my dear friends,

my dear friends,

badcat has really not been that fun lately, but it will change next week. I have not been posting or knitting or actually doing anything regularly lately because I've been wallowing in the stressed out frenzy that is buying your first house. But I move in Sunday (God willing!) and am planning to paint and clean and decorate like a crazy person for a full week. I'll be doing lots of crafty stuff like refinishing formica counters and possibly laying linoleum and I'm planning to document the whole thing here. This is so exciting!!

The cables are blocking and I have jumped on the bandwagon: I'm going to do a poncho too. Since I already bought the Rowan Plaid book I'm going to do Zephyr in some Lion Brand Homespun that I bought at a Michael's on impulse. I figure with a poncho it doesn't matter as much if it's a crappier yarn since it doesn't need to breath like a garment with sleeves (read underarm issues!).

Sorry about the mess around the cables. I wanted a shot that shows the paint in here. Tomorrow I will paint the apartment white again in preparation for my moving date. Every time I do this I think the same thing: "They will rue the day!" The world already has too many white, ecru, beige, and sand walls.

Oh, and I couldn't resist this. Don't look if you have "delicate" sensibilities

In keeping with my intense love of fall I'm obsessing over apples. I plan to make a trip up to Appl

In keeping with my intense love of fall I'm obsessing over apples. I plan to make a trip up to Apple hill in the next few weeks and would like to buy one of those apple corer/slicers with the hand crank if I can afford it. I love those!

Does anyone know the difference between Apple Crisp and Apple Brown Betty?

In lieu of any photoworthy knitting progress, here's my little darling taking a nap on a Sunday afternoon.

glitter is having their now annual scarf drive. give if the spirit moves you:

glitter is having their now annual scarf drive. give if the spirit moves you:

scarf drive

I love fall so much this year! October may be my new favorite month in Sacramento. The weather is

I love fall so much this year! October may be my new favorite month in Sacramento. The weather is beautiful, mid eighties every day and cool at night. I leave my windows open all day and night to enjoy the crisp air. It's starting to get windy so the fallen leaves swirl around in the streets. Special thanks today to the bloggers, Pioneer Melissa and Ms. Alison Blue who posted pumpkin pictures. The weather is just perfect now for a snuggly cabled sleeveless turtleneck. I'm up past the armpits on the back, so hopefully by the end of the week I'll have one.

I got too cocky! I made my first cabling mistake and didn't find it until 1.5 repeats later. Oh the humanity! Well, actually it wasn't that bad and I think I ended up picking up the stitches correctly and finding my correct spot again after I frogged without too much trouble.

I'll keep tugging along. I'm pretty excited to finish this one. Marie has given me her copy of "The Purl Stitch," to look at so this time I might actually use bona fide finishing techniques.

And you thought there was nothing cool on badcat anymore. Check it out! My first cabley foray and I think it's going pretty well. Of course it is too narrow. I'm making the back just a couple of stitches wider and I'll see if I need to do little strips for under the arms when I'm done. It's going to be a turtle neck tank top dealy and I want it to be very wearable so I don't want it to be too tight.