Nålbinding news!

[cathyr19355]

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!

Comments

[cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

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. :-)

[flaviarassen.livejournal.com]

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...!)

[cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

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.) ;-)

[jmaynard.livejournal.com]

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.

[cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

I can imagine Eric in a beanie--which is why I refuse to bust his chops about his refusing to wear one. :-)

[jmaynard.livejournal.com]

Oh, and one other note: I can hear Eric calling INTERCAL "kinda admirable".

[cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

He thinks much more highly of INTERCAL than that, though. That's why it wrote the #!%@ C compiler for it in the first place.