Sunday, January 08, 2006
Post Forty-Seven: (&^$&%!!!
OK, this is my luck. I go to start making a post with some pictures I've been meaning to get, and after I clear the camera card onto the computer, and take one picture, it tells me "Warning! Battery Exhausted" and shuts off. So it's gonna charge for 10 mintes and then I'll try again. Piece of crap. Luck of the Irish my ass!
Edit: OK, here it all is! First up, sweater progress!
See? I have one and a third sleeves done. But I'm too darn lazy right now (and not doing homework I should be, besides) to measure and figure the real percent I should've. So I picked a random number. How d'you like THAT, OCD? Huh?
Oh, and BTW, I hate the yellow light in my house. I mean trailer. But I really, really hate yellow light. Except for that one specific light you get about a half hour before sunset and a half hour after sunrise. That glow is wicked awesome. Ugh. Yellow house light.
But the point is that I finally got it on-guage, two needle sizes smaller, and I can finish it now. Sometime in February, like I originally predicted, I think. It's still bothering me that I had to go down two needle sizes, since my guage has been dead on with everything else I've ever made. Blech.
Next on display is the full crop of stitch markers I've made, since I can't remember which ones were shown off last time. I do know the newest ones are all those little red n' white ones by the yellow one and that orange stick with a green head. And again, that (&$^* yellow light. But I am rather proud of my little stitch markers, and finally figured out how to make an easily-usable and still not ugly charm bracelet out of them. I'm gonna buy some 6 or 7mm double rings and link enough together to go around my wrist, then slip the stitch markers into them. Peachy!
And this is what I've been up to for the past couple days in the crafty department, really. These used to be T-shirts. They've been cut into strips and balled, for use as creative yarn. And yes, the condensing of a packrat's scrap-fabric stash. The big balls and two bluish ones are 100% cotton, and the middle one is much shinier than it looks, and 100% polyester.
And finally, Yule gifts time! Gotta show you two of the cool things I got!
This, for your reference, is how small a ball of NY Yarns' Fluff actually balls up to be. And yes, that's my hand. Which is kind of small anyway, but still. You get the idea. It's really very soft and lovable, though. The yarn, not my hand. But what, praytell, is that box on the right? Hmm, green, fabic-y, cubish...whatever could it be? The answer:
A Singer Sewing Cube, with 40 little spools of thread, a few needles and pins, a purple plastic thimble, and a little pair of scissors inside. Cute and nifty as all hell!
Edit: OK, here it all is! First up, sweater progress!
See? I have one and a third sleeves done. But I'm too darn lazy right now (and not doing homework I should be, besides) to measure and figure the real percent I should've. So I picked a random number. How d'you like THAT, OCD? Huh?Oh, and BTW, I hate the yellow light in my house. I mean trailer. But I really, really hate yellow light. Except for that one specific light you get about a half hour before sunset and a half hour after sunrise. That glow is wicked awesome. Ugh. Yellow house light.
But the point is that I finally got it on-guage, two needle sizes smaller, and I can finish it now. Sometime in February, like I originally predicted, I think. It's still bothering me that I had to go down two needle sizes, since my guage has been dead on with everything else I've ever made. Blech.
Next on display is the full crop of stitch markers I've made, since I can't remember which ones were shown off last time. I do know the newest ones are all those little red n' white ones by the yellow one and that orange stick with a green head. And again, that (&$^* yellow light. But I am rather proud of my little stitch markers, and finally figured out how to make an easily-usable and still not ugly charm bracelet out of them. I'm gonna buy some 6 or 7mm double rings and link enough together to go around my wrist, then slip the stitch markers into them. Peachy!
And this is what I've been up to for the past couple days in the crafty department, really. These used to be T-shirts. They've been cut into strips and balled, for use as creative yarn. And yes, the condensing of a packrat's scrap-fabric stash. The big balls and two bluish ones are 100% cotton, and the middle one is much shinier than it looks, and 100% polyester.And finally, Yule gifts time! Gotta show you two of the cool things I got!
This, for your reference, is how small a ball of NY Yarns' Fluff actually balls up to be. And yes, that's my hand. Which is kind of small anyway, but still. You get the idea. It's really very soft and lovable, though. The yarn, not my hand. But what, praytell, is that box on the right? Hmm, green, fabic-y, cubish...whatever could it be? The answer:
A Singer Sewing Cube, with 40 little spools of thread, a few needles and pins, a purple plastic thimble, and a little pair of scissors inside. Cute and nifty as all hell!
