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The weekend was awesome. My cousin K la and her best friend Kris and I went to see a movie. Beforehand we got sushi again and aaaahhhhh I can never have enough sushi. Then we seriously overdid it with cookies. The movie itself was pretty good, but not my favorite ever. As I mentioned in one of the comments on a previous post, every time they showed a panoramic view of New York City I started to cry. This is why you should never move across the country! You always leave part of yourself behind you, no matter how hard you try not to.
Anyway, it was a fun evening. The three of us got together last night for a knitting party, which was totally awesome. I taught my cousin how to knit, so now we can obsess over yarn together! She's started making a blanket (ambitious, isn't she?) and it looks amazing so far. My first project was a really lumpy, holey scarf that I ended up ripping out when I was done, because it was so ugly. But her blanket is all nice and even and I couldn't see a single mistaken yarn over hole. She's even doing it in stockinette stitch, which I find very brave and awesome.
Anyway. Kris is working on an absolutely adorable earflap hat for her son, and the pattern had these absolutely awful directions for a horrible cast-on to connect the knitted earflaps together, and poor Kris was trying to do it on aluminum needles. I watched the instructional video and read over the pattern a couple times and was able to figure out how the cast-on worked. I showed Kris how to do it, and she totally got it, but the yarn just kept slipping off the needles so she had to keep starting over, and then I had the genius idea of lending her one of my Harmony wood needles from Knitpicks. And voila! No more slidy yarn. I love those needles so much. She says the next time I see the hat it will be on her son's head. :-P
I am working on K la's wedding blanket again. It may actually be done in time for Christmas, or, as her husband pointed out, their 18-month anniversary the first week of January. /facepalm
I am so slow.
After the knitting died down, K la's husband broke out a card game he's working on. It's an awesome game, and with a few tweaks it should stand up to just about any player composition. Seriously, who invents card games?? This guy is awesome. He also makes a mean rootbeer float.
Not to be confused with a rootbear floot, which is what I typed first.
Claire lately has:
* started stealing my hairties not just out of the bathroom, but literally off of my wrist and out of my hair (she seriously pulled a hairtie out of my hair the other morning while I was asleep and ran off with it). luckily she doesn't eat them, just steals them.
* inspected the cardboard cat house I built and deemed the ground floor hide-worthy
* started to learn to play with her toys by herself (FINALLY)
* continued to be the cutest and bestest cat in the entire universe.
Anyway, it was a fun evening. The three of us got together last night for a knitting party, which was totally awesome. I taught my cousin how to knit, so now we can obsess over yarn together! She's started making a blanket (ambitious, isn't she?) and it looks amazing so far. My first project was a really lumpy, holey scarf that I ended up ripping out when I was done, because it was so ugly. But her blanket is all nice and even and I couldn't see a single mistaken yarn over hole. She's even doing it in stockinette stitch, which I find very brave and awesome.
Anyway. Kris is working on an absolutely adorable earflap hat for her son, and the pattern had these absolutely awful directions for a horrible cast-on to connect the knitted earflaps together, and poor Kris was trying to do it on aluminum needles. I watched the instructional video and read over the pattern a couple times and was able to figure out how the cast-on worked. I showed Kris how to do it, and she totally got it, but the yarn just kept slipping off the needles so she had to keep starting over, and then I had the genius idea of lending her one of my Harmony wood needles from Knitpicks. And voila! No more slidy yarn. I love those needles so much. She says the next time I see the hat it will be on her son's head. :-P
I am working on K la's wedding blanket again. It may actually be done in time for Christmas, or, as her husband pointed out, their 18-month anniversary the first week of January. /facepalm
I am so slow.
After the knitting died down, K la's husband broke out a card game he's working on. It's an awesome game, and with a few tweaks it should stand up to just about any player composition. Seriously, who invents card games?? This guy is awesome. He also makes a mean rootbeer float.
Not to be confused with a rootbear floot, which is what I typed first.
Claire lately has:
* started stealing my hairties not just out of the bathroom, but literally off of my wrist and out of my hair (she seriously pulled a hairtie out of my hair the other morning while I was asleep and ran off with it). luckily she doesn't eat them, just steals them.
* inspected the cardboard cat house I built and deemed the ground floor hide-worthy
* started to learn to play with her toys by herself (FINALLY)
* continued to be the cutest and bestest cat in the entire universe.
