passing thoughts after midnight
Billy, Thumper, Diego, and Oscar are asleep. I’m sitting up in bed, knitting, the Itty Bitty Booklight illuminating my pattern notes. Well, sort of. I think it might be more efficient to wear a headlamp for this late-night-knitting stuff. That way I could see my notes AND my knitting.
It’s secret knitting, so I can’t show it to you or talk about it. It’s secret deadline knitting, actually, which is why I’m staying up to work on it. Is this still a knitting blog if i can’t show you or talk about the knitting being done? Hell, for all I know I’ve been kicked off the knitting blog ring ages ago. I can’t remember the last time I clicked around on that ring. Why back in the day (cue creaky old voice) you could surf through the entire knitting blog ring on one cup of coffee… etc etc etc
Yes, I’m tired. And because my knitting is deadline knitting somehow that makes it something I need to take breaks from, hence the blogging.
Not that I’m actually saying anything here.
La di da di da da da…
Yeah… I’ve got nothing. And I really should get back to the knitting.
Sorry. False alarm. No actual blog post here.
Heh, I can almost hear the stealth in this post, the quiet click of needles trying not to wake anyone up.
I often worry about getting kicked out of the ranks of knitbloggers, too, especially since lately I keep babbling about seemingly everything but knitting. But you know, we will trust you that you are knitting, and it is no doubt something wonderful, and this need for stealth just makes it all mysterious and cool.
Posted by: Lizbon
you can do macro shots! super-close up funtimes macro shots!
Posted by: jen
Um….
I’m probably making it crystal clear that I’m a huge geek, but the headlamp? Totally works. I especially like using it in the car at night. Just don’t forget you’re wearing it and look up and blind the driver!
Posted by: Lisbeth
LOL. Obviously my spirits are improving. I read your entry and thought, “Yeah, that’s about verbatim what any entry of mine would be these days…” Sans the actual knitting, of course.
Posted by: Norma
Interesting and amusing, nonetheless.
Posted by: Mary K. in Rockport
Funny, it must be a cyclical thing. Y’know, knit bloggers “falling off the wagon” and talking about everything but knitting. I am still interested in what everyone has to say. We are all intertwined now so, what happens in eachother’s lives (knitting or not) is of interest to me.
We are all friends, that includes beyond knitting so, talk (or not) away.
BTW, I read your post in a whisper in my head and I am typing in a whisper as well. I could ‘feel’ the stealthiness and quiet you were in during that post. Really kind of neat. . . . .
Posted by: knittingnurse
Heh, I can almost hear the stealth in this post, the quiet click of needles trying not to wake anyone up.
I often worry about getting kicked out of the ranks of knitbloggers, too, especially since lately I keep babbling about seemingly everything but knitting. But you know, we will trust you that you are knitting, and it is no doubt something wonderful, and this need for stealth just makes it all mysterious and cool.
Posted by: Lizbon
you can do macro shots! super-close up funtimes macro shots!
Posted by: jen
Um….
I’m probably making it crystal clear that I’m a huge geek, but the headlamp? Totally works. I especially like using it in the car at night. Just don’t forget you’re wearing it and look up and blind the driver!
Posted by: Lisbeth
LOL. Obviously my spirits are improving. I read your entry and thought, “Yeah, that’s about verbatim what any entry of mine would be these days…” Sans the actual knitting, of course.
Posted by: Norma
Interesting and amusing, nonetheless.
Posted by: Mary K. in Rockport
Funny, it must be a cyclical thing. Y’know, knit bloggers “falling off the wagon” and talking about everything but knitting. I am still interested in what everyone has to say. We are all intertwined now so, what happens in eachother’s lives (knitting or not) is of interest to me.
We are all friends, that includes beyond knitting so, talk (or not) away.
BTW, I read your post in a whisper in my head and I am typing in a whisper as well. I could ‘feel’ the stealthiness and quiet you were in during that post. Really kind of neat. . . . .
Posted by: knittingnurse
Ah yes, I too remember the good old days of the one-cup knitblog ring. (sound of squeaky rocking chair…)
Our power went out last night for two hours, so I was knitting by candlelight. Not trying to be stealthy, but it was hard to avoid the feeling while sitting in the near dark and total silence.
Posted by: alison
This is not an actual comment, either.
Posted by: Patti
What is the sound of a knitting blog with no knitting….
Posted by: Lee Ann
I have been thinking about getting headlamp thing too, for knitting/reading. Those little book lights don’t help alot at all!
Posted by: marti
You are a funny girl. 🙂 Knit on!
Posted by: claudia
The midwife who attended the birth of my daughter used a headlamp if stitches were needed. That way, the room could be kept dimmed but she had light in which to work. I thought it was geeky, yes, but clever and incredibly endearing. Seems like a good idea for knitting, too.
Posted by: Regina
I have started a blog… I want to be part of the close-knit knitting family. I wasn’t part of the techno blogging revolution, so I am still learning… but, um… just what is the value/purpose of being in a web ring?
Posted by: Julie
TAG! You’re it. Visit my blog for the rules if you want to play.
Posted by: Suzanne V.
i hear you, girl. but it is tim, owen and mason asleep and i am not knitting, but pumping…although i really could be knitting right now rather than all over everybody’s business. how goes ‘the move’. put up more portland pictures if you can. looking forward to an update.
Posted by: mamie
Tried to comment on previous posts but it wouldn’t let me, so here I am. I see you found Boersma’s! Did you get into their fabric store right across the street?
I’m originally from Hawai`i. Miss home, but LOVE the Pacific Northwest. You will love it here. I’m in a small town Southeast of Portland, out in the country.
I’m a volunteer up at Vista House. Once you get here, be sure and head out the Columbia River Gorge on the waterfall loop and historic Vista House.
Mokihana
Posted by: Mokihana
Ah yes, I too remember the good old days of the one-cup knitblog ring. (sound of squeaky rocking chair…)
Our power went out last night for two hours, so I was knitting by candlelight. Not trying to be stealthy, but it was hard to avoid the feeling while sitting in the near dark and total silence.
Posted by: alison
This is not an actual comment, either.
Posted by: Patti
What is the sound of a knitting blog with no knitting….
Posted by: Lee Ann
I have been thinking about getting headlamp thing too, for knitting/reading. Those little book lights don’t help alot at all!
Posted by: marti
You are a funny girl. 🙂 Knit on!
Posted by: claudia
The midwife who attended the birth of my daughter used a headlamp if stitches were needed. That way, the room could be kept dimmed but she had light in which to work. I thought it was geeky, yes, but clever and incredibly endearing. Seems like a good idea for knitting, too.
Posted by: Regina
I have started a blog… I want to be part of the close-knit knitting family. I wasn’t part of the techno blogging revolution, so I am still learning… but, um… just what is the value/purpose of being in a web ring?
Posted by: Julie
TAG! You’re it. Visit my blog for the rules if you want to play.
Posted by: Suzanne V.
i hear you, girl. but it is tim, owen and mason asleep and i am not knitting, but pumping…although i really could be knitting right now rather than all over everybody’s business. how goes ‘the move’. put up more portland pictures if you can. looking forward to an update.
Posted by: mamie
Tried to comment on previous posts but it wouldn’t let me, so here I am. I see you found Boersma’s! Did you get into their fabric store right across the street?
I’m originally from Hawai`i. Miss home, but LOVE the Pacific Northwest. You will love it here. I’m in a small town Southeast of Portland, out in the country.
I’m a volunteer up at Vista House. Once you get here, be sure and head out the Columbia River Gorge on the waterfall loop and historic Vista House.
Mokihana
Posted by: Mokihana