Glory hallelujah, pass the ammo, praise the Lord

[morgi]

Pass the Ammo is a very strange movie. However you have to have some love for a movie that stars Tim Curry as an oily Arkansas televangelist, Annie Potts as his nutty wife, and features the line "They gonna butt-fuck the preacher on TV." Also there were some very nice pyrotechnics, the Cajun sheriff was cool, and the music (by Carter Burwell)

Comments

[morgi]

Nope! This is only the fourth thing I've ever knit (in this most recent attempt, when it finally took--I've tried to learn several times). I own some miscellaneous non-acrylic stuff because tpau passed it on to me, though.

I need to watch this movie again while not doing something else.

[morgi]

Everything that's in my Ravelry profile is the sum total of everything I've ever knit. :) I've tried several times to learn, but it never really took. And see, lace knitting intimidates the hell out of me! The maybe-abandoned shawl is the closest I've ever gotten to it.

[tpau]

i block all wool and other such stuff. it jsut looks infinitly better. for fingerless mitts i jsut get them wet and stuff a rolled into a tube towel into them overnight. and then they are fine in the AM.

for non-acrillic, i recommend knitpicks (i recomend them in general acutally)

and magic loop is the bomb!!

[omorka]

You probably don't need to block mittens/gloves/gauntlets - they'll be stretched on your hand in actual wear, anyway.

I haaaaaate DPNs so I'm biased, but Magic Loop is crazy easy and you don't get ladders like you do with DPNs if you're not careful. And casting on in ML is annoying but not nearly the PITA that casting on on three needles is.

[morgi]

When using DPNs I generally cast on onto a straight needle and then slip it onto the DPNs. This, however, results in lots (and lots and lots) of juggling as I try very hard to make sure nothing is twisted before I actually knit.

Also sometimes when I cast on I seem to be using up the live yarn as I go, and other times I seem to be using the tail.

[omorka]

*shifty eyes* Don't tell the srs bzsns knitters, but I almost always use a crocheted cast-on, knitting on, or the cable cast-on so I don't have to worry about the tail. When I do the regular cast-on, I invariably either run out of tail too early or make it a yard too long.

[morgi]

I might have to look into those, because I have the same problem.

Of course this might mean I have to figure out how to operate a crochet hook.