knitting, breathing, moths
Yes, I have been knitting, just not talking about it. The baby bunting pieces are done. I need to weave the ends in the sleeves, obtain a zipper, sew in said zipper and then I can start sewing it up. Once it's sewn together I will have to knit the hood, but I don't expect that to be difficult.
I finished one sleeve of my top down sweater, and redid the neck tie. I think both might be too short, and I think the whole sweater is too short in the front. I probably should take it apart to the armpits and add some short rowing to make boob shaping, but I just don't want to. I'm fairly certain that not being pregnant won't make it fit me any better and that makes me want to cry, honestly. Cookie claims that there is no reason to wear what you knit, but I would like to be able to wear it!
I worked on the silk garden entrelac shawl a bit in the past week, but I think in my already compromised breathing state, I can't handle even 10% wool. I was okay until yesterday, when I started wheezing a bit. I feel like I am in this terrible respiratory cycle. First it was a cough, then my nose was a bit stuffed, then the cough went, but the stuffed nose remained. After the conference the stuffed nose got much worse and now I'm coughing a bit again. I am still resisting taking antibiotics because I just don't feel like it's urgent enough to be worth the risks to my baby. (The first person to comment that pregnant women take antibiotics all the time will be unfriended and/or banned. Seriously. I know that the medical community says they're "perfectly safe," but the medical community does a lot of things to pregnant women all the time, calling them perfectly safe, that I don't think are a good idea.)
My downstairs storage closet is full of moths. I had a bag of birdseed in there and sort of forgot about it. Then little worm/caterpillars started appearing. It took me a while to find the bag of birdseed underneath the paper bags we're recycling. It has all these tiny little holes in it. I stuck it outside and the squirrels are feasting, hopefully on the worms too. However, some of the worms/caterpillars had already woven themselves cocoons and are now hatching in the closet. It's giving me the heebie-jeebies. I need to go to Whole Foods tomorrow and see if I can find some natural moth repellant of some sort. It's a good thing I got rid of most of the wool, or I'd be freaking out about them getting into that!
I finished one sleeve of my top down sweater, and redid the neck tie. I think both might be too short, and I think the whole sweater is too short in the front. I probably should take it apart to the armpits and add some short rowing to make boob shaping, but I just don't want to. I'm fairly certain that not being pregnant won't make it fit me any better and that makes me want to cry, honestly. Cookie claims that there is no reason to wear what you knit, but I would like to be able to wear it!
I worked on the silk garden entrelac shawl a bit in the past week, but I think in my already compromised breathing state, I can't handle even 10% wool. I was okay until yesterday, when I started wheezing a bit. I feel like I am in this terrible respiratory cycle. First it was a cough, then my nose was a bit stuffed, then the cough went, but the stuffed nose remained. After the conference the stuffed nose got much worse and now I'm coughing a bit again. I am still resisting taking antibiotics because I just don't feel like it's urgent enough to be worth the risks to my baby. (The first person to comment that pregnant women take antibiotics all the time will be unfriended and/or banned. Seriously. I know that the medical community says they're "perfectly safe," but the medical community does a lot of things to pregnant women all the time, calling them perfectly safe, that I don't think are a good idea.)
My downstairs storage closet is full of moths. I had a bag of birdseed in there and sort of forgot about it. Then little worm/caterpillars started appearing. It took me a while to find the bag of birdseed underneath the paper bags we're recycling. It has all these tiny little holes in it. I stuck it outside and the squirrels are feasting, hopefully on the worms too. However, some of the worms/caterpillars had already woven themselves cocoons and are now hatching in the closet. It's giving me the heebie-jeebies. I need to go to Whole Foods tomorrow and see if I can find some natural moth repellant of some sort. It's a good thing I got rid of most of the wool, or I'd be freaking out about them getting into that!