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January 25, 2006

Shawl update & a Meme

Step away from the sock. Put it down. Remember Sundays are for socks. No sense in being miserable knitting socks day in and day out. Specially when there are shawls to be completed ;^>

I mentioned that the shawl center diamond was being reworked as two triangles to be grafted together. I am not that good at grafting. Usually the sts I graft come out to be at a much tighter gauge than the knitting. Basically I do the weaving portion and pull the thread. This time I decided to knit a few rows in a contrasting similarly weight yarn to 'duplicate stitch' over while creating the graft. Pull out the contrasting thread and I should have a graft at similar, if not same, gauge as the actual knit portions. Here is the completed triangle with contrasting thread from both sides:

And:

Hopefully no matter how the other triangle ends~ with a valley or a peak~ I will be able to graft in pattern by following the path of my contrasting thread. Thats the plan.

I also started the second triangle and here is where I was at earlier this evening:

I expect a few more rows by time I conk out tonight.

Lady Prudence et al tagged me! I have been seeing this thingie go round blog land for quite a while and I gotta tell you.... nobody, and I mean nobody, has ever flipped burgers to save money for college. I decided to switch up the tag a bit and so go ahead and skip over or read as you like. Wasn't it nice of me to put the knitting stuff first?

List 4 jobs you've had~ changed to first 4 real jobs[not babysitting, newspaper route etc] you've had

Waitress at diner~ much fun slopping coffee inot the bottomless 49 cents cuppa joe that lasted hours really these peeps had no jobs to earn the shiney quarter. Believe it or not I loved this job.
Artists Model~ best paying job I ever had in college~ see above if you don't believe me. Standing nekkid in front of a classroom full of strangers takes nerves. The first class I did the prof well he was my best HS friends dad and she was now my room mate. I kinda felt weird on weekends when he dropped by after that. I got over it.
Projectionist~ I asked and asked for this job. I was the first female projectionist ever in my not so small college town. The manager refused to believe a woman could lift those large reels. When he was transferred to another theatre that was opening and some new guy put in charge I was promptly moved to concessions. Don't tell me there aren't glass ceilings cause women serve popcorn and men run the flicks.
Nanny~ I moved cross country to be with my gal pal Loretta and it was a good paying gig with room and board included. The downside? You lose your job you lose your home in one fell swoop.
+1 related to Nanny was Elder Care Companion~ people pay more to take care of their parents than their kids let me tell you. And I have watched more Angela Lansbury and Andy Griffith than any other person my generation. Hours and hours and hours a day every day for years by the time I was 25.

List 4 movies you could watch over and over

Sabrina with Hepburn not Ford, Sound of Music, any of the Thin Man series and my favorite of all time: Pandora's Box with Louise Brooks. I love old movies.

List 4 TV shows you love to watch

Law and Order every day~ we have the original, SVU &CI daily thanks to USA and TNT. The Shield and The Closer. Give me a crime drama anyday. Loved Buffy but thats gone. BTW Chiklas is hot. Loved him in The Commish[which being a policey type of show I watched duh] and love him in this too. The first show I ever had to watch? crap can't remember the name but it was a police show as well.

List 4 places you've been on vacation

Mexico, New Orleans, Memphis[you knew that one] and San Fran. Basically family vacations. I never took one on my own....

List 4 websites you visit daily

Daily Kos, CNN, knit related Blogs and here cause I know you noticed I am blogging every day

List your 4 favorite foods~ only 4 favorites? Who wrote this?

Beans 'n Rice are very very nice. Icecream. Is coke a food? I vote yes. Multigrain cheerios with a sliced up apple. Almost anything with a combination of pasta, rice, and potatoes. Oh and gyros.

List 4 places I'd rather be right now and with whom

in bed with my man, in Ireland with my gal pal Loretta, in S Carolina with my other gal pal Rosemarie, in bed with my man again.

List 4 bloggers I'm tagging

breaking the chain plus I think all memes are scraping the barrel by the time they get to me. But if you wanna do it then go ahead ~ tag your it!

yarny days and knitterly evenings

Posted by Elka at January 25, 2006 09:06 PM

Comments

Posted by: marti at January 26, 2006 02:02 PM