Just When

No sooner than I'd made my earlier statement that there weren't many more surprises lurking in my diminishing yarn stash, I found something that it still a mystery to me: a small bag of mostly partial skeins of KnitPicks Wool of the Andes Superwash.  This is a very good thing for the Goat Milk prototypes that I have in mind (which is what I was rooting around in there for in the first place), but for the life of me I can't figure out what I'd made with them!  It was obviously a gift, and hopefully a nice one, but I have no idea.  I'll continue to rack my brain and search my notes for clues.  

Speaking of Goat Milk - I think it will take me less time to knit and post a pic of the completed hat that will to figure out how to get the image from an Excel chart to this blog.  The latter would certainly be a handy skill, but the former would be so much more fun!

I don't have any pics to post today - all my recent knitting has been on the CWA, and the last thing you want to see is yet another pic of that in progress.  I'm nearing the 90% mark for the small squares completion, so good things are happening.

Neuro had a good idea about getting rid of the bloop on the BadAss Pawprint - she suggested that I get rid of most of the ribbing at the top.  I'm definitely going to give this a try - since it just involves ripping stuff out and binding off again.  I keep thinking that I can sneak this in some time when I need a break from the CWA, but so far that hasn't happened.  Stay tuned!

I have a couple of non-knitting leisure activity recommendations for you - and it's possible that you can engage in these while you're knitting!

The first is a murder mystery series that I found on Amazon Prime - it's called Trapped.  If you're a fan of Shetland, think about that - only on Iceland.  It's mostly in Icelandic, with English subtitles, so you'll need to be knitting a bunch of garter stitch or something for this one.  But they're great (although dark and a bit disturbing) stories (two seasons so far), amazing scenery, an interesting language to listen to, and of course there are sheep and knitwear everywhere.

The second is a book - Catch and Kill, by Ronan Farrow (there is an audiobook version as well, but I actually read it with my eyeballs).  This book is amazing.  Farrow is a great writer and storyteller (and/or had a great editor), so it's a compelling experience; however, the subject matter is very serious.  Farrow's primary focus is on detailing the sexual assault accusations against Harvey Weinstein, which alone is informative and disturbing.  But he also uses this as a case study of something equally sinister: the influence that the rich and powerful can have over the media in terms of controlling the stories that they cover.  This is worse than fake news - it's the suppression of real news.  Farrow also has a podcast that is currently running; he's in the process of discussing some of the details behind the Weinstein investigation, but I hope he starts to delve more into the rest of it.  I've seen him on a couple of the late night shows where he was a vigorous and vocal supporter of the free press and transparency - I hope he can be a beacon for others who struggle to reveal the truth.

It's still early in the morning, but I see a few deer out in the woods just outside my window.  I think one just laid down - maybe it's their daytime hangout?