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I should have stayed in bed…

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I woke up to the sound of the alarm at 5:30 this morning only to fall back to sleep for 20 more minutes.  These summer hours of working an extra hour in the morning and an extra hour at the end of the day are great so I can have an extra day off during the week but getting up earlier is not so great.  I’ve cut down my getting-ready time to the right amount of time without a minute to spare.  This morning I was only two minutes late walking in the door.  No one was here but the cleaners so it really didn’t matter.

My right arm was asleep with I got up and three hours later it’s still tingling.  Not good.

I only got two inches knitted last night on the back of the Lace Hem Topping shell.  I don’t know if I can knit during lunch with this tingling hand.  I this something I need to get checked out since I was diagnosed with this?

My printer at work isn’t working.  We have network printers I can use but this one is right next to my computer and the only one I can use when I need to print labels and envelopes.

It dawned on me that 40% of my paycheck is gone before it even gets to my bank.  And I’m not happy with what the powers that be are doing with that 40%.  Let’s not even go there right now.  This is not a political blog.

I should have stayed in bed…and knit.

Yarn, fiber content, stitch count

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I was reading Benjamin Krudwig’s  post this morning and decided to use his idea for my post today.  He discussed how many stitches we knit (or crochet) in an item and I thought it was a bit of information necessary on the tag I include with all my knitted items along with the yarn used, fiber content, and washing instructions.

I keep track of each row I knit and it wouldn’t be hard to figure out how many stitches are in the finished piece…not counting the seams.  I think this information would be interesting to include when gifting or even selling a hand-knitted item.

What do you think?

Sloped bind off

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I learned about the sloped bind off yesterday.  I’m up to the armhole shaping on the Lace Edge Top and remembered reading about the sloped bind off to prevent the stair-step effect when binding off for several rows so I decided to use it on the armhole. 

You can learn about it here.

I have been knitting for a very long time and did not know about this technique.  Wish I did.

Isn’t the internet great?!

I got a lot of knitting done yesterday since I’m off on Mondays during the summer.  My plan was to declutter/clean something but I couldn’t decide what it would be. 

I ended up going to the doctor for a pain I’ve had in my leg for about a month.  Over the weekend I discovered a lump or hard spot where the pain was centered so I thought I should have it checked out.  I really don’t like going to the doctor for every little ache or pain (or I’d be there every day!) but something told me I should go for this.   Good thing I went as I was diagnosed with superficial thrombosis.

So I got some meds in me, elevated my leg and knitted most of the afternoon and evening.

Chinese Auction and Lace Hem Top

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We went to covered dish get-together this weekend and were to take a White Elephant gift.  As it turned out the White Elephant gift was really a Chinese Auction.  There are various versions of a Chinese Auction.  For this version those who participated drew a number from a hat.  When that number was called, the person chose and unwrapped a gift.  If they didn’t like it, they could swap with someone else.  Obviously the first few people didn’t have much of a chance of swapping for a “better” gift.  

The gift we took was destined for our yard sale.  

Mr. Aitch was third to select a gift.  It was a crystal candy dish with a lid and resembled a Hershey Kiss.  I suggested he swap that for a canvas bag filled with gardening tools.  Pretty and useful.  Too pretty and too useful as it turned out.  That gift was THE gift and exchanged hands many, many more times.  After the last gift was unwrapped and swapped,  the first person got an opportunity to swap since she didn’t have a choice at the beginning.  BTW she was the one that opened the canvas bag with the gardening tools in the first place.  And that’s what she ended up with after all.   

What did Mr. Aitch get?   

The gift we took.  It’s going back to the yard sale box.  

On the knitting side of the weekend I got about half way done on the back of the Lace Hem Top.  I’m hoping I can make great progress on this today and perhaps even finish the back!  Mr. Aitch doesn’t understand the concept of a “sweater” for the summer.  I tried to explain that it isn’t a sweater, it’s a knitted garment.  Not all knits are sweaters.  Whatever.  

Lace Hem Topping 7/11/2010

Cascade Ultra Pima in Heathered Pansy.  

This has a lace border and I’ve not really done much with lace.  In fact the only “lace” I’ve done is/are the eyelet sweaters.  I wet the sweaters when I was finished with them and blocked.  I used acrylic yarn.   

How do I block this cotton?  Steam block?  Wet block?