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Roscalie Resumed

Got the new Addi Turbo 32" #3 circular yesterday, and I'm off and running again!

I can see that my blog entries over the next several weeks might tend towards dull ("look, I've progressed another half inch!") so I might have to wander off the subject a bit.

First, a little anecdote from the LYS stop yesterday. The owner asks me why I'm buying these particular needles, and I tell her I'm doing my first big fair isle project. She nods knowingly, and assures me it won't be too hard. I mention that it's my first time doing a steek and she says "what's a steek?" She happened to have some completed fair isle sweater samples from a vendor lying on the table. So I show her the steeks and we even find where some of the yarns had been cut. Entire new knitting vistas were opened up for her... I could make some snotty comments about her lack of expertise, but I didn't know what a steek was myself until about a year ago. And she's a very nice woman.

Okay, now to go completely off topic. My middle son got us all to watching "Mythbusters" on the Discovery Channel last night. I totally loved this show. I love the hosts. I love their attitude. I want their jobs. My husband and I are both engineers, and we watch our children for signs of nerdistic propensities (yeah, they've got 'em.) So here we all are watching what seems to be a much more fun version of the Materials Testing Lab class I took in college. And we're all breathlessly anticipating the outcome of each of their experiments. And what's not to love about putting marshmallows and Twinkies inside a hyperbaric chamber just for the hell of it? And when the cell phone failed to ignite the gasoline vapors, they found another way to explode the gases, just so they could experience the satisfaction of blowing something up. My knitting progress was slowed considerably because I so often had to stop and watch the show, slack-jawed in awe.

I went to the Discovery Channel's web site to sign up for email notification of future episodes. Must see TV. (Psst...don't tell the kids it's educational!)

Comments

Roscalie is beautiful and progressing a half inch is quite an accomplishment as far as I'm concerned! My Ingeborg, which is only 2 colors, has been stalled for months. Can't wait to see more!

Posted by: Julie at September 8, 2004 09:50 AM

Looks like you are progressing quite well on your Fair Isle. Keep of the good work.

Posted by: Chery at September 9, 2004 05:09 AM

Well I just think it was so nice of you NOT to make a snotty comment about the store clerk! Imagine if we all took the high road like that all the time. She sounds lovely and now she knows about steeks because of you! I have avoided steeks. They scare me. Don't wanna go there. I will be watching your progress and maybe I will try too! Love Roscalie!

Posted by: Mary Beth at September 9, 2004 08:04 AM