Thursday, November 23, 2006
Baby Steps (or How a Simplistic Blogging Program Can Make You Feel like an Imbecile).
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Thanksgiving is a Turkey-free affair here at House Emino, but that is just fine with me. Makes more room for the Sweet Potato souflee! Mmm cinnamon-y yams. So, after taking a quick nap in front of the fire and knitting a few (dozen) rows on Ivy while watching Scrubs, I thought maybe I should sneak down here and give y'all a little Thanksgiving present!
You guessed it. Pictures!!!
I know that there are a few... issues with this. It isn't nearly as classy as everyone else's photo blogs. I apologize, but am going to be totally forward with you - you should never expect professional photos from me. For that, I recom
mend
Brooklyn Tweed, one of my favorite knit-bloggers. Anyhow, what you see above is a close up of the "ivy" in Knitty's
Ivy. This is a really terrible photo as far as color accuracy goes - it's really much more orangey than that. One day when I'm not a total idiot, I'll find a way to be more color accurate. (A good start would possibly be getting my own digital camera instead of using my sisters, with which I'm completely unfamiliar).
This is more of a progress-shot. As you can see, I'm roughly half-way up the back. I'm just a few inches short of starting the shoulder shaping decreases. I'm rather dreading that, simply because the nuisance of remembering when to decrease and increase sucks all the joy out of knitting for me. I think you can probably see now why I definitely prefer knitting socks. Utterly mindless, just the way that I like it! This is a labor of love for me, but I have high hopes that it will be totally worth all the effort.
In other news, the Wish Lists were recently passed around to my family this year. My younger sister, M, doctored up some cute little lists in Word, with little icons for each bulleted list and a big image at top, all of which was themed. (She gave my father a Grinch List, with little Max Dogs for each bullet. We thought this was uproarious.) I initially asked for the E. Zimmermann collection, and the Vogue Stitchionaries, and Addi Turbos. You know.. Knitter Christmas List standards. But then, after a little bit of thought, I came downstairs to the computer, totalled up what my wish list would have cost, and then requested that the amount be donated to St. Judes. Hopefully, this is what my parents will do. Honestly, I buy myself knitting things all year long. Why not give that hefty chunk of money to someone who really needs it? As it is, I have more yarn than I could possibly get to in a year.
I think I might go upstairs and dig into the cherry pie now. So long! Hope everyone is trippin' on tryptaphans!
With love,
Elle
Labels: Ivy, Knitting, Sweater
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Saturday, November 18, 2006
Ever the LiarDear Readers, if ever you learn anything from me, let it be this: I am the biggest accidental liar in the world. There are several people that I know who are accidental liars, and I am bigger and better at it than they are, so I can only assume that I am the biggest one of all. In case you are not familiar with accidental liars, they can be defined as follows:
accidental liar - (n.) - one who says they will do something and then, due to uncontrollable forces, is forced to do otherwise, thereby not accomplishing what they set out to do. Other characteristics usually include procrastination, disorganization, and general scatter-brained qualities.
I can only offer the following excuses for my shameful behavior:
- My grandmother came to town from Georgia.
- I am enlisting in the Army Reserves and this takes up a surprising amount of time.
- College still goes full force (but I am done forever as of this December. Hoorah!)
- Work still goes full force (up until January. Wahaha!)
- I can't seem to find time to knit.
- Nor can I find my digital camera.
- Nor can I figure out how to post pictures on blogger, even if I knew where my *@#$ing camera was.
These excuses are all rather pitiful and negligble. My humblest apologies. Instead of knitting here at work, I am reading other people's blogs and fawning over yarn that I really shouldn't be even looking at, considering that I have a sweater on the needles and enough sock yarn for 17 pairs of socks. And only until January to knit as much as possible before leaving for a year and a half.
Oh God. Will I be able to knit at AIT? Basic is out of the question, I think. ACK! Will I even be able to blog?
Maybe I can find someone that I can send letters and pictures of possible knitting from AIT and they will post it for me? Jeebus. This is rather devestating... I hadn't considered the not-knitting aspect. I will surely lose my mind.
Since I have no knitting, I should probably offer a distraction. Starbucks has their Gingerbread Latte back. Which owns my life. I even bought a new mug to celebrate. Pictures to come. I mean it!
With Love,
Elle
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Monday, November 06, 2006
After spending a few months over on
Xanga brushing up on my posting skills (mostly working on remembering to update! Ha!), I have finally decided to open up a blog. Specifically, a knit blog. In this first entry, let me warn everyone: I don't knit nearly as fast as some of you seem to. I simply don't know where you find the time.
At present, I'm working on
Ivy. For once, I'm actually using the recommended yarn and let me just say - Alpaca is the most unpleasing thing to work with. I can only hope that it's better to wear. It makes my hands sweaty and leaves little red hairs everywhere! Le sigh. I'm trying to plow through this so that I can finish the holiday gifts and guiltlessly get back to sock knitting. I did, after all, buy 7 skeins of Blue Moon sock yarn at Rhinebeck. And I'm chomping at the bit to try out the 2 circular method. So far, I've only been using DPNs, which always results in me losing at least one needle. Enough with that madness. I am, after all, someone who is vehemently against straight needles. It only makes sense to take it to the next level, and knit exclusively in circs. That's right. All circulars, all the time. Someone better go invest in Skacel.
The next post will have actual photos. It just might take me a little while to figure out this whole... photo publishing aspect on Blogger. But not long! I'm a pretty quick learner, if I do say so myself.
Stay warm, everyone!
Fondly,
-Elle
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