September 26th, 2005
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Why, I do believe it is!
Okay, almost. But really, who needs an excuse for candy?
| My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul |
| Tvini goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Wonder Woman. |
| angel_fly gives you 6 light orange coconut-flavoured gummy bats. |
| aunt_reexy gives you 3 white vanilla-flavoured gummy worms. |
| ceosanna gives you 13 mottled green mint-flavoured gummy bats. |
| drbubba gives you 11 dark blue banana-flavoured jawbreakers. |
| houseofdanie tricks you! You get a piece of paper. |
| jennnlee gives you 12 purple watermelon-flavoured pieces of taffy. |
| kwiltbank gives you 7 light orange peach-flavoured pieces of taffy. |
| pambunny tricks you! You get a clothespin. |
| vaeldriil gives you 4 blue coffee-flavoured nuggets. |
| vaschon tricks you! You get a used tissue. |
| Tvini ends up with 56 pieces of candy, a piece of paper, a clothespin, and a used tissue. |
| Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern. |
September 26th, 2005
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I posted this as a reply to a question over in the knitting community, then realized it said more about my life than I thought, so I wanted to post it here so I’d have a record.
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Here’s a seed stitch scarf. Never mind the slit, it’s just the chunkiest seed stitch one I had.
I didn’t write down the pattern, but I’m pretty sure it’s just CO 11, *k1, p1* across. Repeat until the scarf is as long as you want. The key is that on each subsequent row, you knit the knits and purl the purls, so it has to be an odd number for that particular pattern to work.
If you want to do a slit like that, it’s pretty easy. About a third of the way up, start knitting with a separate ball halfway through the row. Continue knitting from the separate balls (or just the other end of the same ball if you’ve only got one) until the slit is as long as you need, then rejoin it with the original ball. Weave in the ends when you’re all done.
I gave that scarf to my kid’s kindergarten teacher’s assistant last year. Did she thank me? Nooooo. Of course, later she quit, apparently because they were expecting more of her than she had to do at last year’s school. I didn’t like her anyway – she was impatient, and unintentionally (I hope) belittling to the kids. I meant the scarf as something to try to show her were were all in this together and thus to improve her attitude. Yeah, that didn’t work.
It just goes to show why you shouldn’t give hand-knit things out of a sense of obligation, only out of a genuine desire to please the recipient. Too bad – it looked better on me than I’m sure it did on her.
