AlisonH
I’ve been scarfing down the Malabrigo Sock.
Now, I’ve often said that if you have a project you’re stalled out on and want to get going, put on an outfit that matches it: it’s really hard to stare for long periods at clashing colors. Happy combinations on the other hand practically knit themselves.
I got some work done on the baby blanket but found myself feeling restless and putting it down. I looked around my stash, and my Malabrigo Sock in Archangel (which matched the shirt I was wearing a lot better) leaped onto my needles and refused to leave.
Several hours’ worth of work later, it suddenly hit me: it wasn’t just the shirt. I’d been knitting dinner. The very last homegrown tomato, a diced purple onion, the small bits of late-season peach, the dash of olive oil that I’d simmered together before throwing in a splash of good balsamic vinegar and the leftover chicken–those vegetables, right there, in that project, preserving that so-long-tended tomato on into the winter season.
Well, that’s a first!
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Comment by Sherry in Idaho 09.28.10 @ 6:11 amI truly understand your restlessness with the baby blanket–I’m working on one for my SEVENTH great-grandchild, due in November. While I’m always excited about a new baby, I’m totally stalled on the afghan, cap and booties!
Comment by Abby 09.28.10 @ 6:37 amBeautiful yarn — and I say that, who just survived a 112-degree day and can’t even think of knitting — and now I want to make lasagne, which I shouldn’t even think of because today will be a much more comfortable 105.
Comment by Patricia Day 09.28.10 @ 7:05 amI always think of food when I see yarn colors. I guess you can imagine what’s on my mind all the time. LOL!
Comment by Jody 09.28.10 @ 7:05 amI was going to say that I’m with Sherry in Idaho, but somehow I was reminded of when I was in college and studying, that when I got stuck, instead of racking my brain, put it down and give it a rest. It will come back later.
Comment by Don Meyer 09.28.10 @ 8:56 amI wasn’t hungry until I read this. Time to go rustle up some dinner!
Comment by twinsetellen 09.28.10 @ 5:08 pmI have certain color clothes that I house clean in and other’s for cooking. I clean in something that if I use bleach it won’t show to bad.
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