The Fine Art of Procrastiknitting

Yesterday, a right wing pundit was shot and killed by an unknown assailant. The right is metaphorically foaming at the mouth in outrage over his death. Yesterday, two school children in Colorado were shot by a classmate who then shot and killed himself. It barely made the news. Why is there so much outrage about the right wing pundit being shot but not the schoolchildren? Is it because the right wing believes as the pundit did that a few gun deaths are worth it to protect the second amendment? Well, as long as it isn’t one of their own. Or is it because we are all just so inured to the death of school children by gunfire that it barely pricks our collective consciousness? According to CNN , as of yesterday, there were 47 school shootings in the United States, about half on college campuses and half in K-12 schools. 77 students have been injured. 19 have died.  And the collective ire from the right for those 96 victims of gun violence is less than that for one right wing pundit ...

For some reason, I don’t knit a lot of pullovers. I have something like 18 tank tops for summer, and at least a half dozen cardigans in the closet, but only three pullovers, and one of them I just finished up a couple of weeks ago. I decided I want to try to up my pullover game so I have more options for things to wear in the winter. To that end, I started Thea Colman’s  ( BabyCocktails )White Russian pullover late last week. I’ve done a couple of her patterns, and I liked the simple lace pattern on this one. It was also a top down knit, which I usually do for baby knits, but rarely do when knitting for myself for some reason. I also like that it is designed as a somewhat cropped sweater, since at 5’ 3”, I’m a somewhat cropped person. I do plan on shortening the sleeves to three-quarter length. I also plan on having the lace pattern just in front, while doing the K5 P1 K1 P1 Pattern across the back. That’s just a little easier on my hands than doing the lace all around, and pretty ...

  I want to try to return to blogging. I haven’t done it since I retired, but I find sometimes I have more to say than I can say in a Bluesky post. So we’ll see how this goes.  Since I am a retired bleeding heart liberal knitter living with inflammatory arthritis, whatever I come up with will be skewed heavily in that direction, whether it’s my current WIP, my view on the state of the disunion, or how I cope with chronic illness. If it’s not your cup of tea, you don’t need to read it. I tend to be both opinionated and acerbic, which also tends to piss people off.  I retired from my day job as an instructional designer at a community college in 2019, the day before I turned 60. I like being able to say I retired while I was still in my 50s. My retirement timing was fortuitous, since it was the year before the pandemic, and if I had still been working in 2020, I would’ve been the one responsible for getting all the college’s courses online almost instantaneously when the co...