My kid’s kindergarten teacher wanted a felted purse. Hot pink. Stripe of novelty yarn.
(Unfelted, no straps yet. CD for scale)
I’m trying to decide whether to put some purple piping along the edges, since there’s purple Cascade behind the novelty yarn. Well, it meets her requests, so hopefully she’ll be happy!
So just now, I was carrying some laundry from the bedroom to the washing machine. I tried to stack some more in my arms, as I had a big pile I was kind of holding in place with my chin. I brought my right hand up, and my thumbnail caught my chin and left a gash.
So help me, if this scars, I’m making up some cool adventure to go with it. “I got it while taming lions” sounds better than “freak laundry accident.”
Since panzermama got her parcel in the mail, I can now post info on the baby socks. This has been previously posted to the knitting channel, I just like having a record elsewhere.
Tale of woe about mis-reading gauge, shortcuts, and Lorna’s Laces sport below cut.
Big-ass scarf, 3/4 done.
Kureyon pouch, knitted. I’m about to toss it in the washing machine to felt. I had to scavenge a little Kureyon from scraps (which fortunately matched) to finish up the i-cord drawstring, but I think if I omit one plain round in the decreases, I’ll have the perfect little 1-skein Kureyon dice bag pattern. I’ll post pics when it’s done.
Jayne hat to accompany said dice bag, knitted save for earflaps and pompom. I’ll finish that up while the bag felts, although I won’t be able to mail the package until the bag dries.
Kindergarten teacher’s bag, body is finished, still needs straps. I think I’ll add a little pocket on the side for a cell phone or whatever strikes her fancy. She wanted pink, and man, is it PINK. That’s being put on hold while I work on more hats, though.
Next up: finish big-ass scarf, then on to hats for LF, MS, MA, ML, and LC.
Autism research: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4661402.stm
Confirms what I had already suspected, and I think many others had as well.
And it does seem to bear out, even going back a generation. My mother’s side of the family does tend toward the analytical, and my husband’s father is an engineer.
It prompted this conversation online between myself and my computer geek hubby:
Tvini: I have long felt this to be true, that there’s got to be a link there.
Mr. Tvini: Me too.
Tvini: However, having said that.. have you seen our house? In what world is my housekeeping the mark of a “systemizer?”
Mr. Tvini: Heh, no, not there, but you have stayed until unghodly hours of the night (morning) working on a promo.
Tvini: I hadn’t looked at it in those terms before, but you’re right.
Mr. Tvini: We’re the perfect storm, baby (heh)
I got a great package from my FiberGodmother yesterday! She pegged me pretty well!
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Fiber Godmother Package 1 Colorful hankies! Homemade yarn ball tangle preventer! Two little pins reading “Born to Knit” over a skull and “Yarn Ho!” Cotton bath puff which I am totally going to use later! Extremely clever row counters and stitch markers! Tape measure I have already used! James Bond-esque combination pen/nail file/cuticle thingie! One skein of very soft Trendsetter Blossom! And a magnet to grace the back of the Tvinimobile! |
She made up the pattern for the bath puff, which looks like it’s knitted in… I’m going to say Araucania Naure Cotton? and is quite nice. And coincidentally, I had just lost yet another tape measure, so that was a timely gift as well. I really do like everything I got, as you can tell from the abundant exclamation points!
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Tvinimobile! Look! Now I’ve got my woman symbol, my old-school rainbow Mac sticker, my The Cheat, my Ani DiFranco “Righteous Babe” sticker, AND a ball of yarn! I’d been wanting something knittish on my car, and here it is! |
Yeah, that’s right. I’m gonna be stylin’ in my tricked out Tvinimobile. Uh-huh. You know you wish you were me.
I’m really happy with everything I got, and while my Fiber Godmother said she worried I might know who she was, believe me, I’m not going looking to try to guess. It’s all a total surprise to me. 🙂
Thank you, Fiber Godmother!