My knitting time | 2KCBWDAY7

Write about your typical crafting time. When it is that you are likely to craft – alone or in more social environments, when watching TV or whilst taking bus journeys? What items do you like to surround yourself with whilst you twirl your hook like a majorette’s baton or work those needles like a skilled set of samurai swords? Do you always have snacks to hand, or are you a strictly ‘no crumbs near my yarn!’ kind of knitter?

It is Day 7 of KniCroBlo Week and I cannot continue this post without noting the following:

1. All thanks goes to the incomparable Eskimimi for organizing this fantastic intarwebz event!!  I have loved reading the blogs of so many talented crafters, many I would never have found otherwise.  I've even come out of my usual lurking-shyly mood and posted some comments along the way.  Good times were had by all!
2. I have never posted seven days in a row (I've never posted three days in a row!).  Therefore, I am le tired* and will be taking at least two days break to, you know, actually knit something before I post again.

In the photo above, you see the view from my usual knitting perch, my computer chair in the office attached to the kitchen.  Eagle-eyed readers will notice, in no particular order:

• television tuned to "What Not to Wear"
• remote that doesn't work AND has no batteries
• mentho-lyptus cough drop wrappers
• colorful plastic links for making distract-the-baby chains
• World of Warcraft game manual, age six, newly obsolete
• emergency sewing kit that belongs in my purse
• camera battery charger (camera in-hand)
• pile of random papers that don't relate to each other
• gigantic flat-screen monitor; Firefox! Ravelry!
• plastic lattice baby cage for Ms. Punkin Q. Pie
• vinyl devil horns and tail from Halloween
• 36 skeins of embroidery floss, apropos of nothing
• folded baby pajamas that no longer fit their owner 
• San Diego Zoo baby panda mouse pad
• piled up boxes, still unpacked from our move
• alarm clock with a late PM hour

and, of course:

• stitch markers, green and purple
• crochet hook for fixing mistakes (ahem.)
• cable charts for the Citron Cardigan
• WIP: Starstuff Mitts (pics here and here)
• US 6 dpns that haven't made their way upstairs to the organizational system
• plastic straight ruler for ruling with an iron fist/plastic straightedge

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* points to anyone who can correctly identify the origin of "le tired."