Its all true, the boogie girl is real, and you've found her. She knits, sews, spins, does pottery and writes it all down in this blog.
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Knitting, what's that?
I got 2 rows done on M's sweater last night. Pitiful, no? The rest of the day was spent in the pottery studio, for which I have a kiln running at the moment. This is just the first of 2 firings, so it will be a bit longer before I have anything to show for my labor. I visited with the Tax accountant. Sweet man. M refers to him as "John, the man that pays our taxes." haha, Don't I wish! Let this be a lesson learned; don't take a tax cut on face value, and pay in taxes quarterly, you always need to pay more taxes than you think you do. Really, the bulk of my day was spent sewing. I'm working on making one of a kind and interesting bags to sell at the craft show as well as the standard. I'm also making less expensive ones and larger more expensive ones. And I finished these: 
No mirrors or magic tricks here. I made 2 and these may be the only 2. Why? The lep is a really nice twill and as I was slicing into it, I remembered that I had originally bought this to make a pair of capris for myself. I did cut a piece off so I would make sure to have enough for a pair of pants but when I moved my studio I lost one cut of fabric. The sad part is that I moved from one side of the house to the other, so it must be there along with 4 other cuts of fabric for pants. I may have to go pantless. Which would be worse; pantless or drawing that much attention to my lower half by an awesome pair of leopard print capris? Anyway, stop thinking about my lower half and move onto the bags. The twins are fraternal. The zippers are slightly different and one has a velcro closure, the other a button. Inside they are the same, but aren't we all. 
I did throw a few pieces of wool into the washer. This is a by-product that I've never gotten before. Ratses turds. Of course I couldn't throw them away. Why, its lint, right? I'm a knitter/spinner, that should be enough of an answer already. For those that aren't seriously addicted to fiber; like that 3 inch piece of yarn, that I can use to tie up hanks of yarn, I'm not throwing away my rat turds because I'm sure I will find a use for them. I think I saw some novelty yarn somewhere with these things spun into it.
In other news. My interweave knits finally came. Spring 2004, didn't everyone else get theres' months ago. Its torturing reading allthe oohs and aaahs, sitting here without my copy, knowing its somewhere out there, lost hungry, just dyign to be loved by me. So, now with all that I already have to do I'm dying to add a couple more projects. I've been seeing in forums that the other mags are starting to arrive so I may just have to hide my needles from myself to keep me from starting new projects. I can't do that. When I hide things from myself, I rarely find them again. Sad isn't it? I lose things that I didn't hide, like that material for pants (maybe some cosmic thing is telling me that I shouldn't have that much print across my butt). Recently, while looking to restock my show setup box, I cannot find it. How do I lose a tackle box in a garage that is only so big? On the bright side, I can read a knitting pattern and remember it and I can remember who has the sales on what yarn and which book has the particular pattern I want to do next.