October 01, 2003
Keyoard Emergecy
K spilled iced tea on her keyboard yesterday. How do I know? Because a few seconds after the moment of spillage I received this email:
Rya
Ispilledieteaoykeyoard.Guesswhihkeysdo
She now has a new keyoard. I predict she will not be drinking ietea near her new keyoard any time soo.
Knitting Knews
Biding its time in the background while all the Rowanspun and Arboretum Sock drama has ensued, the aran pillow has also progressed. Here it is 3/4 done; 24 more rows to go (for the front, then Lord knows what I'm going to do for the back. It's supposed to be all checkerboard but 16" x 16" of nothing but checkerboard—gack!).
Dye Garden Dyegest
The Dr. Muto video game has degenerated to include a giant three-eyed gorilla that kills enemies by smashing them between his enormous palms or bouncing on them savagely with a super-colossal butt, and a mutated spider that excretes, with great farty sound effects, little globs of green goo that explode, killing everything within a ten foot radius. (How do they come up with this stuff?!) Perfect entertainment for the tedium of churning out 1/2-ounce skein after 1/2-ounce skein after 1/2-ounce skein of Henry's Attic.
Why don't you make the back just like the front? Or make it completely different, but not necessarily plain. Look up sommadoes aran afghan squares from Knitters... what size is the pillow? The Knitters squares are 12" square.
Posted by: Sheila on October 1, 2003 02:40 PMSo, now that I've come this far, I guess you won't let me just regress to all garter or all stockinette, huh, Sheila? ;-)
Posted by: Ryan on October 1, 2003 04:16 PMThe Aran pillow is looking gorgeous! Can't see why you couldn't just go with stocking stitch on the back. Come on Sheila, tell us it's ok.
Gotta comment on your book purchase the other day. How fortunate. I loved reading about the old books and they look beautiful. Great buy imho.
Posted by: Dot (Australia) on October 2, 2003 05:34 AMMeant to tell you earlier that I think the Arboretum sock is super-beautiful! Is it for sale?? :-D I love green. What do you usually do with all the things you knit?
Posted by: Fran on October 3, 2003 03:35 PMJust saw your comment, Fran. Sorry about the belated response...
Many, many thanks for being so enamoured of the Arboretum Sock! And, no, it's not for sale but that's because I usually just give my stuff away, I only plan on making one of it/them, not a pair, and it's coming out a mite small for a normal-size foot. Besides right now, it and I are having the knitting equivalent of an arm-wrestle. If I don't win, it will never get finished!
Posted by: Ryan on October 8, 2003 01:51 PM