And Then They Fell Down Raining Fiery Death on All
Some things in this world are simply true. It doesn't matter if I remember them or not. It doesn't matter if I like them or not. They just go right on being true in blatant disregard of how I think the world should work. For instance, I am a big person, and I have giant freaky man hands. Also, it is rather challenging to take pictures of hands. Given these two truths, it really shouldn't surprise me that taking a picture of giant freaky man hands that 1) makes them look willowy and delicate 2) shows off the knitting they [...]
The Stars Aligned
Several things have happened at once. I'm home during daylight (not that rare). The Boy is home during daylight (much more rare). The weather is pleasant (quite unusual). I have finished knitwear to photograph (nearly unheard of). The combination means that there is a very good chance that all three of the little fluffy mitts shown a week or so ago will be ready to show off in their final project photos in the next day or two. Which is excellent, because that means I'll be able to start wearing them. Holding off on wearing perfectly good knitwear is rather [...]
Your Turn
I'm meeting with the photographer for Book the Second on Thursday. We'll be having a planning meeting, wandering the halls of our photo shoot location, and generally plotting how to make this book extra awesome. I have my list of 'things to ask' and 'things to insist upon.' But I'm sure there's something I'm overlooking. After all, this organize and execute a book thing is still new to me. So here's where you come in. I've got two questions for you. First, what do you always wish you could tell the photographers of your knitting books? Is there something you [...]
Momentum, Part 2
We had always intended to use carpet tiles, or something like them, for that entrance. It seemed easier than taking up the linoleum. The house and I have a slightly wary relationship. I like it. Love it even. And I admire it for sticking around for 91 years and counting. But I don't trust it not to do something like spring a leak or develop holes or do something else equally dire. I've adopted a sort of respectful distance. I will fix problems. I will make considered cosmetic improvements. I will not go mucking about with perfectly good (read functional) [...]
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 [...]
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