a few days worth of knitting featuring hat, scarf, vest, in shades of blue

…is one reason I have been slow to post things here as they happen, having been taken over by knitting-mania which started with learning how to spin wool into yarn by Lisa Anne Auerbach in March at the Princeton Student Colony, then knitting lessons at my London Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Ec in June, followed by river-washing, carding, plant-dying, and crocheting kilos of local sheep’s wool in Abruzzo for the first edition of European Domestic Integrities, and with a massive bag of wool following me back to LA, it has been my gateway drug to yarn shopping at some cool neighborhood knitting stores (like Skein in Pasadena, The Little Knittery in Atwater, and Wildfiber in Santa Monica) – where I have been drawn to the 100% natural fibers like linens, wools, and cottons – but mostly in shades of blue, especially electrics and indigos; sets of bamboo needles in all sizes (the fattest ones a few steps down from baseball bats are the most satisfying); plus some circular needles (knitting accouterment so beautiful to have around, and so familiar to me having grown up in the house of a knitter) being deployed for some patternless knitting experiments, some of which are making me excited to wear for cold travels (the massive trapezoid scarf of 5 blues, and five fibers) and others which might have to be unraveled and reknit into something else (a too tight vest that seemed like a good idea at the time).