Madness. I’ve been knitting on the blanket like it’s a job, and still, there’s no perceptible difference. The ball of yarn keeps getting smaller, even though the blanket doesn’t seem to change much – later today I’ll join the last skein on (and I got an email last night letting me know that the rest of the yarn has already shipped out of The Loopy Ewe – damn they’re fast) and if I’m lucky it will arrive just as I run out.
This morning I got a bit of a reprieve, learning that I’d been right about Robyn’s EDC all along, and 48 hours got added to the ridiculous deadline that the baby doesn’t care about. This shouldn’t make me feel better, since whomever is in there has no access to a calendar, but somehow it did. (It turned out I’d taken Joe’s word on the thing. That’s like taking advice from him on how to organize your kitchen, so I have no idea why I believed him.)
The blanket is lovely (and, I suspect, extremely large) but I think I’m close to snapping. This morning I looked around and saw little mountains of yarn everywhere. Bright piles of yarn – in combinations that are thrilling and delightful, like bowls of candy, or piles of leaves or all the laundry thrown on a teenaged daughters floor. All this white is starting to affect me. Check this out. 
See those two skeins of yarn? Suddenly, I think they go together PERFECTLY. A week ago I would have thought that was bold as brass, but now? Oh lovely. Just lovely.
This morning I wondered why I don’t own any red shirts. I washed Sam’s green pants in the fond hope that she’d wear them. I think having a black cat is lame. I left out a rainbow roving, just for ornament.
All this white is getting to me, but I know what Denny would say. "At least you’re not knitting it in January."
PS. I know. You need to know what yarn that is. It’s String Theory Casper Sock in melon and winterberry.
PPS. Yes Presbytera. The links for events in WEBS and Maine are right here.
PPPS: for everyone wondering how I kept warm in New Brunswick after I forgot my woolies? I didn’t need ’em. It’s October in Canada and it was warm and lovely. That’s either fabulous or scary.
Those are Gryffindor colors! Excellent!
Yummy yarn! Fall weather starts me off knitting fair isle sweaters, all that glorious color!
Maybe the baby needs a really bright sweater to go with the white blanket? And some bright hats. And widdle booties. 🙂
Good luck on the baby blanket, I too am in similar straits… Calculated last night that I have 7 hours of knitting on this one to go, and baby is due in 7 days. Hahahaha. I have to sew a binding on after that, not sure how it will get done, much less the toque that was supposed to accompany it!
1000 points for Gryffindor!
The yarns are really nice together, actually! I would knit “Hosta Brioche Scarf” from the Twist Collective, if I had that yarn here now. Think of all the reds and yellows thrown together when all the leaves change…
I think those two colors are *gorgeous* together. I see socks, and hats, and scarves, or a delicious wrap, or find another color that blends the two and it’s another Color Addiction, or a Derecho, or a pretty market tote or…
Now I want to go knit, and I have online classwork to finish. Oh folly.
Of COURSE they go together, that orange and red is gorgeous!
Oh no! You are in the knitting black hole. This is a bad place to be. Persevere! Ignore the siren song of flashier yarns. This is the point where either someone can get distracted away from their project or finds an error 20 rows down.
Stay strong Stephanie!
No, Steph– it’s because you were in NB and those are garnet and gold, the colours of Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB. I feel homesick all of a sudden!
Those two colours ARE wonderful together 🙂 I bought two balls in each of those shades of Berocco Remix (recycled fibre) and I love them 🙂 I have faith that the extra yarn will arrive just as you need it, and that the baby, as with all your babies, will not come until you have finished the blanket 🙂 This is why for me, blankets are always granny square blocks (filled, no holes) out of a big pile I keep adding to just for this reason. I know, it’s not as pretty as a knitted heirloom blanket, but it’s way less stressful for me, especially as everyone around me is breeding…
Or maybe fabulous AND scary? Sometimes I think we are lulled into destruction by a series of lovely fall days.
It was warm/almost hot here in Kingston, ON too. Spent yesterday out on a deck with a dozen spinners. Doesn’t get any better. Go for the colour, and sometime or other, let us in on why you always make baby blankets so darn big!
*Ahem” it’s actually Caper Sock, not Casper.
Is that because you have (all-white) Casper the Friendly Ghost on your mind? ;o)
P.S. I don’t work for them, I just have a LOT of their gorgeous yarn in my stash.
It is both scary and wonderful to be warm in Canada in October, and I envy you. In Oregon, we have had an early grey fall, and it will be grey for a long, long time.
Those colors are lovely together, just the shades the monk across the street is wearing to sweep the sidewalk outside his grey home.
Thank you for the smile today and many,many days.
I just discovered Caper Sock at KnitEast, lovely stuff…. How about making a Daybreak shawl with those colours? It would be as bright and cheery as daybreak, after all, and definitely not white! I think I’m a little obsessed with that pattern, I’m starting to store my stash in combinations…..
If the melon is actually as gold as it appears in the pic, then a lot of school colors are built around that color scheme…like Benjamin Syms Middle School and Pembroke High School in Hampton, Virginia. And they are nice fall colors as well, especially with either an off-white, the right shade of beige, brown, or black.
Love the colors together, and the white blanket and maybe you are going a bit stir crazy…But, black cats aren’t lame!! Oh contrare..they are the smartest and most affectionate of cats. Why yes, I do have one, why do you ask? I also have a tortie and a white/peach combo. The first two are always part of my knitting projects in one way or another…usually by making hair donations to the WIP. Anyhoo, now that I have that off my chest, knit on and to paraphrase someone else, thank you for the smiles and giggles.
I see you are talking sock construction in Maine. You are indeed the goddess of sock construction. I started knitting socks as a senior and was horribly confused by all the instructions. Thanks to your book Knitting Rules, I am now perfectly capable of knitting a sock that fits. My husband, grandchildren, children and I thank you.
Gryffindor Wins!
Also, just to say thanks for blogging today (and really all those other times, but today is the day I’m saying it). As someone who finds herself unexpectedly furloughed, a new blog entry is a welcome gift!
It IS bold as brass, but in a good way. Quick! Make some socks!
I have to say, those colors would make brilliant mittens! maybe something botanical to fit with the season?
Yup, that’s Gryffindor all right! Maybe some lovely fall mittens?
October north of Toronto is glorious too! Going to the Markham Fair to pat the sheep!!
I like those two colors together, especially since soon nature will display those and other hues together in a mottled and wonderful leafy combination. How can that be bold as brass? 🙂
Laughing. I have so been there. But my grandsons have a white christening baby blanket, I got through it–but then went for the brightest and boldest when it was done. Have fun playing with colorwork!
Go, go, Gryffindor!!!
I always think those two colors are lovely together, but then they are the colors of my alma mater (my husband’s and all my kids!) Needless to say, until two years ago almost everything in my wardrobe incorporated those two colors in some way. I still gravitate towards fire colors, but have branched out into corals and buttery colors.
Enjoy looking at your fall colors. Its my favorite season because of all the colors.
Great fall colors. The weather has been very warm in Pennsylvania as well. The leaves aren’t as vibrant as usual; the reds are missing. And somehow I think were’re going to pay for all this warmth with a nasty winter. Hope I’m wrong.
I’ll go with fabulous and scary. Same glorious weather here in northern NY. The good side: the fields are drying so that farmers have a better chance of getting a last haying and harvesting the corn crop without chewing the fields into mud.
I feel your pain. I am working on a full-size afghan for a church bazaar, in a bland neutral beige. Nice project, it is going well and I am still on track, but I am starting to yearn for cranberry red and deep teal and goldenrod! A long way to go before I finish, though (sigh).
Those two colors are not only Gryffindor colors, but they are also Mount Allison University colors.
Of course they go together perfectly! so do gold and blue and gold and green. You’ve been knitting WAY WAY too much white. And, of course the blanket seems the same. Much like the waistlines of women in their 50s. You’re humming along thinking everything is the same and then WHAM! your waistline is three inches wider. The blanket will be done all of a sudden too. No worries. (Would that it were only three inches)
Lol! Well, you might think those two colors have a bit of flash to them, but there are probably at least 12,568 high schools in the U.S. that use them for their school colors and maybe 1,200 colleges and universities. I’m clueless about Canadian schools, but I’ve no doubt that they will raise considerably the North American totals! Somebody out there thinks they go great together!
Those colors are beautiful together. There are several sport teams/schools with those colors.
re: kels at 6:23 pm
They are also University of Minnesota colors.
I’m not knitting white, but I am saddled with an awful lot of natural sheep-coloured ivory wool. At the moment I’m churning out an Aran sweater for a little boy and having a lot of fun with it, except it’s, you know, more natural sheep-clour wool.
My alma mater’s colours were navy blue, mid-forest green, and gold. I haven’t been able to mix them in a combination since, having worn them for a long time and become bored. Those shades are lovely.
Those two colors ARE lovely together — very fallish. Probably just as well that you’re just now giving out the yarn specifics as you might not have been able to get that last skein otherwise. Some nice reader of your blog would probably have given one up for you. Sending good thoughts to Robin and the baby as she nears the big day! PS. Somebody had better check on Presbyteria, I think she may have fainted!
Of course you needed no woollies! I have the privilege of heading north into Quebec this weekend with students (did you know Canadian rocks are better for teaching than American ones? ’tis true!) and every year at this time it’s marvelously warm and beautiful. 😉
Those colors say Tibetan monk to me. Not that that’s a bad thing. The Dalai Lama, always a fashion plate.
Those are the colors I painted my living room. Three yellow walls and one dark red. I love it.
I think he or she will be ready to join the Gryffindor house at Hogwarts someday!
I’m knitting a shawl out of Caper Sock right now. The yarn was one of those skeins I almost wanted to keep around for petting instead of knitting with it. It feels amazing.
…and I also got Gryffindor from the color scheme.
Mount Allison colours would be very appropriate for you to wear the next time you’re in N.B.
Those colors remind me of a shirt I used to have. It was mustard gold on a brick-red background, and the colors worked well together. The shirt was attention-getting, however, because the mustard was found in polka dots an inch and a half in diameter! (Still, I got compliments on that shirt!)
And I’m sure Presbytera would like to know what comes after WEBS and Maine. . . 😉
The colors are beautiful but I am afraid someone might mistake you for a Redskins fan.
GO GRIFFINDOR!
I like the colors together, and I have Harry Potter on the brain because I am making the “house hats” out of the charmed knit book for my sons… and I do understand how you’re feeling about white because I am currently feeling the same way about black…
Both of my teenaged sons wanted black beanies from the pattern… I convinced them to let me put in two stripes on the hat in whichever color they chose so they could tell them apart… so one is black with paprika stripes and the other is black with blue-grey stripes…. the yarn for the stripes is leftover from when I made them fingerless mitts last year…
Umm…love those colors! I knit my ulmus out of them!!! http://www.ravelry.com/projects/deerlyneeded/ulmus
I wager the blanket is king sized. Not that I am wishing that on you, just guessing from past experience.
Sounds like you’re suffering from ‘Blanket Blindness’. You’ll recover, but there might be a colorwork binge.
The blankie is awesome, it could never be too big. but the colours…now we’re talking. It is so grey outside and will be that way for approximately the next 10 years (5 months); I’m an east coaster living the perfect life on the wet coast, and what I wouldn’t do to see that mad splash of fall that happens back east. Perhaps that’s why my knitting becomes more about colour every year.
I, too, feel your pain after my never-ending 42 inch filet crochet window valance in size 30 crochet cotton! I’m sitting here thinking, no, she was right. It can totally be done in an hour or two. Totally.
Here in Cali those colors scream USC. But I’m all for the crazy color combos, knitting all white would drive me insane!
I made a hat for a friend using those same colors! He had just gotten his degree in Russian and I wanted to make him something Soviet themed. The colors were perfect for that.
Even before I read the blog, I thought ‘oh, brilliant!’. Thank you for my new favorite color combo. Must make a car dashboard cover for eye relief during long drives thru Wisconsin snow in January.
String Theory Caper Sock is wonderful yarn to knit with!
Of course those colors go together. It’s Maroon and Gold, the colors of the sports teams at the University of Minnesota. 🙂 [well the “red” isn’t quite maroon, but it would do in a pinch]
Those are Harry Potter colors. That’s why they look lovely together. Duh. :o)
Those colors are beautiful together! What are you planning? mittens? socks? a shawl? a hat?
Here is something to watch while you knit the endless baby blanket:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/stitch-stitch-knitting-live-norway-tv
My living room used to be those “Gryffindor” colours.
Pretty in a scarf, not so nice in horizontal stripes on a wall.
I just finished Serenity (http://www.ravelry.com/projects/AimyBamy/serenity) and was at the same point as you . . . on the edging and sick of orange with 15 days to my due date, and that was only with 530 stitches. Don’t know how you are coping with 2x as many. Hopefully you meet the deadline!
I’m on the third chart of Permafrost in a pale grey and just finished a cabled scarf in dark grey.
I owe a coworker a favor and I’m think bright red mitts.
You’ve been knitting (or at least showing us) a lot of neutrals lately. I think a little colour backlash is warranted.
Did those colors ever not go together? Those were my high school colors though, so maybe I am just used to them. 🙂
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Maine?! Maine you say! Oh to justify the 2 Hour drive to Rockland at 8 months pregnant…. I just might see you there! 😉
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