Today marks one week before my show opens! At this point, I can’t really say how the preparation is coming, except to say that I’ve just spent several months doing almost nothing but knitting for it, and if you gave me until the end of the year, I could easily keep finding things to knit for it.

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been concentrating on the tiny stuff. This pile represents an embarrassing number of hours, and about one-fifth of the total number of tiny things to go in my installation.

Let me tell you, I am in awe of my Crystal Palace size 1 double-pointed needles. Those skinny sticks of bamboo have taken much abuse and are still going strong. And so, thank heavens, are my fingers!

The setup will start on Monday, but I’m expecting to be knitting up until the day of the opening (October 7th). I’ll be blogging the setup next week, so stay tuned for last-minute fiber drama!

Knitting fatigue is starting to set in just a bit, a month and a half into my show preparation as a full-time pursuit. Fortunately I’ve avoided any more pinkie numbness, but now my fingers are just feeling a bit fat and slow, as if I’m wearing gloves while trying to knit. Which is perfect, because now that I have all the large pieces for the installation finished, I’m tackling a very long list of pieces that range from small to smaller.

For example, the city that used to live on my desk has shrunk!

I wish I could have just applied a magical shrink ray to the buildings, but instead these guys took me the better part of a day to make.

And tiny ears of corn play a crucial part in the world I’m creating, so I just spent two days knitting a cornfield.

I’m not complaining about the time I’m putting into knitting all these tiny details—I just want to document the insanity. And it’s the small details that will make the whole thing fun to look at, so I’m excited to be working on the humorous bits and pieces right now. I am both dreading the fast approach of October 7th and also feeling like it can’t come soon enough!

I haven’t yet shown who will be inhabiting the world that I’m creating for my upcoming show at gallery hanahou. Among other creatures, I thought this world needed at least one god.

In this case, the god is modeled after the populace, and not the other way around. Only 20 percent of these little gray guys will believe in the god, and the god will return the favor by being only 20 percent benevolent.

I just finished making his limbs, and I’m in the middle of knitting a big cloud for him to sit on. Next he will get an elvis-style pompadour hairdo.