Amimono Kimono

I'm not the sort of woman who likes to change bags, be it handbags, dufflebags, whatever. No matter how thorough I think I've been in the transfer stage, some key item fails to make the move from one bag to the other. Which is what happened last night when I arrived to Knitting Night at Yarn Central. The catch? I didn't change bags recently, nor do I remember unloading anything from my bag. This could be related to the mysterious markings on my upper arm, but I'll sort that out later.

At any rate, between the mysterious unloading of the bag and my thwarted efforts to find the perfect yarn for Hopeful, I arrived to Knitting Night without any of the patterns on my To Knit List. Again, I found myself bereft of project, but at least this time I was willing and determined to get my fingers on some needles.

Magically, I pulled the Summer 2005 issue of Interweave Knits out of my bag -- which I don't remember putting in there at all. I decided it was an omen. It was time to devote myself to creating a baby knit. It was time to knit the Baby Kimono for my cousin and his wife. Having lived through one sweaty summer in New Orleans myself, there was no way I was going to give them a baby gift knitted in Rowan Wool Cotton, unless I meant it as a cruel joke. I quickly setttled on the Ornaghi Filati Echo Flash, which I'd been eyeing since last summer. Given the lack of babies in my world at the time, I saw no use for the yarn, but I longed for a reason to knit with it.

We're heading to Rhode Island for a quick weekend respite, and my goal is to have the kimono finished by the time we pull into our driveway Sunday night. Start your engines!

*amimono=knitting