today, it is a knitting blog

[mylittleredgirl]

I finished the never-ending sweater of neverendingness!! I still can't believe it took this long -- it's not that complicated -- but I suppose the extended mono of doom is a valid excuse.



The gleee and relief lasted about 8 seconds, and then I went "oh, crap. *Now* what am I going to do?"

I think socks next. Or baby stuff, for all of my friends (and by "all" I mean "two") with new babies or babies-who-will-be-new-in-less-than-a-week. Maybe tomorrow I will go and buy new project goodies.

And, heh, it's actually cold enough in my house right now to warrant wearing a wool sweater. I'd yell "What the heck is up with the freaking weather!?" but I've lived in the Berkshires for a long time and am therefore not that concerned.

-- Little Red, who insists that knitting in the summer isn't weird.

Comments

[keenween.livejournal.com]

yay!
I haven't done much with that blanket, and it's too hot here to be knitting now...
It's not gonna get any coller really, so I guess I should just suck it up and get to work, huh?

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

I guess so... you could knit at a table or something so the blanket isn't resting in your lap, maybe?

I got your phone message -- my cell battery died as soon as it started ringing, sorry -- and re: the electric bill, the one I have goes through May 19.

[lisayaeger.livejournal.com]

Red's a Red!

So purdy!!!

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Hee! Ah, yes, my screen name refers to my hair and not to any communist ties or sports team affiliation :)

[elly427.livejournal.com]

Two things frighten me slightly about this entry.

1. You sorta look like I thought you might. Not that I've thought about it a lot, but you look like the vague picture in my head. Huh. I'm weird.

2. I learned to knit this weekend. As you'd probably guess I can barely knit a row, and can only one day dream of aspiring to your knittyness. Is that a word.

I'm feeling sort of stalker-esque today. Huh. Yay me!

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

You sorta look like I thought you might.

Don't worry about it -- all redheads look more or less the same ;) Well, that's less true as adults, but really, all redheaded children before about the age of 6 look *identical*

I learned to knit this weekend.

eeeeeee! *squeals* It's sad how excited I get finding out other people knit, or are learning to knit, or want to learn to knit. But it's so much fun. A bunch of my friends at school and I had a knitting circle (a "socialist socialite knitting circle". It shortened to "soc-soc" and we thought that was cool). And you will so reach my knittyness soon!! It doesn't take long -- one scarf to learn how to knit and purl reliably, one simple sweater pattern to learn to read patterns and make increases and decreases, and then you're there and can do anything :)

I'm feeling sort of stalker-esque today.

Come stalk me on yahell :) *waves angst snippets as bait*

[vagenna.livejournal.com]

the sweater is BEAUTIFUL.

You know, sachi, I realized that I completely stopped knitting when you disapeared with the evil death of doom. :(

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

nooooooo!! you must finish the scarf!

[stars-like-dust.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose you have MSN, do you? *looks hopeful*

... I'm not a stalker. No. Not at all. ;)

[splash-the-cat.livejournal.com]

She's perfectly harmless. Really.

*nods*

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Actually, I don't have MSN!! I do yahoo messenger -- mylittleredgirl ... *looks hopefully at you and bats eyes*

Great job!

[dingc.livejournal.com]

If I tried to do that it would look like a fish net! Looks great!

Re: Great job!

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And fishnets were the origins of knitting, I'm told...

[splash-the-cat.livejournal.com]

Oh, lovely! Knitting defeated me, but I crochet a mean afghan... or twenty.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Ooooh!! I don't crochet well, beyond the very basic crocheting skills you need as a knitter, but crocheted afghans are *so pretty.* I knitted an afghan last fall that I adore, but the range of stuff you can do with afghans is less impressive with knitting, I think.

I like knitting better because I can do a lot of it without looking, so I can read or watch TV while I do it... but it seemed like crocheting required more attention because you had to be sure to get the hook in the right place in the stitch before... but maybe that's because I didn't stick with it long enough!

-- Little Red, who likes anything that lets her call TV-watching "productive"

I crochet!

[aj.livejournal.com]

Ask splash_the_cat. We spent an entire day talking, chatting about Stargate, watching Stargate, and crocheting. I think I frightened her husband more by doing that than if I'd stormed the house and dragged his wife off to a den of debauchery.

Although, that could have been fun too. ;)

Pretty sweater!

Re: I crochet!

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

I think that when we get together we should spend our nights at dens of debauchery (alternately, baseball parks) and the rest of the time spend doing yarnwork and watching Stargate and squeeeing over such wonderful things as HaileyandWalsh and mini-OTP and try to appropriately render "OMGthesqueeehasnospacesinit!" while speaking out loud.

Definitely.

[suzvoy.livejournal.com]

Oh it's so PRETTY. And love the colour.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks!! I'm so in love with the colour that I'm terribly sad to no longer be knitting in it! On the upside, I might paint one of the walls in my bedroom a similar colour in a few weeks...

[nenya_kanadka]

That sweater is spiftastic. Gorgeous! Lovely colour, and pretty cables. (This is not the Stargate sweater, I take it?) Is that you in the picture? It looks like how I pictured you, too. But also different, since the one image I have of you in my head is the Trill-spots/stickers-and-looking-Jadzia!mysterious one you had as an icon for a while. (You *are* right about all redheaded infant children looking the same, too.)

I want a replicator so I can program your sweater into it and copy it, even though I rarely wear sweaters (am sweatshirt person). :) It is Teh Sex.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

This is not the Stargate sweater, I take it?

LOL! And no. I haven't even started patterning that one out yet, although I probably should, now that I no longer live with keenween who would have made horribly sighing noises of "I can't believe I know someone as geeky as you!" every time he saw me working on it.

Yes, that's me in the picture, although I don't think it's a particularly good one. I feel like I ought to look more like the trill-spots-and-party-girl-makeup that you're thinking of :) but I was exhausted from after work and don't look quite as Jadzia!mysterious since I got sick!

Mmmm... replicators... but really, I would probably knit anyway. (I'll bet Dr. Crusher does.) I have a knitting machine now and am yet to figure out how to use it -- where's the fun in that?

OOOh, pretty...

[daxterdd.livejournal.com]

I don't know how to knit but I've always wanted to learn. It just seems like such a handy thing to know.

THing is, no one I know knows how to do it. I think my grandmother knows how to crochet, but that just doesn't have the same appeal as knitting to me.

Re: OOOh, pretty...

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

There must be someone around who can show you the very basics (and by "basics" I mean "knit stitch" and "purl stitch")... the rest you can teach yourself with the handy thing that is the internet. You could probably teach yourself the whole deal on the 'net if you have patience and really want to, but in my experience it's easier to knit your first few rows with someone looking over your shoulder and moving your hands for you :)

[woodface]

You could write smut, you know?

*waves* I don't see any pop ups.

[woodface]

Oh dear, I see what you mean.

*pokes box* Where did you came from? Although this is faster...

Okay, it's not faster cause now I have to click twice if I want to switch icons. D'oh!

[snarky-freak.livejournal.com]

nice sweater!! ...and knitting in the summer ain't weird!!

then again, this is coming from someone living through crazy Canadian weather...!!

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Perhaps my family brought the crazy Canadian weather with us when we moved to the States and it was just a delayed reaction...? Because I totally lit a fire in the woodstove last week. And turned on the propane the other night. And while I finally get to sleep in shorts and a tank top, I do so under a wool blanket.

The hell?

I suppose it's a good thing, since we have no A/C in the house, but if woolly mammoths start showing up, I'm going to officially be concerned.

[idle-dreamer.livejournal.com]

'...and then I went "oh, crap. *Now* what am I going to do?"'

I have a suggestion...

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

I meant *knitting*, but thanks! ;)

You know Karen who wrote all those amazing DRR stories? EMAILED ME! She's on a new DRR kick... I live in hope of new story goodness...