Friday, April 30, 2004|
I finished my second bottom's up hat, in Rowan's Summer Tweed this time around--and this one even fits me. I made one out of Classic Elite's Flash specifically for the March, but it was too big, so I gave it to A. (see picture below--she's on the far left, also the only one with a hat). I had to do a lot of futzing to get the fit right, and I still don't like the brim, so one day, if I get un-lazy, I'll redo it. Before Bonne-Marie came out with this pattern, and after the sartorial disaster that was the Bucket o' Chic (for me, at least--I donated that hat to a charity auction and the person who bought it loves it), I thought about making up my own pattern, but I was too lazy and never got around to it. Now I've had to rework BUP enough that I might as well have done it myself the first time.in the first place. 5:33:18 PM 
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Sunday, March 28, 2004|
Another reason (if you needed one) to get rid of Bush: He steadfastly refuses to do anything about human rights abuses in China. Of course, if the man could cut off our internet access, he probably would.
I feel as if I will never be done with my CG, partly because I may never find buttons. But really, she's just taking forever to finish. (Forgive me, but I feel compelled to say: just like a woman.) But she'll be real purty when all's said and done...if all's sewed and done. |
Monday, March 22, 2004|
So I finally got around to blocking China Girl. Of course, I did have to re-knit one of the sleeves--I didn't like the pattern for the first one, so I tweaked the second one and had to redo #1. And last night I spent much, much too much time deciding how I wanted to bind-off the red edges on all of pieces of the sweater. Knit two rows then bind off knitwise? Purlwise? Knit one row, purl one, then bind off knit- or purlwise? I finally settled on a kitchener stitch bind-off. I might rip off the knit/purl/purlwise bind-off I did at the bottom of the back if I get really tetchy about it. Just how long do I want to spend on this, anyway? But I do hate blocking. And blocking something with Lycra is almost--but not entirely--meaningless.
Look, I knitted California!
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Sunday, March 14, 2004|
Spring Break, that is... I would put up pictures of China Girl, but at this point she's just curled-up panels of black. The falaise is rather tight with itself.
Several weeks ago I ordered some of the discontinued colors from Rowan, and since Carolyn told me she usually waits a long time for her orders, I was prepared to wait. But the order showed up on my credit card statement right off, yet I waited...and waited...and waited. So this week I called them and they had no record of my purchase right offhand. After a little digging, come to find out that my order went to someone else. Obviously, that person isn't about to return the yarn, or she would've done so already, since it shipped three weeks ago. Which is terribly rude of her, I think--I mean, if she's a customer, she knows how much that stuff costs, and even I, with my questionable morals, wouldn't keep $70 worth of merch that isn't mine. People do it all of the time, though. Twice I've ordered stuff that got delivered to the wrong house (very nearby houses), and neither time did the people do anything about it--like cross the f***ing street or walk a few hundred yards. Plus, both times I had to go through lots of pain-in-the-ass stuff with the vendor and the shipping company. Airborne is very helpful; UPS not so much. Airborne at least delivered to the right address on the east part of the street, rather than the west (which was easy to do on a street that's three blocks long, if you don't know the street), while the UPS guy apparently couldn't read numbers and just dropped the box off wherever. Oh, and both times this happened it was with gifts. You know, it's one thing to steal from a large corporation, but it's completely something else to rip off some random person who's got no relation to your life whatsoever. And these people probably didn't think what they were doing was wrong. Maybe they thought of it like the coke bottle in The Gods Must Be Crazy, and decided to form a cargo cult. Oy. |
Wednesday, March 3, 2004|
I will make this lovely top from Rebecca #26. I'm using Falaise, but since it doesn't come in a nice red or gold, I don't have anything for the trim yet--I just did a provisional cast-on. So, if you know of a yarn that's similar to Falaise and comes in lovely colors, let me know.
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Saturday, February 28, 2004|
First project, from the Winter 01/02 Vogue, done up in a cone of mohair from Webs (this has to be the cheapest sweater I've ever made, and I thank my lucky stars that I had enough yarn to finish it--things were looking grim for a while, there):
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Saturday, January 31, 2004|
Maggi, this is the jacket:
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Last update: 4/30/04; 5:34:54 PM .
