She's a Corker.

Hi. Are you still reading? I've been offline so long that I hardly remember how to hotlink off people's bandwidth anymore. I'm at work right now, and while I normally eschew blogging while on the job, it's a very slow day here in periodicals (I've only looked up one obituary in the last hour, and it was in a paper that hasn't been delivered yet, so I had to deny the patron his desire). My brother and his girlfriend are in town, staying in my basement. The computer is in the basement den, which is where they're sleeping (sleeping in, very late, everyday), so that's preventing me from getting to the computer, even when the modem is actually working, which seems like never these days.

I taught the girlfriend (Cutlass Liz?) how to knit at Stitch'n'Bitch a few days ago, and she's taken off with it. She wanted to make a felted clutch instead of something boring like a scarf, of which she already has a million, so I worked out a pattern for her. She's still essentially knitting a scarf (in stockinette, no less, since she wanted to learn how to purl that first night in addition to the knit stitch), but she's going to fold it in half once it's long enough, seam a long and a short side, and there will be her clutch. I figure maybe after that [***pause while I find the most recent issue of GQ for a refreshingly but not overly polite gentleman***] I'll teach her how to pick up stitches along one side of the open top to make a flap. Cutlass Liz? She's a keeper, even if they break up a year or two down the road, knock wood. What? Hey, what? I'm best friends with my oldest [***gone to find yesterday's Tribune for another dude***] brother's former girlfriend. He's been married two times since their relationship, but she and I are going strong.

I'm almost finished with the Sunflower Tam from Norah Gaughan's "Knitting Nature" for Dinosaur Girl. I'm using an old skein of Silk Garden that I had planned on using for some other ill-advised project (entrelac, I hardly knew ye). This is the first time I've knit with Silk Garden and I really love how it feels going through my fingers. The pattern is also interesting, although it doesn't travel around in my purse as well as a sock does. Thank (the Knitting) God, I have a sock on the needles too.