Ugly things you can do with yarn
After a lovely day yesterday in which I hung out with a friend, shopped and watched The Queen (it's fabulous, makes me love her), I sat down with my new favorite knitting magazine, Knit Simple. Say what you will...as a magazine designer I love the layout, as a reader I love their editorial voice, and as a knitter I really like a lot of their patterns (remember what I said about not everything being fit for every knitter). This is my first time buying the magazine, and because of...is it YaiAnn? no, I can't find it...a blog I've lately been fascinated by granny squares. Little Purl of the Orient? HA! Yes, it is. I was thinking the blogger's name started with Y, but it's the address that does.
ANYWAY. There's a pattern in the winter KS for a granny square blanket, so I decided to try a little cro-chet. I learnt how to join, dip into a ring or a space to make stitches, double crochet, treble crochet, puff stitch. And it looks absolutely positively gallingly terrible...and it ate up almost half a skein of Patons wool...but I had fun. It was fun to try a new thing I've never done before. I don't think I'll ever be as passionate about it as I am about knitting, but I'm not terrified of it anymore. (Just a little embarrassed at my tension.) Don't think I've crossed over to the dark side or anything.
Another new thing in my life (what breathtaking excitement!) that I love is that Downy Wrinkle Releaser. I think my mom and I kind of balance each other out on this earth. She loves ironing passionately, I despise it with a passion. (When she gets mad at my stepdad she stops ironing his shirts. Ironing is a sign of Love in our house.) So anything that gets me away from that horrid little appliance that takes absolutely forever is my friend. I bought it to get the wrinkles out of my new dust ruffle, which is already on the bed. I did not even want to try to move the mattress myself, let alone sit there and iron that thing. It worked beautifully, so this morning I tried it on a pair of khakis. It works great. Not so great on back-of-the-knee wrinkles, but very well on rumples and other iron-requiring defects.
I also saw Breach. What a creepy scary man, what a great, visually-morally destitute movie. I have a new appreciation for Ryan Philippe. In some scenes he actually looks like a normal, good looking guy instead of his usual weird rat face and overdone hair.
ANYWAY. There's a pattern in the winter KS for a granny square blanket, so I decided to try a little cro-chet. I learnt how to join, dip into a ring or a space to make stitches, double crochet, treble crochet, puff stitch. And it looks absolutely positively gallingly terrible...and it ate up almost half a skein of Patons wool...but I had fun. It was fun to try a new thing I've never done before. I don't think I'll ever be as passionate about it as I am about knitting, but I'm not terrified of it anymore. (Just a little embarrassed at my tension.) Don't think I've crossed over to the dark side or anything.
Another new thing in my life (what breathtaking excitement!) that I love is that Downy Wrinkle Releaser. I think my mom and I kind of balance each other out on this earth. She loves ironing passionately, I despise it with a passion. (When she gets mad at my stepdad she stops ironing his shirts. Ironing is a sign of Love in our house.) So anything that gets me away from that horrid little appliance that takes absolutely forever is my friend. I bought it to get the wrinkles out of my new dust ruffle, which is already on the bed. I did not even want to try to move the mattress myself, let alone sit there and iron that thing. It worked beautifully, so this morning I tried it on a pair of khakis. It works great. Not so great on back-of-the-knee wrinkles, but very well on rumples and other iron-requiring defects.
I also saw Breach. What a creepy scary man, what a great, visually-morally destitute movie. I have a new appreciation for Ryan Philippe. In some scenes he actually looks like a normal, good looking guy instead of his usual weird rat face and overdone hair.
posted by Jen at 6:44 AM
5 Comments:
I just have to go on the record as saying I really love ironing, the physical act, but the whole disruption of getting out the ironing board, etc., means i don't iron all that much.
And I'm happy to hear that Ryan Phillippe is almost normal in Breach; I'm planning on seeing it this weekend because it looks interesting and I love Chris Cooper, but I really hate Ryan Phillippe.
I love down wrinkle releaser. I really don't mind ironing, but I do it on a case by case basis. Jared, however, hates ironing and will wear wrinkled things to work... so I finally got him to use the wrinkle releaser and we are all much happier for it. I'll also spray shirts and such when I put them in the closet too.
I don't own an ironing board. Clothes that need ironing get sent out or worn as is. the wrinkle release stuff is great!
Hehe..um..I love to iron...I used to do it for my mom for spending money. I can go through some irons let me tell you!
I've been looking for the wrinkle release everywhere. Apparantly, here in Oregon we are OK with rumpled clothes.
I can't WAIT to see Breach!
I love granny squares too. Making them, not so much the look. But I love making squares of almost anything. I'm going nuts over mitered squares right now.
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