Redirection
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treeskinFrom socks to knitted doilies to crocheted ones. I've got a short attention span lately. Got the doily from Fri night pinned out, it's a lot bigger than I though it'd be. That explains why the last 20 rnds kept falling off the ends of my needles. Finished a crocheted doily yesterday, and got it pinned out. I'm back to the 50/2 cotton thread and the #12 hook--I really like the cobweb look that fine stuff gives. I'm tempted to ask at Yarn Barn, next time I'm in, what I'd need to knit this stuff. Just curious, really!
Had another mouse incident last night. Fuzz showed up with one in his mouth, dropped it, and it got away. By cornered it behind the bedroom door, hit it a few times with a riding crop (it was handy), then scooped up the poor stunned thing and threw it outside for the owls. Fuzz spent half an hour sniffing behind the door, looking for his mouse. I think the wet ground under the house is driving them up into the house.
Yesterday was "book lust" day. We started out at the Johnson County library (the one on 87th St)--by the way, their selection of knitting books sucks Twinkies--then went to the JCCC library for some metal books for By, then to Barnes and Noble, then to 2! different Borders, 'cuz By was looking for a particular issue of a magazine. WOudl you believe that we managed to get out of 3! bookstores, and spent less than $30 total? Kinda scary.
Did find a truly neato-keen book on knitting gloves and mitten at the JoCo library--lots of Nordic star and fair-isle patterns. All at 8 sts to the inch, which looks like a doable gauge these days. Now I just need to track down some glove-length needles (4" instead of the 5" for sock needles, it does make a difference). For the record, classics_cat--toothpicks won't do. They're not long enough, and they're just inconsistent enough in diamter to mess things up. Anyway, that'll go on this summer's project list.
I'm going to go read now. Checked out The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood. Only 20 pages into it, and spooked as hell already.
Had another mouse incident last night. Fuzz showed up with one in his mouth, dropped it, and it got away. By cornered it behind the bedroom door, hit it a few times with a riding crop (it was handy), then scooped up the poor stunned thing and threw it outside for the owls. Fuzz spent half an hour sniffing behind the door, looking for his mouse. I think the wet ground under the house is driving them up into the house.
Yesterday was "book lust" day. We started out at the Johnson County library (the one on 87th St)--by the way, their selection of knitting books sucks Twinkies--then went to the JCCC library for some metal books for By, then to Barnes and Noble, then to 2! different Borders, 'cuz By was looking for a particular issue of a magazine. WOudl you believe that we managed to get out of 3! bookstores, and spent less than $30 total? Kinda scary.
Did find a truly neato-keen book on knitting gloves and mitten at the JoCo library--lots of Nordic star and fair-isle patterns. All at 8 sts to the inch, which looks like a doable gauge these days. Now I just need to track down some glove-length needles (4" instead of the 5" for sock needles, it does make a difference). For the record, classics_cat--toothpicks won't do. They're not long enough, and they're just inconsistent enough in diamter to mess things up. Anyway, that'll go on this summer's project list.
I'm going to go read now. Checked out The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood. Only 20 pages into it, and spooked as hell already.
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gotta love Margaret Atwood...
Date: 2003-03-04 06:43 pm (UTC)Re: gotta love Margaret Atwood...
Date: 2003-03-05 04:52 am (UTC)The worst is definitely where the narrator talks about how "they" slipped into power, almost without anyone noticing.