Words go past my eyes all day

[bunrab]

and now they go past yours via Twitter:

• 15:45 dynamic highway sign (on Balto. beltway): Inauguration Jan 20/ Expect major delays/ I95 and I495 (no kidding!) #
• 18:06 vanity plate: THE FOG #
• 19:08 current listening: 5 cello pieces by Victor Herbert (who knew? He wrote something besides operetta) #
• 23:17 current listening: Lt. Kije Suite. Mmmmm, tenor sax solo #
• 23:17 vanity plate: SLOT CAR #
• 23:26 current temp 12F-coldest since we moved here. Yes, you flist Yankees, I know you're sneering "wimps" at us. #
• 23:27 currently halfway thru knitting a pair of alpaca-blend gloves for Squirrel. (Yes. that means one glove done.) #
• 23:38 note to self: deciding to try Continental style halfway thru a k1p1 ribbed cuff wreaks havoc with gauge. #
• 23:45 these days there are lots of ways to make socks with circular needles, but gloves are still an intensely double-pointed needles project #
• 23:51 Squirrel is playing air guitar and singing "I got me a hedgehog, and its nosicle is cute, and it's licking my boot." #
• 23:52 have I ever mentioned that I'm the NORMAL one in this household? #
• 00:55 "thumb gusset" is really a very funny-sounding bunch of syllables #

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Comments

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

I use Continental for when I'm doing long stretches of knit stitch in a row, but I don't usually use it when I purl. So it only occurred to me after an inch or so of ribbing that there is a way to do k1p1 by flicking the yarn back and forth over the top of the needle. However, the tension is SOO much looser with Continental - it's one of those things that I can't switch to and keep the same gauge.

Have you read the current Piecework knitting issue yet? You want weird-looking, check out the article on Portuguese knitting!

BTW, finally got those boots in the mail this morning; so perhaps you'll get them before it gets too warm to wear boots :D