Today I organized in the Fiber Loft, so now there's actually work space, and then around 11am I went out and worked in the studio until 4pm, and we drove the Turkey to a scooter repair place in Ithaca. (Well, we drove the truck and the Turkey rode in the back.) He has a normal day job, so on weekdays he's open from 6-8pm. So we drove up, dropped off the moped, ate a quick dinner (possibly the best Thai food we've ever eaten) and then drove home. We just walked in the door and took care of the pets.
Last night when we were driving home, we saw the strangest effect the sun was having on the clouds. It looked like daytime northern lights, except without all the crazy color.
There are some reflections that look like spots in one of the images from the windshield, but all those light blobby areas were in the sky.
Love,
Ruth
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Dear Ruth,
Cool cloud/sun photos. Eerie.
Hope the Turkey gets fixed this time.
I'm off to the hot garage to trim the garlic tops. Been procrastinating. We've turned the AC on again just to get the humidity down. I don't feel like doing anything when the humidity is high.
Today is knitting group. I had trouble last night getting my gansey stitches to come out right. Frogged a few rows. Can't follow the chart diagram, had to do it by looking at the row below. Hate it when a project that seems straightforward turns wonky. This is supposed to be fun!!!
Love, mom
Dear Mom,
I had the same knitting dilemma--after tinking back several rows at the Lake House I ended up tinking back the next set of rows in the car. It wouldn't have ever been right if I hadn't been able to see where to line up the big decreases and count back toward the edge from there. Then yesterday I realized that I had missed one whole chart repeat, so instead of being a tunic the hoody is normal length. Oh well. As Ron says, that'll make the front half easier. I just keep telling myself that when a project really squeezes your brain, it's got to be making those synapses stronger.
Love,
Ruth
Dear Ruth,
My synapses are tired of pumping iron over knitting. Here's what I figured out:
Reading the chart from right to left, left to right, etc works when you are knitting on straight needles. It doesn't work that way when knitting in the round ( does it?) . Or maybe it would have if I had known what to do with the seam stitch ( a purl stitch all the way up both sides). Count it? don't count it? count only one on each row? She didn't explain. Then when I split to do the front/back upper part on straight needles, I had the wrong number of stitches---must have not counted that damn seam stitch after all. So, forgetting that I hadn't counted the seam stitch, I added a stitch. Then I couldn't get the pattern to come out right unless I just looked at it and made the knit/purl stitches fit. There has to be a better way to make a damn gansey pattern turn out right.
SHEESH!!
I'm sorry about your shortened tunic. I thought it was beautiful, and would be great either short or long. Maybe since it was going to be a lightweight coverup for summer, shorter is better anyway! We are gonna rationalize you into a perfect sweater!
I am sweaty. The garlic crop is now safely in the house and the garage is cleaned up and truck back in. I even dug out the grass growing into the garage at the door. Not good digging when it's been so hot and dry but by god I dug anyway. I kept thinking how much easier it would be to shovel snow away without those humps of grass.
Love, mom
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