Neomera Knits

This past weekend I got to head down to just outside Charlottesville Virginia to spend some time with my cousins. I am pretty jealous of my cousin Jess and her husband John, because they live in a sweet house with a beautiful (and very well mannered) dog and about a thousand hummingbirds- far enough from the city to be peaceful, but close enough to get there when you need to. Oh man, it was a good time.

We did some barbecue, and some board games, and some card games, and some tubing down the James river… for maybe a bit longer than we had anticipated… And while we waited to pick Chris up at the bus station, I got in some geek time!


I got some work done while we were just sitting around talking, like during breakfast…


That first one is me and Jess and my sock. The second is me and Jess 2 and the sweater. I’m currently doing the left front shaping, and I’m about to bind off the sleeve… if I can ever get out of this wretched knitting black hole. I swear, I’ve been working on the same inch for three days now! argh.

no matter. It gives me something to do while I’m carefully not bumping my very very sunburned legs. At this rate I should be able to cast off the sleeve today, and start the waist shaping tomorrow, and if that goes anywhere near as fast as it did for the back, I’ll be on to the right front by the end of the week. I’ll have PLENTY of time to finish before Chile! The sock is also proceeding well- almost to the heel. Sadly, I just realized that I don’t think I have enough of this color to make it all the way down the foot, so I’m just going to have to make the heel and toe a tiny bit bluer. Oh darn.

I have to end today with some mad family love. You guys are awesome!

point me to the edge of the world…”

I need several sweaters so that I am warm in Chile, of course. because that is where I am going at the end of next month. To say that I am excited would be silly and not quite strong enough. Ah well, travel is always enlightening. We shall see how it goes.

I also need plenty of warm socks, of course. Working on Pomatomus - I’m almost to the heel, and it’s not so hard. I’m waiting to see where I will fall flat on my face for saying that.

Good goddamn, folks! I’ve been trying to post for three days! My pictures are practically out of date! Ah well.

Here’s my latest FO:




Not hugely exciting, really- I knit the first one of these forever ago. They’re Socks That Rock yarn in the Mata Hari pattern that I found on someone’s blog equally forever ago. (If anyone knows where that is, I’d love to add the link, but I can’t for the life of me think where it was.) I really liked the STR yarn. It really lived up to the hype. Right now I’m working on the Pomatomus socks in Koigu KPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPM, which is also being amazing. Man, sock yarn is so sexy!

Sadly the White Lies sweater has been put down briefly while my life exploded and the heat wave settled in. But now… now I really really have to finish it by the end of the month. So that I can knit another (a cardigan, I think) by the middle of NEXT month. I know I can do it- I medaled in the Knitting Olympics, after all!

What? You want to know why I need two more handknit sweaters so desperately? I’ll tell you.

Next post.

Lots going on in Real Life here, folks. I’m not dead, nor have I forgotten what few readers I’ve got here, I’ve just been sidelined by life. Somewhere between the removal of my wisdom teeth and a housing inspector coming through and out of town friends I’ve been too busy and exhausted to sit and write. This will be remedied soon, with full on photo evidence. I promise.

No. Really.