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Pluses and minuses
May. 7th, 2007 11:00 pmD'oh - I forgot to post yesterday. Well, to post anything other than something that's directed to one person, so was filtered liek woah to avoid cluttering everyone else's flists. I have failed Post Every Day Week! Woe is me!! Or, you know, I can remind myself that technically I did post something, and carry on regardless.
I've actually been really boring for the last couple of days, so it's no wonder I haven't had much to post about. I've knitted a lot, and watched some telly. Dalziel and Pascoe is back, whee! My other favourite northern police detective boyfriends. :-) And it had Richard E Grant: yum! But it's a two parter that's not concluded until next Sunday, damnit.
Today, I should have been visited by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ladymoonray (and tamaranth, but she's not well - *sends out get well soon vibes*), but I didn't hear my phone beep, and stupidly it didn't occur to me to check my email, so I completely failed to finalise the arrangements with her. D'oh!! We're going to try again for next weekend. Socialising, yay! Anyway, perhaps it was for the best today, since the weather was 'orrid, and we had been going to do outside-y things. I went to Mum's for dinner instead, and ended up doing more knitting and half-watching New Tricks. See, yet another plus and minus situation: get fed, but then have to watch Mum!Telly ;-) Oh, I don't know. It amuses me somewhat, but I can't quite be bothered to watch it of my own volition.
I'm really quite enjoying knitting this project that I'm working on at the moment. I think I mentioned it before - it's a birthday present for a friend so I don't want to go into too much detail, but I'm using Jaeger Cadiz which is a Viscose/Silk blend and really nice to knit with. It does have difficulties, especially if the yarn untwists a little bit (which it tends to do), because then you can miss strands of fibre when you knit a stitch and so on. I've found bamboo needles are definitely the better option for the yarn, too: I tried metal ones, but the stitches were too slippy and kept falling off if I tilted the needle too far. But once you're aware of all that it's not so much of a problem, and it does feel lovely. I think it's going to come out quite well - I hope so, anyway!
I've actually been really boring for the last couple of days, so it's no wonder I haven't had much to post about. I've knitted a lot, and watched some telly. Dalziel and Pascoe is back, whee! My other favourite northern police detective boyfriends. :-) And it had Richard E Grant: yum! But it's a two parter that's not concluded until next Sunday, damnit.
Today, I should have been visited by
ladymoonray (and tamaranth, but she's not well - *sends out get well soon vibes*), but I didn't hear my phone beep, and stupidly it didn't occur to me to check my email, so I completely failed to finalise the arrangements with her. D'oh!! We're going to try again for next weekend. Socialising, yay! Anyway, perhaps it was for the best today, since the weather was 'orrid, and we had been going to do outside-y things. I went to Mum's for dinner instead, and ended up doing more knitting and half-watching New Tricks. See, yet another plus and minus situation: get fed, but then have to watch Mum!Telly ;-) Oh, I don't know. It amuses me somewhat, but I can't quite be bothered to watch it of my own volition.I'm really quite enjoying knitting this project that I'm working on at the moment. I think I mentioned it before - it's a birthday present for a friend so I don't want to go into too much detail, but I'm using Jaeger Cadiz which is a Viscose/Silk blend and really nice to knit with. It does have difficulties, especially if the yarn untwists a little bit (which it tends to do), because then you can miss strands of fibre when you knit a stitch and so on. I've found bamboo needles are definitely the better option for the yarn, too: I tried metal ones, but the stitches were too slippy and kept falling off if I tilted the needle too far. But once you're aware of all that it's not so much of a problem, and it does feel lovely. I think it's going to come out quite well - I hope so, anyway!
