Cut

My April Fool's Day was je ne sais quoi – Capra-esque? Fellini-esque? La Grande Illusion-esque? – too-too like a stinging social satire movie. All the email alerts I was sure were practical jokes turned out to be true and vice versa. DOJ really has dropped all charges against Ted Stevens for procedural reasons. Rush Limbaugh is so not keynoting at the Mobilization to End Poverty conference. Knitknack really is having a 70% off sale. The sad crown to the day: it's true that Modern Yarn is closing its doors on June 1st. That means one less LYS within bicycling distance and the end of MY SnB. It's enough to make one want to yell, "CUT!"

In a further twist of irony, MY SnB was recently featured on the CBS Early Show:


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Perhaps it's appropriate that the segment is on knitting and memory. Ah, the knitting! Ah, the memories! Ah!

What's a knitter to do? Knit on, of course. I'm making socks of lamentation in half-mourning hues out of Panda Wool, a yarn I love but which taught me the fear of f-f-felting (CPY is replacing it with Panda Wool Superwash). The pattern is Running With Scissors by Phyll Lagerman, an underappreciated gem for Sockdown! .



See the emerging motif? The pattern only gives right-handed shears, but I'm going to put left-handed shears on the second sock, because knitters can. Plus the new Sock Madness pattern has been released, so I'd better get knitting if I'm to make the cut.

With those bits of knitterly virtuosity and defiance, the quest [brass fanfare!] for a new SnB begins! My desiderata are few – a convenient time, congenial company, and reasonable proximity (= bicycling distance) – suggestions are welcome.