Daily Adventures

Last night, when I went to lie down in bed, I felt briefly dizzy, but dismissed it as a by-product of my mild eye infection, that I'm ignoring until it's a week old. As it's likely viral and no doctor has anything they can do about it or any urgency about dealing with it unless it's more than a week old. I've now had enough of them to know that that is what happens if I bring it into a doctor.( Read more... )

Hee.

I finished the purple and pink poncho for I_. It was an experiment in mitered squares, square shaping, and... dun du dah! I-cord. Yeah. Although I've been knitting for decades I have never used an I-cord finish before. Now I realize that, on the most part, most of my knitted items had finished edges already, either sideways lace edging or were something that was supposed to be seamed, or a ribbing (cuffs, bottoms of sweaters, and collars) and I'd actually done very few cardigans (which is where I can see this being the most useful).

But the mitered squares were every which way until I figured out a better way of planning the squares, so they all had uneven or even different selvages, so I finally just bit the bullet and used a small circular needle and whipped on an I-cord edging. Wow. It was really nice.

If course, the four-year-old girl was having a bad day and wasn't cooperating with anything, much less having a new piece of clothing thrown over her head. :-) So no try-on pictures, yet, but Jet was nice and tried it on and one of his friends tried it on just because she thought it was pretty. So I have some pictures at home. I'll post when I can.

( The weekend, as a whole, went quite well. )