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cathyr19355 ([personal profile] cathyr19355) wrote2006-04-10 11:01 pm
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Nålbinding news!

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!

[identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com 2006-04-12 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
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.) ;-)