the thing itself and not the myth

This week I was okayed to add Ravelry progress bars to my sidebar. It has wee thumbnails of everything I’m actively working on — super cool! Ravelry’s not open to the public yet, but if you’re on it you can click through to project pages. It is pretty awesome.

I do need to go in and change the status on the Samus cardigan, though, because I have FINISHED THE KNITTING. Oh yes. There is still a lot of finishing work to do, but the knitting! It is done done done!

Now I’m carrying around socks (Cabletini & Jaywalker) until I get reorganized on my big crochet project. Also, I need to do some math so I can order yarn for NaKniSweMo. I am thinking of doing Alice, though not in those colors. For Ravelers, I am really in love with the colorway of the featured photo on the project page. And I like how another knitter reversed the wristbands, doing the detail in the secondary color.

It calls for Knitpicks Merino Style, but the Ravelers are complaining about it pilling, and so I am considering Swish, which sounds like it wears better, especially if washed inside-out. I’m thinking I will wind up copying that colorway — Moss as the main color and Nutmeg as the secondary. I considered Storm, but I’m trying to not buy everything blue. I’d like Cinnamon if it had more red in it. Maple Leaf is too orange, Terracotta too pink, and Hollyberry too the color I just did Samus in. I hate to be a copycat, but seriously. Moss & Nutmeg came out *gorgeous* together.

…now I have bored all non-knitters to death. Sorry! Here are three pictures-of-the-day, all from around Capitol Hill.

On the sidewalk on the corner of Roy & Belmont. Taken with my phone:

There are a few of these around the neighborhood. This one’s on the side of the trash can at the Bellevue & Republican bus stop:

Finally, it’s definitely autumn.

Autumn’s my favorite season, but every year the threat of winter gets worse. Wah.

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