I am in the final phase of Clapotis having started the decrease rows. As much as I have enjoyed this pattern, I am glad to be just about done. The Berroco Suede is great yarn – it looks exactly like suede – but I am growing impatient of working with it. It sticks to every little patch of dry skin or callous on my hands, is a bit prone to splitting and for some reason gets twisted as you pull it from the skein and I feel the need to untwist it as I go. Here is a close up. We are going on vacation next week and I hope to have this finished to take with me.
To further my bitching and moaning about this project – and I would like to re-iterate that I have indeed enjoyed knitting it – the problem with the stated yardage is really sticking in my craw. The pattern calls for 3 skeins with 205 yds./skein. This gives a grand total of 615 yds. At this very moment, I am on my 7th skein of the Suede and I am not finished yet. There is no question that I will be using an 8th skein to finish and I may end up using a 9th! The suede’s yardage is 120 yds/skein.
Yes, I checked my gauge. I believe that I got gauge. I am however open to mathematical errors and am willing to concede that perhaps I am not knitting to gauge. If that were true, is it possible that I am this far off gauge? And so are many other bloggers doing this project? Why doesn’t Knitty put some kind of note in with this pattern? I can’t say for sure that I would have knit this in the Suede, if I knew what I would be spending in yarn. Then again, I have stated that I need to get past my whole ‘knitting as a way of saving money’ mindset – which is downright laughable.
Enough about that – onward and upward. Here is my Fry Up progress. It has now officially entered the danger zone here at Chez Swine. Component pieces are finished – all that remains is to line it and attach the zipper and seam it of course. It is now in danger of never being finished. This is the way I operate, it’s nothing I’m proud of. I also need to run to the fabric store because I want to find the perfect lining. This project has a lot stacked against it.
Let me tell you that our Kathleen not only has shit on her shoes, she has shit on her brain. (which, by the way Tracy says is good luck!) When I showed her my Fry Up she proclaimed that my sausage looked like ‘poo’. Despite saying it in a very genteel way, she’s a real lady she is, the fact remains that she thinks my sausage looks like shit. She said it more than once. She got the others involved. Ricki and Peggy agreed and they were all sitting here in my den saying the word ‘poo’. Over and over again, ‘poo’! The size, the shape, the color. But when you are knitting a sausage, how do you not make it look like ‘poo’?
Where does this leave me?
Now that it has been said, will I be able to forget it?
Can I un-ring this bell?
Will I wander this earth with my Fry Up wondering if my sausage looks like poo?
Shall I just knit some toast?
maybe that Kathleen should be the one knitting me some toast!
go over there right now and tell her!
purlingswine 
Oh God you made me laugh this morning! You are so freaking funny. Still laughing. Toast woman! Toast and the pad of butter. Ask the girls. Ask Boar! Ask the dogs! Sausage should be variegated! :) Go on, by a little more new yarn for the frickin’ fry up! Better yet–knit the sausage with the leftover Suede.
Now I am really laughing.
I just showed the fry up pic to the kids. Gracie first guessed a cinnamon stick. Then she said sausage. Camerron got the bacon right away, looked a bit confused over the egg and identified the third component as poo.
I was thinking along the lines of variegated or specks — maybe some texture — to make it look less poo- or more sausage-like. But I must have shit on the brain, too, because I’m afraid it might just look like there was a problem with thorough digestion. I’m sorry. I really am laughing WITH you! Down here, rolling on the floor… laughing WITH you!!
I’ll have you know I went right on over to Kathleen’s blog and gave her a piece of my mind – actually I agreed with her : ) Hmmm – a mammary gland and poo. No, those images are going to stay with you forever! I also noticed that, being a glutton for punishment, you are doing the Hallowig. My dil wants me to see if I can size that down for my new grandbaby! I passed on that one, but I may knit it for my son one day in the most garish color I can find!
I gotta go with Kathleen here. The first thing that came to mind when I looked at it was poo, well ok, shit, I am sadly not genteel.
*giggles* You said poo.
This reminds me of an episode of “Family Guy,” where Chris, the lovable but stupid pre-teen son, looks at a piece of food (I think it’s a candy bar) and says “I’m going to turn you into poo.”
Nothing like a little toilet humor to start the day!
Oh, and on the Clapper there–I’m now very nervous about starting mine in 600 or so yards of yarn I got for the project. I’m wondering if blocking might have something to do with it?
well it really kinda does look pooish.
the bacon however totaly rocks!
i think that adding toast and butter would be great.
love the plate as i too have a cupboard of fiesta ware.
thanks for entertaining us! latifa
Looks like a dog biscuit to me, but what do I know? I have a cat.
Annie! I’m knitting! You rock! ( im sorry, but i thought it was a milk bone) xoxo
No, the edges look a bit too squared off to be poo. Unless one is shitting the proverbial brick, I suppose. Perhaps a waffle. Can you add a waffle?
Hey, don’t feel bad. I am a fellow fry-up knitalonger and my sausage also has a faecal look in a certain light.
There is another approach of course. Embrace the essential poo-ness of the sausage! The plate is a toilet seat, the sausage is a poo, the ketchup…
OK – I’ll stop now and go back to my knitting. Sorry to have soiled your nice journal. :)