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DOOD. Has it really been almost two months since I updated here? Sheesh.

I’d love to post a kajillion pictures of wonderful knitting I’ve been doing in the meantime, but then, that wouldn’t really be my blog, would it? But at this point, I don’t even have pictures of messed up knitting to show you, because I haven’t been knitting much.

I had surgery on June 16th (and thanks to my jacked up body and its extreme resistance to any kind of normal healing, a second surgery on July 2nd), and apparently, when you’re all jacked up on anesthesia and morphine, you don’t really have much of an attention span for anything other than staring and/or drooling in the few hours you can manage to keep yourself awake.

Before the surgery, not realizing that would happen, I went out and bought a TON of cotton, convinced I was going to make myself loads of new dishcloths while I was stuck in the hospital and while I was at home on medical leave.

Well, that didn’t happen. I didn’t touch my knitting. The only thing I touched was my remote control, to change my television from the crappy reality show I was watching to a different crappy reality show.

About two weeks ago, I finally did  pick up my knitting again, only to get myself completely flustered and confused. So, trellis has been put on indefinite knitting hiatus. I don’t know. Maybe that yarn just wasn’t right, or the pattern wasn’t right (I refuse to believe the knitter wasn’t right!), so I’m just going to put it away for a little while and try something else.

I decided to try sonnet, because Knitty claims it is for beginners. I decided to do it all in garter stitch though, because I wasn’t really sold on the knit/box stitch combo. I’m using some wool I got from knitpicks, and I have to tell you, I’m not loving the yarn so far. But I have a bunch of it, and dammit, I’m using it up.

In more exciting news (I know, right now you’re thinking, “How could it possibly get any MORE exciting?!?”), I am going to try knitting socks. I’ve got a bunch of sock yarn, and making socks was the whole reason I wanted to learn to knit in the first place. I think the first one will be this sock, and since I am convinced that whoever invented DPNs specifically had mocking me in mind when he/she invented them, I am going to try Magic Loop.

It’s so fun to be inexperienced.

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