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oceantheorem) wrote2008-10-28 10:15 am
oceantheorem) wrote2008-10-28 10:15 am
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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.
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I still have a hard time watching things that take place in London - it's been almost 4 years since I lived there and it still kills me to think about it. So do not feel bad. It only gets worse. Oh snap!
So this stupid hat is not turning out. I don't even care. I am going to finish it, and I don't care how crappy it looks. Curse aluminum needles! Curse that stupid pattern! Curse circs! I hate them!!
Also, your mom.
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I hate dpns, by the way. I cannot for the life of me make dpns work. This is why I refuse to knit hats or socks. It is secretly my greatest fear. Teeny tiny double-pointed needles. ZOMG.
Don't tell me it gets worse. That's awful. I didn't even LIKE the east coast and I miss New York.
Also, your baby.
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I can knit flat on DPNs but that's about it. So far. I may or may not get brave enough to try actually knitting something real on them. Someday. Maybe. Probably not though.
Ok, the missing stuff thing gets better because you stop thinking about it all the time, but then it's worse because when you do think about it it's harder. So, it is both better and not better all in one.
My first knitting project was also a scarf. I got bored of it and ripped it all out. Sad!
Also, your mom's first baby. AHAHHAHAHA.
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Don't fear the DPN! They're your friend!
I am sad to report that knitting socks is, as you feared, addictive. I've only made two pairs - house socks for me, lacy socks for a friend - but I'm dreaming of the next time I can justifably cast on a sock. I cast on a sweater over the weekend, so no time soon. BTW, if you're ever tempted to knit a cardi that has three inches of p2,k2,p2,CF4 ribbing on it, with the CF4 every second row, let me stop you now. A solid 8 hours of knitting, easy, and I'm a little over halfway done with the 3 inches of ribbing. At least once I am done with the three inches of hell it will be gorgeous, and the stockinette in the round should fly like whoa.
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