'm ready to duct tape the edges and be finished. Silver edging would be nice, right?

Like riding a bicycle

I haven't been knitting lately. In fact, it has been so long that I was beginning to wonder if I even remembered how. I picked it back up this weekend and made some progress. I believe I have 4 more blocks, the difficult ones with the changing colors, left. May 6 isn't looking so good anymore. Thank goodness I haven't met the baby-to-be that this will go to yet. It's good to be flexible.

Knit one. Over and over.

That's it. Knit one, over and over and over and over. I had originally planned to try to have this finished in a week or so. I don't believe I'm going to make it. That's OK. I made some progress this weekend, thanks to about 70 hours on my DVR (what can I say? I had to watch the entire Jim Cramer/Jon Stewart saga. And then there was a backlog of Trust Me to catch up with. It was important stuff.) And I made even more progress in putting my house to rights. I can actually walk, unimpeded, across my bedroom floor now. This is very helpful in the dark of night. With all the laundry done and my nonfunctioning treadmill wrassled out to the garage (my foot and my doorjambs will never be the same, but once I started, I just couldn't leave it there, you know? Hindsight says that it would have been smarter to wait for help. Hindsight has told me that before. I just never learn.), I have an amazingly spacious bedroom now.

Wonder how I can store either A) more books B) more yarn or C) both in the space that used to be occupied?

Why I don't have adventures...

I am 98% hermit. I don't know what the other 2% consists of, but I like to be at home. And this weekend it snowed so I was ready to knit. And after the epic battle to conquer second sock syndrome, I wanted an easy knit project. So...remember a long, long time ago when I learned to knit? I think my second project was the Mason Dixon Moderne Log Cabin baby blanket. All knitting. All the time. No purling required, just yarn and knitting and casting on/picking up and binding off. It doesn't get much simpler than that. And this time, my yarn choice is Cotton Ease which I love so much more than the cotton I used last time around. I used (mostly) yarn from my growing stash, so I'm also being economical. Now, let's just see if it grows up to be a real baby afghan someday.

Note to self: find your yarn needle or you are going to have one big mess on your hands.