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Nålbinding news!

posted by [personal profile] cathyr19355 at 11:01pm on 10/04/2006 under , ,
In between working, pretending to do my taxes (still 5 days! 7, if you go to the following Monday!) helping Eric to recover from his long weekdays on his consulting job, and refusing to clean the house, I continue with my efforts to learn nålbinding.

The item that was to be my first sock refuses to turn into a tube. It now is of the size, and shape, of a yarmulke. So there's been a change of plan. I'm going to work on it until it's the size of a beanie (i.e., a yarmulke about twice as broad and deep). Then I'll finish it off with a row in a contrasting color, and I'll have my first project--a hat! We won't say anything about the quality of the stitching (I can do at least 8-10 perfectly gauged stitches without screwing something up), but it should be a usable hat by the time I'm done.

Then I can start trying to make a sock all over again, using my brand-new, perfectly Viking period bone nalbinding needle!
Music:: Mark Knopfler, "Wanderlust"
Mood:: 'optimistic' optimistic
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posted by [identity profile] flaviarassen.livejournal.com at 05:02am on 11/04/2006
Are you kidding - leave it as a yarmulke!
Tha's exactly what the world is missing, a Viking kippah!!
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 05:15am on 11/04/2006
Yes, well, there are several problems with that:

1) Yarmulkes aren't Viking. (Yet.)
2) I'm going to be the one wearing it. There some evidence suggesting that Viking men *did* wear beanies, so I tried to interest Eric in wearing the finished product, but no dice. However, he did admit that the work in progress was "kinda admirable." I have no clue what he meant by this, and I'm not sure I want to know. :-)
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posted by [identity profile] flaviarassen.livejournal.com at 05:36am on 11/04/2006
So maybe you could be a Reformative Viking!? :-D

(Re: your husband's comment: sounds exactly like he
wants to compliment your work/skill without wanting
to sound like he wants to wear it, which he don't...!)
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 02:32am on 12/04/2006
I suspect it's a bit worse than that. I suspect he thinks the darn thing looks a bit like a bowel movement, but he sees that I'm enthusiastic about the idea, so he doesn't want to hurt my feelings. (He knows me better than to suppose that if he complimented it that he'd automatically wear it.) ;-)
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posted by [identity profile] jmaynard.livejournal.com at 01:19pm on 11/04/2006
I can't see Eric in a beanie. I can imagine the concept of his wearing one, I just can't form the mental image of what he'd look like in it. My mental Photoshop ABENDs when it tries.
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 02:37am on 12/04/2006
I can imagine Eric in a beanie--which is why I refuse to bust his chops about his refusing to wear one. :-)
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posted by [identity profile] jmaynard.livejournal.com at 01:20pm on 11/04/2006
Oh, and one other note: I can hear Eric calling INTERCAL "kinda admirable".
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 02:37am on 12/04/2006
He thinks much more highly of INTERCAL than that, though. That's why it wrote the #!%@ C compiler for it in the first place.
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posted by [identity profile] fadethecat.livejournal.com at 03:43pm on 11/04/2006
I demand pictures!
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 02:36am on 12/04/2006
Well, my digital camera is right on my dresser. Of course, I'd have to find enough light that you'd actually see something in the picture, then I'd have to find my USB cable, figure out where the USB port is hiding on my desktop machine....

Actually, here's a better solution. I've already promised [livejournal.com profile] rmeidaking that I'd bring the work-in-progress with me to Penguicon, which is barely a week away. At the rate I'm going, I won't be finished with it yet. I might even work on it on the plane (I don't think TSA will get too paranoid about a the blunt plastic 3-inch needle I'm using.)

And if you *don't* get to see The Creation at Penguicon, I'll take photos of it and find a way to post them after I get back, I promise.
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posted by [personal profile] metalfatigue at 10:24am on 16/04/2006
Happy birthday!
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 08:21pm on 16/04/2006
Ah, yes. Thank you! You'll be at Penguicon later this week, right? Maybe we can have dinner again while Eric and I are out there.
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posted by [personal profile] metalfatigue at 09:52pm on 16/04/2006
Yes. That would be great.
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