Fluffy Sweaters and Medieval Drama
Ok, there were a few days there when I didn't get to the gym, but there weren't THAT many. Two weeks, max. But I got there yesterday morning for my yoga class and discovered All New Equipment. Now, partly this is good, cause some of the old stuff was getting a little creaky, but at a practical level, for me, and my little plans, this means that when I go this morning to use the said machines, I'm going to have to Figure Them All Out, as nothing is in its usual place, and besides, wherever it is, it's white now, instead of red, which will confuse me. This will take time. So I will be getting into work a bit later than I'd planned. So I'm probably not going to be finished trashing the vacation spam before lunch. Darn.
Classes don't start till Monday, though, and my syllabus will be easy to put together, as for various reasons I'm only teaching one class this semester, and it's Medieval Drama, which I could indeed teach in my sleep, and probably do. So if I don't get to the syllabus till tomorrow, we'll all survive. (It sold out this semester, why I don't know, though it might be because in my description of it I mentioned that students would have the opportunity to stand on desks and pretend to be Jesus.) (Which is crucial for understanding the staging of the York Crucifixion.)
As for knitting:
Alert! Alert! Alert!
A very dear lurking reader, for whom the angels sing when she wakes up in the morning, emailed me with the information that the lace-swirl pullover I just started has a Horrible Mistake in the directions such as causes one to abandon the project in disgust, even if one is really good at this stuff. Click on the link and I'll explain: you see the lovely swirl there in on the front, the swirl that indeed makes the thing worth knitting? You start the sweater at the center of that swirl, working it on out in a circle, like a doily. After you're done with the sweater doily, you cleverly work the piece on out into a sweater shape, and it's at that point that the instructions are screwed up, and since it'll be unlike any sweater you've ever knit before, if you're me, which is one of the reasons you wanted to do it, again, if you're me, then you'll have Real Trouble trying to figure out how to make it right.
So I need to write to the company and ask for the corrections. Or Google it, which would likely produce quicker results.
In the meantime, here are a couple of illuminating illustrations of projects not currently causing me grief:
The beginning of "Elephants":
And the start of a mohair top-down raglan, in Milos' "Missioni":
(Because a girl can never have enough fluffy shiny sweaters, especially if she's going to stand on desks and pretend to be Jesus.)
Classes don't start till Monday, though, and my syllabus will be easy to put together, as for various reasons I'm only teaching one class this semester, and it's Medieval Drama, which I could indeed teach in my sleep, and probably do. So if I don't get to the syllabus till tomorrow, we'll all survive. (It sold out this semester, why I don't know, though it might be because in my description of it I mentioned that students would have the opportunity to stand on desks and pretend to be Jesus.) (Which is crucial for understanding the staging of the York Crucifixion.)
As for knitting:
Alert! Alert! Alert!
A very dear lurking reader, for whom the angels sing when she wakes up in the morning, emailed me with the information that the lace-swirl pullover I just started has a Horrible Mistake in the directions such as causes one to abandon the project in disgust, even if one is really good at this stuff. Click on the link and I'll explain: you see the lovely swirl there in on the front, the swirl that indeed makes the thing worth knitting? You start the sweater at the center of that swirl, working it on out in a circle, like a doily. After you're done with the sweater doily, you cleverly work the piece on out into a sweater shape, and it's at that point that the instructions are screwed up, and since it'll be unlike any sweater you've ever knit before, if you're me, which is one of the reasons you wanted to do it, again, if you're me, then you'll have Real Trouble trying to figure out how to make it right.
So I need to write to the company and ask for the corrections. Or Google it, which would likely produce quicker results.
In the meantime, here are a couple of illuminating illustrations of projects not currently causing me grief:
The beginning of "Elephants":
And the start of a mohair top-down raglan, in Milos' "Missioni":
(Because a girl can never have enough fluffy shiny sweaters, especially if she's going to stand on desks and pretend to be Jesus.)
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