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Knitting....
Jan. 8th, 2003 10:10 pmWhee! No updates and then just fluff! It's an AmyJournal!
So I am feeling pretty confident about my happy little knitting self! I finished my learn-to-knit rectangle (to be used as a washcloth/potholder/random burgandy knitted rectangle) and have started a sweater! Yeehaw! I am concerned that it may end up too big. I was happily casting on for a good long while, then decided to figure out how many stitches I needed to cast. Did calculations. I had finished ohhhhh about double what I needed... and I just hate to waste all those stitchies! So I re-calculated with slightly different numbers and the needles and I agreed to compromise and drop down to 120 stitches across. Hehehe... so I am happily pursuing a nice basketweave/checkerboard pattern with decreases and increases to promote a shapely sweater.... mind, I kinda made the sweater pattern up based loosely around the one in the book... I feel like the mad doctor in his lab tossing chemicals around. Anyhow, it should keep me busy for a good long while, and if it's big, that's pretty much okay. Better than too small! Nice big comfy sweater goodness muahaha!
Been taking care of my Nate lots since he broke his toe. Also went down to Modesto yesterday afternoon to have a meeting with the people at the rehab hospital, to find out about Karl's progress & etc. Went well for me, although I will just never really understand how his family acts during times of stress... it's... foreign to me, that's all. But I feel good and think that in time they will too.
More family goodness scheduled for tomorrow... Trudi n Mike n Shannon coming over for dinner and most likely card goodness. Then gaming with the usual suspects on Friday. A sporadic friend (on again, off again) is playing at a local place here in Livermore on Feb. 1st... trying to decide whether to go or not. Might be fun, but I don't know if his band is any good or not, and it's not our usual thing... We'll see. My life has become pretty damn social the last few months. Strange, but good, I think. Though some areas seem to be waning that I wish wouldn't... still, I can't lay the blame on other's shoulders, I could take up a more active role in things if I made it a priority over others. Biddityboo, how's that for mirrored translucency? Next time I'll talk about the knitting and leave the pondering to myself.
So I am feeling pretty confident about my happy little knitting self! I finished my learn-to-knit rectangle (to be used as a washcloth/potholder/random burgandy knitted rectangle) and have started a sweater! Yeehaw! I am concerned that it may end up too big. I was happily casting on for a good long while, then decided to figure out how many stitches I needed to cast. Did calculations. I had finished ohhhhh about double what I needed... and I just hate to waste all those stitchies! So I re-calculated with slightly different numbers and the needles and I agreed to compromise and drop down to 120 stitches across. Hehehe... so I am happily pursuing a nice basketweave/checkerboard pattern with decreases and increases to promote a shapely sweater.... mind, I kinda made the sweater pattern up based loosely around the one in the book... I feel like the mad doctor in his lab tossing chemicals around. Anyhow, it should keep me busy for a good long while, and if it's big, that's pretty much okay. Better than too small! Nice big comfy sweater goodness muahaha!
Been taking care of my Nate lots since he broke his toe. Also went down to Modesto yesterday afternoon to have a meeting with the people at the rehab hospital, to find out about Karl's progress & etc. Went well for me, although I will just never really understand how his family acts during times of stress... it's... foreign to me, that's all. But I feel good and think that in time they will too.
More family goodness scheduled for tomorrow... Trudi n Mike n Shannon coming over for dinner and most likely card goodness. Then gaming with the usual suspects on Friday. A sporadic friend (on again, off again) is playing at a local place here in Livermore on Feb. 1st... trying to decide whether to go or not. Might be fun, but I don't know if his band is any good or not, and it's not our usual thing... We'll see. My life has become pretty damn social the last few months. Strange, but good, I think. Though some areas seem to be waning that I wish wouldn't... still, I can't lay the blame on other's shoulders, I could take up a more active role in things if I made it a priority over others. Biddityboo, how's that for mirrored translucency? Next time I'll talk about the knitting and leave the pondering to myself.
