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I'm beginning to think mundanely....
Otherwise, the cry of "heretic" at the Sedalia renfest, and the realization what someone was pointing at By& I wouldn't have been a surprise. Duh, we were wearing our "dirt" shirts (see below), and the person calling to us (rather than about us) knew us from Heartland. *blink* 'Tis a bit odd, though, walking through that sort of environment, and being called a heretic.
Had a good time today. Sedalia runs a nice little fair--a bit on the thinly populated side, since they got the wild storms last night too, and half the vendors packed up and went home. But fun. We hung out with the folks running the Highland Games, and By tried some of them. He decided his performance would have been improved were he wearing the proper attire (kilt and gillies--he plans to have *something* close by Tara).
Didn't do much shopping while we were there, just a cd by Three Pints Gone, and 1000 yds of a 2-ply handspun tussah silk ($30, do you believe that?) that I could NOT resist. The lady doing the spinning sold it for $0.03 per yd. Wonderful, wonderful stuff. It's going to be a lily-of-the-valley lace shawl eventually. Not the one in the most recent Knitter's Magazine, but a slightly different treatment of the pattern from a recent issue of Spinoff (which looked like it would show off a thicker yarn better). Got to get more done on The Sweater before I start anythign else, though.
We did get hit by the storms that went through last night, not as bad as some places, I guess. We lost power a bit before 10pm; when we turned the radio on, the station was talking about all the trees and lines down in Topeka, and kept saying that the worst was heading south and east. I guess the renfair site in Sedalia actually clocked 80mph winds on site last night. Haven't heard from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
classics_cat yet, to see how she made out at Lilies War.
The Sock Report: Packed a subdued skein of self-striping yarn as walk-around knitting, with the thought of starting socks for By. Nothing fancy...simple toe-up rounded toe start, plain knitting, Strong heel....I've got two skeins of this stuff, so I figured I'd just knit on the legs as far as the skein would go, he likes tall socks. Nearly done with the first one, too, which impressed the folks we were hanging out with.
The UnSock Report: Finished the knotwork spiral band on the sleeve of The Sweater, just a little out of KC, and I forgot to put the green yarn in the bag, so I had to put that down and move to socks. But it's progressing nicely. Still don't have enough length aroud to fit on the circular needle, but it's close. It's surprising, how much faster these patterns go on the sleeve, compared to the body of the sweater. 140 sts, rather than 512.....gee, that might be it.
Seriously contemplating a new "involved project" (the shawl mentioned above), so that's a big motivator to get more done on The Sweater, to allay the guilt of having too much going on at once.
And, I may be doing some knitting for trade soon. Some of the Highland Games folk are interested in knitted and felted bonnets, and one of the ladies says she has a pattern, but doesn't knit, so....They can't be that tough.
***dirt shirts = the tshirts A had made for the firetenders at Heartland this year. The front says "At 5000 degrees, even dirt burns" in bright orange, on a black shirt. The back says "Fire Hoard/Heartland 2004". And yes, I know it's misspelled. A doesn't always proofread things before they go out. But "hoard" is somewhat appropriate, considering the "hoarding" of the pyro tricks. Anyway, the shirts really stand out. We were getting weird looks all day.
Had a good time today. Sedalia runs a nice little fair--a bit on the thinly populated side, since they got the wild storms last night too, and half the vendors packed up and went home. But fun. We hung out with the folks running the Highland Games, and By tried some of them. He decided his performance would have been improved were he wearing the proper attire (kilt and gillies--he plans to have *something* close by Tara).
Didn't do much shopping while we were there, just a cd by Three Pints Gone, and 1000 yds of a 2-ply handspun tussah silk ($30, do you believe that?) that I could NOT resist. The lady doing the spinning sold it for $0.03 per yd. Wonderful, wonderful stuff. It's going to be a lily-of-the-valley lace shawl eventually. Not the one in the most recent Knitter's Magazine, but a slightly different treatment of the pattern from a recent issue of Spinoff (which looked like it would show off a thicker yarn better). Got to get more done on The Sweater before I start anythign else, though.
We did get hit by the storms that went through last night, not as bad as some places, I guess. We lost power a bit before 10pm; when we turned the radio on, the station was talking about all the trees and lines down in Topeka, and kept saying that the worst was heading south and east. I guess the renfair site in Sedalia actually clocked 80mph winds on site last night. Haven't heard from
classics_cat yet, to see how she made out at Lilies War.The Sock Report: Packed a subdued skein of self-striping yarn as walk-around knitting, with the thought of starting socks for By. Nothing fancy...simple toe-up rounded toe start, plain knitting, Strong heel....I've got two skeins of this stuff, so I figured I'd just knit on the legs as far as the skein would go, he likes tall socks. Nearly done with the first one, too, which impressed the folks we were hanging out with.
The UnSock Report: Finished the knotwork spiral band on the sleeve of The Sweater, just a little out of KC, and I forgot to put the green yarn in the bag, so I had to put that down and move to socks. But it's progressing nicely. Still don't have enough length aroud to fit on the circular needle, but it's close. It's surprising, how much faster these patterns go on the sleeve, compared to the body of the sweater. 140 sts, rather than 512.....gee, that might be it.
Seriously contemplating a new "involved project" (the shawl mentioned above), so that's a big motivator to get more done on The Sweater, to allay the guilt of having too much going on at once.
And, I may be doing some knitting for trade soon. Some of the Highland Games folk are interested in knitted and felted bonnets, and one of the ladies says she has a pattern, but doesn't knit, so....They can't be that tough.
***dirt shirts = the tshirts A had made for the firetenders at Heartland this year. The front says "At 5000 degrees, even dirt burns" in bright orange, on a black shirt. The back says "Fire Hoard/Heartland 2004". And yes, I know it's misspelled. A doesn't always proofread things before they go out. But "hoard" is somewhat appropriate, considering the "hoarding" of the pyro tricks. Anyway, the shirts really stand out. We were getting weird looks all day.