Glory?
Well, here she is in all her glory. My Olympics Sweater, all blocked and everything . . .
. . . Although this may have been a mistake because, while my swatch didn’t shrink or stretch even a tiny bit, the sweater, now that it’s wet, appears to have grown fairly dramatically. Uh-oh! Seriously. Inches in pretty much all directions. This is worrying. I might be forced to toss it in the dryer, like I did with my Jo Sharp Silkroad sweater last year. It’s frustrating–no matter how careful I am, some knits just seem to bloom far, far too much!
Still . . . 13 skeins of Karabella Aurora Bulky yarn. My own pattern. Eight days of knitting. Olympic glory. Where’s the bad?
(You know, assuming it still fits.)
For your non-knitting entertainment. Here’s a link to a cell phone symphony, which I thought was pretty funny in a “clever prank where nobody got hurt and nothing was actualy illegal” kind of way. (You know how I enjoy those!)
Now–here–two memes to keep you entertained. (Please feel free to borrow either–I won’t actually tag anyone, but you know the drill!)
First, since Cara asked, here’s the view outside my front door as of about 10 minutes ago.
Now, since Amy asked:
Meme instructions: Look at the list of books below.
Bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you might read, cross out
the ones you won’t, underline the ones on your book shelf, and place
(parentheses) around the ones you’ve never even heard of.
The Da
Vinci Code - Dan Brown.
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown.
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert
The ones I left completely alone are ones I’ve heard of (I’ve heard of all of them) but have no opinions one way or another as to whether I’ll ever read them.
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House Calls
I’m hoping my sweater grows quite a bit - I was aiming for oversize/comfy/cozy but what I have at the moment fits like something you’d want to fit - KWIM? The gauge swatch on the needles I ended up using didn’t grow all that much so wish me luck on blocking. No wait - wish me luck on finishing in time! LOL
Hi Deb,
The book “The curious incident of the dog in the night time” was a really good book! If you know any one with autism or aspergers it is interesting to see how their minds work different from others. Try it you might like it.
Dawn
Woo-Hoo!! Congratlations. The sweater looks great. And please send some of that stretching mojo this way - I need it badly!!
Congrats on the medal you Olympian!
I ditto Dawn. The Curious Incident….was a favorite of my book club. Even if you don’t have any connections to anyone with autism. Do give it the 25 page test. And Life of Pi was my 2004 hands-down favorite. People seem to love it or hate it, and it really needs way more than 25 pages to figure out which you feel.
Hmm, do you think the weight of the sweater is the difference between your well-behaved swatch and your poorly behaved sweater?
I’m doing this meme tomorrow, I think. Interesting to see what other people have read - I do like peeking at people’s bookcases!
How would you like yet another comment from me?
A dog does die at the very beginning of the Curious Incident book but it’s not the point of the book and not revisited over and over - I can completely understand a dog-lover’s hesitation to read it - but Dawn and Sharon are right, it’s *very* good.
You should read The Lovely Bones. It’s a beautiful book, one that I think of frequently. I put off reading it, because of the premise (a child being murdered), but it’s really a nice book, especially, I think, for those of us who have lost a loved one during childhood. And I think I’ll do the meme, too - thanks for sharing it!
Yeah, so what is up with sweaters growing but swatches not? It’s so frustrating . . . makes me wonder why the heck I bother doing a gauge swatch in the first place!
Hope it all turns out okay . . .
The sweater looks great, congratulations for finishing way ahead of schedule!
Deb — I’m distressed! You crossed out Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5 altogether. He’s my absolute favorite author and I think you need to give it a chance. His books are so funny! They are the kind that I pick up and literally can’t set down until I finish them. Have you read any of his others?