Vibrant.(Still) Unrepentant. Badass. Old. Queer

Happy Monday, Kittens! Not much happened this weekend. On Friday night, Peter and Tomoko came down for drinks. We watched Project Runway Season 2 on DVD. I stayed up way too late. Saturday, I dug out my Xmas stuff and (yay!) discovered I *did* purchase Xmas cards on sale last year (yay! again). Of course, I didn't bother decorating or anything. I just put the box in the middle of my floor. Motivation. I'm all about it. I can't decide if (or where) I want to put my purple tinsel Xmas tree. And, I discovered I need more Xmas lights. AND, I was feeling lazy and didn't want to do anything. OMG. I have so much to do in just two weeks. GAH. Of course, instead of doing anything that truly needed to be done, I knitted. And finished (!) the Never-Ending Afghan of Doom! See: It's huge. But, I bound it off too tightly so one end is all wonky. Whatever. Who cares? It's finished (woot!). One Christmas present down ... like, a gabillion to go. fork. I cast...

Avert your eyes! Another knitting post and mathematics lesson rolled into one! Let's say you've started a knitting project for an afghan. And, let's say that afghan has become the Never-Ending Afghan of Doom! *scream* Here's a quick and easy way to finish before you know it (or at least get a heckuvalot closer to finishing it than you thought you ever would)! First, imagine the pattern calls for seven (7) balls of yarn, six (6) of the main color and one (1) of the contrasting color. You receive the yarn in the mail and discover that (a) you hate contrasting color and (b) you hate even more how the contrasting color looks with the main color. So, you decide to only use the main color. And, voila! , you are *already* 1/7th (or 14%) done! Without even having to cast-on! Then, you knit and knit and knit and knit and knit and knit ... until your brain starts bleeding, because garter stitch on really big needles is really boring. And this yarn isn't the most co-opera...