Deep as the wine-dark sea

[yuuago]

Mm. I'd forgotten how much I love Loreena McKennitt's music. For a long time, you know, I couldn't listen to her at all because it was the ex who'd introduced me to the stuff. I hate how that sort of thing taints my view of music. Other things, too. Someone rec'd a graphic novel to me, Fables, but I can't bring myself to seek it out just yet, as he

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[bavarois]

what size needles are you using for your scarf? big projects are so intimidating, oh man. i don't know how people can make complicated sweaters and blankets and such, their attention spans must be amazing. i can usually only manage to finish scarves that are super skinny. but hats! hats are fun. knitting in the round is one of my favorite things ever, though i usually use double-pointed needles the whole time. i think they look a bit more complicated and difficult than they actually are. i read something once that compared using them to wrestling a yarn octopus, and when you're starting out it feels pretty accurate. once you get it, though, it's great! i've gotten to the point where i like to use them more than circulars, honestly. i twist my stitches too much with circulars. but yeah, that hat looks pretty awesome, good luck with it! and the scarf too, of course!

ahh, knitting. isn't it like, the perfect autumn activity? and uh, i hope it's all right that i just randomly dropped in out of nowhere to ramble on about knitting. uh. hi

[yuuago]

I'm using size 7 circs. That's usually the size I use for scarves like this one. Stuff like this does take quite a while, but I usually work on it while watching television, and that helps hold my attention (need to do something with my hands while watching, else I can't concentrate)
I haven't moved on to making anything more complicated than scarves, so when I start the hat it will be... an interesting experience, to say the least. We'll see how it goes. I've heard about the stitch-twisting problem with circs, so I might keep your advice in mind and try double-pointed instead. I think I have a pack of them somwhere that I grabbed 'cause I wanted to try it out and never got around to it.

I love starting projects at this time of year, because by the time I'm finished, it's cold enough to start using them. ;) And I don't mind you dropping by at all! I love talking about any old thing. Maybe I'm lame too.

[ryoup]

Woah, thank to linking to that site because now I want to knit this scarf for winter. The pattern looks simple enough in addition to being a bit funky and novel.

[yuuago]

Aaa, no problem! <3
Dude. I might try something like that sometime as well. It's so different.

[noonish]

Gaaaah, that hat is adorable. ♥ I can't wait to see how it turns out when you finish with it. What colors are you using again?

I also think that...somehow English seems to have a lot of trivialized words. Like...I can't think of any I've probably never said because they meant too much for that. Except maybe one or two swears, but...that's about it. I think no matter what, our "I love you"s have come to depend on everything but the words themselves...

[yuuago]

You'll be waiting a while because I am slow and lazy. But we will see. ;p And it'll be in blue, black and white. Because I am a dork.

I think part of it might be that there (seems to be), in English, a tendency toward favouring superlatives. Not just in modern; I also see it in Middle English. Everything is "the best" or "the greatest" or "the most wondrous" - but because of this, in a way it seems so - meaningless.

[noonish]

OMG. D'awwwww. ♥ ♥ ♥

It really does, I think. Maybe that's why sometimes the simplest things, the ones that come without that, are the hardest to say? It's terribly easy to say to someone you like, "You're fantastic" and mean it, because it sounds like it comes with nothing attached. But to just turn to them and say something so simple as "I like you", which should really mean less, becomes so much harder, I think. Maybe because it's less used? Or things like, "Gaaaah you're so cute" compared with, "You're very pretty". The more superlatives there are, the easier it is to brush it off as an outrageous and exaggerated compliment.

And the ones that don't have that...are almost so naked that it's hard to do.

That's how I feel.

[yuuago]

SHHHHHHH
<3

Yeah, you... basically said all my thoughts on the matter. Hurrr. Maybe if I wasn't all derp right now I could think of an intelligent addition, but I just woke up. :B

[anonymous]

That cap is so ridiculous. I like it~! You have to take pictures when you finish

[yuuago]

Ridiculous is best. ;p And I certainly will.

So, to summarize your paragraph: People are complicated. 8D

Anyway, re: the news, that so? AWESOME. You should see about doing that. 'cause really, that'd be an excellent opportunity, considering.

[anonymous]

YOU'D BETTER. I know it'll take twenty years for you to post even once you have the picture taken. :|

Yeah. That.

Agh, it would be an excellent opportunity. I know if they actually can find me a tutor though I will FREAK out. Soooo nervous. It would be one on one butchering of some Scandinavian language. *sob* It would be really good for me once we got comfortable, but oh heavens. I'll feel so so terrible that I can't pronounce anything. There would be massive flailing. ;o; ;o; There would be no hiding my fail in a classroom setting.

[truffle]

I hope you'll have enough yarn left over, beacuse that hat is really cute~ ♥