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September 04, 2004
I have a knitting secretary!
All artsy BDSM movie connotations aside, Betsy just typed up my answers for the secret pal 3 thing whilst I worked on my Broad Streets. I'm about 3/4 done with the thumb gusset increase on the right hand, and the whole thing is looking a fair amount cleaner than the first one. So that is good. Things should be well in order by the time I get to making the final Dale of Norway and Koigu, ridiculously posh mittens. And those cabled gloves. Sheesh. Mostly everything else is on hold right now, waiting for a chance to wind some more balls of yarn. The sheep is going to get a bit of fisherman's wool, and the Flapper hat needs the CC. In knitting dreams, the pattern for Bobbi Bear arrived this week (along with the felted koala pattern), but I haven't collected enough money to get the necessary yarn. The dilemma with the koala is that its final state is going to be Experiment 625 (you know, the one before Stitch who has all the same abilities, but is an incredible coward and only cares about making sandwiches-- no really, it's canon!). So I'm going to have to either make the pattern once as just a koala and then learn how to add an extra pair of limbs, or just sort of improvise from the getgo. I don't really see any advantages to be gained from doing a draft copy as just a koala, though, so I'll probably just wing it. After some examination of the shadow knitting scarf in stitch n bitch, I've settled on the idea of a shadow knit space invaders scarf. It should be cool and have that grainy two tone shades of green we all came to know and love in our Apple IIs. Not that Space Invaders was really an Apple II game, but I don't remember the color scheme and green and black is the nostalgic color of old computing for me. Finally, I have decided that I want to be the old man in the nifty hat (of the hat/scarf/neckwarmer set) in Weekend Knitting, or at least have the hat. It does look really nice in that blue and green, though I'll have to speculate and see if any other colors occur to me. Anyway, whatever technique they use to do that color offset is pretty funkin groovin, so I'd like to learn how to do it. The finger puppet idea continues to incubate, lying in wait for the acquisition of many new colors of very thin yarn. The more I write this, the more it really does seem like I'll need a second job to cover all this frivolousness. Perhaps a night watchman, or something else where I can knit. Heh.
Posted by omar at September 4, 2004 09:20 AM
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Posted by: Michelle at September 4, 2004 11:50 PM