Saturday night

Mar 18, 2007 13 Replies

Tonight I have on needles:



One pi shawl that is giving me fits in the 576-stitch section. Feather & fan is normally a pretty easy pattern but for some reason my poor brain is having trouble with it



A Domovoi shawl from _Folk Shawls_. Ought to be an easy-peasy pattern once I've got some rhythm going.



Socks hanging out in a seat-back pocket in the truck for stoplight and hurryup&wait knitting.



A sweater for the boy that I started in December using stash yarn of which I thought I had a lot more than I do. FInally found the correct color (wrong dye lot, who cares) but since it's a wool sweater and summer is almost here in Texas...



On Sunday I'm making my first angelfood cake in a decade, as well as waffles for the upcoming week. I'm also firing up the smoker (brisket, a turkey, whatever the neighbor decides to throw in there) in the morning so I won't have to do much in the way of dinner cooking this week either.



Off to bed!


WoolyGooly spun a FINE 'yarn':

G'nite, Wooly! Noreen going off to sleepland soon herself.....

Hee Wooly the PI shawl is meant as a test for STRONG nerves ,,, at least 2 people i know , started , and never finnished , and collected some terminology i didn`t know before !!!Thus i decided to start it with the widest point and work my way to the middle , = decrease stitiches rather than increase ,, it is deffinitly a better thing for one`s nerves ,,, but i haven`t finnished mine it is there in bag , snaring at me ,,,, howling in Moon lit nights ,,, i will finnish it this years !!!!

Don`t know that one I am still busy with RED , had some mistakes and reknitted that ,,, than i have a new crochet Moebious that is to be given on Wensday ...Luckily it is already half made , it is for man and thus it wont be too wide i will though have to write an explanation on the card , about it`s nature and the way one should wash it ....

One glove still on needles and my art work is almost Done ,,, Thah there are the Other techniques in work ,, We have a Busy musical week , as Daughter will perform both here and everywhere and we will go to art least 2 [ different ] concerts to listen to her + different othe musicians . mirjam

Wow, how long are traffic-light changes in your area!

VP

Good night all!

Denis & Gail

You started a boy in December? Congratulations :-)

Mary

There are a couple that stretch to nearly 5 minutes - busy intersections at highway interchanges. I've heard there's an intersection on the south side of town that makes people wait 6-7 minutes.

And of course the notorious four-car light that makes a body wait through as many as 8 cycles during rush hour...

Allow me to reconstruct that: In December I started a sweater for the boy...

Eh well, the not-so-amusing thing here is that I finished a Pi last week. I knitted it plain vanilla and used EZ's lace - large diamonds and some zigzags. It was a gift and I needed it in a hurry, so I didn't want to put too much thought-requiring work into it.

The current pi is for myself. I decided to use other lace in the

48-round and 96-round sections. The 48-round bit knitted in something Barbara Walker calls "spider stitch" (which is nothing at all like the Shetland spider lace I have in a different book!) went pretty well, though slowly because of all the centered double decreases and the ssk decreases.

But this F&F, I swear, is going to be the death of me. I knitted and tinked the same pattern row four times before I discovered the problem was in the *previous* pattern round. Now the thing is in time-out lest I burn it - but I diagnosed and corrected the problem so my stitch count is correct again.

WoolyGooly spun a FINE 'yarn':

Good *catch* Mary, and hilarious retort, Wooly! :D Noreen

I liked the original better. You could use a little more imagination with it. :-) Bernadette

Bernadette spun a FINE 'yarn':

nod nod nod! ;) Noreen

I am sitting here and when i down load i knit my artwork ,stitch after stich the thing grows ,,, Cleaned house with help , saw the dentist , and had a long discussion with the cat about manners ,,, he thinks that if i have a piece of cheese cake , it is his and he just put his paw on my plate and took most part of the cake away [ on the clean floor] Before i even put my spoon into it ,,,, thus we had a heart to heart talk ,,, and he promised , not to do it in front of me next time :>:>:>:> GOOD Gracious you started a 2 nd Pi ????? girly you have the IRon nerves ,,, i don`t think i could even think about a 2nd .. mirjam

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