so you understand less as the pages turn...*
[SKIP TO THE BOTTOM if you just want knittin']
I rarely do memes, as you know, but I saw this one on Cara's and at Lolly's and it interested me. The directions are to take the list of books below and mark them as such:
"Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you might read, cross out the ones you won't, underline the ones on your book shelf, and place parentheses around the ones you've never even heard of"
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - Currently Reading.
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brönte
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides (I hated this book.)
(Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell)
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
(Atonement - Ian McEwan)
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Currently Reading
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert
I consider myself someone who doesn't read popular fiction, so it's interesting I've read so many of those books. Some of my favorites are on that list. Weird, eh?
Loll
So as mentioned, I am lucky lucky and get to knit a store sweater for Main Street Yarns in Rowan Calmer, the dreamiest of yarns.
I knit my Audrey sweater from Rowan 35 in Calmer, and had a bear of a time getting gauge. In general I struggled with the yarn, but I loved it.
Here's a lesson for you.
The thing is, when I knit that sweater I FINALLY had success in the gauge on US 8's (5mm). This new sweater, Loll, has the SAME gauge, same yarn, so I should be good to go on an 8, right?
Wrong. Just to be safe I swatched, and I need a 10. A 10!! 6mm!! Just a lesson for all of us. Trust no one. Mulder was right.
Start me up
So here's a beginning picture of the fringe and the sweater itself:
Initially I was unsure about this fringe, but now, I think it's gonna be good. Here's an update with the waist shaping:
The pattern is WRONG for sizes 1, 3, 4, and 5. I'm making the 3rd size (medium, I guess) and had to re-figure the stitch count. I will post about this in more detail next time for you, and I have written the people at Rowan so I can show them the error. Kim Hargreaves probably knit the second size, then she or someone else extrapolated, wrongly, I can tell you.
But that's why I'm here, right? ;-)
Hi Ho Hi Ho it's off to work I go.
*The Shins. Love them.
Hey kids. HEJ is in a bit of a stressful mental state, and blogging and knitting aren't fun just this moment.
Please, then, forgive us this High Energy Hiatus. I love all of you, and am so so thankful for my readers, and I will be back in a few weeks, I'm sure. I just need a breather for a little bit.
Knit On with your Bad Selves,
Love and Kisses,
HEJ
The Clique Issue. Or, WARNING, no pictures.
Hey there, kiddies. I want to post some pics about MDS&W, and tell about the famous folks I got to meet, etc., but I feel conflicted. (And I need to talk about it.)
YOU have guilt? Alert the media.
Yes, well. Here's the thing: I feel guilty telling my excitement and fun times, because if I list all the bloggy types I met, I feel I'm name-dropping. And I met a bunch of people, because I'm ridiculously gregarious, loud, and obnoxious. Therefore, I ran up to people all weekend long and MET THEM, whether they liked it or not. I practically accosted Wendy. It's a wonder she didn't call the police! (I think I frightened Kim, at least.)
So I'm already all over the damn web, and that was not my intent. I didn't meet people so I could be blogged about. I met people cause it is FUN. And every blogger I met was fantastic and interesting and I made lots of new friends.
I have read a few posts lately where bloggers are upset about the "high school" nature of knitblogs. What's so funny is I was not popular in high school and didn't care, then or now! I feel bad that people feel left out, not only about MDS&W, but about the "knitblog" world in general. It is never my intention to make anyone feel that way, and if I have, I publicly apologize.
The problem is that there are at least 600 knitblogs out there, and no one can read them all. No one. (Not even Lauren. Sh*t! I did it again!). And although I work fewer hours than most full-time peeps, I still can only read so many.
For example, there are several famous blogs I have visited but don't read routinely: Claudia, Silvia, Rachael, Lolly. Clearly, however, these women and their blogs are fabulous, so the fact I don't comment or read much isn't a reflection of something bad about them. There just isn't enough time in the day. I would feel facetious to go there to comment just to put my name out there or feel included. That's just silly.
I always feel I'll offend someone I don't read, but I just can't read all the blogs out there. And I am shocked when you all stop by here, cause this whole damn high energy deal is just ridiculous anyway. I'm ridiculous! HA!
Anyway, before I put in a bunch of bloglinks from MDS&W, I felt the need to say that little bit. I love everyone, and hate no one. All is goodness and light. ;-)
And P.S.
And about Carrie and Anne Marie? You should know the three of us live like 5 minutes apart and I see them at least once a week. We are friends outside the blogworld and hang out. I'm very very lucky to have them as friends. Please don't think I'm being blog-cliquey if I talk about them. I just love 'em!
Alright, fine. A picture. Cause you made it this far.
The MDS&W SPOILS:
**And FYI, I'm not fishing for good comments here. Say what you gotta. Let it all out. I can handle it. ;-)