Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Wed Misc

Who knew there was a Medieval Textiles group on Ravelry? (How cool). Anyway, Magnusmog asked there about the tapestry that so intrigued me, and the opinion there is that the curious object is a mirror.

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Yesterday I drove to Monroe for my semi-annual teeth cleaning and floss lecture. On the way out of town I swung through the Burger King drive-through. Opened my window, of course, to get the goods; and it stuck. Wouldn't close. So I drove home 30 miles with the window open, cursing my self for forgetting. This had happened to Mr S before, and he had warned me about putting that window all the way down. But that was months ago, when the weather was warm. Eons ago. So I forgot. I'll see today if the local shop can do anything with it. If not, I guess I'll be driving back to Monroe to the dealership with the window open.

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Mission Possible Report. I did get the pet blanket in the mail. And by making myself do at least a little bit First Thing Every Morning, I now have the mending finished on three pairs of socks, just one more to go. So what next? Well there's this:




"This" has been sitting in the back of my closet for at least two years, tying up several balls of sock yarn and two sets of dpns. It's a project so ill conceived in every way that I'm not even going to say what I was trying for. So I'm ripping it out, and I must say that there is liberation in finally giving up and admitting defeat. I'm not going to "get back to it." I'm not going to try to re-do it. I'm pulling out that yarn and winding it back into balls, and that's the end of it.

3 comments:

Elizabeth said...

It'll be like getting free yarn!

Good luck with your window. We had a power window break once. I think the dealership was going to charge a lot of money, so my husband took the door apart and fixed it himself. Kind of a pain in the butt, but better than shelling out upwards of $200.

YarnThrower said...

YAY! You are cruising right along!

What a pain about the window. I had to laugh about your floss lecture comment. That's what I always used to get, too. Then I started flossing everyday. They say it really made my gums better, but I swear it takes just as long as them to scrape all of the plaque off of my teeth. Now they're telling me I have that "kind of saliva which just makes people prone to plaque...."

Leslie said...

Aargh! The dreaded "floss lecture" - of course, since I haven't been in for about 18 months I will deserve it. But it's a right royal righteous pain - delivered by a 20 year old with a toned body which makes it even harder to take :)

Congrats on the self-discipline and freeing yourself from the WIP that Would Not Be. But I have a question. Are you just going to let the long-knit yarn stay in a ball or will you re-skein then wet, let hang and dry straight (reclaim) before you use it?