Comments | dyddgu: Just another Monday morning, you can do it all over again

dyddgu

Just another Monday morning, you can do it all over again

Mar 23, 2009 15:02

Today I bought the local rag for the first time in years, because the headline was all bout darwinian_woman's No. 10 petition! She's even interviewed in it, and Oxfordshire PCT look like the total burkes they are. Woo ( Read more... )

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katstevens March 23 2009, 15:12:12 UTC

Dye the yarn THEN knit it into a cardi. Then if the dyeing doesn't go to plan, you can make hexagons/give away. I would be immensely frustrated if I knitted a lovely thing then accidentally dyed it a worse colour than before...

dyddgu March 23 2009, 15:30:12 UTC

I'm not sure if/how I could dye 10x balls of cotton glace in the ball...
/is not quite yarn savvy enough

bluedevi March 23 2009, 16:15:34 UTC

I have one of those scoop-neck things. It is indeed lovely.

dyddgu March 23 2009, 18:51:18 UTC

I now have three!! \o/

white_hart March 23 2009, 16:29:47 UTC

It was me who was looking for the tops, and I got a couple of them a few weeks back.

I wouldn't mind buying a couple of balls of the cotton glace from you to make my cardi a bit less cropped than it will otherwise have to be. Or I could swap you three balls of sort-of fuchsiay pink for three balls of lilac if you wanted different colours to play with for other projects?

dyddgu March 23 2009, 18:50:06 UTC

Ah, yes. I think my boss was too, though, so I'll tell her tomorrow.
I'd be more than happy to swap for colours - I am determined to make this throw eventually!

white_hart March 23 2009, 19:53:10 UTC

Fab! I will try to remember to bring the pink next time I see you.

sebastienne March 23 2009, 17:42:32 UTC

Sadly, the journalists also look quite a lot like berks. It took me quite some time to work out who the four men they were talking about were meant to be... still, yayness!

dyddgu March 23 2009, 18:49:18 UTC

Ah, that bit hadn't registered with me. Bugger. However, Oxford Mail and Times are hardly known (to me, at least) for standards of journalistic rigour and wotnot - cf Friday's Times leader about the Depository.
I think I got distracted by the bollocks about GRS - ""There's limited evidence of the long-term effectiveness of surgical treatment to support funding." Er, do what? Do penises magically regrow or something?

riohnna March 24 2009, 13:17:54 UTC

I would keep the cotton for other projects, because I hear that dyring cotton is hard, or takes a lot more work.

dyddgu March 24 2009, 16:01:41 UTC

I think you're right, really. Though I wish my crochetting was better, I really love that throw (Erika Knight Hexagon throw). It's so difficult, dammit!

riohnna March 24 2009, 18:46:16 UTC

And I think knitting is difficult! The throw sounds gorgeous!!