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March 03, 2007
Oh, Technology! A Lament.
So after about a million years of halfheartedly working on it (mostly while J reads to me), I finally finished my Picovoli (sans picots). It is ok, but really just ok. The yarn (from Italy, yum!) is nice and soft but the armholes are a bit big and I don't really care for the way the neck is shaped. If I'm going to do another top-down short sleeved thing, it would probably be another Green Gable. I'll probably get more use out of this as a layering piece for the spring, so that works ok. I am nearing the end of another vest-type-item, this one by Teva Durham from Loop-d-Loop. It is on size 11s and I just breezed through it. It is one of those "made small but really stretchy" numbers so how it will fit is still a bit of a mystery. Hopefully I will finish tonight and be able to shoot it tomorrow. I also bought Wicked and Rusted Root from Zephyr with a little extra Paypal (it doesn't really feel like money, does it??) and ordered some black and cream yarn to make J and I striped sweaters.
I got all dolled up as I usually do when taking pictures and things seemed to be going so well. It was only afterwards that I realized the flash wasn't going off because the camera was screwed up and not, as I had assumed, because there was sufficient light. Of course I have no more batteries in the house because the ones I charged yesterday will no longer hold any charge whatsoever. Humph. Alas, the photos are perhaps slighly below webcam quality. I should have just used my Photobooth! Next time, I guess. One day I will save up for a fancy camera that can handle newfangled ideas like "depth of field" and also does not eat batteries. Or if it does, it actually produces photos wherein I feel the sacrfice of the batteries was worth it. Not so much with this one.
J's robe! I started this last night and all I have left is to hem the sleeves. This is a bit tricky because he has monstrously long arms and I used the same pattern that I used for my Narnie robe (his is better! I guess that means I am improving!). I will have to do some calculus to figure out the correct sleeve length. Just kidding about the calculus! I only ever made it to pre-calc in high school and we had a Math OR Science requirement in college so you can bet your Norton's 2000 that I took Astronomy (Oceanography, too). I use my old graphing calculator to balance my checkbook and recalculate knitting gauge. Math schmath!
I am going to drink some tea now and force myself to work on my dissertation prospectus. Blargh. I really just want to start a new dress!
Posted by loyd0008 at March 3, 2007 12:09 PM