August 31, 2004
It must have been the full moon
The grumpiness is gone. The weather is nicer. Two loads of laundry have been done. And the dishes too. The toe is purple, but better and I think my toenail might even hang on. BUT my productivity still hasn't come back. I had to go back to my real job today so I fooled around with my huge capelet swatch while taking the metro. "Real" work will probably cut into the knitting time for at least the next couple of days. Hopefully I will accomplish something soon (must feed blog). Time to make Riz sauté aux crevettes for dinner.
Posted by kate at 11:30 AM
August 30, 2004
G is for Grumpy
I finally took a photo with my stole on. It's long enough to make a decent poncho! Just 5.5 repeats left. I knit 2 rows tonight, even though it's not on my knitting schedule until Saturday. It was a nice break from struggling with the hell I created for myself. There seems to be a mistake at the end of the short rows and I'm trying to figure it out. The problem is, I think I made a mistake checking it and now I have to go back and figure out if I made a mistake knitting or if I made a mistake reading or if the mistake is in the pattern. I have to admit, knitting this pattern from the text isn't much fun. Knitting it from the chart is better. Granted, it's not the most beautiful chart in the world, but I never expected anyone else to see it when I made it.
I've had it. The stupid pattern has won. The dishes have won. The huge pile of laundry has won. My throbbing toe has won (I smashed it against the window that is leaning against the wall in the hall and split my toenail and have a huge blood blister). I'm going to grump off to bed.
Posted by kate at 11:30 AM
August 27, 2004
Just call me Fuzzy Lumpkins
Hormone imbalance? . . . Steroids? . . . Puberty?
No. Angora. There is fuzz all over my house. Pink kidsilk haze fuzz in the shower, in the butter and then on my toast. Black angora fuzz all over me and up my nose and on my computer and stuck to my frog's face. After I'm done with these 2 projects there will be no more fuzzy yarn in the house for a while.
I knit for over 10 hours yesterday. I'm serious. Now I remember why I don't like gigantic needles. They make my hands hurt. Now maybe if I had had some nice Bryspuns it would have been a little better than the hard bamboo. I really should buy every single size next time I go home. I'll do that as soon as I win the lottery.
I'm just too darn tired to make a beautiful EZ "casting on casting off" in order to finish my angora project so I'm going to start my butter swatch. It will be my reward for my hard work yesterday. I'll be productive later.
Posted by kate at 11:30 AM
August 25, 2004
A decision is made
is going to be ripped quite a bit and become a sweater.
is going to become the capelet.
Can you believe I am actually going to use US8/5mm needles? That's huge for me. I really hesitated about this color. I usually hate yellow, but there was something I liked about this one. I tried to buy #508 but they only had 2 balls. Then I was trying to decide between #213 and the yellow. I probably should have bought the blue, but I figured if I really hate it, I'll give it to my yellow-loving sister... assuming she likes the capelet. Even though our early fall like weather is making me crave a nice sweatery thing to walk around in, I probably won't get to work on this for a while, like after October 1st. I'll have to check my knitting calendar and then my people will call the cashmerino's people to work out the details of our contract and the start date. I demand that it knit up quickly, not split and most importantly, that this will be the last (and 3rd) time that I knit this damned capelet. The cashmerino requires that I knit a huge swatch instead of unkindly ripping it 6 times. It also requests that I refer to it as "butter" and to stop badmouthing yellow. I'll have to call my lawyers to see if that's possible.
Posted by kate at 11:30 AM
