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bedlamsbard ([personal profile] bedlamsbard) wrote2010-05-27 08:08 pm
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I really need a knitting icon

Am knitting Clapotis, six years after everyone else. We shall see how it goes, as the reason I took to one sock pattern and repeated it obsessively was that I really love short repeats, and fourteen stitches on a single needle was perfect for me. I could go on for two minutes or six hours! Shawls grow, and the only thing I've managed with that many stitches on a round at a time has been on a circ.

Also, I really need to get around to trying to make stitch markers at some point in time; I almost never use them so I don't have any, but they're kind of essential for Clapotis. I'm pretty sure I could make them; I used to make earrings and pendants and still have all the materials. (Including a hell of a lot of semi-precious stones, though now I can't recognize what any of them are. Some amethyst, various quartzes, turquoise, garnet, malachite, and some other stones I can't recognize. Topaz? Holy shit, I either need to get back into jewelry making or into making stitch markers; this is why Etsy was invented.) In the meantime, I am using bits of yarn tied into slipknots, which is slightly unstable, but will do for the time being. And it gives me something to do with all my little scrap bits of yarn.

Meanwhile, my canker sores still hurt like a motherfucker, and today I went in for an annual check-up -- as I can no longer see my pediatrician, new doctor, got a Tdap shot, so now my arm hurts as well and my daily schedule got fucked up, so I was off all day. I JUST CANNOT WIN, Y'ALL.

Speaking of knitting, I really need to finish up the Narnia bag; it needs to be blocked, lined, strapped, and photographed.
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[personal profile] aella_irene 2010-05-28 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm. Socks. Could be useful... (I probably shouldn't give my father port at every present-giving holiday.)

I am doing Linguistics stuff. Are we re-starting The Novel tomorrow, then?
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[personal profile] bedlamsbard 2010-05-28 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
They are fun! And...I must buy more sock yarn.

Yes, let's do that. Um, I will probably be here at 2 or 3 my time.
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[personal profile] aella_irene 2010-05-28 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you have any patterns you could link me to?

Wow! That is about when I get back from work! Also, since it's you to start, you can start after I go to bed tonight.
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[personal profile] bedlamsbard 2010-05-28 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
The pattern that I repeat over and over and over and over (I've done five of seven pairs of socks on this pattern) is Sunday Swing Socks, but I like a lot of repetition and something that I can do with very little thought except for counting. The Jaywalkers (Ravelry link; if you're not a Ravelry member (and why not!) I can e-mail you a copy of the pattern, since it's free) are also pretty easy and repetitious. (I've done one pair of Jaywalkers, but I prefer the Sunday Swing, but that's a personal preference.) The first pattern I ever did was the So Simple Silk Garden socks (I did not do them on Silk Garden, I did them on a different yarn), which are, indeed, very simple. All of these are on DPNs; Sunday Swing and Jaywalker are both on five DPNs, while the SSSG are on four.

We could start Sunday, if that will work better? 's just that tomorrow we are (hopefully!) going to the Farmer's Market (IF IT WILL STOP RAINING OMG WTF SUMMER) and the library, which doesn't open till 1.
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[personal profile] aella_irene 2010-05-28 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, thank you!

No, Saturday is just about perfect for me, as you get on when I do.
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[personal profile] bedlamsbard 2010-05-28 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep! I -- am very limited in pattern choice, generally. If I find something I like, I stick to it forever and ever. (The Sunday Swing Socks I have, on multiple occasions, both balled the yarn and cast on in the airport and on various airplanes, without having to look at the patterns. One of the reasons I like them is because (at least with my foot size) I know exactly when to start decreasing for the toe, whereas with the other two I constantly have to stop and measure. I am also kind of impressed with the fact I can wind yarn in an economy class airplane seat.)

Okay! ...wait. OMG, I have spent the past who knows how long (probably since the last time change, actually) thinking we were actually another hour off UK time. Utter, utter fail, Bed. (A.k.a., that 3:00 pm PST was 12:00 am in London. I'm sure this was true at some point in time, but not at the moment!)

...before I embarrass myself anymore, I am going to go eat something.
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