This week at work I knat on Q's EZ modular jacket. When I say "knitting at work" I mean primarily at break & lunch - rarely do I have the chance to knit other times (while at work). It's hard to carry knitting around on a construction site --not as if I'm carrying a purse (well, a toolbag some of the time, but it's way too subject to getting dirty or shredded in there), though that is what I had in mind when I got cargo pants-- instead I have a block of wood and sometimes whittle a little when I'm in the field and we're having slack time.
Shit, this post was supposed to be about knitting and here I am talking about work.
So, yesterday I finished the hood, kitchenered it together and picked up stitches for one of the sleeves. Expect I'll finish it next week. Pictures will be posted here.
Sis sent a pic of Q and Black Bear, but BB is getting severely hugged and it's hard to see the jacket he's wearing. I'll scan & post it anyway. Hopefully Q will feel the same way about his own jacket.
VJ at work, when I was working on the cuff of th'Mr's red & black sock, asked was I knitting a beer coozie? And suggested I should. Yesterday I told him I'd try that and said since he'd given me the idea the first one --the demo-- would be his. He requested orange & blue (some pro sport team - I forget which) and accordingly I stopped at ACMoore on the way home to pick up a skein of orange Wool Ease.
There's no orange in evidence. Maybe after Hallowe'en it'll be an easier color to find. Of course I browsed the three aisles of yarn at ACM and of course something yummy was on serious sale; I ended up buying all the Moda Dea wool/nylon blend in the color blue Sara F once told me was most flattering on me. No idea what I'm going to do with it or how much yarn the eventual project will take, but it was half price and all one dye lot, so with a vague notion of "hat & mittens? scarf?" I spent my fifteen bucks and now have 625 yards of it.
The ball band says 20 sts 26 rows to 4" on #8 so I'm swatching on #6 (because I knit tight? No, because #6 is what I grabbed on the way out the door to pick up a pizza) and two rows into the swatch it looks like I'm 17 sts to 4". Not sure if this means I should drop down a needle size or I should finish the swatch & wash it. Maybe it means I should google up the Moda Dea website.
Another suggestion I got from work, when I held up Q's jacket which is now, with the hood sewn up, actually looking like a jacket, is that I sew a "union made" and/or my name into everything I make. I think that means they like the jacket.
I also got the suggestion --again-- that if I sew I could make out selling the "do-rags" so many of them wear under their hard hats. Just the other day I saw the pattern & demo I got from CG when he was my foreman (his wife makes them), and now I'm going to make a serious effort this weekend to (1)find the pattern & demo and (2)figure out what I did wrong last time (and (3)try again).
It's getting cold and th'Mr says it's time to exchange our kitchen curtain/cat door for something heavier. Another project for this weekend: find suitable material, pin it into shape, take it to Charleston Wednesday and run it through the sewing machine. Do I need a second sewing machine? Hahahahaha.
Mom keeps asking me what I'm going to do when I get "too old" to do this kind of work. Maybe sewing/knitting is the way out. I think it's too late to do anything with "going to college in order to qualify for a 'better' job." Most college grads --BAs and MAs, I mean-- don't make as much as I do; I know that; Mom knows that. All I really want is to pay off the mortgage, pay off our biggest debts, and do the repairs necessary around the house, then we could live on a fraction of what I'm making now. That's what I want.
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