Cold Coffee

I love coffee. Really. Even more, I love my french press. However, there have been too many leisurely Sat/Sunday mornings of coffee drinking where, by the second cup, the coffee has gone cold. What better an excuse to make this?

I've had my eye on this french press cozy for awhile. It will probably add 5 minutes of coffee warmth at best, but its pretty cute. The pattern looks easy, nothing too fancy. Surely I can knock this out - maybe even in a day. Yes, ambitious I know. First things first, though.

My first true love.

While I waited on my coffee to brew, I rummaged through my yarn. Due to three cats in the house, my yarn is stash is covered in fuzz. Several skeins have become the subject of play and prey. Drug about the house, tangled, annihilated. More than once I have come home to find a skein of yarn (with whatever I was attempting to make still attached [or unraveled]) deposited at the other end of the house.

Why would I pick the easy one?

So, anyone with good sense and an eye for color can see that pink simply doesn't work with my coffee cup. I decided I'd go with the burnt orange - naturally the one that had been turned into a giant flying spaghetti monster. Cool knitters work with balls of yarn, right? I needed to turn this into a ball. So I got to work untangling.

Two hours and a nervous meltdown later, I had this. It was supposed to be a 'center pull' ball, but that didn't quite work out. I don't know where the tail went - I suppose its in there somewhere. So much for that coffee staying warm.

My very first yarn ball

Yarn balls are cool. So I made it a friend. I can't wait to make all my yarn skeins into yarn balls! They look so much knittier. You surely aren't a real knitter without them. Right? Right.

And then there were two.

Well, we can't make yarn balls all day, can we? Time to get down to the knitty gritty. See what I did there? My coffee has long been cold, by the way.

Another two hours and I have the first two rows of the ribbing done. Okay, it didn't really take me that long, but it felt like it. I only had to cast on 3 times. And yes, I had to look it up.

I used size 6 needles because I tend to knit/crochet really tight stitches - hopefully it doesn't turn out too big. Once I get to the knitting rows I'll be golden, I think. Switching so much for the ribbing takes me forever. Oh, and I always hear people complaining about purling. To me, it is easier and twice as fast to purl. Purl lovers, let me hear you!

My guess is I'll have this done in three months. Back to work, now.