Sunday, March 9, 2008

A Busride Too Short to Knit



Guys (by which i mean Me),


I'm trying to get digital. One Hamilton's worth of cheapo camera at a time. The first one needed all the light of an atomic explosion to show anything but deep darkness, but it was $10. To be expected. Catomine found a slightly less no-name, but extremely similar item for same price that yielded visible objects. now to upload . . . ohgod, ohgod.

Aha! soon, i may be powerful enough to remove blemishes -- or at least strong enough not to have caffeine or chocolate, which causes them.

Please note my Winter Scarf 2007, which everyone is tired of seeing on me. Daily bus riders (78C) surely have scarf fatigue. it was knitted several years ago from a forgotten thick and thin unspun yarn, and i didn't wear it for a loong time because i was so tickled that i had used the complete amount of yarn with only a 3inch tail on either end. with no frogging at all. of course the decrease gets a little funky as i raced against the shrinking yarn length, but i made it work out so nicely with no waste (EZ would be proud) that i couldn't bear to weave in the two tiny ends that i was so proud of. so the scarf lived in a box until i resurrected it and wore it one winter day, darning in the ends as i rode on the bus. how's that for procrastinating? and seed stitch, who can get enough? It even matches my storebought cashmere hat.

What I really want to know is: Who made the sci-fi reader's scarf? I would try to sneak a photo, but it will be too warm next week for him to wear it. It is the size of a table runner for the 40-foot state-dinner table in a movie. I believe each stripe is an entire ball of yarn. It appears to be over twice the length of his body and over a foot wide. If it happens to be his first and only attempt at knitting, i applaud his gusto for knitting and his aplomb in wearing it. If it was a gift, however, i suppose i must respect his loyalty to the donor. But really, it's like a knitting machine went crazy while he slept, and then he tripped into it on the way out the door. I want to like it, but it puts him in danger of tripping.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Dark Lace

Almanac of projects: March
I have received shipment of hemp, nettle and camel yarns from nearseanaturals.com and have used my boyfriend as an umbrella swift. the hemp and nettle is going to be a farmer's market bag in Azalea lace. Cannot tell whether plan of doing 5 reps instead of 6 will cause dome shape instead of flat circular. and my selected xerox does not reveal exactly what a M.3 is, so i'm doing my own blind equivalency.
my stash closet is looking very well organized. the crochet cotton has been firmly segregated, and the wools protected.

i need homes for beading supplies (seed beads mostly) and aluminum knitting needles.

Remember, if you get a pattern or two you like from a library book, don't forget the abbrev. page!