an ent knits

this blog is moving

I've decided to move to WordPress (http://entknits.wordpress.com/).   

Old stuff will stay up over here until I either move all of my pictures over or give up in disgust, but new content will just be there.  (There's already a new FO post, although it's a really brief one.)

eye candy friday

purple-blue-gold, originally uploaded by enting.

I'm really out of the habit of blogging (and taking pictures for blogging) after a month of having no computer and lots of stress.

Here, therefore, as an attempt to shift back to such activities, is a picture taken from my grandmother's terrace. I don't remember this building having colorful lighting before, but perhaps I just failed to notice it. (It's only visible from the terrace, after all...) My apologies for the blurriness.

comfort knitting

I'm back.  I have a computer again, and I'm at least semifunctional at work.

I've been knitting a bit, continuing to work on the Lady Hat (see Amy Boogie's for the pattern), and I started a 2x2 ribbed hat for myself after discovering that I could get one on even with my hair in a bun.  Since that's my standard "I don't want to do anything even vaguely labor-intensive with my hair" solution, I'm excited to be able to wear a hat over it.  (I'm not entirely sure why, since I barely wore hats at all last winter--opting for really warm scarves instead--but I like hats.)

I wore my Highland Triangle Shawl (which predates this blog) to the funeral on Sunday, and it was a really comforting weight on my lap, both during the service and in the car.  Knitting to the rescue, yet again.

I don't know what to call this post, either

My grandmother died today.  The funeral is on Sunday. 

She got to spend her last month in my parents' house, in relative comfort, which is something.

There are too many different words competing right now, so I'm not going to say anything else (here) until they've settled down a bit.

fresh yarn

green hand-dyed, originally uploaded by enting.

I don't have a picture of last week's yarn all plied, but here's what I've been working on this week.  (It started out as the green stuff here, and became this as an intermediate stage.)

It's a little more thick-and-thin than I'd really like, but I was working on spinning fluffy, and I did achieve some of that.

(I still have no computer.  It's supposed to arrive later this week.  I'm getting incredibly impatient...it's been nearly a month.)