Fiber Fool

I have a new spot I like to sit in lately. This summer we were at the flea markets on south College Ave and we happened across this rocking chair. I’m a person who loves rockers (I know it is a cliche when combined with the knitting, but my love of rockers came first) and we did not have any. When I saw this one I was in love. The price was right and it is nearly identical to one my godmother has. There is a tear in the seat, but the springs are good and solid and DH bought it for me as an early anniversary gift. It resides in our living room which has southern exposure and is a fantastic place to sit this time of year when the sun is low in the sky all day.

I have been spending a measurable amount of time sitting in this chair lately. Sometimes I read, sometimes I knit, often I enjoy a latte. Enjoying a latte has changed slightly in the last week however. Brandon, dog #2, has developed a taste for my lattes! During last week’s snow storm the doorbell rang and I ran upstairs from the basement to answer the door and it was a package for DH. While I was upstairs I decided to do a few things to save on trips up the stairs and Brandon headed back down right away. I figured he was just going to stake claim on his favorite spot on the futon before Emma came down. I was wrong. Upon returning to the basement there were dribbles of latte all over the table my drink was sitting on. So now, instead of enjoying them in one of my favorite mugs, I am having to enjoy them in one of my travel mugs to keep the mischievous one out of my coffee! At least one of my travel mugs is styling with a reproduction of some of my own artwork :-)

In addition to my fluffy fiction reading which has frequently contained vampires and other urban fantasy lore I’ve been reading in tiny spurts Blogging for Bliss. It is a guide for those wishing to blog about their creative pursuits. So far I haven’t really learned anything new, other than some fantastic creative blogs I wasn’t following. But I’m only a tiny bit in where they are talking about how to set up a blog. I have had some recommendations for this book from other bloggers I know who have blogged for some time and found themselves in a rut for some reason or another. Given their recommendations I’m hoping to find some new and fresh information and tips for keeping content flowing when you often can’t share what you are working on. We’ll see!

The knitting that has a lot of my attention right now is pretty much anything that involves Dream in Color Classy, LOL! I used it for the Rugby Slouch and had a fair bit of leftovers so I’ve been working with those. I also had to pick up more :-) I’m hoping that project will have left overs as well as I love the combo of all three colors - Bermuda Teal, Grey Tabby and Gold Experience and would like to use them together. So I’m knitting round and round and round on the Bermuda Teal hoping I’ll either definitely need the second skein or that I’ll have several yards left over from the first skein. I’m not going to give away what any of those things are in the picture (you are quite welcome to take a guess in the comments if you wish), but you won’t be waiting too terribly long to find out as they aren’t part of a long term project or being published elsewhere.