Gripping
I've got a quick little treat for you. We all know I'm shamefully easily amused. I have a suspicion one or two of you may suffer from this condition too. So I've written up some quick instructions for making your own squirm of tentacles. You can use more or less any yarn (each only takes a few yards), and you can bang several of them out in a night. They make excellent desk pets, they are highly entertaining when tucked around your house in unexpected places, and they are fearsome yarn guardians.
Momentum
So you know how you get one project done, and then you find yourself inspired to do something else...and something else...and something else? Yeah. Me too. Now sometimes that's cool and leads to scads of productivity. But sometimes it leaves you sweaty bleeding and swearing on the floor. I know I mentioned that we had the house painted (all done, looks good). Part of painting was getting as much stuff as possible out of the way so the painters had easy access to the house (why hello garage, you're looking rather full). This meant coming to grips with one of [...]
Book Yarn, Part X
An exciting thing happened yesterday. The nefarious scoundrels lovely employees of the customs office released one of my packages and the saints of fed ex brought it right to my door. In that package was the very last of the projects for Book the Second. That means that I currently have all 20 projects, finished, washed, blocked, and tucked safely in the box. This is a very good thing, as the planning meeting with the photographer is next week (eek) and the photoshoot shortly after that. To mark the momentous occasion (er, and because I'd been meaning to do it [...]
Maybe Not
I'm not sure the park was the answer. Now the walk was nice, and posing the tentacles proved alarmingly entertaining. They enjoyed their trip to the park, and I very much enjoyed the perplexed expressions on the faces of the various onlookers as I posed the tentacles and photographed them. But really, I think they might be an indoor sort of prop. Either that, or I am just too easily entertained and I want an excuse to keep playing with them. Or possibly there was some sort of traumatic giant spider/disgusting slug incident I don't want to talk about. Either [...]
A Squirm?
My camera battery is charging as I type this. Once it's done, I'll pop it back in my camera (no really, this part is important, if I forget it, I swear a lot), put my camera in its bag, and walk to the park. While in the bag, my camera will be keeping company with a whole passel of tentacles (what is the collective noun for tentacles? a grip of tentacles? a slither? a squirm?). I'm going to the park to try and find somewhere to snap a few shots of them. Well, that, and to ensure that I actually [...]
Dear Sir
Dear United States Customs Officials, I know that it is unlikely that you have a grudge against me or that you spend your days dreaming up ways to make me unhappy. Unfortunately, your actions of late have made me realize that there is a difference between things that are unlikely and things that are impossible. If you don't stop holding my packages hostage I will be forced to conclude either that this is personal or that you are using your power to feed your uncontrollable lust for wooly goodness. Please release my packages and restore my faith in humanity. Yours [...]
Testing?
In a testing sort of mood? Go volunteer over on ravelry. All three of the mitts inspired by the house painting blues are ready for someone else to beat them up. Each of the three patterns is super quick (maybe 4 hours per mitt) and takes less than 100 yards of fingering weight yarn per pair. They're perfect for your leftover sock yarn bits. And, on the off chance you're a Christmas knitter and have started to panic, these will totally knock some names off your list. At the moment I'm most entertained by the yellow ones, but I'm fickle [...]
Keen
Today was the first really crisp day of fall. It was absolutely lovely. I even put on some wooly socks. The timing is excellent...since yesterday the air conditioner decided to go on strike. I'm sure this will be convenient and inexpensive to fix, because home repairs always are. Sigh.
Short Attention Span
The painters are still banging. Now please don't get me wrong, they're doing a good job, and they're doing a job I don't want to do. I'm very glad that they're here and scampering over the roof. But oh my poor pulverized brains is it loud. It has rather dramatically cropped my already short attention span. But in a totally uncharacteristic move, I've taken the crazy and done something with it (other than whine). I took the three scraps seen here the other day and have turned them into three different quick little mitts. And they are all different. Different [...]
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