Brotherling's back for the weekend... yay.
Third in a series of posts about the raglan which don't really say any more than the previous!
Some of y'all will remember me whining about the neck being too loose. If I didn't pay attention it would ocasionally flash a bra strap. (How scandalous!) The new and improved neck is, well, new and improved.
I should mention again that the yarn used for the neck and button bands (and parts of the sleeves and a large portion of the back) was rescued from a frogged thrift shop sweater. If I were a good rodent, I'd post about this at the ReKAL. Do I get extra credit for thrift shop buttons?
One thing I'd been fretting about on and off - did I put the buttons on the proper side? Will the cardi faerie stalk me down and zap me for putting buttons on the boy side instead of the girl side, whichever way that is? Alls I know is, it's easier to button if the buttons are on the right (better than wrong, no?) ; if this means it's a cross-dressing cardigan, so be it. Ha. And if I inadvertantly did it "correctly"... guess the cardi faerie needs to zap somebody else.
Blurry picture alert, courtesy of the mirror:
Less blurry picture with the other camera and without the aid of the mirror:
I wish I'd read more about button bands before doing it! I didn't properly appreciate how much they're detested ; if I'd known that it wasn't supposed to come out properly on the first try, I'd have felt much prouder about my button band success! Silly rodent.
Something on "This Old House" yesterday provoked a Brain Tilt. They showed a house being built by architecture students - Yale has a program where students all work together one year to design and build a house for a low-income family. The students interviewed told of how it was their first construction experience and how it changed the way they looked at designing houses. Many mentioned that they'd never used power tools before; one claimed to have never swung a hammer before he helped to build that house. One student mentioned that the construction program was one of the main reasons she went to Yale.
Hello?? Where do they find these people? Perhaps enough reasons exist to excuse having not used power tools, but... ooziegaheebins. How to reach college age, much less grad school, without having swung a hammer... that says something about Yalies. ... Can't... Write... Brain... Tilted...
A peek at the first Mystery Tank of this year: Mystery Tank #8.
What's there to say about MT#8 so far? The light blue seed stitch diamonds are done in more yarn rescued from a frogged thrift shop something- this time I had to hold the yarn double to match the gauge of the Denimstyle. What's going to happen next, I haven't a clue - I have only the next four rows planned.
"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." - E.L. Doctorow
Some of y'all will remember me whining about the neck being too loose. If I didn't pay attention it would ocasionally flash a bra strap. (How scandalous!) The new and improved neck is, well, new and improved.
I should mention again that the yarn used for the neck and button bands (and parts of the sleeves and a large portion of the back) was rescued from a frogged thrift shop sweater. If I were a good rodent, I'd post about this at the ReKAL. Do I get extra credit for thrift shop buttons?
One thing I'd been fretting about on and off - did I put the buttons on the proper side? Will the cardi faerie stalk me down and zap me for putting buttons on the boy side instead of the girl side, whichever way that is? Alls I know is, it's easier to button if the buttons are on the right (better than wrong, no?) ; if this means it's a cross-dressing cardigan, so be it. Ha. And if I inadvertantly did it "correctly"... guess the cardi faerie needs to zap somebody else.
Blurry picture alert, courtesy of the mirror:
Less blurry picture with the other camera and without the aid of the mirror:
I wish I'd read more about button bands before doing it! I didn't properly appreciate how much they're detested ; if I'd known that it wasn't supposed to come out properly on the first try, I'd have felt much prouder about my button band success! Silly rodent.
Something on "This Old House" yesterday provoked a Brain Tilt. They showed a house being built by architecture students - Yale has a program where students all work together one year to design and build a house for a low-income family. The students interviewed told of how it was their first construction experience and how it changed the way they looked at designing houses. Many mentioned that they'd never used power tools before; one claimed to have never swung a hammer before he helped to build that house. One student mentioned that the construction program was one of the main reasons she went to Yale.
Hello?? Where do they find these people? Perhaps enough reasons exist to excuse having not used power tools, but... ooziegaheebins. How to reach college age, much less grad school, without having swung a hammer... that says something about Yalies. ... Can't... Write... Brain... Tilted...
A peek at the first Mystery Tank of this year: Mystery Tank #8.
What's there to say about MT#8 so far? The light blue seed stitch diamonds are done in more yarn rescued from a frogged thrift shop something- this time I had to hold the yarn double to match the gauge of the Denimstyle. What's going to happen next, I haven't a clue - I have only the next four rows planned.
"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." - E.L. Doctorow
posted by monkeemaven-fruitcakeknits at 2/25/2005 12:09:00 pm
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