awake

It's 2:30am and I'm still awake. I blame Ann & Kay.
You see, I went to the bookstore tonight and picked up their book. Read through the whole thing, cover to cover and loooved it. (Of course, you probably already know how good it is, considering everyone in the world has reviewed it!

I promptly came home and knit a mitered square (for a baby blanket the shop is putting together for a customer). I'm smitten. I have a bit of the mitered square yarn left over (which is actually leftovers from various projects) and went to bed with thoughts of knit log cabin squares dancing in my head. And I layed there...and layed there...and couldn't get the damn log cabin idea out of my head, nor could I stop thinking about all the great stuff in the book. So I did the only reasonable thing: I cast on. in the dark. laying in bed (we're not even going to adress the fact that I had the yarn and needles, right there, next to my bed).
The mitered square on the left, my bedtime knitting on the right

While I knit (in the dark, in bed) I got to thinking about how my mom loves quilts and quilting and how she'd love a logcabin knit blanket. Or maybe for Mother's Day, a pillow. Log cabin square on one side, St st overlap on the back. I'd make it out of my handyed pinks she likes so well, I have a silk/wool blend I've been wanting to dye...and my mind kept racing with ideas...maybe I have enough time before Mother's Day to do a whole blanket? A combo of logcabins and mitered squares? And my mom and I have been talking about rug patters, just like the swirl one in the book...could I make a rug?
In order to shut off my brain and go to sleep already, I got out of bed (also, I had finished the square and was at the point of picking up stitches and I refuse to do that lying down, in the dark) and poured a glass of water and here I sit, hoping getting all this out of brain onto the page, erm screen will finally put my brain to rest.
As I turned on the computer, the answer came to me: my mom is now a knitter...I don't have to figure out what to make her this Mother's Day...I'm buying her the book!