We are STRONG!
Not a very Halloweeny post but that'll be later.
Every year I tell myself that I should wear armwarmers. The fact that I have armwarmers is lost on me and I convince myself that the reason I don't wear them is because I don't have a pair I want to wear. And the only way I can get exactly what I want is to make them myself, so says interior monologue. Right? Right.
Wrong. The reason I don't wear them is that every time I do, I am reminded of the dancing urchins in "Oliver!" and I don't want to consider myself part of the family. Sometimes they also remind me of the taxi dancers in "Love is a Battlefield" but again, I am not the type to start a hooker rebellion and dance my way out of sex-slavery.
Unflattering photo to show the Popeye-forearm effect I also get. Yes, I am blaming it on the armwarmers and not genetics.
Sadly, this one is 95% done, it only needs the buttons sewn on the side (and be blocked, of course) but I aim to rip back the whole thing and not make the second one.
Pattern: Michaelmas Mitts from Knitscene, Fall 2008
Yarn: Louisa Harding Kashmir Aran (washable merino/microfiber/cashmere) in a dusky purple; no idea what the pink is, an acrylic maybe?
Needles: Size 8 to the palm, then 6s
Notes: Shame to waste this yarn, it's really, really lovely. Maybe that'll teach me.
Every year I tell myself that I should wear armwarmers. The fact that I have armwarmers is lost on me and I convince myself that the reason I don't wear them is because I don't have a pair I want to wear. And the only way I can get exactly what I want is to make them myself, so says interior monologue. Right? Right.
Wrong. The reason I don't wear them is that every time I do, I am reminded of the dancing urchins in "Oliver!" and I don't want to consider myself part of the family. Sometimes they also remind me of the taxi dancers in "Love is a Battlefield" but again, I am not the type to start a hooker rebellion and dance my way out of sex-slavery.
Unflattering photo to show the Popeye-forearm effect I also get. Yes, I am blaming it on the armwarmers and not genetics.
Sadly, this one is 95% done, it only needs the buttons sewn on the side (and be blocked, of course) but I aim to rip back the whole thing and not make the second one.
Pattern: Michaelmas Mitt
Yarn: Louisa Harding Kashmir Aran (washable merino/microfiber/cashmere) in a dusky purple; no idea what the pink is, an acrylic maybe?
Needles: Size 8 to the palm, then 6s
Notes: Shame to waste this yarn, it's really, really lovely. Maybe that'll teach me.
posted by CMURB at 11:25 AM
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