tundra rage
Look, I know everyone else is probably as sick of the cold as I am...I get that. But I'm going to bitch about it anyway, because I can. I am SO over this not-getting-above-20-degrees shit. Honestly. I think it wouldn't be so bad if we hadn't had that really warm period back a couple weeks ago. It was downright spring-ish there for a few days, and man I was LOVING it. Now we're back to howling wind, leaving the faucets running at night so the pipes don't freeze, and living bag-of-pellets to bag-of-pellets. And the end is nowhere in SIGHT! Ugh! Stick a fork in me.
Aside from hunching next to the stove and complaining bitterly, I've been knitting a lot. I finished the Special Secret Project that is going into the mail today. I can't post any pictures up until after Feb 2nd, as that's when it will be given to the recipient (lucky, lucky chap that he is). I tried something new on it, though. I had been reading on Wendy's blog about blocking knitted pieces with a steam iron. Specifically, she had been saying she did it on color work and it worked really well to get out all the lumps and bumps. My SSP was sort of lumpy and bumpy, so I gave it a whirl. I filled up the iron with water, put it on the lowest-temperature steaming setting it had, and I went to town. At first, I was just hovering the iron over the piece and hitting the steam button repeatedly. That worked ok...but then I decided to try just lightly running the iron on the actual piece...and WHA-BAM! Perfectly perfect perfection! I was really happy with the result. The piece had been curling in on itself a lot and would have required some pretty aggressive wet-blocking to correct that...but the iron was way quicker, easier, and actually fun! Where as crawling around on hands and knees pinning stuff down on the floor is not so fun to me, personally. So...yes. I will be trying the steam / iron blocking again the next time it's applicable.
With the SSP being done, I've gone back to plugging away at Clapotis. I don't think I mentioned it on here, but I found a lovely chick on Ravelry who had a bunch of the exact color of Gedifra stripe that I needed. I have way too much now, actually...but that's just fine. I'll figure out something to do with the rest. Possibly a baby sweater and hat set...for new babies that are on the way to various sets of new parents that I'm friends with...:)
That brings me to the other secret I was talking about last time. My dear bestest one in the whole world, Becky, is preggers. I'm completely overjoyed, myself...but then again I'm not the one feeling like tossing my cookies every morning, either. Hah! She and her husband are actually really excited, too. They had been trying unsuccessfully to get pregnant for a while. Once they stopped trying with that in mind...well...there you go! Funny how that works, sometimes. Anyway, I'm super excited to have someone so close to me be pregnant, because pregnant women fascinate me. A lot more than actual babies interest me, to be honest. I don't know what that's about...but oh well. I'm super excited to be an auntie!
Aside from hunching next to the stove and complaining bitterly, I've been knitting a lot. I finished the Special Secret Project that is going into the mail today. I can't post any pictures up until after Feb 2nd, as that's when it will be given to the recipient (lucky, lucky chap that he is). I tried something new on it, though. I had been reading on Wendy's blog about blocking knitted pieces with a steam iron. Specifically, she had been saying she did it on color work and it worked really well to get out all the lumps and bumps. My SSP was sort of lumpy and bumpy, so I gave it a whirl. I filled up the iron with water, put it on the lowest-temperature steaming setting it had, and I went to town. At first, I was just hovering the iron over the piece and hitting the steam button repeatedly. That worked ok...but then I decided to try just lightly running the iron on the actual piece...and WHA-BAM! Perfectly perfect perfection! I was really happy with the result. The piece had been curling in on itself a lot and would have required some pretty aggressive wet-blocking to correct that...but the iron was way quicker, easier, and actually fun! Where as crawling around on hands and knees pinning stuff down on the floor is not so fun to me, personally. So...yes. I will be trying the steam / iron blocking again the next time it's applicable.
With the SSP being done, I've gone back to plugging away at Clapotis. I don't think I mentioned it on here, but I found a lovely chick on Ravelry who had a bunch of the exact color of Gedifra stripe that I needed. I have way too much now, actually...but that's just fine. I'll figure out something to do with the rest. Possibly a baby sweater and hat set...for new babies that are on the way to various sets of new parents that I'm friends with...:)
That brings me to the other secret I was talking about last time. My dear bestest one in the whole world, Becky, is preggers. I'm completely overjoyed, myself...but then again I'm not the one feeling like tossing my cookies every morning, either. Hah! She and her husband are actually really excited, too. They had been trying unsuccessfully to get pregnant for a while. Once they stopped trying with that in mind...well...there you go! Funny how that works, sometimes. Anyway, I'm super excited to have someone so close to me be pregnant, because pregnant women fascinate me. A lot more than actual babies interest me, to be honest. I don't know what that's about...but oh well. I'm super excited to be an auntie!
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