Little known knitting fact...
Jan. 22nd, 2004 08:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
msfledermausIf you listen to something like Ministry while you knit, it goes *really* fast.
When I got home last night the wind was up to 45 miles an hour, so dangerous we couldn't run the crane at work. So after a brief but rewarding stop for milk and whatnot, I made peanut curry with chicken and pulled out my current knitting project--a lacy red shawl, suitable for wearing while jumping up and down in clubs. "Naaah...I think I need some instant gratification here" I muttered, and dug into my yarn-box for some white and off-white acrylic I had in there. An hour and a half later...potholders with skulls on them...or maybe quilt squares...or patches for a jacket...squares are like that. Anyway, the point was the funky skulls. And I felt much better with the wind blowing outside and my stomach full of curry and the needles flying.
Maybe I'll try some bobbles and find a way to work them into the skulls...eyeballs, perhaps? Eew.
Some weird Mausi knitting fun-facts:
I can knit and read if it's something really simple I'm knitting.
I was reading Harry Potter and knitting last night, but I had to stop when I was making eyes and shaping the skull.
I can do cables now....I am now a deadly, Celtic-knotwork-making Maus.
I usually listen to either Rasputina, Cocteau Twins, Portishead or KMFDM while I knit. Yes, this affects my knitting.
Otherwise? Life is the usual...right now it's kind of cold and hurty.
Outside Is Bad. But I'll bring the yarn and knit at lunch. MMm, yarn!
When I got home last night the wind was up to 45 miles an hour, so dangerous we couldn't run the crane at work. So after a brief but rewarding stop for milk and whatnot, I made peanut curry with chicken and pulled out my current knitting project--a lacy red shawl, suitable for wearing while jumping up and down in clubs. "Naaah...I think I need some instant gratification here" I muttered, and dug into my yarn-box for some white and off-white acrylic I had in there. An hour and a half later...potholders with skulls on them...or maybe quilt squares...or patches for a jacket...squares are like that. Anyway, the point was the funky skulls. And I felt much better with the wind blowing outside and my stomach full of curry and the needles flying.
Maybe I'll try some bobbles and find a way to work them into the skulls...eyeballs, perhaps? Eew.
Some weird Mausi knitting fun-facts:
I can knit and read if it's something really simple I'm knitting.
I was reading Harry Potter and knitting last night, but I had to stop when I was making eyes and shaping the skull.
I can do cables now....I am now a deadly, Celtic-knotwork-making Maus.
I usually listen to either Rasputina, Cocteau Twins, Portishead or KMFDM while I knit. Yes, this affects my knitting.
Otherwise? Life is the usual...right now it's kind of cold and hurty.
Outside Is Bad. But I'll bring the yarn and knit at lunch. MMm, yarn!
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Date: 2004-01-22 02:51 pm (UTC)Re: squares
Date: 2004-01-22 06:27 pm (UTC)My Aunt Emma was 90 when I saw her last, and her eyesight was going. She wore some sort of magnifier that, with years of practice, let her continue to crochet squares. Her project was to make up as many new patterns as she could--doing only one square of the pattern. She says that creating a new pattern helps her keep her mind sharp--and it certainly is. She's storing all the squares with the theory that someone will knit them together when she can no longer see.
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Date: 2004-01-22 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-23 02:19 am (UTC)The skull squares sound cute. Can we see piccies? :)
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Date: 2004-01-23 12:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-23 01:44 pm (UTC)would you like just white, or black with white skully-face?
If you just want white with raised bits I can do that this weekend; but if you'd like b & w I hafta go hit the Crackstore--I mean, Depth of Field. I'm outta black yarn. Again:P
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Date: 2004-01-23 01:47 pm (UTC)Sure, I can take piccies...Maybe Ben the Neighbor can put them on the Clan of the Flying White Samurai Knitters website:D
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Date: 2004-01-23 01:52 pm (UTC)Psst...check your mail for Saturday or Monday....the goods is on it's way:)
Re: squares
Date: 2004-01-23 01:57 pm (UTC)Good stuff, crochet:)
If anybody needs help getting all those squares together, I'd be willing to help:) I'd love to see some of the squares, and know I'm helping keep someone's grandmother warm.
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Date: 2004-01-23 02:03 pm (UTC)Maybe I'll have to make another pillow or something. Idle hands are the Devil Puppet's workshop, ya know:)
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Date: 2004-01-23 02:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-23 10:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-24 10:35 pm (UTC)Will reimburse for yarny. Speaking of crackstore, have you ever been to the Yarnery in St. Paul?
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Date: 2004-01-25 02:03 am (UTC)Reimbursement is cool. And noooo, I haven't been to the yarnery...maybe I should think of a field trip there. What are they like?
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Date: 2004-01-25 02:15 am (UTC)heee...Look, he's smoking a cigarrete, you know he's evil!
Bad puppet!
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Date: 2004-01-26 05:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-27 01:43 pm (UTC)Mmmm, sounds kinda like Depth of Field. Damn me, I *neeeeeed * more yarn...Need need neeeed!!!
*Plans outing for yarny stockup this weekend*