May 05, 2004

Be Careful Where You Point...

The mischievous Mysterious K and I cobbled together a little surprise for the Dear Readers who were at Feral Knitters on Monday. The idea was for TMK, who has all sorts of spiffy graphic software and fancy printers at her disposal, to create this and show up at Feral Knitters wearing it. She was supposed to come stand nonchalantly near me, and wait to see who noticed the “TMK” and was able to put two and two together—but our plan didn’t play out quite the way we had envisioned. Ever the meddler, when TMK arrived I couldn’t resist moving things along by pointing her out to Janine. With hand gestures, I mutely tried to direct Janine’s attention to the “TMK” on the t-shirt, but the lighting and fact that Janine was sitting and TMK was standing conspired against me. Come to find out Janine couldn’t see the “TMK” and thought I was just, arbitrarily and out of the blue, pointing at some strange woman’s breasts. Fortunately, by that time Dear Readers Karen and Kit had made the connection and converged on us and everything was explained to everyone’s satisfaction, although it took a long time for my face to turn from bright red back to its normally pale and freckled self. Unfortunately, some Dear Reader Feral Knitters weren’t there for The Great Unveiling. Missed you, Mary and Linda K! And missed you, too, Sheila, of course, but you’ve met TMK so I say your time was way better spent enjoying your last few hours at Maryland Sheep & Wool.

Knitting Knews
Between bouts of trying to put stitches back on my size 1 needles for the Norgi, I finished the felted clogs. My final opinion—they’re easy but odd and take a long time, especially since you have to knit four soles. (Talk about the ultimate Second Sock Syndrome!) I say knitting a pair of Fuzzy Feet would be a much faster and more direct way of achieving pretty much the same thing.

The unfelted clogs:

unfeltedclogs.jpg

I'll take a picture of the felted clogs tonight and regale you with the story of their felting—and how TMK "didn't" participate—on Friday.

Posted by Ryan at May 5, 2004 11:00 AM
Comments

the clogs look neat- love those colors together-

i tend to be an accidental felter of items due to a very wanton disregard of just what is going into the load of wash on occasions (does that make me the 'wanton felter'?) hope your clogs had a successful trip through the laundry and have 'full'filled your expectations-

i am inclined to bad puns today and will now take myself off and knit in silence-

stay happy-

Posted by: barb in texas on May 5, 2004 11:43 AM

Uh huh, so now TMK Wants everyone to see her face and even advertises??? I thought she was feeling like she was only a shadow of herself. I like your felty clogs, is that Brown Sheep Yarn?

Posted by: Debra on May 5, 2004 12:57 PM

Debra, the yarn for the clogs was Cascade 220, blueish-teal and emerald green. (BTW, since this would interest you, TMK has behind-home-plate tickets to a Mariners game tonight, so she is off to see a game and to go to Safeco field for the first time!)

Barb the WantonFelter, you are a silly girl today! Actually, the felting didn't go quite as well as we wanted since the slippers are determined to stay big but it was still fun and they did actually do what they were supposed to do.

Posted by: Ryan on May 5, 2004 01:39 PM

Behind home plate? That is so cool! I hope they win.

Posted by: Debra on May 5, 2004 03:30 PM

Debra: I hope they win AND they don't play 16 innings tonight! ;-) By the way, it looks like the Yankees have picked up the pace. Congrats!

Posted by: The Mysterious K on May 5, 2004 03:35 PM

Cool tshirt, very funny! I see that one important thing you guys have in common is 'the sense of humor thing.'

Posted by: CarolineF on May 6, 2004 09:07 AM

I am one of those people,that you don't know about, that regularly stops by and visits your blog all the way from Collingwood, ON. I have made the the felted slippers using Reynold's Lopi and the results were phenomenal. I can't keep up with the requests from friends and family. The Lopi shrunk down quite nicely, and the felting was perfect. Try them again with the Lopi and I am sure you will be thrilled with the results.
Lisa

Posted by: lisa on May 6, 2004 09:35 AM

I gotta admit, when I first saw the woman wearing the T-shirt, I honestly thought the shirt read TINK. I thought -- Boy, Ryan sure knows some terrible knitters!!! It was only after I stood up from my chair that I correctly read the "TMK." It was a great plan, no matter how it played out.

Posted by: KarenC on May 6, 2004 09:23 PM
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