The Daily Sabs

as i've mentioned before, i'm a bit of a knitter. i'm not hugely talented, but think i've got some skills. one night i was looking up patterns and telling randall how the internet is full of patterns for cult movie knits. for example, there's golden compass knits, harry potter knits, twilight knits, and so on. i pretty much thought he had stopped listening to me yammer on and on, but then he randomly flipped the channel and said, "so you could knit that?" i looked up, was slightly daunted, but thought it looked easy and said yes.

a short google search later and i had the pattern to this amazingly long Doctor Who Scarf. i've decided to make it pretty fantastic as far as length goes, but have decided not to go too ridiculous. i mean 10-11 feet should be long enough, no?

ps. i love the sound of the rain, and wish it would rain all week.

pps. welcome to the world little XLB! Can't wait to meets ya!

after last night's necklace item came out all wonkle, i decided to do a crochet one instead. i found this pattern online, but naturally, i didn't bother reading it. i'm sort of impatient that way. i'm not sure why i do this, but i do it all the time. i look at something and say, "oh i can do that" and then just go and do it. most of the time with limited success.  if i'd just take 5 minutes to read the manual, maybe things would turn out better. but you know, then i'd have to read the manual...

ps. we met alejandra and margaret at bossanova for dinner. the food was pretty tasty, but wtf? they had a suspended liquor license! how are we supposed to get our delicious caipirinhas fix?! especially sad since we chose it mostly for the drinks. gwah gwah.

i saw a pattern for a knitted necklace the other day and decided to give it a try this evening. i've had this shiny ribbon in my stash and thought it would work out really well.

I WAS WRONG.

granted, i haven't ironed it, fixed up the what-should-be flowy stitches, and something funky did happen in the middle (sadly those would be the stitches you see here), but bleh it's all wrong. the yarn just isn't molding like it should. luckily it went by fast, and was a nice excuse to finally finish the first season of damages (our tivo ate it last year, so we had to wait until FX re-aired them). now i'll have to try it again with some actual yarn. i'll keep you posted if you do.

in other news, today was a lot better than yesterday.

about 4 decembers ago, i started making a scarf for randall for christmas. i'm generally a pretty quick knitter and thought i'd have it done in no time. the thing is, i didn't anticipate how much i would hate knitting it. it's a 1x1 rib stitch with a thin mohair yarn that gets all over the place (translation to those of you who don't speak knit - it's annoying and tedious to make and is only going to shed all over everything). and i just don't know why, but i hate making it. i got about halfway through it that first december, couldn't take it anymore and put it away. randall got something storebought for christmas that year.

fast-forward to the next december, i figure it's half way done and that i might as well finish it. i pull it out of its box, do another 25% , get bored and knit a bunch of other things instead.

fast-forward to the december after that (this would be last year), i finish all but the last 2 inches, complain about how much i hate it, get ridiculously bored of it and even though it was almost done, i put it away.

fast-forward to yesterday, i told randall that it was chilly outside and that he might want to grab a scarf. he says to me, too bad i don't have the one you never finished.

guess what he's getting for christmas this year?