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Stuck in the shop again
Sep. 18th, 2003 06:58 amFor a good chunk of the morning, anyway. Spent the whole day in the shop yesterday, because our shop steward was on vacation, his assistant doesn't work Wednesdays, and the grounds guy who usually does it was playing hooky. The grounds guy is absent again, the shop steward has Thursdays off, and his assistant doesn't get in until 10. *sigh*
Spent the weekend immersed in other people's drama, form Sunday until Tuesday afternoon, and spent a fair chunk of yesterday evening IM'ing![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
classics_cat (thank you for letting me vent, dear!) about the whole business.
I haven't done much knitting the past few days, although I should. Donna says Stan is pretty weak a lot of the time, and she doesn't know how much time he's got left.
Picked my temari back up this weekend, starting Sunday as a portable, not-so-space intensive project to keep me amused during the HSA meeting. Got a nice egg done, a full-coverage woven-looking chevron pattern in brown tones. Did several that night, too, before the drama got going.
I've started a red and white series of temari as a wedding present for friends (the wedding's in two weekd, just enough time). Scarlet backgrounds on all of them. The first is 4 1/2" dia, chrysanthemum pattern, white on the red, very dimensional looking. I think I'm going to do a white and gold whishing papers pattern ont he second, about 2 3/4" diam; that's another good-luck pattern. And an egg, 3" long, that I'm still thinking about. And I need to do one for the gals' 5-yr-old daughter, who really liked the temari in the house Sunday night. Either something really bright and sparkly, or a waterlily pattern (since her mother named her "Monet").
I need to starting doing more of the large temari (large for me is over 2 1/2" dia). My hands aren't used to it anymore. And I can do so much more with color and shading and little details on the bigger ones, they're so much more impressive. They also fill the show drawer up faster, which isn't necessarily a good thing, given how many I'd like to have done for a future show. AND, my Grrandma MacKay will be 80 in 2 years, and I'd love to do an arrangement of 80 temari as a birthday present. And a similar arrangement of 60 for Mom in 5 years.
A girl's got to have goals.
Spent the weekend immersed in other people's drama, form Sunday until Tuesday afternoon, and spent a fair chunk of yesterday evening IM'ing
classics_cat (thank you for letting me vent, dear!) about the whole business. I haven't done much knitting the past few days, although I should. Donna says Stan is pretty weak a lot of the time, and she doesn't know how much time he's got left.
Picked my temari back up this weekend, starting Sunday as a portable, not-so-space intensive project to keep me amused during the HSA meeting. Got a nice egg done, a full-coverage woven-looking chevron pattern in brown tones. Did several that night, too, before the drama got going.
I've started a red and white series of temari as a wedding present for friends (the wedding's in two weekd, just enough time). Scarlet backgrounds on all of them. The first is 4 1/2" dia, chrysanthemum pattern, white on the red, very dimensional looking. I think I'm going to do a white and gold whishing papers pattern ont he second, about 2 3/4" diam; that's another good-luck pattern. And an egg, 3" long, that I'm still thinking about. And I need to do one for the gals' 5-yr-old daughter, who really liked the temari in the house Sunday night. Either something really bright and sparkly, or a waterlily pattern (since her mother named her "Monet").
I need to starting doing more of the large temari (large for me is over 2 1/2" dia). My hands aren't used to it anymore. And I can do so much more with color and shading and little details on the bigger ones, they're so much more impressive. They also fill the show drawer up faster, which isn't necessarily a good thing, given how many I'd like to have done for a future show. AND, my Grrandma MacKay will be 80 in 2 years, and I'd love to do an arrangement of 80 temari as a birthday present. And a similar arrangement of 60 for Mom in 5 years.
A girl's got to have goals.
