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zana16Yesterday was National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day. I celebrated by drinking the last bottle of hard lemonade. All that is left in my fridge is some French cheese, which I lack bread to go with. Because I am too lazy to walk to the bottom of the hill and buy a loaf of bread. Fortunately, being French, the cheese never goes bad. It may grow mold, but cheese IS mold. Just don't think about it too much.
Today is Button Day. I only have one at the moment, that says "Dissent is Patriotic" with an American flag on it. Although if we're talking coat-buttons I need to find button thread and sew a button back on the heavy-Canadian-Navy-wool-coat-that-is-twice-as-old-as-I-am. And my light coat also has a button missing. Dammit.
The Santa hat I'm knitting is coming along nicely. It was hilarious: at the play tonight, Laura and I had out our knitting, and Izzie got out her crochet, and The Boy looked at us, smiled, and took out a small thingamajig he's carving. But whereas I can knit during lectures, movies, meetings, etc., Laura and The Boy (I forgot his name, okay?) are actually hard-core and have to actually pay attention to what they're doing. My rationale for knitting is that I can watch TV and still feel productive. It means I can't do complicated patterns where I have to count stiches, etc., though. I do lots of scarves, hats, and squares for a quilt. I have 22 squares so far, each about a foot square. They sit on top of the case that holds the Bible on tape, another project that will probably not get done or completed for several years.
Today is Button Day. I only have one at the moment, that says "Dissent is Patriotic" with an American flag on it. Although if we're talking coat-buttons I need to find button thread and sew a button back on the heavy-Canadian-Navy-wool-coat-that-is-twice-as-old-as-I-am. And my light coat also has a button missing. Dammit.
The Santa hat I'm knitting is coming along nicely. It was hilarious: at the play tonight, Laura and I had out our knitting, and Izzie got out her crochet, and The Boy looked at us, smiled, and took out a small thingamajig he's carving. But whereas I can knit during lectures, movies, meetings, etc., Laura and The Boy (I forgot his name, okay?) are actually hard-core and have to actually pay attention to what they're doing. My rationale for knitting is that I can watch TV and still feel productive. It means I can't do complicated patterns where I have to count stiches, etc., though. I do lots of scarves, hats, and squares for a quilt. I have 22 squares so far, each about a foot square. They sit on top of the case that holds the Bible on tape, another project that will probably not get done or completed for several years.
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Date: 2003-11-16 09:06 am (UTC)You CAN do complex knitting without having to count stitches--that's what most of the strtings hanging off my knitting were for. You put a little loop on your needle, and when you get around to it, it means "decrease here" "increase here", or whatever. It's the Quipu Theory of knitting! Strings hanging off things remind you of stuff! Not to mention the fact that your knitting looks like a quipu, too! D'you think I can do a final project for History of Math about that?
It's entriely ok to keep projects for ages. I also store yarn for obscene periods of time....I had some purple laceweight that I kept for 2 or 3 years before making a shawl out of it. I also have a sweater that's been in progress since January of 2002. (Like ALL my knitting, it needs to be ripped out and redone.(The collar of the current sweater dosen't fit. )*sigh*)