First off, sorry for the silence – I still don’t have a computer. The end of the quarter, which was rapidly approaching when I sent the computer away, is now HERE and I have three papers to write and zero computers on which a write them. I dropped the computer off with Fed-Ex, and then the day it arrived at HP I got a mysterious phone call from someone with a superthick Indian accent, which I couldn’t understand. I eventually learned that the reason they were calling was to tell me that I would possibly not get my computer back until June 12th, due to a “massive backup” in their service department. That is to say, they couldn’t even look at my computer for a couple of weeks, although fixing it would take a couple of hours. I got in touch with the email support people (the only way to accomplish anything with HP tech support, I have learned) and demanded to know what they could do for me in kind of a snottier manner than I normally would. I had been told over email that “you will get your computer back in 3-5 days” – those exact, unambiguous words. Not “we estimate” “it should” or anything else that could give them a way out. Anyway, I pointed this out, and next thing I knew I had an email that my computer was being returned via FedEx next day air. I have no idea if they actually repaired it or not, that’s the only thing. And I won’t find out until it gets here on Tuesday (ugh, long weekend). So right now I’m blogging from the Beckotron, as we call Becki’s computer.

Enough complaining, because it is time to celebrate – I have finished two knitting projects in two days! I’ll probably post about the other one later today. The thing is, it’s a hat, and I just can’t model a hat right now. I’m looking reallllll dirty.

Here is the one that doesn’t involve me being in the pictures:



That’s a pinwheel baby blanket, for Ross and Andrea’s future baby, Freedom Liberty America. (just kidding. The baby’s due on 7/4.)

Pattern: the pinwheel blanket on knitlist
Yarn: organic colorgrown cotton from this seller on ebay – this stuff is GREAT. It’s cheap, the service is fast, the yarn comes on a ginormous cone (this blanket barely made a dent in it), and did I mention it’s cheap?
Needles: Denises, US5 of various lengths



My only issue with the pattern is probably more of an issue with myself. Since you start at the middle and work your way outwards, the further and further you get along, the slower and slower it goes. I got bored. Thank GOD this was only a blanket for a baby. I’m sure if I’d been using a chunkier yarn on bigger needles this wouldn’t have been as much of a problem.



As you can see, I had to block the bejesus out of this sucker!