Can you believe I survived from Saturday evening until Monday afternoon without any of my works in progress? Well, I'll tell you, a lot of planning was done, charts were drawn, and magazines were bought in order to fill in for the knitting I left at work Saturday, and I realized I need a lot more projects on my needles to prevent this in the future.
Seriously, I was THIS close to driving the 34 miles to go pick up my knitting...that's bad.
Monday, April 17, 2006
Friday, April 07, 2006
Pictures!
I took some pics with my cameraphone and uploaded them, so I thought I'd share. I've got a few of the finished skull & crossbones tote, and some of the new scarf (color is off on it, it is a pale, powder blue color in reality). Enjoy.
Close up of the Purse Stitch:
And for those that like to see the reverse side:
Close up of the Purse Stitch:
And for those that like to see the reverse side:
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Wondering about the rest of my life
Rather than have too much "other life" stuff overflowing onto my knitting blog I've started a second blog for random stuff. It can be foundhere if you're interested. (Although I should warn you that I'm starting off on a whiny note and I'm not sure where it will go from there)
Friday, March 31, 2006
Am I knitting?
Oh, yes, and I'm knitting too! The current lap project is a powder blue lacy scarf out of a cashmere/alpaca blend. And I get to be the lucky recipient for this one. It's a pattern I designed myself, especially formulated not to use too terribly much yarn (I only have 3 balls) and yet still allow the softness and beauty of the cashmere to come through. I'll post pics soon!
In other news the X & O scarf was presented to my Sweden living friend this past week and she's off talking about it to everyone and wearing it everywhere. She is urging me to publish as well, but I think that might just be for the bragging rights.
In other news the X & O scarf was presented to my Sweden living friend this past week and she's off talking about it to everyone and wearing it everywhere. She is urging me to publish as well, but I think that might just be for the bragging rights.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
"Done" as a catchall
At my company I had to get used to all the abbreviations, the expressions, and the new vocabulary when I first started. It took much longer for me however to get used to what has been described to me as "New York Style" hurry talk.
I'm a rather talkative person, and am a big believer in being precise, and usually trying to be as clear as possible often necessitates (or at least is supported by) longer sentences with more words. Because of my wordy background it made it difficult for me to feel at peace with the fact that when I sent an email to a department in our corporate office asking for multiple things and often posing (what I thought were complex)questions and I would receive a one-word response:
DONE.
Was it all done? Or just the first query? Were my questions unnecessary and need I no longer worry about the problems? Do I need to check an make sure all the changes were done?
I eventually got used to "done" and now find it funny when it pops into my mind after someone or something presents a long list of questions or some complex situation that "feel" as if they need a detailed or explainitory response.
I'm a rather talkative person, and am a big believer in being precise, and usually trying to be as clear as possible often necessitates (or at least is supported by) longer sentences with more words. Because of my wordy background it made it difficult for me to feel at peace with the fact that when I sent an email to a department in our corporate office asking for multiple things and often posing (what I thought were complex)questions and I would receive a one-word response:
DONE.
Was it all done? Or just the first query? Were my questions unnecessary and need I no longer worry about the problems? Do I need to check an make sure all the changes were done?
I eventually got used to "done" and now find it funny when it pops into my mind after someone or something presents a long list of questions or some complex situation that "feel" as if they need a detailed or explainitory response.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
That irksome feeling at the edge of your mind
Have you ever made a mistake in your knitting that you weren't sure you could fix?
No lifelines?
Lots of yarn overs?
Not sure if ripping back or tinking down was an option?
Have you ever had to let that mistake sit for HOURS before you could fix it?
Towards the end of SnB tonight I was gesturing and pulled my work back on my needles so that I could use the needle as a "prop"...I dropped two stiches in the middle of a row. It was in the middle of a Purse Stitch section (lots of YO, Purl 2Tog--on both sides kind of stuff). I tried to pick up, but it had dropped down two rows.
I tried to figure it out for about 10 minutes.
My cashmere/alpaca yarn started to fuzz out a bit.
I decided to drop down the ten stiches of purse stich for three rows and re-knit them.
I moved to a better lit seat.
I frogged back the section and picked up stitches and re-worked them.
I looked over the work.
Still something wrong, but now across an entire row, rather than right in the middle.
No time left I had to pack up and go. It's been 5 hours and I still haven't fixed it.
It's haunting my mind.
...I thought knitting was supposed to EASE stress. This is worse than worrying if I left the oven on and the water running combined! Get it OUT!
Yes, yes, I know the only way to make it stop.
I'm off to frog some more.
No lifelines?
Lots of yarn overs?
Not sure if ripping back or tinking down was an option?
Have you ever had to let that mistake sit for HOURS before you could fix it?
Towards the end of SnB tonight I was gesturing and pulled my work back on my needles so that I could use the needle as a "prop"...I dropped two stiches in the middle of a row. It was in the middle of a Purse Stitch section (lots of YO, Purl 2Tog--on both sides kind of stuff). I tried to pick up, but it had dropped down two rows.
I tried to figure it out for about 10 minutes.
My cashmere/alpaca yarn started to fuzz out a bit.
I decided to drop down the ten stiches of purse stich for three rows and re-knit them.
I moved to a better lit seat.
I frogged back the section and picked up stitches and re-worked them.
I looked over the work.
Still something wrong, but now across an entire row, rather than right in the middle.
No time left I had to pack up and go. It's been 5 hours and I still haven't fixed it.
It's haunting my mind.
...I thought knitting was supposed to EASE stress. This is worse than worrying if I left the oven on and the water running combined! Get it OUT!
Yes, yes, I know the only way to make it stop.
I'm off to frog some more.
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