Knitting Zen

My mom called last night and asked what I was doing, and I said I was knitting a Barbie coat. She asked, "Why?" I said, "For fun." Knitting for fun it kind of hard to explain to someone who doesn't do it. Knitting sounds like work, not like fun. More on that later.

Right now, the Barbie coat, which turned out to be a Barbie vest once I thought about trying to shove her little sharp plastic hands through sleeves made out of this yarn (Skacel "Gatto").

And a short vest, to boot, because knitting with this yarn was driving me crazy. It was like knitting with cobwebs. I used size 7 needles, and like knitting with Chinchilla, heaven help you if you drop a stitch. The yarn itself is very fine, with long "eyelash" fibers. I knitted with a crochet hook in my mouth to catch any dropped stitches before they got too far.