the Village Knittiot

So, what did it take to get me knitting again, you ask? Well, as it turns out, all I needed was a day and a half at home sick, laying on the couch watching DVDs, with my lower back hurting too much to prop myself up and limp through a few levels in WoW (although I did log on for a half hour over my DHs lunch and we ran around for a little while until he had to go back to work). In just a day and a half, I finished the entire left mitten and almost all of Buffy season 6 (again). I took a picture of the mitten so you would know I was telling the truth about finishing it. See.

I show you this because today, the mitten once again looks like this.

I don’t know what happened, but the mitten, which had been going along perfectly, somehow went wrong just after the thumb. When I finished it and tried to put it on, it was so tight I could hardly get it over my wrist. The thumb was like a vice grip and I don’t think any blood was circulating between my hand and my thumb. Needless to say, after all that work, it was very disappointing.

See, I could hear my mitten say, see how it feels to be disappointed? I did see. I saw that I had made one simple mistake. I forgot that Anna Zilboorg is an anarchist.

Patterns, to a good knitting anarchist like Zilboorg, are a whole different kind of beast. Sometimes the inappropriately named “instructions” are simply suggestions, even though they may be phrased as a direct command. Sometimes they are, indeed rules to be followed. And then, sometimes, they are tests. Tests designed to separate the real anarchists from the casual toe dippers. Tests to see if you will, like a good anarchist, ignore them, throw caution to the wind and lean on your own instincts and intuition. Anna Zilboorg patterns are not for the faint of heart.

I haven’t done anymore knitting since I did all that frogging. The WoW obsession still lingers. Having set some rules about getting stuff done around the house has worked (mostly). Tonight, DH and I are preparing for a potential excursion onto the Alliance side of things. I tend to find the Alliance folks a little dull and lack-lustre, so DH and I have come up with the perfect way to make them interesting. Two human characters — a Paladin and a Priest — named Bland and Milquetoast (Together, they fight crime!). They are going to be very, very, very good. In a rather zealous and obnoxious manner. Should spice things up a bit, eh?

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