A New Challenge

I bopped over to Monroe today to pick up a new knitting kit. 

[An aside:  I haven't been using the air conditioning in my car because it's behaving a little erratically.  JEEZOPETE!  How in Og's name did I live through 11 years of driving lotsandlots of miles in the summer when I worked for IBM???  With no a/c in the car??  I have no idea.  Yeah, I know I was younger then, and probably more heat-adapted, but still...  I left Monroe and got the biggest cup of ice I could find at a convenience store.  (Holding ice in your mouth keeps you from dying in the heat of a Georgia summer.  One lesson learned from all those a/c-less years.)  I ran out of ice right about the time I hit the stop-and-go traffic.  Not so much fun, really.  Then I had to mow the front lawn when I got home, before it started raining.  I think I've sweated off about 5 lbs.]

Anyway, look what I get to make.  It's a vest kit from Nancy Shroyer.  w00t!!

(Hey, I can't keep my title of World's Worst Knitting Photographer if I don't do stuff like forget to take the pattern booklet out of the plastic bag, can I??)

And here's the yarn.  It's Nancy's Digit yarn (aka JaggerSpun Re-Dun).  It's softer than the Shetland yarn a traditionalist would use.  It feels quite nice, actually.

And guess what....

<whispers>

It has steeks.  STEEKS.
I've never done a steek before.

I'm shivering in anticipation.  Or apprehension.  One of those a- words anyway.

This should be great fun.

I think I'm going to lay aside and possibly frog that Skacel merino lace.  It's dead boring.  There's more fun things to do out there.

Tomorrow I toddle back to Monroe to assist with the rite of Cleaning and Painting of the Retail Space.  Lather, rinse and repeat on Sunday.  Sunday night I boogie down to the old Home Spot so I can go with my bro and my dad to his lithotripsy at Six.  O'clock.  In.  the.  Morning. 

I'll have knitting with me, but whether I dare to work with it at that time of day is a separate issue.

Comments

[Jane]

OMG, you have hit the motherlode! Brave girl, you, but I know you are more than up to the challenge. Can't wait to see that baby at S&B. Oooh, steeks.

[Glynda B.]

Well, color me green with envy. That's a beautiful vest, and you'll love doing that. The steek will be easy for you. Enjoy it.