“…than from a sheep you’ll never meet”! What a great subtitle! I just had to pick up this book the other day. I’m not sure if I could ever bring myself to knit something out of dog fur, but we sure could collect enough if I wanted to. Plus, Molly has a lovely reddish-gold coat…and I’ve always wanted to learn how to use my mom’s spinning wheel. I’ll put it on my list of things to do if I get really bored with the typical craft projects someday.
Year: 2002
Blocked
I can’t decide whether to block my sweater pieces. I’m done with the front and the back, and have been toying with the idea of sewing those together before starting the sleeves, mostly to double-check that it will fit. But seeing as it’s chenille yarn, I’m not sure how to go about blocking it. Will it flatten? It’s acrylic – will the iron melt it? I suppose I should test it on my swatch first, but that woud require patience…of which I’m in short supply lately. Any knitters out there have any ideas?
Unstuck
I finally finished another block in the quilt! I decided to put down my knitting for an evening, since I’m about half-done with the front of the sweater (I promise I’ll post some pics soon!) and I was very far behind on my quilt. This block gave me a lot of trouble, both because it’s very small, detailed pieces, and because I didn’t like some of the fabrics, so I’m very happy it’s done! I do like how it eventually came out, though. Which is good, since it’s going to be right at eye level (for me, anyway) when the quilt is hanging on the wall, and it would drive me crazy if it came out badly!
Hooray!
I got my archives working again. Of course, it probably wasn’t worth staying up this late for. Oh, well…
Knitting Update
I’ve never knitted anything so fast in my life! I’m almost to the shoulder shaping on the back of my sweater! I imagine I’ll be done with the back and started on the front by the end of the weekend. I guess it’s maybe time to pick up the two stalled knitting projects that I hadn’t finished because I thought knitting was a very slow process. Of course, I’ve been knitting to the exclusion of all else – I’ve only appliqued a couple of small pieces in the quilt, and my house is a bit of a mess… But, I have to take full advantage of the enthusiasm I have at the beginning of a project. If I can get at least 3/4 of the way done before I start to get bored, the momentum just takes it the rest of the way. Otherwise, the project ends up in my half-finished crafts pile. Poor half-finished crafts. There are even a couple in there that I don’t like anymore because my tastes have changed, or because I started them when I didn’t really know what I was doing and they look awful. What does one do with half-finished crafts that are no longer wanted?
Life’s Mysteries
Seen in the content list of the bottle of new hand lotion I bought for my desk: “Water (Aqua)” Is that aqua colored water? Were they trying to translate it to Spanish but didn’t know how to spell it? Or is there some new “brand” of water out there called “Aqua”? Of course, compared to the rest of the scary-sounding list of things this contains, I’m probably better off not knowing what’s in my lotion… At least it smells good – it’s black cherry & nutmeg flavored – and makes my hands softer.
One…Two…(um, what comes after that?)
Well, we’re pretty sure Molly can count to two, anyway, since she knows she has to wait until we’ve filled both the food bowl and the water bowl. Beyond that, though, I have my doubts. I’ve always said that dogs are smarter than people give them credit for, but Molly, well, she got a little short-changed when they were handing out IQ points… ;)
Too Many Projects…
I got my sweater pattern in the mail on Monday and spent the entire evening driving all over creation to find 10 skeins of the yarn in the same dye lot. Last night I finished the border on the back – why do all sweaters start with the back, anyway? – so I think the project should go pretty quickly. Which is good, since I found another knitting project I want to do. I’m going to resist buying the yarn for as long as I can, though, because I don’t want to encroach on the enthusiasm I have for my sweater right now… Oh, but the temptation is so strong. :)
No, You May *Not* Have My Address…
Whenever I try to buy something from Radio Shack, they try to insist that if I someday wanted to return something, they need my street address. Quite frankly, I would never return anything to that store, if only to keep my address out of their database. I’m tired of having five trees worth of junk mail showing up in my mailbox every day, and I don’t need any more. Last night the clerk actually got angry with me when I questioned why they needed my address. My big mistake, though, was using my credit card – now they probably can get my address. So much for my grand plan to foil their marketing schemes…
Stuffy Head vs. Medicine Head
Remember those commercials with the cartoon people who got medicine head, and their head was shown floating on a balloon string above their body? I think that would be preferable to my head right now, which feels like it weighs an extra 50 lbs. I’m assuming that it’s allergies, since except for sinuses I feel just fine. It just makes it really hard to think very hard when your head weighs this much. Is it time to go home and take a nap yet?