As I mentioned in an earlier post, I knit this swatch from this pattern. I used American Size 10 needles and variegated Red Heart yarn. The picture is blurry, and the colors very off from what they should be, but I assure you it came out quite nice.
This little swatch isn't very long, but I could have kept knitting and then knitted several other strips to match and sewn them together for a blanket. But, it's too hot for that. The temperature's got to drop twenty or thirty degrees before I knit an entire blanket. Until then, I'll stick to knitting coasters.
I received a wedding invitation from a coworker today. It's a big affair at a hotel off-Cape, fancy dress, hosted by her family, blah-blah-blah. I appreciate that she thinks me capable of dressing up and behaving in front of her family. However, we're just not that close. I suspect trolling for gifts.
The nicer part of me thinks that probably that she wants to invite other people at work that she's closer to and doesn't want to leave anyone out.
Still, the fact that I have a wedding invitation from someone whose house I've never been to, who I'd never invite over to dinner, who I feel no real friendship with, it doesn't make me feel included, it makes me feel isolated and alienated. Just reminds me that I don't have any invites from people I really care about.
Lord, I'm depressed and depressing today. Must be hormones. I've "come on" as the Brits put it (love that term!), and I'm all achy and tired and morbid. The fact that it's hot and humid and there's spiders everywhere (love late summer on Cape) doesn't help either.
I have political thoughts but I don't often blog them. There's too many other people out there who can express themselves so well when it comes to political stuff, I'm afraid to even venture there, I couldn't possibly keep up.
But, I do want this t-shirt.
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