I frequently get asked what it’s like to have a blog, to live your life, albeit marginally, in the public eye. The Mysterious K and I talk about this often because we're finding it an interesting sociological experiment to have a blog. However, we weren’t able to quite define the effect it has had on our lives until this weekend when we realized…we’re Sims ! Flesh-and-blood human Sims, mind you, and still 99.999% self-directing, but the blog has introduced a definite and undeniable Sim element into our lives. For example, as a direct result of the Dear Readers’ suggestions about how to finish the tuteur, TMK went online, found a local copper sheet metal vendor, and will be visiting his shop this weekend. (Doesn’t mean we’ve settled on copper (see, that’s the self-directing part) but you, Dear Readers, definitely influenced her to get serious about the idea.) Similarly, a few months ago, Dear Reader Robbyn wrote about scones in her blog—and, again, as a direct result, that very weekend TMK and I made and consumed a large plate of scones. Dear Reader Sylvia (very nicely) asked for more photos of Frankie so, in the next entry, there it was…a new photo of Frankie. Debbie wanted a photo of TMK so we trotted out the now infamous “shadow” photo. And last year a fellow natural dyer wanted to know if a certain color I had made was light-fast, so I ran a lightfast test and posted pictures of the results. See? Sims!
Now we’re just waiting for the moment when our omnipotent Dear Readers decide to create for us a fabulous mansion and untold wealth.
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Hellooooooooooooo. Still waaaaaaaaaaaaaiting!
Knitting Knews
One more inch of yellow on the Baby Norgi and back to two-color patterning. Out of curiousity, I checked my gauge last night: 10 stitches to the inch! Holy frickin' moly!
Janine, I figured out why the side seams on the Baby Norgi are so funky. They are little 4-stitch steeks. The “funkiness” of the pattern in that area will help me figure out where to sew and where to cut the steeks for the armholes. I shudder at the thought. Another reason for me to finish at least the body before you leave!
Dye Garden Dyegest
The indigo is in the ground! Photos Monday.
http://www.smallblueprinter.com/
any house you might dream of can be yours- well, virtually at least-
umm, when i find the 'untold wealth' thing, i will first try it out and see if it works!
since i have never had an original thought in my life, i want to be a lemming and plant indigo too! instead i have enough stinky marigolds to start a plant nursery- someone should have told me they grow prolifically and bloom profusely and smell rather like a wet dog-
stay happy-
Posted by: barb in texas on April 30, 2004 11:15 AMBarb, you can dye with marigolds! Really! Look at this Mossy Cottage entry: http://www.nwkniterati.com/movabletype/archives/MossyCottage/000242.html#000242 The photo at the bottom shows a ball of marigold-dyed yarn. (I agree with you about the smell but I've noticed that over the last few years, a lot of nurseries have carried marigolds that don't smell. Hallelujah!)
And who knew that one of our Sim "Gods" would actually come through with a houseplan!
Posted by: Ryan on April 30, 2004 11:26 AMIn the same fashion, I don't doubt that reading about your stranded knitting adventures helped me to embark on my own.
I have always felt that we all help shape each other - intellectually, emotionally, etc. Perhaps in Blogdom, the connections are simply a bit more apparent?
Posted by: Robbyn on April 30, 2004 11:32 AMI heartily second Robbyn's comments above--we're all in this together! What is so fun about this blog, though, Ryan (and TMK, too), is the fact that you are constantly bringing to our attention great ideas and inspiration--about knitting, sure, but, as it's turning out, lots of other things as well.
To Janine and Ryan who offered to help with the frogging of my fairisle (boo!hoo!)but I got it all unknit during ER last night. It's amazing how quickly one can frog a garment, when it took hours, and hours, and hours (and hours!) to knit it!
I'm out in the garden today--greatly inspired by your garden, TMK; I can't face working on the vest while the sun is out...
Mary
Posted by: Mary on April 30, 2004 12:49 PMI can't help myself--if, as Robbyn says, we're all helping each other out in turn, does this make our relationships "Sim-biotic?!"
Posted by: Ryan on April 30, 2004 01:20 PMOoooo. Bad pun. ;-)
And to all of you who had an opinion about the top of the tuteur: copper has been purchased, it is outside baking in the sun as we speak, so that I'll be sure to burn my fingers at least once before I remember to put my gloves on!
TMK
Posted by: The Mysterious K on April 30, 2004 01:29 PMOoooh! Indigo!
Sam's been interested in that for a while -- we'll watch this experiment with glee!
Posted by: Anne on May 2, 2004 05:19 AM