It turns out that I do know myself pretty well. The partial Wallaby you saw last week has been returned to it's ball form. No trace of the sweater remains, which is probably for the best. What child wants to wear a peachy/orangey sweater anyway?
I have moved on to the next thing which will be a hat and mittens for this worthy cause. I'm making it out of the green wool I decided not to use for the Celtic Icon sweater. It's good sport weight wool which should keep a head and hands warm, but the downside is that I'm knitting on needles designed by Torquemada. They are the pointiest needles that I've ever used, and I'm knitting pretty tight so the hat will keep the poor man's head warm. When I knit I hold the yarn in my left hand, make the stitch, then use my right pointer finger to push the needle tip and get the old stitch off. Technique + needles = index finger that alternates between numb and numbingly painful. It only took about 3 hours of this before I thought, "gee, maybe if I put a bandage on my finger it won't hurt so much." I may be slow, but I will get there eventually. I'm actually looking forward to the mittens so I can use my less pointy DPNs. And I usually avoid DPNs like the plague.
As for the 2 truths and a lie, I WAS a parts department manager at a motorcycle dealership, I DO have a burning desire to fly a helicopter, but I have NOT gone 100 miles just to go to a yarn shop. I'm sure it will happen at some point in my life, but not yet. I'm in the planning stages of a 42 mile trip to visit a DYS (Distant Yarn Shop,) but that will be longest yarn inspired trip yet. It's just the downside of technology; too easy to shop on the Internet.
2 comments:
I'm begining to worry about you. This is a very masochistic position you are taking as you knit with these needles.
I was going to say the yarn shop answer....really I was.....
Does it count that I flew to the other side of the planet with the list of my destination's yarn stores in my backpack and visited one of them the first day. That was WAY more than 100 miles!!!
That's a great cause! I have actually poked a hole in my finger using that same knitting method... but was too lazy to actually get up and get a bandage to fix matters...
Love the lie question, too - I never even thought the yarn one could be a lie. (Though I suppose 100 miles is a little far to go...)
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