Progression
It feels like forever since I talked about my knitting and spinning . . . how’d that happen?
So….
Here are my Ribby sleeves. Close but not quite done. The big question is whether that skein of yarn . . . which I’m working at from either end . . . is going to make it through to the top of the sleeves. I’m hoping so because, while I have more yarn, I really don’t want to have to wind another skein into a ball just for, you know, an inch or so of sleeve! (And in the meantime I’m wondering what it would look like if I just finished the top in the blue I used for the body. Just in case, you understand.)
Then there’s Autumn Rose, of course, who’s coming along very nicely indeed. Not to mention quickly, what with the ridiculously off-gauge row-gauge of 25 rows over 4"/10cm. It IS helping move the sweater along, that’s for sure. Another 24 rows and we’ll be at the underarm. Which is also, with my revamp of the neckline, where the neckline will start. (It’s much lower than that on the original pattern.) Still . . . she looks so darn pretty.
And I have at least touched my spinning . . . although the several yards of singles I added on last night were not exactly my best work. I was feeling both stressed and out of practice (not to mentioned tired, since it was 11:15) by the time I made it to my wheel, so I literally only spun for about five minutes. But still. At least Little Gem got to do something last night.
Hey, speaking of spinning–how cool. Kristi is knitting with my handspun. It looks great, too. I feel (sniff) like a proud Mom, watching her kid go off and be a success….
It’s a plus that tonight is the start of the new Fall television season. Although Mom and I are going to have some challenges . . . there are at least three different time-slots that I can think of that have conflicts for us . . . Not to mention a couple slots that don’t work at all. Like Beauty and the Geek being on at 8:00 on Tuesdays–Mom loves it, I don’t, and that means on Tuesday nights I have to come up to my room an hour earlier than usual and deal with the headache-inducing vibration from our annoying dishwasher rumbling through the floor (since my bedroom is right above the kitchen and my favorite spot to sit is on the floor right above the dishwasher). And I also, therefore, lose my knitting time for Tuesday nights, because I can’t knit in my bedroom nearly as easily as I can in front of the television in the family room. And no, we don’t have Tivo or any variation of it. We’ve got a VCR and a DVD-recorder with a hard-drive, but since the DVD-R is attached to the cable box, you can only record whatever channel is ON the cable box . . . You know, really, I hate cable boxes. Ever since we’ve had them, we can’t use the P-i-P feature on the television and, more annoyingly, we can’t record a show that we’re not watching. I really hate that.
Though, this reminds me. I need to set the VCR in my bedroom to record Chuck tonight at 8:00, so that we can watch How I Met Your Mother, and then I’ll just have to carry the video tape down to the family room on, lordy, I don’t even know when we’re going to be able to watch this . . . sheesh. Stupid television programmers . . . making my life difficult. Do you suppose that they just assume that EVERYONE has Tivo these days, so that they don’t care when they schedule things? Or is it just that they try to make our lives more difficult? Interesting question….
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It’s all about the TiVo!! I don’t know what we would do without it.
Oh I can relate to the conflicting times of the new Fall Season shows. I only have one tv and I am very thankful that my cable box has a functioning DVR! I’ll be sending you some good vibes for the Ribby sleeves. I know how much it stinks to have to start a new ball for such a small amount. I am actually going to be knitting the Ribby myself hopefully in the next couple of months. I want to definitely get CPH done first.
It’s absolutely about the TiVo. I don’t think I even watch live tv anymore…
if it’s any help, i love my DVR. i got it from the cable c ompany, and it costs us about $10 a month extra. i will cry if it ever dies, because then i’ll lose some of my precious saved shows! (i record things and watch them at my leisure, sometimes weeks after it’s aired, lol. the one exception? dancing wiht the stars. i wanna vote!)
Rudi says Chuck is online. I’m hoping he’s right because that’s the only way we’re going to see it. We opted for How I Met Your Mother, too.
I love the Autumn Rose sweater. It’s so much fun watching it grow. Ribby looks so comfortable. I bet I have some yarn for a Ribby Cardi too. Hmmmmm.
OOOH! Your comment about knitting both sleeves from the same ball of yarn could not have come at a better time … I was just wondering yesterday if that kind of thing would be possible (or if it would be more trouble than it’s worth) when I get ready to do the fronts on a cardigan. Does it work well? Is there much tangley trouble?
Autumn Rose is gorgeous beyond gorgeous, and looking at your singles on the bobbin makes me pine away for my spinning wheel (I may have to lock the 6mo-old kitten out of a room today and get some spinning done).
I fully sympathize. Kirk and I only have the one TV for actually watching TV. (The other one is only for Xbox…) The knits are looking lovely.
I noticed a fair bit of conflicts. If any of the ones you are wanting to watch are on ABC, you can watch them the day afterwards on their web site for free. Last year there were 3-4 “commercial breaks” but they haven’t been there all summer. I don’t know if they’ll be back now that the new season has begun or not. But, even with those breaks I found it quite handy. We also have a cable company DVR. We used to have a TiVo but when the hard drive crashed just after warranty was over we decided we wanted to be able to take our box to the cable company and get a new one without spending $250 so we pay the monthly fee. The cool think about the company one is that it has two tuners in it, so you can record on one station and watch another the good old fashioned way. Or, you can record on two stations and watch something already recorded or OnDemand. They are missing some features that TiVo has, but not having to buy the unit out right was worth it for us.
Autumn Rose is coming along quite nicely. Keeping my fingers crossed for you to have enough yarn for those sleeves. And still hoping that some financial help comes your way too!
Kristi’s sock looks AMAZING in your handspun. AMAZING. Good job, you!
Even having a TIVO like device that can record 2 programs and still watch a third, doesn’t solve all the problems that abound during the beginning of a new season, especially when you forget to set the darn thing up. At least I set it back in June to catch all the new episodes of the returning favorites regardless of when the networks move them so I did NOT miss the season premier of Shark in its new timeslot. I did forget to add Heroes (though mom did for me) but I wanted to get Chuck and totally forgot. 8pm is an impossible timeslot for me to watch anything thanks to the monkeys. It is right during bedtime.
You know I found row gauge on my latest colorwork, chullo hat, incredibly off. Which made me have to redo the hsaping on the crown. I have to go up several needle sizes in any colorwork to get gauge, so it throws rows off. Oh well. At least once we realize it, we can compensate for it.
Autumn Rose is just beautiful! Looking forward to watch how you change the neckline.
The office space looks great. Nothing like a clean space to help you get to work. Best thoughts for your dad.
I don’t have Tivo either. Luckily the DH will watch whatever I watch. You are making some fine knitting progress! Little Gem must feel a bit better after even 5 minutes.
TiVo rocks. Seriously, I don’t think we’d survive without it. Er, without them. We have two - and one records two things at once - AND we have DirecTV so we have East and West channels for the networks.
…maybe we watch too much TV, but the TV watching mostly takes place in the colder months and we barely watch it at all in the Summer. ;o)
They want you to watch THEIR shows only. Live. Best advertising revenue for them. Alas, doesn’t work out so well for me either.
I was just looking at Autumn Rose in a Best of Shetland booklet and wondered how you were coming along with it.