Elka Knits: Un~freaking~believable

August 10, 2005

Un~freaking~believable

I have finally finished all the getting ready for school prep: new socks, panties, backpacks, wardrobes, haircuts, teeth cleanings, check-ups on top of school supplies. My girls are so very ready for next week. This being the last possible day for slumber parties preschool beginning we, of course, invited over Zoe's BFF. I had planned on taking the girls to the City Museum or Magic House or at the very least depending upon how tuckered out I was feeling the Science Center. The girls vetoed all of these ideas for this! Damned TV.

The teeth cleaning occured yesterday and I left the girls at the Dentists to shop for IK the one with Madlis shawl which they didnt' have and I have no clue which issue. One would think I wasn't going to be at yarn heaven tomorrow. Whoa Nellie back up there~ did you say left the kids? Yes I sure did. Auntie Carol~~ you know the auntie that watches the girls whenever we leave town for the weekend~~ just happens to work at a Dentist's office. I am thinking that maybe when they do the office days if they still do the office days I will send my girls there. For my foreign readers my Jr Highschool aka Middle School aka 6th grade onward sent me to a parent's workplace to learn all about what it means to work. See what it did for me? I stay at home. Either that or I will, if feeling particularly unappreciated, keep the girls home that day. I plan on putting on an act which involves fusing June schedule with Lucy kinda day. I shall do my best to convince them that I work that hard everyday and don't sit until 4.29.99 which is why I park my patootie in front of the computer, or on knitting chair and look harrassed should they require anything.

Not having the mag I decided to peruse the yarn offerings and picked up two balls of sock yarn:

This is Trekking 100 which is making the rounds in blogland due to the evershifting and artful color changes. Mine isn't doing the shading most often seen and its probably because I picked a nice dark 'manly' kinda shade. Still we get to test macro skills to show you this:

What in the world did I do to deserve yarn 2 days before Stitches extravaganza? OMG you wouldn't believe the insults I endured just before going to the dentists. Really you wouldn't. Sigh. We go to get the hair cuts and I decide to have my lip waxed since I will be seen in public by other knitters who are obviously more important than other kinds of people[including spouses and spouses' coworkers/friends/family] and don't deserve to face this when trying to knit. The lady who was gonna do the deed started right up on these. When I asked her what she thought she was doing since they had been done already { aside: I had just done them myself tyvm } she told me they looked 'terrible' The result of her handiwork. The indignity....

Posted by Elka at August 10, 2005 04:11 PM

Comments

I'd pick Chuck E. over the Science Center too :P I volunteered at the SLSC for a year and was *not* one of the most stellar volunteers. Perhaps because I dislike science immensely.

Posted by: Lauren at August 11, 2005 12:54 AM

Elka you crack me up! Sigh. We still have 3 1/2 weeks until school starts. i am so envious that your kidlets get to go next week!

Posted by: marti at August 11, 2005 02:56 AM

LOL! I would have chosen about anything over CEC but I'm a geek. Which Interweave has the shawl pattern? I might have that issue.

Posted by: Toni at August 11, 2005 10:21 AM

Elka, a thought on the non-shading of on the Trekking. I'm knitting socks with Trekking too and I'm finding that mine don't look like others I have seen. I'm wondering if the difference isn't the number of stitches. If you're using my pattern with 80 stitches, the color changes will happen quicker and won't be as noticeable. Perhaps a pattern with fewer stitches would work better.

Posted by: michelle at August 13, 2005 08:16 PM

Oooh, Opal Trekking. The colors look wonderful. And I can't wait to see the finished shawl! It's looking gorgeous and *so close* to being done. Did you go to Stitches Midwest? I wish I'd been more organized with going and was able to meet up with some online bloggers! I would have loved to look at your lacework.

And re hair, I hate it when someone who's supposed to make me look better tells me how terrible I already look. You should leave a salon feeling like rock star, not like a former hairball.

Posted by: c at August 15, 2005 08:18 PM