these guys caught my eye on my recent Costco shopping trip. They were in the merchandise return line.
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Month: November 2006
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Last night’s knitting was a watershed moment for this sweater. I finally made it past the mark where I had to rip the first time. Of course, there were other rips that came between that first one and this. At last, I have made up all that lost ground.
I don’t know if I even like this freakin thing anymore. I think there has been way too much togetherness for me and this project. Familiarity breeds contempt and all of that.
But I swear to all things fibery, I will see this through to the end!
that was the knitter’s equivalent of a Scarlett O’Hara moment ….. but instead of red Georgia clay, I am clutching a wadded up ball of fiber and some needles in my fist. I am so intent on my vow that my palms start to sweat and I end up felting that holy skein. gaddammit – now I am going hungry and I am have just ruined some perfectly good yarn. Melanie is going to kill me. oh wait, is she dead?
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I am working extra days at the shop – today and tomorrow. Here’s a weird little tidbit ….. on Monday, every gauge I measured for various customers came out to be 6 rows/inch. how does that happen?? Naturally I thought it was me and rechecked all of them.
nope – 6 rows/inch.
hey Cara, when you called last night to talk about your new project, weren’t you also getting 6 rows/inch?
it’s all new again …..
In a desperate search for blog fodder, I decided to see what I was doing at this time last year. Maybe it will spark some kind of internal conversation that I can replay today. This meant a scan through my archives.
I am simple minded. Easily amused. This is the only explanation.
As I am reading my archives, I am not remembering any of it and am laughing my ass off at the jokes and my clever way with words as though seeing it all for the very first time! I’m thinking, I love this girl and I can hardly wait to read more to see what happens next.
this cannot be a good thing.
so now I have to go – when I left me, I was telling a joke about a couple of kids & their foray into cursing …….
I mentioned that I have done a lot of online holiday shopping. That includes buying some things for me : )
I would like to tell you how much I love these ice lantern molds from Lee Valley. I have been a veritable ice lantern factory over here – so far, I’ve made six and unless I clear some room in the freezer, that will be my maximum number. They are about the size of a ½ gallon of ice cream – so if you live in an area where daytime temps are enough above freezing, you need to have room in your freezer.
We had a fabulous holiday weekend. It was the nicest, most relaxing Thanksgiving I can remember. D#1 was home. The girls hung out together (which reminded me of all the times I wished I had a sister), we got all the Christmas decorations up, I did some knitting ……
and some more f-ing ripping! that was the only unrelaxing part. This time it was not the yarn, it was me! I did not like the way I managed the honeycomb pattern along the decreases of the underarm. At first I was just going to leave it be, but then I thought I took the time to rip for the areas of color deficiency, so what sense does it make to adopt a ‘no one will notice’ attitude now’?
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