You are Merino Wool.
You are very easygoing and sweet. People like to
keep you close because you are so softhearted.
You love to be comfortable and warm from your
head to your toes.
What kind of yarn are you?
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Month: February 2004
Gone To The Dogs
Well, a small corner of the web has, anyway! Molly and Murphy now have their pages up on Dogster, although I still need to go trolling through my digital pictures to find some more to put up for them. Heck, it would probably be easier to just take more! (Well, it would be easier if my brother hadn’t absconded with my large camera memory card to take pictures with on his cruise. My old 64 MB cards only have room for 18 pictures at a time with this new camera. Ugh.)
So, has anyone used the new version of iPhoto that’s bundled with iLife? It might be worth the $$ if the organization is really as good as they advertise…
Coming Up For Air
I just spent all of my free time over the past 36 hours devouring the new Monica Ferris Needlecraft Mystery novel. Don’t be too impressed, they’re not difficult reads. But when I read a mystery, I have to practically sit on my hands to not flip to the end to check my guess about who did it, so I read them fast. I actually had this one right about half-way through, and spent the rest of the book trying to figure out why the rest of the characters didn’t see it.
Silly, I know.
Anyway, that’s why the only knitting I’ve done in the past couple of days was last night at Sit & Knit. I’m a little panicked, because I think my new cardie is going to be smaller than the gauge swatch indicated. My gauge swatch gave me 19 stitches to 4″. The recommended gauge was 20 stitches to 4″. Around the body of the sweater, that would give me an extra 2″, which made the medium size perfectly match my favorite cardigan. Now that I’m several inches into it, however, I’m measuring 20 stitches to 4″. One blasted little stitch off. I suppose I could always knit the front bands a little wider if it really works out to be a little snug, especially since it uses clasps instead of buttons. Then again, maybe blocking it will do the trick. Or maybe I should (gasp) rip it and start over with a bigger needle…? That really doesn’t sound like too much fun. Did I mention that I’ve done several 3-color rows? On 215 stitches?
I think I’d better sleep on that one.
Pretty, Pretty, Pretty!
I came home to a package the other day that contained these:
Aren’t they gorgeous colors? Thank you Carolyn! Now I just need to buy several more bobbins, because I seem to be about as good at sticking to one spinning project as I am at sticking to one knitting project…in other words, not at all!
My wheel came with 5 bobbins. When I tried to ply the first time, I had the two bobbins of natural wool that I was going to ply, and one of pink wool that I’d started spinning. Now, I am a smart girl, I realized that two full bobbins of singles would produce two full bobbins of plied yarn. However, I didn’t realize until then that one of the bobbins they sent was different. (Well, OK, I had realized it looked different, but I didn’t realize until I tried to use it that it didn’t fit.) I had to do a bit of juggling to finish plying my yarn. So, since I currently have two bobbins of pink singles, one of purple, and one in the mail to be exchanged for the right one, I need more bobbins! (I’m good at justifying these things!)
Oh, and here’s a gratuitous puppy picture. They were being so cute this morning, I had to do a photo-shoot. I still need to play a bit with the camera – it took several shots before I was happy with the lighting and the exposure – but I was more worried about whether they were looking at me, and if they were just going to riot and tackle me for the treats I had in my hand!
Now What?
(Rant alert.)
So, I finally found a few minutes to call Alitalia to check whether I could bring my knitting with me on my flight to Italy next month. One guess what the answer is…
NO!
Can somebody tell me how 5-inch bamboo sticks on either end of a plastic cord can possibly be any more dangerous than a pencil? Please? Because I don’t get it.
18 hours of flight time, and probably at least 4-6 hours of waiting-in-the-airport time WITH NO KNITTING. This might very well kill me.
Yes, I know I could read a book, or do crossword puzzles, or watch the in-flight movies. But I want to knit. Maybe I’ll just bring a couple of pencils and a ball of yarn to knit a scarf…when you read about the crazy lady who held up an international flight because she was knitting with pencils, that’ll be me.
(Has anyone managed to bring knitting – bamboo or plastic needles, of course – on Alitalia? Are they just saying no to knitting needles because of those horrid 14-inch metal straight ones?)