Neomera Knits

I know. I’m terrible at this whole blogging thing. I’d have photos for you today, too, if I weren’t so damn lazy. Oh well, moving along.

I HAVE been thinking about blogging, though. Really. Lots of stuff! I mean, c’mon! Mar had a BABY! (And he’s the most adorable thing that it’s just not even fair.) I’m almost to the last chart on Icarus- took me long enough! I’m excited though. I’m going to knit Sahara, as soon as the yarn comes in the mail. I may get back into socks, dangerous though that may be. I’m considering a pair of nice, warm, knee socks, because my feet get so cold in the over air conditioned buildings of the DC area in summer.

Issue 1 of Spwug came out last week, and was shipped to all the pre order customers, and I am super excited and super nervous. I want feedback, but I also want it to be positive! Such dilemmas. Figuring out taxes for a business that made no money last year is kinda wierd, too. Also last week, I went to New york to do some work stuff with fewer distractions- there’s no internet at Jeff’s apartment, so no World of Warcraft to get in the way. Tuesday night he took me out to have a seder with some of his family. Just a nice, small, quiet thing at an Italian restaraunt, bring-your-own-bitter-herbs-style. It was interesting. I’d never been to one before, and they let me read and everything. Go Go Theatre Training! Annunciate! Read Fast To Eat Sooner! They seem to have liked that last part. Good stuff.

Ok, so no real photos. Sorry. I’ll do better next time. I promise.

I seem to be using a whole lot of three letter words lately. So there y’are. Wow is actually a pretty good description of how much I’ve gotten done lately. For one thing, I got my Big Surprise up and running, (thank you to Jeff, and my Dad, and Jamie, and everyone else who helped so much,) which excites me NO end. (go! Look! Give me feedback! We’re still tweaking.) I’ve also been knitting like mad. Lookit all them FO’s!

I really enjoyed knitting up Monkey. It’s a fairly easy pattern to memorize, so no travelling with patterns necessary. I used Cherry Tree Hill sock yarn in Green Mountain Madness, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE this yarn and this colorway. I loooooooooove these colors.

As we all know, Marietta is awaiting eagerly a wee bairn. (Sorry Mar, I don’t speak German!) Even though I know full well that the young one will not want for knitted warmth, but I couldn’t just let someone have a baby and not knit something! So I got to swing by the theatre today and give her a care package. Something for Maximilion and something for Mom. I think she was pleased.

And one swatch, also from handspun yarn thankyouverymuch!

It’s swatching up to 5 stitches and about 8 rows to an inch I’m thinking of making a cloche hat with it. When I was visiting New York a few weeks ago I had no hat and felt like a total fool. This must be changed. I’ve also picked up Icarus again, but that whole knitted lace thing… it looks kinda like a lump of amorphic dark blue pile. So no photo of that. I am almost to the edging though.

so. Now You’re caught up. I, however, am still behind. I’ve got WAY too much to do! Better get to it!

I have been reading the Yarn Harlot’s posts about the Great Disaster Fiasco Event over at Blue Moon, regarding their sock club. All I can really say in response to those clearly idiotic bankers is “Hey! I’m gonna rock out with my SOCK out!!”

A bit rude? Perhaps. But these people clearly need to be taught a lesson. I myself have been on a bit of a sock tear lately. I finished my Chilean Cherry Socks

Knit on busses and in hostels all over Chile. Until I left the second sock (at the heel turn, no less!) on a bus in Santiago. I had to buy a new skein, which is why they look a bit different, color-wise. I also have almost finished a pair of Monkey, from the winter Knitty.

And I’m mostly through the first sock on a pair of Pomatomus.

mmm… delicious sock yarn…

It’s possible that I need some therapy for this sock yarn addiction…

As I allow it to really sink in that I am both leaving my stable (if infuriating) job AND my country, I am surprised to find myself somewhat panicky. I’m convinced I’m going to forget to pack something important like panties. Or my passport. I occasionally have to remember to breathe. Yes, I know it’s silly, but there it is. I take stressing myself out to lengths from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Meanwhile, back in real life, I have a WHOLE SHOW to worry about before I can sweat packing. It’s been a very strange process, let me tell you! I’m used to the pressure being on by the day after hang, which is usually only 90% done when the boys roll in with the truck full of scenery. By now I should have spent two weeks stressfully switching between electrics and carpentry, trying madly to finish both before focus. There has been none of that this show.

This show is HUGE.

So huge, in fact, that the poor scene shop is still frantically building. We hope that some of it might start coming over today, but I don’t see myself having time off this weekend. Ah well. That’s life in the theatre. It’s going to look really nice, I think- all castles and craziness. I should have pictures, once there’s something to take pictures of.

As far as knitting goes, I’ve been plodding along on the White Lies sweater, but the stitch pattern is almost as monotonous as stockinette, so I keep getting bored. So instead I have a hat and the Icarus shawl. The shawl has been started five times now, and it truly will bring me to the point of madness, but I will prevail. I have FAITH, people! At least I have faith in my ability to conquer a lace chart. I have no faith in my ability to remember to pack pants.

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.

I just found the Icarus Shawl. (scroll down a bit) I might be in a little bit of trouble…

Hey Mar, I hope you’re braced for lace kniting insanity at work.

uff. So much stuff going on that I don’t have time to think too hard about them, let alone blog. (Even if you don’t count the server troubles.) Recovering from the convention, then straight into hang for another show. good times. Fortunately I found time not only to have a super nice weekend, but I also got some actual KNITTING in! *gasp*



wait.. is that… could it be?



It is! It’s the cami! All done! Ok, so not entirely done. I have some playing with buttons to do in the back. But wow, I can’t wait to find just the right reason to break this out. After that I started this little gem. Oh boy oh boy is the yarn nice.


We’ve got the fluffy yummy stuff on the swift. Then there’s the giant yarn cakes, being shown off by Mom. And there’s my progress for the afternoon. Sooooooooooo soft and fluffy, oh guys.

Man, I can’t wait to see the whole thing done. I might just live in the thing. Yummy.

Man, I’m not dead. I swear. I’m just exhausted.

Things are slowing to a reasonable pace now, and I think I’m going to be allowed to breathe again for a while. First off, the Borrowers is up! Oh man, does it look pretty, too. I haven’t been able to sit in the house and watch the show, but I’ve seen it on the greenroom monitors and I can only imagine how the kids must love seeing the giant screwdriver come through the borrower’s home. They laugh, they cry, they throw up. This one’s going to be a success!

Also behind me now was the ever exciting Connecticon! I hear that the webcomics auction went very well- Mookie, sold for $200, and Hawk went for $350! I am told that Hawk himself bought Trish, and I have to admit that I am totally jealous. I however, couldn’t be at the auction. I was busy setting up a little surprise for the Mookster. You see, one of the things that people do at these conventions is called cosplay. The simplest definition is it’s like Halloween in a convention center. Well, when Mookie returned to his table after the auction, one of his characters, Grench, was waiting for him.



I think he was pretty pleased, don’t you? This was of course, the surprise I mentioned last week. I say, I don’t look half bad green like that! Here’s a shot from the dress rehearsal- those tusks were killer.


I loathed that wig. It went in the trash as soon as I was back at the hotel- if I do her again I’ll buy a really good one. Also, the green paint, while it came off beautifully for the most part, kinda clung to anything that was really dry. Like the calluses on my hands. And my cuticles. I’m green in spots! Jaundice! Oh noes!

I also have some FO shots for you of the camisole, but I’m afraid that my brother has run off with the camera, so I will have those soon! I promise! Wednesday! I cross my heart.