Claudzilla

And in one sense, it is. I just finished the ribbing for the body of my new cardigan, Cables and Os from No Sheep for You. It’s going fine, although I think I want a different needle for the body. I used a Knitpicks nickel-plated circular for the rib, and I loved it - nice and slick, and not so much pointy as sharp. Awesome. Now the bamboo feels way too blunt, which is a problem when one is forever knitting and purling through the back loop with stretchless yarn. But more on that, and the project itself, later on.

No, it turns out that this post is actually about photography; call it, “An Examination of the Results One can Expect when Snapping a Quick Photo in the Morning Before Work.”

You see, I really wanted to be able to post about this today, and show pictures and progress and all the other nice things, so I threw my knitting on the floor (we have four different rug colors to choose from, so it actually makes a great background) and, still en-bathrobed, pulled a quick snip-snap. Bad call, Ripley. Since I couldn’t be troubled by such petty concerns as, say, light, I now have to choose between two disastrously poor photographs.

- OR -

Sigh. The second photo gives the best representation of the actual color of the yarn (pretty, right?), but the flash has made it so shiny and lurid that I hate to put it up with a proud “I made that!” But the first photo, while lacking in the aforementioned grossness, is just too dark. So now I have to wait until I go home and catch some real daylight (an actual possibility now - hello, spring!) before I can write a proper knitting post. Lesson learned.