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Aug. 27th, 2015
Thankgod it was only your butt
Aug. 27th, 2015 08:22 amMy phone rang last night about 9 pm. It was my brother. I answered it and nothing... I called back and got voice mail. At that time of night (midnight his time and he's always dead asleep by 10), the only reason for calling would not be good. Or it's a butt dial.
When I didn't hear anything before I went to sleep, I decided it was butt and, this morning, I learned I was correct. Whew. What I really don't want is to get that kind of call from his wife.
According to apps and TV and the internets, today is our last day of summer. The change will be so dramatic, it's showing up as weather alerts. I'm so ready. Where I grew up (piedmont area of North Carolina), summer weather finally bit the dust usually sometime in October. I lived in Charlotte, NC the year we got married. In a house with a swimming pool. On the day we got married, November 4, my husband's kids spent the afternoon and the evening cooling off in the pool.
At the end of the first summer I spent in Seattle, I went to the San Juan Islands (about 2 hours north of Seattle) for Labor Day. It was hot. Coming home on the ferry on Monday, I needed a sweater. And most every year, it's like someone flips a switch. One day it's summer and one day it's not. And that flipping nearly always happens around Labor Day. It's early this year and Yeah!
We will likely have more warm weather but it won't be nearly as warm and won't last all day. We are headed into months and months (godwilling) of susandennis weather.
Not a lot on the agenda today. I do need to stop at the library. I am going to halt on all sewing until I finish the neck of this sweater. I think I will have enough bears this month that I can just work on the sweater until the neck is done. Normally, my non-bear knitting is mostly for the joy of the process and a sweater like this could linger for years. But I want to wear this thing and I have other non-bear knitting/crocheting that needs to get done. Plus sewing. So... today is sweater neck day.
But, first, a swim.
When I didn't hear anything before I went to sleep, I decided it was butt and, this morning, I learned I was correct. Whew. What I really don't want is to get that kind of call from his wife.
According to apps and TV and the internets, today is our last day of summer. The change will be so dramatic, it's showing up as weather alerts. I'm so ready. Where I grew up (piedmont area of North Carolina), summer weather finally bit the dust usually sometime in October. I lived in Charlotte, NC the year we got married. In a house with a swimming pool. On the day we got married, November 4, my husband's kids spent the afternoon and the evening cooling off in the pool.
At the end of the first summer I spent in Seattle, I went to the San Juan Islands (about 2 hours north of Seattle) for Labor Day. It was hot. Coming home on the ferry on Monday, I needed a sweater. And most every year, it's like someone flips a switch. One day it's summer and one day it's not. And that flipping nearly always happens around Labor Day. It's early this year and Yeah!
We will likely have more warm weather but it won't be nearly as warm and won't last all day. We are headed into months and months (godwilling) of susandennis weather.
Not a lot on the agenda today. I do need to stop at the library. I am going to halt on all sewing until I finish the neck of this sweater. I think I will have enough bears this month that I can just work on the sweater until the neck is done. Normally, my non-bear knitting is mostly for the joy of the process and a sweater like this could linger for years. But I want to wear this thing and I have other non-bear knitting/crocheting that needs to get done. Plus sewing. So... today is sweater neck day.
But, first, a swim.
The pattern I'm using for my sweater is a pattern made for a completely different size and texture of yarn and, of course, completely different size needles. Oh and it instructs to knit a front and then a back and I knitted the front and back in the round all in one piece.
So... there was a lot of math. I am quite rusty at same. So it's intended to be a big, loosely fit sweater but it does need to not look like a pup tent. I've been a bit anxious about whether all this time and all this money will turn out to resemble what my brain thinks it will be.
Today I got to a point where it was practical and mustered up the courage to try it on. And... WHEW. It's PERFECT. I do think another couple of inches will make the neck better and if they don't I can rip them out later more easily than I can knit more later. So I'm soldiering on. But, the armholes hit in just the right place and are just the right size and the bottom hugs my ass just right. I'm delighted. Two more inches and I'll be done. Should take me about another 2 hours.
In the glow of victory, I decided to go stretch my legs in a building walk. It turned out to not be a long one as it is hot as heck down in that garage and in the hallways. It might not be that hot outside but I'm not going to go find out. I'm holding out until tomorrow.
So... there was a lot of math. I am quite rusty at same. So it's intended to be a big, loosely fit sweater but it does need to not look like a pup tent. I've been a bit anxious about whether all this time and all this money will turn out to resemble what my brain thinks it will be.
Today I got to a point where it was practical and mustered up the courage to try it on. And... WHEW. It's PERFECT. I do think another couple of inches will make the neck better and if they don't I can rip them out later more easily than I can knit more later. So I'm soldiering on. But, the armholes hit in just the right place and are just the right size and the bottom hugs my ass just right. I'm delighted. Two more inches and I'll be done. Should take me about another 2 hours.
In the glow of victory, I decided to go stretch my legs in a building walk. It turned out to not be a long one as it is hot as heck down in that garage and in the hallways. It might not be that hot outside but I'm not going to go find out. I'm holding out until tomorrow.