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Still waiting on the insurance people
Aug. 12th, 2003 07:23 amApparently, our claim was given to an adjuster who was on vacation last week. grrrrr. She's supposed to be this morning. Someone may be hearing from me today. Heck, our insurance agent may hear from me anyway; this practice doesn't come off as good customer service to me.
Sunday was indulgent, starting with cuddling, and then By cooking breakfast. Went to Lawrence book-shopping (at the new Half-Price books), met some friends for dinner, did a little more book-shopping. Wee!
Yesterday I got to go to Yarn Barn! And I left with only one skein of yarn, how strange is that? We'd actually made a second trip to get some very good chocolate bars for a gift for his boss, and had parked in the parking garage. By was nice and let me traipse through Yarn Barn on the way to the European Market (which sells primo chocolate). Yarn Barn damage--3 patterns, a little starter kumihimo kit (under $10, and something I've ben trying to do with make-do materials, this looked promising), and a skein of Berocco Glace yarn, to use as laces for the tied-up tee.
I'm starting to mull over a couple of potential projects. Major, slightly scary, but very interesting projects. One is entirely By's fault, he put the idea in my head--a "butterfly" shawl, a many-times-larger-than-life set of butterfly wings, colored as close to lifelike as possible. Monarch maybe, or luna moth. This will take some planning. I think I'd have a lot of fun with it though--can you imagine a luna moth with a 6' wingspan, knitted in creamy green silk, with its spots and details in gold ribbon and ivory chenille......
The second project idea is more likely to happen in the near term. I've been thinking for a while that the fabric I get on the Turkish socks, while labor-intensive, would make a kick-ass sweater, and I got to thinking last night that if I did such a thing for myself, I'd have room to do some wild Celtic patterns. Hmmmm. And if I borrowed the body shaping of the Icelandic sweater I'm currently working on, I wouldn't have to draft a new pattern, just new numbers for an exisiting one (seeing as how the Icelandic sweater is knitted at 3.5 sts to the inch, and I'm looking at 9-10 sts to the inch).
Sunday was indulgent, starting with cuddling, and then By cooking breakfast. Went to Lawrence book-shopping (at the new Half-Price books), met some friends for dinner, did a little more book-shopping. Wee!
Yesterday I got to go to Yarn Barn! And I left with only one skein of yarn, how strange is that? We'd actually made a second trip to get some very good chocolate bars for a gift for his boss, and had parked in the parking garage. By was nice and let me traipse through Yarn Barn on the way to the European Market (which sells primo chocolate). Yarn Barn damage--3 patterns, a little starter kumihimo kit (under $10, and something I've ben trying to do with make-do materials, this looked promising), and a skein of Berocco Glace yarn, to use as laces for the tied-up tee.
I'm starting to mull over a couple of potential projects. Major, slightly scary, but very interesting projects. One is entirely By's fault, he put the idea in my head--a "butterfly" shawl, a many-times-larger-than-life set of butterfly wings, colored as close to lifelike as possible. Monarch maybe, or luna moth. This will take some planning. I think I'd have a lot of fun with it though--can you imagine a luna moth with a 6' wingspan, knitted in creamy green silk, with its spots and details in gold ribbon and ivory chenille......
The second project idea is more likely to happen in the near term. I've been thinking for a while that the fabric I get on the Turkish socks, while labor-intensive, would make a kick-ass sweater, and I got to thinking last night that if I did such a thing for myself, I'd have room to do some wild Celtic patterns. Hmmmm. And if I borrowed the body shaping of the Icelandic sweater I'm currently working on, I wouldn't have to draft a new pattern, just new numbers for an exisiting one (seeing as how the Icelandic sweater is knitted at 3.5 sts to the inch, and I'm looking at 9-10 sts to the inch).
