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July 03, 2005
kyoto-a-long and christian capitalism
Today, for lucky lucky Villain, is the last day of the St. John's Bible From Hell Show at the museum. Not that the project itself is a flawed one, just that the idiotic, geriatric, self-righteous bastards who have been coming to the show are just about the worst, most insensitive, least intelligent museum patrons that I have ever witnessed during my tenure as a shopgirl. If I have to say, "Yes we have the book from the show and it is on the table RIGHT FUCKING BEHIND YOU, but you didn't feel the need to actually LOOK around the store, rather to simply inflict yourself upon me and ask the same question that every other bastard has been asking me all day long. You know, the table that all the other fuckers are swarming around??!" Or, in the edited version, "We sure do!! They are on the table behind you!!" one more time, I am going to vault over the counter and throttle whosoever crosseth my path. Thus sayeth the Villain. Amen.
In other news, Taryn, my dear friend and fellow museum-sufferer, has gone away to Taiwan with her sweetie (who is being forced into servitude in the Taiwanese army for his obligatory two-year stint). The trip sounds rather perilous so far, but at least she will have our Intercontintental Kyoto Knitalong to keep her mind off things! We are working on this lovely little number. I have, um, already finished the back and am working on one of the fronts, because I seem to have nothing better to do. This assumes that I have conveniently forgotten about my long-overdue Kant paper, prelims, next semester's syllabus revisions, and the fact that I start a French class next week and can't seem to remember a damned thing. Funny, that.
Le Sigh.
I did manage to make another skirt! It looks pretty good (same pattern as the pinups) but for the fact that I fucked up the zipper. Well, not terminally. It went in fine (though when I say this, I mean it went in and looks relatively normal, because the directions on the zipper packaging are well-nigh indecipherable) except for a bunch of extra fabric at the base. This, I managed to make into a couple of pleats that look, if I do say so myself, almost intentional. Woo.
Well, back to being grumpy and dreading work. Ta-ta.
Posted by loyd0008 at July 3, 2005 11:31 AM | ...In Progress
Comments
What needle size are you using? I'm having trouble getting the gauge right
Posted by: Taryn at July 5, 2005 09:44 PM
i'm using a 7. i got a similar gauge w/size 8, but it was too stretchy and i figured it would lose its shape. what about you?
Posted by: villain at July 5, 2005 09:59 PM
I was getting like 6.5 stitches per inch on size 7, but then I redid my swatch with some seed stitch on the sides and got just a hair over 5. Everything is going well now except working flat takes forever!
Posted by: Taryn at July 8, 2005 09:30 PM
i decided to pick up stitches for the sleeves and sash... it worked well, though i ended up making the sleeves (only finished one so far) quite a bit longer than the pattern calls for. don't know what the original kimono inspiration looked like, but whatever. also, i'm working in regular seed stitch and not the double the pattern calls for.
Posted by: villain at July 10, 2005 10:30 AM
Intercontinental Kyoto-a-long update: I finally finished the back and started on the front(s). So you seamed the fronts and back together and then picked up from there?
Posted by: Taryn at July 17, 2005 11:21 PM
yes. i picked up the sleeves and the sash (about 1/3rd done with sash) it seems very... boxy. but i guess that's how kimonos are shaped...
Posted by: villain at July 18, 2005 03:45 PM