The State of Me
Feb. 24th, 2006 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carynb
Haven't posted much at all recently, have I?
Let's see - last weekend I went to a Pampered Chef party at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
race29girl's place, and spent waaay too much money. *g* I'm now thinking about hosting such a thing myself, but I don't really think I have enough space. The free goodies if it goes well, though, are tempting.
Other than that, I've been kinda unofficially participating in The Knitting Olympics. I never actually signed up, but I thought it would be cool to challenge myself to try something different, and to try to get it done inside of 16 days. I almost decided to try to make some socks, but I didn't make it to a yarn store, so I went with something sitting in my stash, waiting for me to get to it.
So I start the Snowdrop Shawl. And I've discovered that knitting lace is a bitch. At least, knitting with lace-weight yarn is really nasty. Frogging's next to impossible, and most times I tried to go back, I'd drop a stitch and end up introducing more errors into the whole. So, it's not perfect. I do, however, like what I have done so far. I have the main body of the shawl finished, and just have to do the edging. I won't finish it by Sunday - I certainly won't get it blocked by then, and it's not real likely that I'll get the actual knitting finished, but I'll keep trying.
So I've spent the last two weeks on the couch, watching the Olympics (Jeff Buttle was fantastic! So was Joannie Rochette!), mainlining the first season of House and knitting like crazy.
Speaking of House, I'm glad I bought the DVD's for Season 1. I didn't watch it as it was airing, but I heard soooo much good about it that I thought I'd give it a try. If I'd been watching it live, though, I would have given up after the first 5 or 6 episodes. They were getting quite predictable, y'know? Patient shows up with unidentified disease. The treatment for the first diagnosis makes them worse; the treatment for the second almost kills them. House notices something about their environment, or figures out what they're lying about, and uses this to make the correct diagnosis, and then everything's okay. Well, except when the diagnosis is something that's gonna kill the patient in days. Eventually, they broke that mold, at least to some extent. And I thought the second last episode of the season, Three Stories, was just brilliant.
My plans for tonight are to do laundry, vacuum my apartment, fortify myself with a glass of scotch, and attempt to pickup the 438 stitches I need to do the border on the shawl. And maybe watch some Season 1 Wonder Woman while I'm at it. Yeah, my life's just that exciting. *g*
Let's see - last weekend I went to a Pampered Chef party at
race29girl's place, and spent waaay too much money. *g* I'm now thinking about hosting such a thing myself, but I don't really think I have enough space. The free goodies if it goes well, though, are tempting.Other than that, I've been kinda unofficially participating in The Knitting Olympics. I never actually signed up, but I thought it would be cool to challenge myself to try something different, and to try to get it done inside of 16 days. I almost decided to try to make some socks, but I didn't make it to a yarn store, so I went with something sitting in my stash, waiting for me to get to it.
So I start the Snowdrop Shawl. And I've discovered that knitting lace is a bitch. At least, knitting with lace-weight yarn is really nasty. Frogging's next to impossible, and most times I tried to go back, I'd drop a stitch and end up introducing more errors into the whole. So, it's not perfect. I do, however, like what I have done so far. I have the main body of the shawl finished, and just have to do the edging. I won't finish it by Sunday - I certainly won't get it blocked by then, and it's not real likely that I'll get the actual knitting finished, but I'll keep trying.
| The main body of the snowdrop shawl, sans edging. Unfortunately, it's not going to be as long as I'd like, although it should hit the small of my back, which will work okay. It seems like most of the FO pictures I've seen have either put in extra repeats of the patterns, or used something thicker than lace-weight yarn. |
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| A detail picture of the shawl. I do like the pattern, and that's just a shadow from the wrinkled sheets, not a flaw, over on the right-hand edge That's my story, & I'm sticking to it! |
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So I've spent the last two weeks on the couch, watching the Olympics (Jeff Buttle was fantastic! So was Joannie Rochette!), mainlining the first season of House and knitting like crazy.
Speaking of House, I'm glad I bought the DVD's for Season 1. I didn't watch it as it was airing, but I heard soooo much good about it that I thought I'd give it a try. If I'd been watching it live, though, I would have given up after the first 5 or 6 episodes. They were getting quite predictable, y'know? Patient shows up with unidentified disease. The treatment for the first diagnosis makes them worse; the treatment for the second almost kills them. House notices something about their environment, or figures out what they're lying about, and uses this to make the correct diagnosis, and then everything's okay. Well, except when the diagnosis is something that's gonna kill the patient in days. Eventually, they broke that mold, at least to some extent. And I thought the second last episode of the season, Three Stories, was just brilliant.
My plans for tonight are to do laundry, vacuum my apartment, fortify myself with a glass of scotch, and attempt to pickup the 438 stitches I need to do the border on the shawl. And maybe watch some Season 1 Wonder Woman while I'm at it. Yeah, my life's just that exciting. *g*
