We Came, We Saw, We KICKED ITS ASS!

Man, I love the Ghostbusters.

Also, I have conquered the invisible cast on (no small feat, and probably the most frustrating thing I've done in a while) and had the Most Intense Knitting Session of My Life Ever last night after a hellish day at work.

I have finished rows 1 through 21 of Eunny Jang's Print O'the Wave stole, and I have been pleasantly surprised at my facility with it, and with the Haiku.
The on the yarn, from the mohair fiber content can be a bit unruly. It likes to stick to itself, and I have had to knit much slower, and exaggerate my movements to avoid tangles. I also had to alter my gauge on the wrong side rows. I forgot how loosely I need to remind myself to purl so that I can get an inelastic yarn to do things like, K2tog.

All in all, I'm happy with my progress, and much less intimidated by the project. The yarn is beautiful, and the project is truly engaging and challenging. It absorbed 100% of my attention, and I forgot all about my troubles yesterday at work. Precisely the sort of project I need.

Lace is still a bit unnerving, especially with Mohair. I feel like I won't really have any idea how the project is going to turn out until it is finished and blocked. My last mohair project involved lots of frogging (i.e. RIPPING!) and starting over for that reason. Since then, I have learned to trust my judgment and skill a bit more, so if it looks a bit wonky, but I am confident I'm doing as the pattern instructs, I don't just rip it out for the hell of it anymore.

All the same, I will be excited to see how the project progresses after a few repeats of the pattern in the center panel. I'm also curious about picking up the live stitches from the invisible cast on. I have a feeling a smoother yarn would make this easier, but it wouldn't have the glowing halo of the Haiku.

I have taken pictures at a few stages of the process, but haven't figured out the best setting on my camera to show the details. If anyone has suggestions on this, I'm all ears.

I'll post what I have sometime Friday, most likely.

The Murray-Green wedding is Saturday, and I'm pretty psyched!
Also, the Murray-Green baby gift is coming along nicely. It is sort of Zombie knitting, as I told The Gardeness. So it will be a nice contrast to the stole I'm working on.

Also, if people at work are allowed to take smoking breaks, I'm permitting myself knitting breaks.

I need a little more order and sanity in the workplace. Hopefully this will help.

Ok, so this is terrifying!

My needles for the Eunny Jang stole should arrive this afternoon.
I practically have the jitters about starting this project.
I am fairly certain that I am in no way prepared for this undertaking. How hot is that?

Also, I am going to roll an alt in World of Warcraft tonight, with friend from work.

I bring Nrrd to another level. Knitting and Gaming? Yeah, I got that.

Also, the phones are about to explode, here at Action Cargo. So I'm going to go handle that like the good dispatcher I am.

NEGOTIATION ACTIVATE!

People should twitter me their quotes for this job. It would make life easier.
"@pragmatiste I'll do that for freeeee!" DONE!

Oh, Snap, I done Lost My Mind!

No really! I might have.
Sgt. Carl procured two skeins of Alchemy Yarns of Transformation (yes, that really is their company name, and I daresay, it is warranted) --- Haiku is the name of this stuff, and I have to say it is amazing. I also got the perfume I love, because Sgt Carl "takes care of his womens".

I will post a picture later tonight.

So what, pray, shall I do with this glorious yarn?
I will do THIS, because I am, oh my goodness, Crazy.

I'm fairly inexperienced with lacework. Eunny Jang's patterns are all so, so very, beautiful, and I'm both excited (because it will be so pretty!) and terrified (what if I ruin this lovely gifted yarn with my ineptitude and lack of yarn experience?! Oh god, get me a paper bag to breathe into...)

So this will be a heavily documented process. Just ignore me when I threaten self-injury. I probably don't even really mean it.

I just looked at the level of involvement of an Invisible Lace Cast-On and I already sort of want to die. So I'm pretty stoked! Challenges are exciting, right?

Of course they are!

The only thing holding me back is that I need to wait to begin the project until I can order the friggin needles from KnitPicks, since I am, obviously, addicted.

Also, spring is awesome. For the record.