It’s nice to know that I’m not the only one nuts about my dog (or cat, or horse, or any other kind of pet). Look at the great toy that Sarah made for her dog. One thing that Chappy does not have is hand-knit dog toys! (Hmmm….)

Now, just to prove that I have, in fact, been knitting lately, here’s a current picture of my NbaT. Which, again, looks pink in the photo (it’s not), and the edging on the sleeves looks blue (it’s not, either). Sigh. Digital photography simply isn’t perfect. The main color is actually Coral, and the accent is Khaki, and they really look nice together–complimentary, yet a little unexpected. My favorite kind of combination.

And, naturally, since the pieces are just laid out on the floor and are unblocked, they don’t look the same size. Don’t worry, they are. I was busy making sure that Chappy–whose foot you can just barely see in the top right corner–didn’t grab the sleeve and run off, as I could tell that he was longing to do. You can’t quite see it, but I cast on and knitted the first two rows of sleeve #2, but the needle’s kind of blending in with the floor . . . but it’s there.

  The other thing I’ve been working on? Charting the lace for my Chai. I copied the chart onto Excel and have been working on figuring out the best, most graceful way to accomplish the increases necessary for a triangular shawl, and the darn thing’s being difficult . . . or at least, it’s being difficult because I only have about 5 minutes at a time to think about it before I’m interrupted or my concentration wanders off (grin).

Which isn’t to say that I’m not enjoying the process–just that it’s taking longer than I thought it would. I’m starting to go into the dreaded Lace Withdrawal. And with my T nearing completion and the yarn for my Union Square Market Pullover not yet here, this means that I’m perilously close to being AWAP (Altogether Without A Project). I’m sure it won’t actually happen, and there’s the lovely sock yarn my KRSP sent me last month–you know, from the box that I didn’t accidentally recycle–and which I’ve been carrying around in my knitting bag the last couple of days. (And which, I might add, coordinates incredibly well with the Coral Calmer.)

  And of course, there’s the spinning. I’ve been a neglectful spinner lately. I’ve got that lovely blue-green roving from Liz, that I’ve been spinning on my drop spindle . . . and you know, I know that it should be easier to just pick up the spindle for a few minutes than to sit down at the wheel . . . and it is . . . but it never really seems to work that way! And so the spindle sits there. The only person who’s touched the waiting roving lately is Chappy . . . he pulled the roving out from my lap desk the other day . . . naughty, naughty dog! I hope he didn’t felt any of it . . . but maybe he just felt that somebody should be doing something with this lovely stuff!

And yes, I prefer to sit on the floor, leaning back against my ottoman when I work on the computer, rather than sitting at a desk. The bed table keeps the hot computer off my lap, and the side spots give me someplace to stash things (like roving or books on HTML, which I know very little about). I can fidget better than I would at a desk–especially since I don’t have a real desk chair in my bedroom, just a little Bombay Company bench–and besides, if I sit on the floor, Chappy can come and sit next to me, and really, the floor’s not that uncomfortable (grin).

You know, Medium is on right now. I started watching this around the third episode or so of the season and didn’t miss one the rest of the year . . . but I never caught the first one. The episode on right now is the first one I saw, which makes me wonder–have they already repeated the pilot and I missed it?? If so . . . darn!

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