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May 04, 2007
Its a Knittin' kinda day...
Overcast and misty this morning, humid and muggy this afternoon, its a knittin' kinda day...did I mention that I signed up for an on-going knitting class in Austin? Its once a week and we can work on whatever project we want..the instructor is there to help us thru any jams we get into and I'm good at gettin' into jams...i just don't know very much about technique with knitting, so when I pick up a pattern, many times its foreign to me...she's there to help me along, and it is really good...i've only been twice so far, but I'm glad I went...I've got a few projects that I'm working on, things that I've never done before and my never finish, but I wanted to learn about what they were...
One is a freebie lace pattern from Louet (sure, its free, when you buy $60 worth of their linenflax thread to make it...ugh), and having never done lace before, I wasn't sure I was on the right path...but apparently I am...ironically, all of us in this class are working on the same project, just with different colors...its kinda slow-going, I kinda work on it here and there, but maybe it'll be ready when cold weather comes around again in December...its not heavy, its just a simple wrap that wouldn't keep a mouse warm, but that's not the point...
The other project i've just started is this: Lizard Ridge From Knitty, my knittin' guru Katie emailed it to me and I was mezmerized, but had no intention of every DOING it...but when I started reading the directions, its full of 'wrap and turn' which we did some of in the felted clog class...I can do that, its not hard...so I started it today w/ my one skein of purple/peach Noro Kureyon wool...I need to create a chart of the colors, so I don't buy duplicates...truth be told, I doubt i'll ever make enough blocks to create this throw, its not really my goal, I just wanna get better are doing w&t, and once I've had enough, I'll prob stop...but hey, if I buy a skein or two here and there, and work on it here and there, I might end up with a few blocks to make something with...I like the colorways and the pattern is cool...I'm the kinda person who needs to do a lot of repetition of a technique to 'get it down' and have it in my arsenal of knowledge...when I learned to make triangle beads, I made 100 of them...when I learned to make twisties, I spent two full days doing nothing but making and making and making them (some were really bad too!)...so this will be a good L O N G term kinda project, the kind you pick and put down and never get back to...
I just checked and another caterpillar has gone to chrysalis, and another has just started to hang in the 'J' shape...yet another is still crawling around, and then I have 4 more that have probably another week's worth of growing to do...I found the crumpled up striped skin that the caterpillar sheds when it turns, I thought it just absorbed it, but nope, it falls into a neat little puddle below the caterpillar...the butterflies are out on the bananas and life is good in the country today...thanks for checking in, and I'll be posting more pics now that I'm back...yeehaw...
Posted by Donner at May 4, 2007 01:59 PM