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April 04, 2006
Bang your head...
Apparently, Brian thrashed his head at the Warrant concert Saturday night for real...and his neck is feeling the pain..sounds like whiplash to me (is that one of the band members?)...So Clementine is trying to give her remedy, but she's only 5lbs, and not heavy enough to do any magic on his neck...I suppose Bagheera could walk on it, but he'd probably break it, so I guess Brian will just have to work the kinks out...next time, less thrashing, more jumping...
I finished and felted my bowl, it looks weird and fun, but its a bowl and I can eat cereal out of it...well, probably not, but I can put treasures in it and that's all that matters...I've learned how to increase and decrease, so I'm working on a little potholder that makes me practice a 'yarn over' stitch...I rememeber when I taught myself how to put a zipper in a garment...
it opened up my entire sewing catalog, so I could do more than just straight seams..and then I taught myself button holes (they were pretty gnarly, but they worked)...and that opened up even more patterns for me to sew...that's how it is with this increasing decreasing thing...I'm not trying to knit an irish sweater with loads of cable crossings and puffy sections and whatever..I just wanna know how to add and remove stitches...gotta start somewhere, and this is a good building block..I also saw how stripes are done - I didn't know you cut the yarn each time you ended a row and started again...so now I might even do a stripey thing or two...striped bowls sound promising...its not like I'll be wearing wool hats in the 90 degree heat, right? I was thinking of making little hats like toadstool tops and sticking them around the garden...they could get rained on, or the sun can bleach them, and they'd be organic...maybe I'll grow some cotton from seed...and then, I'll take the laundry to the river and pound it on the rocks, and I'll churn butter, and I'll fix the wagon wheel...yeehaw...
Posted by Donner at April 4, 2006 07:49 AM
Comments
LOL Donna you crack me up! You put a pretty funny picture in my head of you, dressed a la Little House on the Prairie (bonnet and all, of course) frolicking through the meadow on your way to the river with a bucket and an armload of clothes. Hah! Aren't you glad we live in this time period...with the new fangled gadgets like washers & dryers? ;0)
I know how to crochet, but not knit. I'm notorious for starting projects I don't finish...good for you for actually following through!!
Posted by: Rachel G. at April 4, 2006 08:18 AM
ROFL! You are too funny! I'm cleaning out my garage so that I can get back to my quilting and knitting! Can't throw the boys out of the house yet for their rooms so the garage will have to work! Have fun with the knitting!
Posted by: Anne at April 4, 2006 10:29 AM
poor brian. we've learned not to bang our heads too much, but we hobble like old people for a couple of days due to knees and hips that a re aging mor rapidly than the rest of our bodies...
Posted by: melissa m at April 4, 2006 04:02 PM
I have been crocheting a while and finally decided it was time to switch up and add knitting to my collection of crafts. (as if I needed any more.) Anyways, didnt know if you knew about this website but they have got some great FREE patterns and some fun stuff. If you go under patterns you can see the recent stuff, and then if you look under archives it will show all the patterns from past issues.
http://knitty.com/ISSUEwinter05/index.html
Posted by: Amanda Hall at April 5, 2006 08:35 AM