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!

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[cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

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 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.