Wow, this week’s gone by fast! I’ve been busy but do not have many pictures to show my busyness.
Let’s just right to the reading, watching, loving/not loving, and doing…
what I’m reading
I’ve been reading about altering furniture to make it work better for my needs. This is something I’d love to do to my IKEA knitting storage table but I would have to modify one of the drawers to make it fit. I need to think about this some more.
what I’m watching
Mr. Aitch and I have been watching the old, old, old Gunsmoke series. I think we are still on the second (of twenty) season and the early episodes are only 30 minutes long. One thing I notice is that the dresses Miss Kitty wears zip down the back.
Zippers that we use today have only been around for a little over 100-years so Miss Kitty’s dresses would not have used a zipper.
Elias Howe, the inventor of the sewing machine, developed an early version of the zipper in 1851 but failed to market it. Along came Whitcomb Judson, who debuted his “Clasp Locker” at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. He patented it but it didn’t have much success. Gideon Sundback improved upon Judson’s closure and patented his version in 1917. That’s the design we know today.
These closure devices weren’t used in clothing but for boots and tobacco pouches. Click here for more information on the zipper.
what I’m loving/not loving
We’ll be attending a party this afternoon. Yay!
It’s a going-away party for our neighbor who is moving after living here for 29 years. Not yay. We understand that her house is too big for just her and there is a lot of upkeep but will be sad to see her go.
what I’m working on
I finally got back into the knitting groove! I started these socks at the beginning of the year and was going full steam ahead until my knitting mojo snuck off during the night. I’m so happy that my mojo is back but she brought an unwelcome friend – the Dreaded Yarn Chicken.
It never occurred to me that I didn’t have enough yarn to complete the second sock.
I have 18 more rows before the toe. I found another yarn in my stash from the same manufacturer and it’s going to be close enough.
The tweed yarn has little slubs instead of little pops of color. These will be going into my sock drawer and they will be good enough for my feet.
Stay cool this week!
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I’m so happy to see that I’m not the last knitter on earth who still uses a magnetic board to keep track of where I am in the pattern. I succumbed and started a Sophie Scarf yesterday evening.
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I have at least four magnetic boards! I have no idea how anyone who uses a chart can get along without one. I use mine for counted-cross stitch, too.
The Sophie Scarf looks like a great knit.
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I got mine back when I was making counted-cross stitch too and have quite a collection. I even have a smaller one that comes in handy once in a while.
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I am not a fan of yarn chicken either, especially if “Murphy” is around!! You seemed to thwart “Murphy” tho, hehe, close enough will work on a toe! Love the yarn with those pops of color, really cool looking!
My eyes refuse to track when working on things I have to count (like rows going up on my knitting because my eyes lose tracking, so I mark the rows with a light bulb marker every 10 rows so I don’t have to count so much). I asked my eye dr if it was a problem with my eyes, she said no, it was my brain. I thought gee thanks! Even with a ruler to show where I am on a chart, for some reason I can’t read charts, I have a really hard time remembering what the symbols are, tho I can read the written line of a pattern without something to mark it. Go figure. I think they mixed up my brain with someone else’s :P.
I like to watch the series “Monk”, so funny. I also found an old series I had somehow missed when it was on TV, called “The Mentalist”. It’s about a mentalist who works with a detective department in solving crimes. It has some funny parts and some thriller parts, some of the thriller parts I found a little scary. But I like the series.
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