So, I finished the fronts and really like the way they came out. I really got the hang of the intarsia/weaving as you go technique by the top of the back piece, so the fronts came out well. I even have some yarn left if, after washing and blocking the back, I decide to frog and re-do. Here are the fronts, pinned but not washed or blocked yet. I love how subtle the green and brown are.
By the end of last week, I had finished the first sleeve, and my husband and I went to Hearst Castle for my birthday, which happened to fall on a national holiday this year, which is always cool. It was interesting… I can’t say that I liked it or hated it.. it was just interesting. I like things a little more plain, I guess. The land was beautiful, but I was bummed that I didn’t get to see any zebras by the freeway.
So, in the car I knitted like crazy and got most of the second sleeve done. I even took it on the bus up the hill in San Simeon, since what else was there to do on a bus? But, about an hour from home, I ran out of yarn!
What you see here is my swatch! I started to unravel it when I got home so I could keep going, until I ran out of the green too. I knew I would need to use my swatch since I knitted the whole ball of yarn to make it, but I didn’t think I’d use the whole thing!
Two Swans to the rescue! On Sunday, I sent an email to Two Swans saying Help! She got back to me on Tuesday to let me know she still had a ball of each color in my dye lots and dropped them in the mail that day. They arrived yesterday, and now I am thinking I will frog out the last few rows of brown and join in the new ball instead, since the swatch has been washed already and I don’t want to change my gauge.
So now I am watching the end of Jesus Christ Superstar, about the only musical I like besides Tommy and West Side Story. I laughed so hard at the overture, as everyone is piling off the bus. Barry Dennen wraps his purple velvet around himself and turns around to face the camera and has on these ridiculous glasses, which are totally back in style today! His were sort of chrome colored, but now all the young chicks at work are wearing them in black. I am sure I’ll see them on at least one sister this weekend.
It’s pretty cool with the HDTV… when you watch a standard def picture, you get the black border around the image, with plenty of room to turn on the captioning and have the lyrics across the bottom of the screen so you can sing along! Not that I need them, I know the whole thing end to end, except for the two songs that were in the movie but not on the Brown version. …Don’t you get me wrong, Don’t you get me wrong, now, Don’t you get me wrong, Don’t you get me wrong, now…I only wanna know, only wanna know…
I’ll be in San Diego this weekend, to celebrate my niece’s first birthday (Happy Birthday, Ava!) and her Daddy’s graduation from college. He’s been working on it for so long, taking one or two classes a semester and working full time. We are really proud of him!!