Topic? We don't need no stinking topic!

[ambersweet]

At least I hope not, because I certainly don't have one. Except that I'm going to talk about knitting, because what else do I talk about ever.

Working on the Beer Gloves, and having some problems with the sizing, so I went poking around until I found someone else who had already resized them and I'm starting the second cuff with her adjustments in mind. If I like how it turns out, I'll rip out the first cuff and redo it; if I don't, I'll figure something else out. Knitting! It is a giant game of trying to figure it out as I go. I'm not thrilled with the way the pattern is written, and I'm thinking about writing it out in the way that I wish it were written. But I am lazy, so I might just make notes directly in the book. We shall see. If nothing else, the chart for the palm is driving me insane and I'm not sure I like how it looks finished (based on pictures I've seen), so I may get rid of that section anyway, or alter it a little. (crankyoldman, are you in love with the textured palm?)

Did some thrifting today, but didn't really find anything cool. Took a stack of books and miscellaneous stuff down to Bookman's and picked up the first and third book in Holly Black's faerie trilogy; I really liked the second, Tithe. Normally I don't read out of order but apparently the first one is mostly unrelated? (At least nepenthe told me so. If this is not true I blame her. XD)

We also went to two different yarn stores looking for the yarn for my boss's scarf; The Fiber Factory had Cascade 220 in a gold that I liked (California Poppy), but they only had one skein of burgundy, so we went up to Tempe Yarn & Fiber. They ALSO only had one skein of burgundy! So I ended up getting that skein and then trekking back to TFF to pick up the other. They're different dye lots, but Fred at TYF assured me that Cascade's dye lots were very consistent, and they look the same to me. So it's all good. I also picked up a darning egg, so I can darn finch's favorite socks, so he will no longer be heartbroken.

Afterwards, we went to a very nice coffee shop for some quality NaNo write-in time for finch and some quality homework-and-yarn-balling time for me. This week on Women and Crime: more reasons for me to hate the justice system! This time, it's inadequate health care, and how mandatory drug sentencing hurts children. I'm normally not into the Think of the Children!!! arguments, but when you have a non-violent first-time offender serving fifteen years for smuggling drugs for somebody else, and she has a toddler when she goes to jail? The person who's going to be suffering the most will be that totally innocent child, who cannot possibly understand why her mommy won't be coming home again.

As I certainly can't do anything about the inadequacies of the justice system tonight, I'm going back to knitting. The Beer Gloves, I can help.

Comments

[gorgeousnerd]

I think the way the Holly Black books go is that Tithe is first, Valiant is second (and mostly unrelated to the other two, although there are some references that are post-Tithe), and Ironside is third. I really like those books; I should reread them.

I like hearing about your knitting project! I know only a little about knitting, but my older sister has been knitting quite a bit for the last year, and I'm wearing a hat, wrist warmers, and a scarf she made more me. It's really awesome!

[ambersweet]

Good on both counts. ^^ I'm just dreadfully afraid that I'm boring everyone to death talking incessantly about knitting, so it's good to hear that people actually enjoy it.

[starfleet]

What is a darning egg?

I GUESS I COULD GOOGLE THIS BUT
I'D RATHER ASK YOU

[ambersweet]

It's an egg-shaped thing carved out of wood. You drop it in a sock that you're darning so that you have a solid surface to work against, so you don't accidentally sew up the wrong place when you're darning.

[starfleet]

OH, hey, that's clever.

I know so little about things like this.

I bet Ishida would have known what it was hurrhurrhurr

[novel_machinist]

when you have a non-violent first-time offender serving fifteen years for smuggling drugs for somebody else, and she has a toddler when she goes to jail? The person who's going to be suffering the most will be that totally innocent child, who cannot possibly understand why her mommy won't be coming home again.


Agreed. I hope that these beer gloves stop fighting you!

[crankyoldman]

Texture or untexture the palm however you want!