Snappy
Last night I was interviewed briefly by a journalism student at Northwestern, a school I attended for a little while out of HS. I can't remember when I was last interviewed but you can find a really out-of-context quote from the UW's Daily if you google me. A really shitty quote, actually. Let's not talk about it. Instead I'll just tell you the beginning of the interview last night was like this: Her: "So where are you?" Me: "Seattle." H: "Oh, Seattle. I'm a big Grey's Anatomy fan." Me: (blank) "Uh, oh, yeah, Grey's Anatomy..." Her: (slightly embarrassed, moves on quickly). Me: My mind is jumping around, thinking about the Case of Knitting on the show (which I haven't watched in months), etc. I really felt for the interviewer though and was charmed. This is how Seattle is represented now on TV; she's too young for grunge/Nirvana, really. I did think about telling her that I was a big fan of ER when I was in college, but luckily we'd moved on by then.
This morning I was smart-alecky with the guys who pedalled past me up the hill sans signal. "Oh hey, you're passing me!" "Oh, you're passing me, too!" "Have a nice day!" It's Bike to Work Month, in case you didn't know, and the Fremont bridge is murder. Tonight (after I survive the bridge and belatedly mail my sockapaloooza socks--my poor pal!) I think I'm going to make a sack for my clothes that goes inside my panniers. I'm tired of putting my nice "new to me!"* clothes in plastic grocery bags, my sandwich in a plastic grocery bag, etc. Yes, I'm going to try to make a lunch bag from oilcloth as well. We'll see how it goes; I've got big plans.
Last weekend, in addition to making 12 aprons (one entirely solo; the rest were constructed by a crack team of stitchers as known as my Hilltop Yarn colleagues: damn those ladies rock a needle & thread!), I crocheted a purse from SnB Crochet: The Happy Hooker and sewed a case for my crochet hooks.
This was kinda practice for sewing one for my double-pointed needles. I had fun making the binding, though afterwards I realized you're supposed to sew the binding into a long strip, then attach it to the item being edged to avoid all those raw edges. Oh well; it was fun since I bought a Clover bias tape maker on sale a while ago at Joann's and got to learn how to use it here. Bias tape is amazing: the way it actually works to cut fabric on the diagonal so it will form fit around a curve is brilliant. Who thought of this? I'll say it again: amazing.
Now back to that purse. Even though it's darn cute, the crochet stitch still looks dowdy. My [office] coworkers were kinda "eh" about the thing until I opened it up to the lining/snap detail (even though I barely stitched in the lining). It may get to live at the shop after all; I only made it to have a sample for Saturday's visit from the Queen herself, Deb Stoller--which the aprons are also for, and at which I may be teaching crochet. Not sure, but you can definitely LEARN crochet if you stop by between noon and 5 p.m. In spite of this purse being slightly dowdy, crochet is a handy thing to know how to do and I really like making squares and lacier stuff.
Finally, I am waiting with baited breath for Jolie Holland's new CD to come out. Sample song here.
*What I'm trying to say is, my clothes aren't all that "nice." But they're MINE and I like them so I don't like folding them neatly then tossing them like a salad en route to the office every morning.
This morning I was smart-alecky with the guys who pedalled past me up the hill sans signal. "Oh hey, you're passing me!" "Oh, you're passing me, too!" "Have a nice day!" It's Bike to Work Month, in case you didn't know, and the Fremont bridge is murder. Tonight (after I survive the bridge and belatedly mail my sockapaloooza socks--my poor pal!) I think I'm going to make a sack for my clothes that goes inside my panniers. I'm tired of putting my nice "new to me!"* clothes in plastic grocery bags, my sandwich in a plastic grocery bag, etc. Yes, I'm going to try to make a lunch bag from oilcloth as well. We'll see how it goes; I've got big plans.
Last weekend, in addition to making 12 aprons (one entirely solo; the rest were constructed by a crack team of stitchers as known as my Hilltop Yarn colleagues: damn those ladies rock a needle & thread!), I crocheted a purse from SnB Crochet: The Happy Hooker and sewed a case for my crochet hooks.
This was kinda practice for sewing one for my double-pointed needles. I had fun making the binding, though afterwards I realized you're supposed to sew the binding into a long strip, then attach it to the item being edged to avoid all those raw edges. Oh well; it was fun since I bought a Clover bias tape maker on sale a while ago at Joann's and got to learn how to use it here. Bias tape is amazing: the way it actually works to cut fabric on the diagonal so it will form fit around a curve is brilliant. Who thought of this? I'll say it again: amazing.
Now back to that purse. Even though it's darn cute, the crochet stitch still looks dowdy. My [office] coworkers were kinda "eh" about the thing until I opened it up to the lining/snap detail (even though I barely stitched in the lining). It may get to live at the shop after all; I only made it to have a sample for Saturday's visit from the Queen herself, Deb Stoller--which the aprons are also for, and at which I may be teaching crochet. Not sure, but you can definitely LEARN crochet if you stop by between noon and 5 p.m. In spite of this purse being slightly dowdy, crochet is a handy thing to know how to do and I really like making squares and lacier stuff.
Finally, I am waiting with baited breath for Jolie Holland's new CD to come out. Sample song here.
*What I'm trying to say is, my clothes aren't all that "nice." But they're MINE and I like them so I don't like folding them neatly then tossing them like a salad en route to the office every morning.