Knittarific Updates:

[mightyjesse]

So I am *almost* done with Eithni's sweater, and I ran out of string... I would have spun more, only I was out of carded wool... I would have carded more, only none was scoured... So... I had to scour another sinkful of wool to card and spin, and the wool takes 3-4 days to dry out completely... Thus I was left without anything to do projectwise... I didn't want to start another big project, lest I fail to complete this sweater... (Failure to complete is one of my bad project habits that I'm trying to "grow out of.") So I started one of the small projects in my Ravelry Queue.

And now I have, what Zig refers to as "Flashdance Gloves". Apparently he disapproves of my gloves as a fashion choice.



I, on the other hand, quite like them. While I'm sure that green-wool-arm-warmers are a fashion faux pas in someone's high school, I am no longer in high school, and my Mommy told me that I could wear whatever I wanted when I was a grown-up.

*grin* I am now recalling the little girl I met in the Outback Steakhouse bathroom a while ago. She was probably about 3 years old and wearing a pastel blue chiffon princess dress with hot-pink-rhinestone-Barbie-cowboy boots. She had one pigtail in and one pigtail out, and was objecting to her mother's opinion that symmetry of hairstyle was preferable at the dinner table. Despite the ongoing argument between parent and stubborn-little-girl, I could tell by her bearing that this little girl thought she looked fabulous in her carefully selected togs. Perhaps it's not her fashion sense I enjoyed so much as it was the utter confidence that everything she was wearing was totally cool. This is me, typing in my pretty-princess-arm-warmers, no matter how many of my colleagues ask if I have carpal tunnel...

Tonight I either need to get on the stick and cut out Little Man's tunic, or card more wool to spin into string for the Eithni Sweater. Possibly both.

Comments

[former-callixte.livejournal.com]

Oh oh those are beautiful! Someday I want to learn how to make those. And they are perfect for winter--at least for me. When I need arm warmth but want to wear a lighter top--not a sweater.