knitty knitty two-by-four

[hedgiewan]

I'm wearing pants_of_doom's partly-finished hat, plotting an LED pack and enjoying the circular needle earring effect (henceforth known as "CNEE." go on, say it). I'm teaching myself how to knit backwards (that is, from the right needle onto the left one). I'm going to try to take a class in February at the Periwinkle Sheep on continental knitting. I could probably figure it out on my own, but the class is super-cheap and it'll be more fun that way.

Man alive. I loooove knitting. I don't know why it makes me so happy, but it's very visceral and I love it. I think I'm getting better at it with each piece I make, and my head is full of ideas. Now I just need to knit fast enough to keep up with them. Maybe I should move back to Northampton so I can be near the Webs store... That'd be dangerous.

pants_of_doom, if your hat were to, say, have a large button, what color would you like that button to be? This is a purely hypothetical question, of course.

the hedge abides.

Comments

[slackademic.livejournal.com]

I loove knitting, too, but In feel sort of guilty every time I do it because I'm still so bad after trying to learn for how many years?! will you pretty please post photos of your recent projects?

[hedgiewan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just got new batteries for my camera. I'll try to put some pictures up.

And you don't get better if you don't practice! That'd be a good thing to do while recuperating.

[slackademic.livejournal.com]

I've been knitting fiercely during recovery, but I am still veeery slow. I'm a third way through the saddest scarf you ever did see.

[hedgiewan.livejournal.com]

heh. just tell people you made it while doped up on pain meds; i'm sure they'll understand. you don't have to tell them that it would've taken that long anyway.

[pants-of-doom.livejournal.com]

Green, maybe? Nothing in the pink-purple range.

[hedgiewan.livejournal.com]

Hmm. LJ ate my comment.

Would a mossy green be ok, or would you prefer something brighter or darker or what-have-you?

It may end up black anyway. I've yet to decide how far I want to take the theme of the hat.

[pants-of-doom.livejournal.com]

I <3 mossy green.