19
April
2007

Hour 6

Okay, I got the hat finished:

And I started a new Walker swatch:

And the next few hours will be devoted to sleep. G’night.

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19
April
2007

Hour 4.5

I spent most of hour 3 knitting on a ribbing to the entrelac basket-cap I made from an issue of Wool Gathering. And most of the second hour trying to do a sewn bind-off. I was following Nancy Wiseman’s technique in her book of finishing techniques, thinking that blind following would be fine. But after getting 10 stitches in twice and having a twisted purl bind-off instead of the desired knit rib bind-off, I gave up. I realized that I know kitchener and I can read my knitting, so I’m gonna stop reading the book. When my movie (Spellbound) ended, this is where it was:

This is a view of the mess that surrounds me:

Then I decided it was time to stop soaking things and block.

Here’s the Walker swatches:

Mermaid takes a spin:

Mermaid takes a nap:

Now, it’s back to finish that hat. Tivo has ER and Earl for me.

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19
April
2007

Hour 2

Okay, so there’s been 1/2 an episode of SNL, 2 episodes of the Daily Show, and dinner.

One frogged project that I lost interest in:

Two swatches for The Walker Treasury Project that are currently soaking before blocking:

And Mermaid is taking a swim:

Mough is wishing for 24 hours of cat:

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19
April
2007

24 Hours of Knitting!

Yesterday I had my big deadline. I submitted final proofs on 1600+ pages. Today, I went to work and hung out in case there were questions on my edits (and there were a few) and to write up the reference pages and to eat instant ice cream because it was Son’s day (yesterday was Daughter’s day and I do mean instant ice cream - heavy cream, sugar, vanilla, liquid nitrogen; stir for a minute and poof yummy ice cream).

But I digress.

Tomorrow I am not going to the office. I’m pretending it’s Sunday (when I was at the office for way more hours than I should have been). And I’m not going to do any house selling or divorce stuff. I’m just going to sit and play with yarn projects (to be fair, getting a handle on my UFOs and stash is a house-selling project).

Anyway, for the next 24 hours, I’m doing nothing but yarn, food, and sleep (okay, I have a massage scheduled tomorrow morning, but I think I count that as sleep). And blog. I’m going to cram a whole month of knitting and knit blogging into 24 hours. Just watch me.

And it all starts……now!

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