i've knitted more this weekend than i did all last quarter. i'm 85% done with the second sleeve of kyoto, leaving me with just the left front panel (took about 3 hours to do the right one) and the border. i've got the tapestry needles ready, so hopefully it will be done before yayms and i head out to santa fe on friday. not because it will be particularly cold (however 100% cotton sweaters aren't the warmest things ever), but so that i can bring a BRAND NEW PROJECT! i can't handle having multiple w.i.p.s so i usually finish one before starting another.
what about the lovely cabled scarf i'm making for my sister that i started in january? well, i frogged that baby because i was knitting SOOOO tightly that i used almost a whole hank of rowan polar (in smirk!) on 3 feet of scarf. that, and it's june and she lives in southern california so there's not much hurry on that one.
so yesterday i bought the stuff to start on my own lelah! i actually bought some lion brand microspun yarn in coral. and it is softer than just about everything i have ever touched. it's a bit smaller than the gauge in the pattern but with a golden calculator to divide (to divide!) i'm going to try fudging it and having more of the fishtail patterns. it's also my first foray into lace patterns (now that i have successfully mastered yo's!). i'm not sure about the ribbon detail - because i'm me, i think that there are few colors that actually clash (it's all about the confidence with colors. patterns, however, do clash), so i'm toying with the idea of a lime green velvet ribbon. however, i am needin' me some new needles because the microspun does NOT like my bamboo 9 and 11 circulars...
i'm also wondering if i won't have to knit me up some straps because of my inherent distrust of elastic where my...parts are concerned. i'll play it by ear and decide later.
*f.o. - finished (knitted) object
w.i.p. - work in progress
no f.o., almost a new w.i.p.
culling thoughts from a brain made of oatmeal
i want kyoto to be finished. i'm also a little dismayed that since i got my swatching to match the pattern's, the right front panel is a full 2.5 inches too long. we'll see what happens and maybe i'll have to be ultracrafty and shorten it without frogging.
i woke up with a migraine and i'm working on it going away so i can do the yoga tonight with yaymee.
everyone send your giving-birth vibes toward pdx so that semaphoria isn't in limbo anymore. her brother thinks she needs to do the kung fu hustle to get travis out. i think she should take a 24 hour nap before labor. she's been quiet lately so maybe she's doing one of those two things (labor or nap) as we speak!
stuck on ben harper's "steal my kisses" this morning
house cleaning elves keep on letting me down. they never show up, or if they do they don't clean houses.
haiku-girl: thanks for the owl. i'll be there asap. which reminds me, we found the location of a portkey when we were at the Lounge on friday. there was a giant fireplace with a drawer in the mantle. so susannah opened it (hoping it would be a mystical portal - well, i was hoping it would be, anyway) but found a post-it with an address inside... i'll drive up there later to see if we can find the portkey.
people have left for the summer, some people have left for longer, other people have left forever. fritzie's gone until january, timmy's gone forever, rachel's gone for the summer, lots of people who have graduated are gone forever... however, i'd estimate that 80% of the graduates of my school will wind up in washington, dc so chances are good we'll run into each other in dc in the future.
i'm going to take kyoto to bed, knit-a-bit and sleep until the pounding stops in my head so that i can do warriors, crocodiles, trees, and boats this afternoon...
kyoto w.i.p. notes and other stuff
finally, i feel like kyoto's truckin' along again. i have the sash, the back a sleeve and one front panel finished. that leaves me with a front a sleeve and the detail seed stitch across the front. then comes the seaming. oy the seaming...
laat night crazy mara and i went to lounge (not to be read as "bounce" although their logo's a little ambiguous) to meet up with susannah and sam. what they DIDN'T tell us was that it was someone's graduation party. and someone we don't know, to boot. however, we happened to arrive there at the end of the party when the people we didn't really know were leaving, and we hung out with susannah, sam, laeticia, blair, and two really tolerant people who were on a first date and happened to sit with us. anyhow, mara and i left relatively early because i was sleepy and she was sleepy, and we were both crossing into crankytown. it was fun, but we were done.
people's fair, which was on deck for today, was rained out. so c.m. and i went to whole foods for unagi bowls and sushi.
and i took a nap because i don't have any homework to do.
they tore down my mystical portal at school... so i have to find another way to get to hogwarts...
hey fatso, oink oink, too many twinkies.
flight of the navigator's on abc family tonight.
i love that movie...
compliance.
see ya later, navigator
large dog at large
yesterday, ernestine had his first taste of freedom since he was 9 weeks old. for a reference, he is 5 1/2 years old.
we were wandering around out in the yard on the leash, getting ready for him to do his stinkystuff, when forwhatever reason, the ring on his headcollar (gentle leader... we're fans!) caught the latch to the leash and he was liberated. we stood there looking at each other for 30 seconds trying to grasp what happened. i bolted for the back gate to close it (the yard DOES have a fence, however it's in many ways "notional" and it is likely to be knocked over with dirty looks and harsh language. and ernie has jumped over it before when he saw a cat. hence the leash.) he bolted for the front gate and hit the streets.
on my way to the front gate, i handily closed the side gate that goes to the neighbor's yard. i made it to the front gate, and saw him halfway up the street. knowing that if i were to approach him he'd keep running, i let him see me and turned around and ran toward the yard again. so, he ran into the yard, i shut the gate, and ran down the side of the house opened the door to the house and got him inside.
it took all of about 120 seconds, but it scared the crap out of me. my dog is a spaz. he's funny and sweet and snuggly and ridiculous. and he hates kids and dogs and cats and strangers. so, since he's never been at-large before, i have no idea how he will actually react if he gets next to kids or dogs or cats or strangers...
i'm glad he's home, he wasn't hurt or lost, and that no one else was hurt or lost...
i pretty much decided it was oh-beer-thiry when we got inside.
then i went to mara's and we watched the incredibles, which was so much fun!
oh baby, baby it's a wild world
my new upstairs neighbors consist of a mom and her 2 daughters. the older daughter is turning 16 today (i can't for the life of me remember the names of the daughters... very unlike me, so somewhat disturbing) and it's the last day of school. so the mom is having a limo pick her and her friends up from school and having a party that will last until late late late... i may or may not remember that is a slumber party. it's also her first boy-girl party.
a 16 year olds birthday party that will last from 2 pm until ??
i cannot remember the last time i had thought "is this a boy-girl party?" but i do have to wonder if it's a boy-girl slumber party.
do boys even have slumber parties if girls aren't hosting?
so there will be much tearing things up. which means there will be much ernie barking tonight. however they made me brownies from scratch for my birthday so i shall sit quietly, knit, and read. sleep may or may not happen.
1 down, 2 to go
hooray for matt and jenn g. who had joshua richard g. this morning at 6:15 am, at the corresponding weight of 6lbs 15 0z! he's totally cute at the ripe old age of 3 hrs, but he's not my baby to post pictures of.
james and jaimie, dan and francisca, we're waiting...
creaky like a rusty chain hanging from a bolt on a suspended railroad tie
now that i have all of this "free time" nonsense, it turns out i haven't much of consequence to say.
usually this type of post is followed up with a wordy post or an annoying meme, so we'll see what happens now.
