I figured thus: I am knitting socks for Lorree and Yorick for Jeff. Yorick must be felted, blocked and dried prior to next Wednesday. The socks can be knit in the six-plus hours I will be on planes and in airports and such. The socks can be finished on the bus from Newark to Grand Central Station. The socks, if needs be, can be finished sitting at Riverside Park across the street from Jeff's building.
So Yorick wins, for the time being.%
Praise be, Yorick is a pretty quick knit, though I have made two skulls now and neither one of them came out to the right number of stitches, or even to the same number of stitches. For some reason, multiple yarn-overs can be difficult to knit in and out of while trying to count properly.
Don't Panic.‡ The one on the left is not all wonky due to my inability to count,§ I just didn't pin that one.
I'm having some palpitations over the felting process, not for any typical reason, but because I used Ella Rae Classic for this and the pattern calls for something alpaca or angora -- y'all know... bunny yarn -- but I thought bunny yarn might not be masculine enough, so I switched to this.
Then I poked at one of Bag Lady Kathryn's felted Ella Rae bags and I'm worried about it getting too dense for a scarf. I'm envisioning Jeff laying it across the back of his neck, then bending and twisting and capturing it quickly under the front of his jacket before it springs loose again.¶
I'll just have to keep a very close eye on the felting process so it gets felted enough for me to trim out the eye- and nose-holes, but not so felted it becomes a neck pillow.
I guess if worse comes to worst,# I can tell him it's one of those draft dodger things to put across the bottom of a door or window to keep cold air out.
I also turned the heel on the second Sparkle Sock yesterday just for variety. No dick warmers in my house.††
[SUMMARY: Knitting!]
Speaking of Bag Lady Kathryn,‡‡ when we went to Hotcakes (a recommended experience) Sunday morning, we came out to this:
Kathryn said, "Do you have your camera?"
Why, yes. Yes, I do.
[SUMMARY: Mini Coopers!]
Can we backtrack for a minute?^
I didn't take my camera Saturday night because I figured they wouldn't allow cameras in the concert. Turns out they didn't check anything very carefully and I could have smuggled it in just fine. As it stands, I have these great pictures on my camera phone,§§ but I don't know if I can do anything other than send them in text messages. If I can, I sure as hell don't know *how* to do it.
[SUMMARY: Technology!]
I forgot to tell you a little tidbit: when we ran up to Coors Field Saturday after Genesis, Shanny gave me his media pass to go inside and poke around. Mostly, I took pictures of the media pass on my camera phone, but I did enjoy waving that thing at all the Coors Field official-types who wanted to get in my way.
"Media!" I said,¶¶ sticking it in their faces with all the grace and cool of a three-year-old meeting Mickey Mouse at Disneyland for the first time.
[SUMMARY: Sport!]
And this last bit is just a pretty picture of a historical building across the street from my office. I thought the sky particulalry pretty. I'm sharing.
[SUMMARY: Art!]
Happy Tuesday, ev'ry-bahdy!
†FOOTNOTE (crossed): That's not even funny. I just wanted the chance to show off my crazy-big Shakespearean knowledge. The day I can toss out the primrose path speech here with jaded nonchalance... that'll be a proud, proud day. And y'all know I'm going to be looking for excuses now.
%FOOTNOTE (percented): I bet you're *stunned* at the unprecedented level of logic I am able to reach. It's all the sleep yesterday, I tell you.
‡FOOTNOTE (double-crossed): I miss Douglas Adams.
§FOOTNOTE (swerved): Both in and out of triple yarn-overs and to four.
¶FOOTNOTE (paragraphed): In my mental movie, he forgets about the rogue scarf and goes to pull his wallet out of his jacket to pay for a newpaper at a newsstand. He yanks the zipper down a couple of inches and starts to reach his hand into his inner pocket. The scarf pops out, the recoil snapping Jeff's wrist and zinging a woman (buying gum next to him) in the face.
THEN... the scarf's eyes glow red but only the guy in the newsstand sees it. He goes home in his '57 Chevy and dismembers his wife, then climbs into their chest freezer with a 45 of "My Boyfriend's Back."
The scarf whispers to Jeff's cat at night, causing the usually-docile feline to eat the neighbour's dog and several small children.
One night, the scarf inches into the kitchen, humming to itself before it slithers into the coffee maker.
Jeff and Lorree have friends over for brunch the next day and everybody drinks coffee filtered through the demon scarf and they all go mad, giving in to their basest impulses and acting out 1950s dead teenager songs.
Later that day, they all die on separate railroad tracks before the folksy sheriff with the dark past can capture them.
The scarf is last seen disappearing into a cargo crate off Battery Park.
Voilá. Stephen King story.
#FOOTNOTE (pounded): "Worse comes to worst" or "worst comes to worse"? Each makes a sort of elegant sense... of course, I may just be high on my recent think-tank triumph in figuring out which project to knit first for the imminent trip.
††FOOTNOTE (ddouble-ccrossed): I could get all dirty-sassy-funny here if it weren't so pathetically true on so many levels.
‡‡FOOTNOTE (doubble-crossssed): Nice segueway.
^FOOTNOTE (careted): Just playing at polite. My blog, my backtrack.
§§FOOTNOTE (double-D curvy): Well, they seem really great when I blow them up from postage stamp-size in my head.
¶¶FOOTNOTE (para-para-para-paragraph): OK, OK... squealed.
Knitting! Mini Coopers! Technology! Sport! Art! Sometimes Sex!
Man, this blog has *everything*!
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