Erica’s Blog

I needed a bit of a break from the green scarf yesterday, so since I’d scored the much-needed fourth Barbara Walker book from the library, I started on the flame ribbing scarf.  I’m thinking of calling it Flaming Rainbow or Rainbows on Fire or something.  What do you think?

So, for the record, here is what Barbara Walker meant by central double increase:

(k1-b, k1) in one stitch, then insert left-hand needle point behind the vertical strand that runs downward from between the 2 sts just made, and k1-b into this strand to make the 3rd st of the group. [page xvii of aforereferenced book]

Yes, she has another version in the book, but it’s for use with stockinette, and this one works.  Glad I finally got it figured out!   I’m hoping I don’t have to go buy more Kureyon, though.  I’ve already started on the second ball.   This is supposed to be a scarf & hat set (part of the commissions for MEY), and I only bought four skeins.   It definitely won’t be a scarf you can wind around & around & around your neck, that’s for sure.  I’m pleased with how it looks, but I’d like it better in a different colorway, I think, though.  The way this one is coming out looks a bit too much like a rainbow flag for me.  The recipient lives in or around Zion, Illinois, not the San Francisco Bay Area, though, so I doubt that will be the first thing that comes to her mind.  It’s a quick knit on size 9 needles, so it’s a nice break from the vine scarf on size 7’s.  You can see how fast it goes — I did all that just yesterday.

For someone who said she didn’t like the cake batter b/c it had peanut butter in it, Thing Two sure did a good job licking the bowl.

So, the other day, right as the mailman was leaving, I heard a crazy sound overhead, stepped outside, and soon saw one of these guys flying overhead.  Hunh?  Oh…yeah…it’s Fleet Week. 

It’s pretty disconcerting to hear, then see such an obviously military plane zooming over your house.  The first instinct, especially in a post-9/11 world, is to wonder what’s going on.  The Blue Angels are pretty amazing, though.  Back in the day, they flew between the buildings downtown, but they’re not allowed to do that any more.  Seeing one go under the Golden Gate Bridge is pretty cool, to put it mildly.