As we all know, season 3 of the Venture Bros airs this Sunday night at 11:30PM.

OR… you can watch it right now on the Adult Swim website.

Up to you. Me, I’m doing BOTH.

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Not having enough time or energy to work on a proper project, I have turned to swatching. Here, you can see that I have finally mastered the brioche stitch:

Dorothy pointed me to briochestitch.com which is - as the name implies - a website all about the brioche stitch.

The trick, it turns out, is to work the yo as you slip the stitch purlwise. As in, put the needle through the stitch, wrap the yarn over the needle, then slip them both off. As in, just work half a purl stitch.

Once you get the rythym of it, it’s really fast. If you cast on an even number of stitches, it’s a one-row pattern. Genius!

I have A Method for labeling my swatches. I write the yarn, needle size, and (if necessary) stitch pattern on a little piece of paper, and staple it to the wrong side. I have learned to write out these labels as I’m knitting the swatch.

Through trial and error, I have learned that no matter how convinced I am that I won’t forget the needle size this time, I always do. I wash and lay the swatch out to dry, and when I pick it up a few days later, the information has vanished from my mind.

Mr. Burrito is growing at a frightening rate. I can hardly believe that two weeks ago, his little feets were the same size as my thumbnail. Look at those giant mitts!

Don’t they look like gorilla hands?

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After knitting four Zoom swiffer cloths (i.e. half the one-pound cone) I had to take a break from Zoom Madness.

I knocked out a few Lobby Dishcloths this weekend. Since each Lobby Dishcloth weighs 70 grams, and a ball of Peaches ‘N Creme yarn in solid colors is 72 grams, I consider this two balls of dishcloth cotton used. Even though each dishcloth consumes slightly less than an entire ball of the main color, and little bits of the accent colors.

After that, I still wasn’t ready to go back to the Zooms. I needed some inspiration. After browsing my Ravelry queue, I decided it was finally time to knit a pair of Pomatomus socks. I picked out a skein of Patti’s hand-dyed yarn, which I think will work quite well.

First, I had to knit a swatch. I know I’ll need more pattern repeats than the pattern calls for, but how many more?

Since the pattern chart is written to be worked in the round, I had to carry the yarn back across each side.

My tension wasn’t the greatest, so I snipped the carried yarn strands. This makes for a rather fetching fringe, doesn’t it?

Aw, baby swatch!

Mr. Burrito is getting exceptionally hard to photograph. He’s either asleep, or he’s a blur of constant movement.

Even though he’s a big boy now - three weeks old! - he still nurses from the bottle occasionally. (I forgot to mention that he finally did take to the bottle in a big way.)

Mr. Burrito is a very methodical eater. He suuuuuuucks on the bottle, then opens his mouth to let the resulting vacuum re-fill the bottle with air. Repeat for at least 15 minutes.

When he eats his puppy slop, he starts at one edge, and glurps forward bulldozer-style until he can’t reach any further. Then he pulls back, moves over about an inch, and starts again. Most puppies play with their food, trample it, spill it all over the place, flop around in it - not Mr. Burrito.

Mr. Burrito feels that mealtime is srs bzns.

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