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October 12, 2004

I knit scarves

I swore I wouldn't let angora back into my house. I guess I spoke too soon. It's back. It's shedding. I don't know if it's psychosomatic, but my throat is itchy. I guess I shouldn't buy a rabbit. I'm making Project Neck again. I can't show it to you because I'm going to submit it somewhere. You'll see it soon enough here if not elsewhere. I also fiddled around with the scarf for my mom. Here's my swatch:

It's the DB Silk Alpaca that I bought in Scotland. It seems really soft and nice, but I can already see that it won't stand up to a lot of ripping and maybe not even a lot of wear. First I thought cables! so I started making cables on both sides so it would be reversible. Then I got bored and started thinking about lace. So I took out the cables on one side and put a net-ish sort of lace in there. I'm still fiddling. Don't know what I'll end up doing. We'll see. Maybe I should go dig out that cabled lace pattern I was trying to design a while back and see if I can make it work the second time around. I know it's not the greatest photo in the world. I'll give you a better one as soon as I have something more worth showing.

In food news (did I ever tell you I love to cook?) I made excellent chili for dinner. The frog loved it. And now I'm snacking on this:

It's candy corn of course! But it didn't really enjoy the trip over to France, nor being forgotten in the bottom of my backpack, so now it's all melted together into one sort of candy corn blob. That's ok. I guess stuck together Halloween candy is better than no Halloween candy at all, but my favorite part of eating candy corn is eating the yellow, then the orange, then the white. Can't really do that now. And I'm not sure I'm really enjoying the taste. It seems to have picked up even more of a plasticky flavor than it usually has. Maybe no Halloween candy is better.

Posted by kate at October 12, 2004 08:02 PM