June 2005

One letter makes all the difference

Submitted by domesticat on 2 June 2005 - 10:43pm

Spouseling's got a funny over at his site, slidingconstant.net - I wonder how much such an installation would cost?

I'll huffle and I'll puffle...

Submitted by domesticat on 15 June 2005 - 12:01pm

…and if you're patient, you'll end up with a scarf.Scarf #2 in the Make Harry Potter Scarves For Friends project is now done. Silly me forgot to take a photo of scarf #1, which was a Slytherin scarf that was a stealth birthday present for a friend, in that "You just thought I was making this for someone else, didn't you?" kind of way I'm so bad at.

Update, 28 June 2005: Wesley's Slytherin scarf … thanks, Mary, for the photo.
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because some random guy says it over IM, it must be true

Submitted by domesticat on 21 June 2005 - 10:20am

Today's winner, and potential cause of my headache, is windsor_king on Yahoo. Do, please, everyone in Huntsville feel free to say hello, as he seems to insist that he's going to be visiting Huntsville in July.

I have my doubts.

In the interest of completeness, let me disclose that this is not the first time this guy has contacted me. There have been several brief instances of 'hi' from him previously, all imploring for me to be his friend because he was coming to town. As you can see by a couple of the initial exchanges I'm including here, we've rarely been online at the same time.

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honeysuckle simple

Submitted by domesticat on 27 June 2005 - 9:44am

Life's been simple lately. Not honeysuckle simple, but simple enough.It was a necessary change. I haven't said a lot here precisely because I couldn't find the right angle, the correct approach, the perfect turn of phrase that could make it all simple and make it all sound reasonably okay. Because, the truth is, in the end, things are good.

Call it a dilemma: there are parts of my life I don't write about here because they're far too personal, far too private, or sometimes just involve intimate parts of other people's lives. Parts they're not totally comfortable with me sharing—online, or sometimes even in person. Some secrets can be quietly acknowledged among close friends, but some must remain nothing more than stifled whispers in empty rooms.

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Tonight, on the bamboo size twos

Submitted by domesticat on 28 June 2005 - 12:03pm

My summer project, ambitiously untitled "Amy Makes A Harry Potter Scarf For Anyone Willing To Pony Up Yarn Money," is now definitely in full swing. Wesley got his Slytherin scarf in time for his birthday (surprise!), Dan safely has the Hufflepuff scarf he plans to give his father already in hand a month before his father's birthday, and I've just mailed off the first of Jody's scarves—a Gryffindor.

Amy: I've gotta find more knit projects for friends - I'm getting pretty fast at the Harry Potter scarves :)
Geof: :)
Well, I'm not a good target.
Amy: I know. but you've seen me knitting on these, so you've seen the speed.
Geof: (nod)
Amy: I'm not quite to the point of being able to wave my hands over skeins of yarn & having garments magically appear from the ether. Maybe next year :D

I finally got around to uploading photos of Wesley's Slytherin scarf and Jody's Gryffindor scarf so that I've got them for posterity. (Though if you're a fan of the movies or books, you probably already know what these look like.)

Thanks to Mary for the photo of the Slytherin scarf. I finished the scarf about an hour before I was supposed to give it away, and thus didn't have time to take a picture of it.

Currently on my delicate little bamboo size twos: Jody's Ravenclaw scarf. He asked for the movie version, blue and silvery-grey, as opposed to the book version's blue and bronze. (Agreed. Book version's a bit garish.) I've established a pretty good knitting habit of finishing 1-1½ stripes per weekday and a bit more on weekends, so it's theoretically possible that he'll have his Ravenclaw scarf before the next book comes out. No promises. We'll see.

After that, all I have left to do is one child-sized Slytherin scarf for Jody—for some reason, he thinks his daughter qualifies as a Slytherin—and then I'm caught up.

I know there were a few other people (Danielle, Asai, Misty, and a couple others that I'm forgetting) who were thinking about getting a scarf, but opted not to in the first go-round. If you're interested, now's the time to ask. Same game as before: I tell you what yarn to order, you have it shipped to my house, and I present you a scarf. If you're lucky, Tenzing won't sleep on it before I'm done with it.

Otherwise, it's on to Andrew and Joy's baby blanket. :D

Also, filing for posterity: an accurate DNA scarf [pattern] Good if you have geeky biologist friends, like I do…

An un-eavesdropped conversation

Submitted by domesticat on 30 June 2005 - 12:35am

Unfortunately, these are not direct quotes. My sleep meds are kicking in (i.e., very tired Amy right now), and this conversation happened this past weekend. But they're close enough, and you get the idea.

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