A is for Absorba

I'm finally posting a picture of my progress on Absorba, the giant superhero bath mat from Mason-Dixon Knitting:



The yarn is four (!) strands of Peaches n Creme worsted - I bought two cones and with the help of my scale and ballwinder I wound each cone off into four sort of similarly sized balls. While watching The Firm. I don't remember what happened in the movie, really, but I remember weighing the yarn and trying to decided if it was a 50 gram ball or a 60. And then through no fault of hers, I happened to see that Grumperina has a digital food scale instead of the sproingy - analog? - thing I picked up at Target for $10. (In my defense I must say this was beforrrrre I figured out how useful a scale is to a knitter, so next time I get a Bed-Bath-&-Beyond-20%-off-one-item coupon you know what I'll be getting.)

So really, the cotton isn't wound into anything even remotely resembling consistent sizes, but you know what? I am knitting log cabin. I can do what I want. I can tie knots and hide them if I want, or I can cut the ball of yarn prematurely to match up with the others, or knit on anyway, or...

my sister-in-law Pennie now joins the esteemed list of Hospitalized Family Members. Pennie is my age (35) and she was feeling badly for about a week. She thought her asthma was acting up because she was having trouble breathing. No. That would have been the "easy" way. Turns out she has a blood clot in her leg - from her groin to her ankle. The breathing problems came from blood pooling in her lungs. On Wednesday last week she was doubled over in pain in her abdomen, and her leg swelled up and turned purple. She's been hospitalized ever since. After two days in CCU and two more in a regular room, she's doing a little better but not much (apparently these things take a really long time to go away).

So yeah, tonight I bought a box of Zantac. I don't do real well with alcohol, so my medication of choice is ... um ... antacid. I'm such a type-A personality. Most of the time I thrive on the stress of deadlines and the great big unknown of not having any idea what we're going to get when the photographer sets up the camera, but this health stuff is for the birds.

I mean really.

In other news, I found my notes for Vesper Sock 1 and was disappointed to find I'd knitted one short-row heel with a 9/14/9 stitch split, and one (yesterday) with a 10/12/10 split. Before you tell me I shouldn't frog - I did. The second heel was longer, and by golly the 9/14/9 fits. And a short row heel doesn't take any time AND I was here anyway so I just reknit it. It's already done. Took an hour.

Now where is that Zantac???

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