Broken Needles and the Princess
We had a visiting professor talking to us yesterday, so I took along my leper bandage to work on while I was listening -- and discovered, when I pulled the project out of my bag, that the needles were all bent out of shape.
I do NOT remember anything happening to that bag that would cause the needles to get all bent out of shape. Clearly, they had had a rough time of it, but I don't know when it was. I managed to straighten them out some, but I don't like them. As soon as I finish up this last leper bandage, I'm throwing them out.
No big loss, though -- they're just some Susan Bates that I picked up when I bought the Knit-Cro-Sheen for the leper bandages, cause all my #2 needles were involved in other projects. If they had been the beloved Addi Turbos, super slick needles for people who knit like bats out of hell, the Lamborghini needles of the knitting world, THEN I would have been perturbed. But hey, so what. They're cheap, they're mediocre, and apparently I sat on them when I wasn't looking, and they're outa here.
As I mentioned earlier, Amber and Megan have, in presenting the first batch of court cards, revealed the suits for the Knitting Tarot. But I couldn't write about this for a while cause I had to think it through. To my great glee -- my very great glee -- I successfully figured out their connections to the usual suits. I know I did cause I emailed Amber and she said so. They are: needles = fire (wands); skeins = water (cups); spindles = earth (pentacles); gauge = air (swords).
Armed with that info, I'll say, about the Princess of Needles:
All that passion! All that verve! A good person for whom to make the Scribble Lace shawl out of Debbie New's Unexpected Knitting, or pretty much anything made out of anything created by Colinette. You can't wear all that stuff yourself -- there's way too much around, and not enough days in the year. Great to have somebody to give it to. Also. I've noticed that this is especially true about sequins -- I've got a lot of sequined stuff around here, and I don't actually get to wear it much, on account of, oh, I don't know. What happened? Where are all those people I used to hang out with who regularly gave parties to which I could, with aplomb, wear sequins? Where am I? What year is this?
Oh, sorry, got a little off track there. Back now.
Reversed? Oh, hon, hold off on that Xmas present. What that girl really wants is a plain blue V-necked sweater. With, maybe, just maybe, if you didn't go overboard in picking out the shade of blue, a cable up the front.
A simple cable up the front.
Not, you know, those big ol' Celtic things that are going to cause complete strangers to stop her on the street and ask if she's wearing a Starmore.
I do NOT remember anything happening to that bag that would cause the needles to get all bent out of shape. Clearly, they had had a rough time of it, but I don't know when it was. I managed to straighten them out some, but I don't like them. As soon as I finish up this last leper bandage, I'm throwing them out.
No big loss, though -- they're just some Susan Bates that I picked up when I bought the Knit-Cro-Sheen for the leper bandages, cause all my #2 needles were involved in other projects. If they had been the beloved Addi Turbos, super slick needles for people who knit like bats out of hell, the Lamborghini needles of the knitting world, THEN I would have been perturbed. But hey, so what. They're cheap, they're mediocre, and apparently I sat on them when I wasn't looking, and they're outa here.
As I mentioned earlier, Amber and Megan have, in presenting the first batch of court cards, revealed the suits for the Knitting Tarot. But I couldn't write about this for a while cause I had to think it through. To my great glee -- my very great glee -- I successfully figured out their connections to the usual suits. I know I did cause I emailed Amber and she said so. They are: needles = fire (wands); skeins = water (cups); spindles = earth (pentacles); gauge = air (swords).
Armed with that info, I'll say, about the Princess of Needles:
All that passion! All that verve! A good person for whom to make the Scribble Lace shawl out of Debbie New's Unexpected Knitting, or pretty much anything made out of anything created by Colinette. You can't wear all that stuff yourself -- there's way too much around, and not enough days in the year. Great to have somebody to give it to. Also. I've noticed that this is especially true about sequins -- I've got a lot of sequined stuff around here, and I don't actually get to wear it much, on account of, oh, I don't know. What happened? Where are all those people I used to hang out with who regularly gave parties to which I could, with aplomb, wear sequins? Where am I? What year is this?
Oh, sorry, got a little off track there. Back now.
Reversed? Oh, hon, hold off on that Xmas present. What that girl really wants is a plain blue V-necked sweater. With, maybe, just maybe, if you didn't go overboard in picking out the shade of blue, a cable up the front.
A simple cable up the front.
Not, you know, those big ol' Celtic things that are going to cause complete strangers to stop her on the street and ask if she's wearing a Starmore.
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