http://www.flickr.com/photos/8188160@N08/4612098988/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8188160@N08/4612099094/in/set-72157624071815140/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8188160@N08/4611487993/in/set-72157624071815140/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8188160@N08/4611488171/in/set-72157624071815140/
I like the swatch, though after washing it's short about an inch for going around my wrist, so I'm going to tinker with tacking in a single skinny lace repeat to make up that inch & see how that works out. The length is good though. For the fiber geeks who like the technical side of things, it's Lion's Pride Fisherman's Wool in 'natural' & 'nature's brown'. That might only be for the swatching progress if I find something nicer & it doesn't cost a metric-ass ton of shekels. But LB is way cheap for a pretty standard, solid yarn. I think I'm just grexing over it because my ODC perfectionist thing makes me frog the everliving shit out of swatches, let alone actual projects to *grind teeth in perfectionist existential histronics HERE* make sure it's right the 1st time even though:
- It's a goddam SWATCH, it's supposed to be all eff'd up
- I have, oh, FIVE MILES of this friggin yarn, I can spare 1/10th of a mile for swatching
- They makin' that shit eeeeveryday. Both wool & the sheep it comes off of
I was worried @ first about people nicking the idea, or 'bitin' my steez' as the hip kids say. But where
- I'm winging it
- It might likely be a one-off
- The pretty solid assumption that about 10 people read this blog
I'm not losing much of the miniscule amount of sleep I already get.
Other than that, nothing much new, posting this from the bagel joint, where apparently their hiring guidelines include somewhere near the top:
- Hire the most miserable, pissy, overprivileged, currently societal accepted standard of pretty TWATS for public customer service
- Insist that they make NO attempt to be personable at all whatsoever
K, I'm off for an espresso bean frappe & some more swatching. Talk amongst yerselves
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