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the_rckI finished the scarf I was working on. Before I washed it, it was longer than I am tall. Washing it took at least 8 inches off and faded the colors a bit. I'm not altogether happy with it, but I think it'll be quite usable. I've started in on a scarf for my half-sister now, and that's going fairly well. It'll be a bright yellow, more of a gold really, and the yarn is incredibly soft (much easier on my fingers than the cotton. I've got new calluses from that). Her mother may not like the fact that it's acrylic, but… None of the cottons had that brilliant a color, and I'm allergic to animal fibers (I refuse to knit something that will make my skin itch that badly!).
I lost some time on the scarf due to the fall I took on Wednesday the 10th. That skinned up my hands so that I couldn't do much with them for a couple of days (I still have to be careful because the scabs on the palm of my right hand tend to split if I stretch them too much. My sister's birthday was the 13th, and I'd hoped to have the scarf done by then, but that hasn't happened. I'm working on the third skein of yarn (of five). The stuff's fine enough that working through a skein takes a bit longer than I expect, and I'm having to roll it into tight balls because otherwise it has a tendency to separate into strands that produce inconvenient extra loops and such.
The yellow scarf doesn't look nearly as pretty now as it did. I tied together the ends of a couple of skeins (as usual) and went on. They came apart when I was a couple of rows further on. With LunarGeography's help (and her smallest crochet hook), I was able to back up, but a few stitches got lost, and one row ended up backward. I suspect it's a minor flaw from the point of view of anyone but the creator. Still, if I wasn't already late, I'd be very tempted to undo everything and start over. (Well, that, and I'm quite sure something like that would happen again somewhere along the line…)
Perhaps I should ask the other knitters of my acquaintance how they'd rescue such a situation (and if there's a better way to join skeins while working). Dorothy hosted a craft afternoon on the 7th at her new house, and at least one other person was knitting. She plans to make this at least a monthly occasion from now on. I hope that she does, and I hope that the cats she plans to get don't prove too much of a problem for me in attending. My cat allergies are pretty variable depending on the cats, how often the owner cleans, the air flow in the house or apartment, the weather and the like.
I enjoyed the gathering quite a bit. I hadn't seen either Mary or Michelle in quite some time. Michelle told us how her marriage preparations are going; it sounds pretty crazy for a family only civil ceremony, but that may come of her being the first of her siblings to marry. Mary gave me a ride home afterward and told me that she and her husband are looking at buying a condo. I got the impression that she's a little frustrated with how their lives are going at the moment. He's working his way very slowly through grad school, so a lot of things are on hold, some probably permanently.
I lost some time on the scarf due to the fall I took on Wednesday the 10th. That skinned up my hands so that I couldn't do much with them for a couple of days (I still have to be careful because the scabs on the palm of my right hand tend to split if I stretch them too much. My sister's birthday was the 13th, and I'd hoped to have the scarf done by then, but that hasn't happened. I'm working on the third skein of yarn (of five). The stuff's fine enough that working through a skein takes a bit longer than I expect, and I'm having to roll it into tight balls because otherwise it has a tendency to separate into strands that produce inconvenient extra loops and such.
The yellow scarf doesn't look nearly as pretty now as it did. I tied together the ends of a couple of skeins (as usual) and went on. They came apart when I was a couple of rows further on. With LunarGeography's help (and her smallest crochet hook), I was able to back up, but a few stitches got lost, and one row ended up backward. I suspect it's a minor flaw from the point of view of anyone but the creator. Still, if I wasn't already late, I'd be very tempted to undo everything and start over. (Well, that, and I'm quite sure something like that would happen again somewhere along the line…)
Perhaps I should ask the other knitters of my acquaintance how they'd rescue such a situation (and if there's a better way to join skeins while working). Dorothy hosted a craft afternoon on the 7th at her new house, and at least one other person was knitting. She plans to make this at least a monthly occasion from now on. I hope that she does, and I hope that the cats she plans to get don't prove too much of a problem for me in attending. My cat allergies are pretty variable depending on the cats, how often the owner cleans, the air flow in the house or apartment, the weather and the like.
I enjoyed the gathering quite a bit. I hadn't seen either Mary or Michelle in quite some time. Michelle told us how her marriage preparations are going; it sounds pretty crazy for a family only civil ceremony, but that may come of her being the first of her siblings to marry. Mary gave me a ride home afterward and told me that she and her husband are looking at buying a condo. I got the impression that she's a little frustrated with how their lives are going at the moment. He's working his way very slowly through grad school, so a lot of things are on hold, some probably permanently.
