My first picspam
A system crash ate my "The Way We Weren't" post this weekend, and it's both difficult and disheartening to try to reconstruct it from memory, so I'm still picking away at it.
Technical difficulties aside, though, I had a good and productive weekend. Among other things, I saw Aeon Flux last Friday with D. and Mrs. D. and I've got to say that I don't understand why the studio didn't make advanced screenings available to reviewers--which is usually a bad sign and made me think going into the movie that it was going to be a giant ball of suck--or why it has been so thoroughly panned. Is it the greatest film ever? Not so much, but it's a solid dystopian sci fi story with some very pretty visual design and more character focus than I expected, and I left the theater a satisfied camper.
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I recently acquired a camera, and I know you've all been waiting with bated breath for me to post pictures of my knitting.
... Wait. Where are you going? Come baaaaaaack!
Ahem. Anyway, this is mostly for my reference, so feel free to skip.
This is the Misty Garden scarf from Scarf Style, knitted on size 8 needles with Jo Sharpe Infusion mohair. The simple ripple pattern was a good way for me to get reacquianted with knitting. This is the fuzziest thing I've made, ever.
This is the Midwest Moonlight scarf from Scarf Style, knitted on size 6 needles with Rowan Wool Cotton, which is a really lovely yarn to knit with. I cast on too tightly, so one of the ends is really weird, but the other one straightened out nicely after blocking. I like the fact that the openwork pattern is geometrical-looking rather than froofy. Mrs. D. admired this scarf, so I'm making her one for Christmas in a dusty ice-blue color; I hope she's pleasantly surprised rather than "Oh, you really, really, really shouldn't have. Really!" surprised.
This is the Here and There scarf from Scarf Style, knitted on size 7 needles with Knitpicks Merino Style. This is me teaching myself cable stich, which is actually very easy. I was a little nervous about the yarn because it's really inexpensive compared to most established yarn store brands and I figured there had to be something wrong with it, but it seems nice and is very pleasant to knit with; we'll see how it holds up to wear and whether it pills.
And to complete the self-indulgent picspam, I give you the puppydog.
I think he's very handsome. I may be biased, though.
Here he is in his natural habitat. Notice that I have covered my duvet with an old sheet to control the dog hair situation, and that he has therefore settled in my pillows. I think he's also lying on my shirt.
Curious about my day, my surroundings, or the contents of my fridge? Ask me to take a picture of something, and I will post it.
Technical difficulties aside, though, I had a good and productive weekend. Among other things, I saw Aeon Flux last Friday with D. and Mrs. D. and I've got to say that I don't understand why the studio didn't make advanced screenings available to reviewers--which is usually a bad sign and made me think going into the movie that it was going to be a giant ball of suck--or why it has been so thoroughly panned. Is it the greatest film ever? Not so much, but it's a solid dystopian sci fi story with some very pretty visual design and more character focus than I expected, and I left the theater a satisfied camper.
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I recently acquired a camera, and I know you've all been waiting with bated breath for me to post pictures of my knitting.
... Wait. Where are you going? Come baaaaaaack!
Ahem. Anyway, this is mostly for my reference, so feel free to skip.
This is the Misty Garden scarf from Scarf Style, knitted on size 8 needles with Jo Sharpe Infusion mohair. The simple ripple pattern was a good way for me to get reacquianted with knitting. This is the fuzziest thing I've made, ever.
This is the Midwest Moonlight scarf from Scarf Style, knitted on size 6 needles with Rowan Wool Cotton, which is a really lovely yarn to knit with. I cast on too tightly, so one of the ends is really weird, but the other one straightened out nicely after blocking. I like the fact that the openwork pattern is geometrical-looking rather than froofy. Mrs. D. admired this scarf, so I'm making her one for Christmas in a dusty ice-blue color; I hope she's pleasantly surprised rather than "Oh, you really, really, really shouldn't have. Really!" surprised.
This is the Here and There scarf from Scarf Style, knitted on size 7 needles with Knitpicks Merino Style. This is me teaching myself cable stich, which is actually very easy. I was a little nervous about the yarn because it's really inexpensive compared to most established yarn store brands and I figured there had to be something wrong with it, but it seems nice and is very pleasant to knit with; we'll see how it holds up to wear and whether it pills.
And to complete the self-indulgent picspam, I give you the puppydog.
I think he's very handsome. I may be biased, though.
Here he is in his natural habitat. Notice that I have covered my duvet with an old sheet to control the dog hair situation, and that he has therefore settled in my pillows. I think he's also lying on my shirt.
Curious about my day, my surroundings, or the contents of my fridge? Ask me to take a picture of something, and I will post it.