Rambles

[siercia]

Pretty good weekend overall. Widget attached herself to me the second I walked in the door on Friday. "Mama, I'm so glad you're home. I missed you while you were in Baltimore." I think I heard that every 15 minutes on Friday evening. She still keeps asking me if I'm staying here, and if I'll be here in the morning. Don't tell me my travelling doesn't mess with her head. At least I'm not going anywhere for the next month or so. End of the month, she gets a weekend at Grandpa's so I can focus on Carrie's wedding, but that doesn't seem to upset her as much as my going away.

Yesterday we wandered down to Kingston for a mettup with one of my Yahoo groups. That was fun, and then we wandered around the mall. Somehow, I thought Target sold toddler beds, so I looked there hoping to find something for Miss Widget, but no luck. *sigh* Found a jacket I liked in LB, but they didn't have my color in my size (phoo!). Went to knitting circle last night, had a good time as usual.

Today hit my local mall to see if LB had my jacket, and they did! Score! Then I found a replacement perfect purple eye shadow (Loooong saga, involving finding the perfect purple eyeshadow at Benefit years ago, only to have it make my eyes swell and itch when I wore it. Can we say allergic? But it was soooo perfect that I was actually reluctant to throw it out. Ever since then, and this dates from before Widget was born, I've been looking for a good replacement. I finally found it at the MAC counter today. Oh happy day!) Also found shoes that I think will work with the bridesmaid dress. Must remember to call tomorrow and see if I can tag along on Thursday when Shani and Carrie are going to pick up Shani's dress and get mine as well.

Dinner was uneventful, and I've spent my evening working on a cute little drop stitch scarf to be an accent piece for the new jacket. I think it'll be adorable, but renders the extra skein onf Manos that I bought last night completely useless. Oh well, guess I'll have to find another use for it. Darn.

Let's see, what else is going on. Signed up for both a knitting math class and a new-agy knitting workshop that might be silly and weird, but might be realy awesome and cool. Either way, I'm wicked excited about both of them.

In the middle of shower craziness. Somehow, the fact that April 3rd is next week snuck up on my sorry butt, and now I'm feeling all frenzied. If you got an invite and haven't rsvp'ed yet, please do so asap. Trying to plot the bachelorette party too, and we're a bit short on good ideas. And now also planning Widget birthday party and possible anniversary plans for the same weekend. Ack!

Might get to go to Amsterdam in May for work, but I'm not holding my breath. Much more likely that I'll be going to Milwaukee. Somehow, that just doesn't hold the same allure. Oh well.

I know there's more, I can't really think of what it might be.

Comments

[metalliman502.livejournal.com]

don't forget what else is april 3rd or more importantly don't forget what's on the 2nd. BTW have you seen any bridges catch fire and melt lately????

[siercia]

Tell me about it! Of course, then we might have me, Arwen and Elsinore in a caged death match to decide who gets to do the install ;).

[asmodel.livejournal.com]

I'm intrigued

What's knitting math?
New age knitting?

Knitting math.

[siercia]

Okay, until you start doing it, you don't realize that knitting requires a fair amount of math, from simple arithmetic to complex algebraic formulas, depending on what you're trying to do.

On it's most basic level, most knitting relies on your gauge, or number of stitches per inch for sizing (largely due to how the fabric of the garment is created). So a pattern won't say "make a knitted piece X inches wide", but instead will say, "gauge is 6 st / in, cast on 48 stsitches", which menas "we expect you to get 6 stitches per inch, using blah yarn with size 5 needles. Therefore, cast on 48 stitches to create a fabric 8 inches wide".

This is all well and good if you're using that yarn, and can get the same gauge. If you aren't or you can't, you need to work out mathematically what you need to change. For a piece that's a simple rectangle, that's easy. For pieces of a sweater, it gets really complicated very quickly. The class is going to teach us some formulas for some standard resizing, and that sort of thing.

And the new age knitting

[siercia]

That's more about the theme of the workshop and the woman who's running it. It's called the "Greek goddess knitting circle", and the first half is spent learning about and discussing the seven main Greek goddesses. Then, hopefully, everyone in the circle will have felt some kind of pull towards on of the goddess, or at least an aspect of their personalities, and the woman that's running it will help us to design a project that help us to draw that out in ourselves, or alternatively help us balance a negative aspect instead.

So it's a little wierd, but might be cool and interesting.

Re: And the new age knitting

[asmodel.livejournal.com]

They both sound fascinating.

Re: And the new age knitting

[asmodel.livejournal.com]

They both sound fascinating