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Jan. 10th, 2011 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreThings I have accomplished thus far today:
- Bought a soap dish. (Because, see, I bought these soaps from this place and they are lovely and smell fantastic and thus they needed a place to be near the sink. And my mother was tired of me stealing her ramekins.)
- Watched the Going Postal miniseries. Which I was a little hesitant about, because I didn't much like the Hogfather one. (I have not seen Colour of Magic. I hated the book, after all.) Going Postal isn't perfect, but it's a lot of fun and I quite enjoyed it. After all, there was Moist and Adora Belle and they kissed. And Charles Dance's Lord Vetinari is fantastic and perfect and I want his coat. (I do have trouble taking David Suchet seriously as a villain because, y'know, he's Hercule Poirot.)
- Taught myself to knit in the round. Knitting in the round is ridiculously complicated and requires far too many implements, but it's necessary for socks and gloves. So I am knitting these (the ones without thumbs, because I don't need that sort of hassle yet). I tried very hard to make myself stick to easy flat things for learning purposes, but I am terribly impatient when it comes to yarn craft and with flat things you only have three options: 1) washclothes, which I don't really need more of, 2) scarves, which I don't wear, and 3) large things like sweaters, which I would like to make eventually but not today. Round things can be small and interesting and useful. We should all be glad that I didn't decide to jump straight into cabling.
Pretty good crafty day, really.
- Bought a soap dish. (Because, see, I bought these soaps from this place and they are lovely and smell fantastic and thus they needed a place to be near the sink. And my mother was tired of me stealing her ramekins.)
- Watched the Going Postal miniseries. Which I was a little hesitant about, because I didn't much like the Hogfather one. (I have not seen Colour of Magic. I hated the book, after all.) Going Postal isn't perfect, but it's a lot of fun and I quite enjoyed it. After all, there was Moist and Adora Belle and they kissed. And Charles Dance's Lord Vetinari is fantastic and perfect and I want his coat. (I do have trouble taking David Suchet seriously as a villain because, y'know, he's Hercule Poirot.)
- Taught myself to knit in the round. Knitting in the round is ridiculously complicated and requires far too many implements, but it's necessary for socks and gloves. So I am knitting these (the ones without thumbs, because I don't need that sort of hassle yet). I tried very hard to make myself stick to easy flat things for learning purposes, but I am terribly impatient when it comes to yarn craft and with flat things you only have three options: 1) washclothes, which I don't really need more of, 2) scarves, which I don't wear, and 3) large things like sweaters, which I would like to make eventually but not today. Round things can be small and interesting and useful. We should all be glad that I didn't decide to jump straight into cabling.
Pretty good crafty day, really.
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Date: 2011-01-11 12:09 am (UTC)*snicker* Cabling isn't as bad as all that. Then again, I'm the sort of person where my second ever knitting project was a cobbled-together-pattern for a scarf with ribbing and cabling and other stuff and I got about four inches into it and gave up. Also, the first pair of socks I ever did were lace and cables.
But yay for knitting in the round! It is awesome.
(You can do, say, basic wristwarmers by knitting flat and then sewing it up in a tube, but knitting seamless is so much easier IMO.)
Are you using double pointed needles (where you have like four or five of them), or circular needles (two needle points connected by a flexible cable)? If you are doing dpns and find yourself getting all tangled up, or dropping needles or whatever, it's possible to knit in the round with circs.
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Date: 2011-01-11 12:28 am (UTC)Knitting in the round has turned out to be quite fun, once I got the hang of it. I'm using double-pointed needles at the moment and yeah, there's a lot of them and that's confusing but I'm enjoying the challenge. 8)
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Date: 2011-01-11 01:43 am (UTC)