New Magazines and Little Knitting

You know your day is not starting like you planned it when your husband reaches over in the morning, taps you on the shoulder and say "Hey, Treese, did you know it's after 10?". Not that you're surprised, mind you, you do remember hitting the snooze alarm on your clock radio about 47 times. But you don't really remember telling yourself that you were allowed to sleep for an extra 2 and a half hours. (Lest you think my husband was doing any better, I must disclose that he was as neck deep in the covers as I was when he helped me to realize what time it was).

Fortunately, the rest of the day got better -- at least from a being on time and getting things done perspective. But because I was busy trying to make up for lost time, the knitting perspective didn't get much attention before John and I set out on our weekly date. While our trip to Tommy Nevin's in Evanston was pretty disappointing (sad for us, since Nevin's was one of the places John and I went on the night that we met in person for the first time) my little trip into the local Borders proved more fruitful.

I picked up three knitting/crochet to look through at my leisure at home: the IK special Crochet Issue(it's been out for a while, but it's been a while since I've been in a bookstore -- what sold me was a pillow design by Valentina Devine), InKnitters (which has a nice article on short rows and modular knitting and, unusually enough, even a couple of patterns for garments that I might actually wear) and Vogue Knitting. I almost didn't pick up the VK because the cover looked so un-knitterly that I thought it was some other fiber fashion magazine and actually ignored the title (which is also in a different font than my last copy of VK) until my brain reminded me that it would be strange for a non-knitting mag to be placed right next to a stack of Interweave Knits.

I haven't looked through any of them in detail yet, but I have high hopes for all three of them at this point -- and I've heard rumors that there are good things in the winter IK.

But what am I most excited about right now? For the first time in a month I'm going to be able to go KIP at Letizia's tonight. I feel like it's been almost forever since I last went.

P.S. UPS just left us a nice note to say that my new laptop hard drive is here... soon soon soon I will have access to the things on my desktop computer and be able to get all the emails from people who sent me entries for the Where in the World Contest. It makes me crazy when I have computer problems... but this one should be resolved very soon.