January 09, 2006
Fun at the Doctor's Office!
An extremely short entry today since my day started late thanks to a doctor’s appointment in the a.m.
All I will say about that is, the only thing worse than having the plastic cone thingie stuck up your nose is having the plastic cone thingie stuck up your nose by someone who has a tremor. Yes, indeedy—he rattled that thing around the inside of my nose right smartly.
And then he rattled it around the inside of my ear.
And then he reached for the tongue depressor. ‘Nuff said.
Hopefully I’ll be more on more of a knitting track on Wednesday with photos of the finished green and purple twin sweaters. Even more importantly, I hope to have some Dulaan photos from Mongolia for you soon!!!
In the meantime, thank you to everyone who suggested ways to resurrect The Scarf That Destroyed the Universe, but anything that makes me yell, "Bah!"—which is a sound I've never heard come out of my mouth before—becomes a scarfa non grata swiftly and completely. In fact, the scarf is well on its way to the landfill by now because, while The Mysterious K is usually just bemused by my knitting antics, by the knitting up, and the frogging back, and the knitting up again, she stamped her Red-Converse-and-handknitted-woolen-sock-clad foot and said, "Nyet!" to frogging the scarf. It seems that the idea of my frogging a scarf made of yarn which was 75% acrylic anyway, and which was knit in stripes so I could only resurrect short, barely useful pieces of yarn, and which was a stupid idea to begin with was more than she could handle. So landfill it is.
Lastly, a big, warm, Mossy Cottage "hello" goes out to Marie and her husband who join the Mossy Cottage Gold Medal List of people who have gone back and read every single entry. Smooches to you two guys, and welcome!
TMK is pretty darn smart! Mary B
I second that nyet!
Hope you feel better soon. And next time make a "Everybody's Favorite Scarf," Which, really, I'm not being a spoil-sport or violating any copyrights, IMHO, by saying, "It's just a damn 2X2 ribbed scarf." Same on both sides. Doesn't curl. Use a knitting needle a size or two up from what the ball band of your particular yarn says, which makes it seem a bit more frothy.
Posted by: Norma on January 9, 2006 03:14 PMMy favorite scarf stitch is the "Brioche stitch." Looks great, same on both sides, and easy to do--only a 1 row repeat. It's a bitch to rip and pick up stitches if you make a mistake, but that's the only bad thing I can think of. There is also a "half-Brioche" or "syncopated Brioche." They are all in many stitch directories--definitely in the Barbara Walker ones--I think in Book I.
Mary B
Eek! Hope your poor, abused nose and throat are recovering nicely and that you're up and at 'em soon :) Erm...there's always the Dulaan scarf...
Posted by: Robbyn on January 9, 2006 07:02 PMoh great and illustrious ryan (did i suck up enough?), when, exactly, is the deadline for Dulaan? my brain hurts, and i need to know.
Posted by: minnie on January 10, 2006 07:48 PMMinnie: The deadline for items sent to Dulaan is July 1, 2006 (or thereabouts). I didn't want your brain to have to suffer until Ryan gets to work tomorrow! TMK
Posted by: The Mysterious K on January 10, 2006 09:32 PMMy first thought on hearing of your shaky MD is that I'm glad you weren't in for a colonoscopy.
Better luck next time.
that is the problem with mostly ackrylic, it tends to listen to reason about as well as my children on a good day. good job for letting it go.
Posted by: marti on January 11, 2006 07:33 AM