2008/12/30
2008/12/28
The end is nigh!
Does the equation really go like this?
end-of-year = ideas x 0
Can you believe it - I've started one vest pattern twice (did I mention twice??!) with two different yarns, and neither of them worked out, both under rrrripping currently.. partly because I couldn't figure out the lace pattern (there must some mistake in the pattern, mustn't there?!? - it can't be me, can it?!??) and it went wrong each time, and partly because it just don't feel right, it don't feel like a garment I would eventually wear. And we've made a promise not to knit those not-wearable-but-just-knitted-for-the-hell-of-it thingys anymore, now haven't we....
Also otherwise not very inspired by anything right now. I guess I'm all knitted out for '08.
Gee. What a strange feeling!
I guess I just have to hang on to the hope of New Year bringing with it some New Ideas.
*sigh*
end-of-year = ideas x 0
Can you believe it - I've started one vest pattern twice (did I mention twice??!) with two different yarns, and neither of them worked out, both under rrrripping currently.. partly because I couldn't figure out the lace pattern (there must some mistake in the pattern, mustn't there?!? - it can't be me, can it?!??) and it went wrong each time, and partly because it just don't feel right, it don't feel like a garment I would eventually wear. And we've made a promise not to knit those not-wearable-but-just-knitted-for-the-hell-of-it thingys anymore, now haven't we....
Also otherwise not very inspired by anything right now. I guess I'm all knitted out for '08.
Gee. What a strange feeling!
I guess I just have to hang on to the hope of New Year bringing with it some New Ideas.
*sigh*
2008/12/23
I know what you did last Christmas...
...and this Christmas, as well (besides eating, sleeping, and knitting).
Merriment to you all during Christmas time - it seems to be a white one, after all!
2008/12/22
Christmas Flowers Ltd.
Also a couple of these were made yesterday and delivered to happy owners..
A small cup, some oasis foam and lichen, and one red rose+cone - voilá! So, flower arrangin' made easy :)
***
By the way, the new owner of the 'Kingscot' was quite happy with her gift - I received a really heart warming compliment from her: "This sweater feels like a second skin on me". I'm glad!
2008/12/20
Meet "Kingscot"
Finally, and just in time for Santa's delivery!
('Kingscot' by Nora Gaughan, Twist Collective / Winter '08)
('Kingscot' by Nora Gaughan, Twist Collective / Winter '08)
2008/12/17
Giftboxes 'R' Us
I've tinkered with origami only a little before, but now I wanted to make some gift boxes for Christmas, so off to library I went... and found a basic book on paper folding, and inside it basic instructions how to make boxes. After a couple of not-so-good ones (it DOES help if one has one's measurements correct, i.e. all sides of the square the same length - go figure!), I got the knack of it, and now got all my box-needs fulfilled.
Coming up.... 'Kingscot' is almost finished, pics following up soon!
Coming up.... 'Kingscot' is almost finished, pics following up soon!
2008/12/14
Christmas Cards, Inc.
A regular Christmas card factory was in operation today on our kitchen table - with a little imagination, scissors, silver cardboard, stamping and christmasy red color you get these results:
Friends and relatives, watch out for the postman :)
2008/12/05
Hello, I wish to register a complaint
Phone call to LYS (not the one I was raving about before, but one of the Established Yarn Stores in town, practically a mastodon of yarn stores)
me: -Hello, this is so-and-so calling, do you carry Spanish Katia yarns?
LYS lady: -Oh, yes, but only a few... [with a tired voice, as if I'm asking something which could really tax her physically if she thought about it even a second longer]
me: -Well, would you happen to have currently Merino 100% on your shelves?
LYS lady: -Oh, no no.... we don't. [what kind of stupid question is that ayway....]
me: -Ummmm, ok... who is your importer? [Trying to coax her to give me service and suggest that she could order from them and I could then pick up the yarn from her store - just as the importer suggested when I bought Katia yarn for Kingscot at the crafts fair]
LYS lady: -Well.... it's firm X from Turku......
me: -OK, so I guess I'll just contact them directly and give my money to them then, instead of your store, right?
LYS lady: -Yes, you'd better do that! [sounding real happy... problem solved!]
Those who live in Tampere know which store I'm talking about. They are just legendary, aren't they.
* * *
Another thing, while I'm at it:
Dear young guy living in the opposite building from ours,
I know that interior decorating is not everybody's favourite past time, and especially balconies can be a real challenge to upholster into a cosy but practical extention of one's home. But. I think contemporary design has been taken into new reaches in your balcony, to which I have a direct view when I'm sitting at my desk working. Piling up plastic bags filled with what I presume are empty beer cans and/or bottles maybe makes a statement - so far I just haven't figured out what that is. I respect the nature as well, and I salute your recycling activities, but would it be too much to just take one or two bags at a time back to store to return the cans/bottles, instead of waiting for 3 months for them to pile up? And just how much can a person drink beer?
Oh, and one more thing - don't even think of making your once-per-year appereance with your truckload of cans/bottles at the supermarket just before me returning my two cans and one wine bottle.
Yours truly.
me: -Hello, this is so-and-so calling, do you carry Spanish Katia yarns?
LYS lady: -Oh, yes, but only a few... [with a tired voice, as if I'm asking something which could really tax her physically if she thought about it even a second longer]
me: -Well, would you happen to have currently Merino 100% on your shelves?
LYS lady: -Oh, no no.... we don't. [what kind of stupid question is that ayway....]
me: -Ummmm, ok... who is your importer? [Trying to coax her to give me service and suggest that she could order from them and I could then pick up the yarn from her store - just as the importer suggested when I bought Katia yarn for Kingscot at the crafts fair]
LYS lady: -Well.... it's firm X from Turku......
me: -OK, so I guess I'll just contact them directly and give my money to them then, instead of your store, right?
LYS lady: -Yes, you'd better do that! [sounding real happy... problem solved!]
Those who live in Tampere know which store I'm talking about. They are just legendary, aren't they.
* * *
Another thing, while I'm at it:
Dear young guy living in the opposite building from ours,
I know that interior decorating is not everybody's favourite past time, and especially balconies can be a real challenge to upholster into a cosy but practical extention of one's home. But. I think contemporary design has been taken into new reaches in your balcony, to which I have a direct view when I'm sitting at my desk working. Piling up plastic bags filled with what I presume are empty beer cans and/or bottles maybe makes a statement - so far I just haven't figured out what that is. I respect the nature as well, and I salute your recycling activities, but would it be too much to just take one or two bags at a time back to store to return the cans/bottles, instead of waiting for 3 months for them to pile up? And just how much can a person drink beer?
Oh, and one more thing - don't even think of making your once-per-year appereance with your truckload of cans/bottles at the supermarket just before me returning my two cans and one wine bottle.
Yours truly.
2008/12/03
Keeping one's spirits up
...is quite difficult these (murky, dark and rainy) days. It's even more difficult to find a good time to take pictures when light is so scarce. But I wanted to share my progress of 'Kingscot' anyways with you, so here goes - lousy photos, but hopefully showing even partly how interesting the pattern is.
It's progressing with good speed - only 20 days to go until You-Know-What.... :)
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