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Is This Thing On?
Jul. 13th, 2003 08:15 amSo, how does one inaugurate a journal?
I could certainly talk about the previous two days spent with my in-laws, but, you know, there are some things that are just too unbelievable to talk about.
So, I'll talk about knitting instead.
I finally finished the knitting on my sister's birthday present (for the second time). A couple of years ago I knitted a treetop angel for my mother, and my sister liked it, so I thought I'd make one for her. The angel I made for my Mom came out beautifully, just like the picture in the magazine and everything, so I thought "no sweat, I can do it again"--which I probably could have, if I hadn't written down the wrong needle size in my notes on the first angel, then failed to cook the starch enough, and then squeezed too much starch out before molding the pieces on the forms. The result was a rather squat, stunted, limp-winged angel that wobbled drunkenly at the waist, which, while providing a certain degree of amusement, wasn't exactly what I had in mind. So, I tried again. I haven't starched it yet, but I plan to saturate the thing this time and to hell with how many times the breaker trips while I'm blow-drying it.
Finishing the angel has allowed me to go back, finally, to the butterfly counterpane I'm making for yet another baby not my own. Two squares down, ten to go. I made one for the first baby of our little trio of babies, and once again was surprised because it came out looking like it was supposed to. I can only hope the second counterpane won't be a repeat of the angel fiasco. And now that I've made two butterfly blankets, I'll have to make one for my baby so they'll all have one. I picked out a kind of coral-pink-rose color, which undermines my feelings about color/gender stereotyping done to babies, but which has to give way to the undeniable fact that my daughter does, in fact, look damn good in pink.
I actually get most of my knitting done during gaming nights. Had lots of knitting time last night because I decided to guard the sentient android making the super-weapon instead of going out and blowing up secret labs or getting shot at. Did get to test the weapon on myself, which was cool.
I could certainly talk about the previous two days spent with my in-laws, but, you know, there are some things that are just too unbelievable to talk about.
So, I'll talk about knitting instead.
I finally finished the knitting on my sister's birthday present (for the second time). A couple of years ago I knitted a treetop angel for my mother, and my sister liked it, so I thought I'd make one for her. The angel I made for my Mom came out beautifully, just like the picture in the magazine and everything, so I thought "no sweat, I can do it again"--which I probably could have, if I hadn't written down the wrong needle size in my notes on the first angel, then failed to cook the starch enough, and then squeezed too much starch out before molding the pieces on the forms. The result was a rather squat, stunted, limp-winged angel that wobbled drunkenly at the waist, which, while providing a certain degree of amusement, wasn't exactly what I had in mind. So, I tried again. I haven't starched it yet, but I plan to saturate the thing this time and to hell with how many times the breaker trips while I'm blow-drying it.
Finishing the angel has allowed me to go back, finally, to the butterfly counterpane I'm making for yet another baby not my own. Two squares down, ten to go. I made one for the first baby of our little trio of babies, and once again was surprised because it came out looking like it was supposed to. I can only hope the second counterpane won't be a repeat of the angel fiasco. And now that I've made two butterfly blankets, I'll have to make one for my baby so they'll all have one. I picked out a kind of coral-pink-rose color, which undermines my feelings about color/gender stereotyping done to babies, but which has to give way to the undeniable fact that my daughter does, in fact, look damn good in pink.
I actually get most of my knitting done during gaming nights. Had lots of knitting time last night because I decided to guard the sentient android making the super-weapon instead of going out and blowing up secret labs or getting shot at. Did get to test the weapon on myself, which was cool.