Taking the Scenic Route

I feel a little better today, but not great yet.  At least it is moving in the right direction though. 

I did get a new project on the needles, so that made my day a lot better.  I decided on a garter stitch jacket, hat, and booties for my cousin’s kid.  It is a Debbie Bliss design and looks quite a bit like the LTK Easy Peasy jacket, with a lot more details.  I decided that the yarns I could afford would not look good on the other two jackets I was considering and I knew that Bernat’s cotton tots (a 100% cotton that is pretty nice to work with) would work up fairly well.  I did buy some other yarn yesterday thinking an acrylic might work for one of the other designs, but when I knit up a swatch for gauge, I hated it.  It had a horrible drape and you could feel all the pop bottles that gave up their lives for the yarn…just YUCK.  I have all the yarn except the partially used skein back in the bag with the reciept in the car to make sure it doesn’t get messed with before I can return it.  (Bernat soft & chunky btw, so nobody else makes the same unfortunate mistake).  It took me much of yesterday to do the math to convert the gauge from the DB yarn to the CottonTots, but I was able to get it started finally. CottonTots is about the only discount yarn I have ever been happy with.  It seems like I can’t find an acrylic I like the feel of yet.  Maybe it is because it is a natural fiber and works up a lot nicer than the kitchen cotton yarns.  I choose the “Butter Cream” color because they didn’t have the gender neutral colors I wanted and I didn’t like what the store did have.  I think this will work up really pretty.  I only have about 10 rows right now and I am happy with it.

I did have a bit of a surprise today….I actually agreed with Pat Buchanan in an article I read.  I am sure I still can’t stand him in reguards to social issues, but on this I really liked what he had to say and agree with much it. 

eta:  I originally wrote Pat Robertson instead of Buchanan, so I guess I still don’t agree with Pat Robertson. lol.