Various.
I love that my daughter is able to ask me what words mean now. Yesterday she asked about “nuzzle” and “obviously.”
I had a couple of weeks of lack of any physical exercise, just from being so busy. I started to crave it. In the mornings, my husband and I both drop off our daughter to school, which is only about a mile away. So today I brought my iPod and walked back home from there. It’s not a lot of exercise, but it does fit easily into my schedule when the weather’s good, and at least I get to stretch my legs a little.
Went over to my mom’s yesterday, and brought her a package of TimTams, since she’d been wondering what the heck I was talking about in my LiveJournal. My daughter played happily while Mom and I talked, and I got started on Odessa again, which had been ripped back to the ribbing. Good progress was made on all fronts.
Old Odessa, worked on #6 needles with a decrease of SSK (both slipped knitwise).
New Odessa, worked on #4 needles wih a decrease of “improved” SSK (first slipped knitwise, second slipped purlwise).
I think the modified SSK gives a much neater edge. For those of you who have no clue what the hell I’m talking about (and mainly I’m talking to remind myself about this anyway), the SSK is short for “slip, slip, knit” and is a stitch which combines two stitches into a single stitch, making a decrease which leans toward the left. In the second picture, it’s the stitch that the tip of my index finger is touching. You can follow it down and see it’s more even than the corresponding stitch on the first picture.
Yeah, I know you non-knitters still have no clue, nor do you care. Suffice it to say that I’m happy to have found a new little trick that makes for better-looking knitting.
And now, time to watch “Call Me Madam” with Ethel Merman and Donald O’Connor while I work on another cotton Jayne hat, lest I fall behind again on orders. “Call me Madam” was out of circulation for years, so this’ll be my first viewing. I’m a big Donald O’Connor fan, so this should be a nice treat. Yay!
