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Nov. 18th, 2015 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeAnd now I'm caught up on Civil War/Reconstruction, mostly current on Western Civ although I missed a bunch of quizzes and need to finish up the Cerego exercises, and now it's just American Government, Terrorism/CounterTerrorism, and Justice. That's going to be interesting. Fortunately I have a lot of knitting to do while I watch things. Unfortunately I haven't yet entered everything into the Habitica to-do lists so I have no idea how much is much, proportionally, until I go through and start organizing that. Maybe I'll do that tonight.
I've also been only semi-explicably binging on Lost Girl for a while. It's decent enough background noise while I do twenty other things, everyone is very pretty and appropriately snarky, and the music's good. That's about all I can say for it, I don't find it stellar must-see TV or anything, I don't find it horribly awful? I enjoy it for how I enjoy it. And then there's other reading and video watching I'm doing, there may be a lot more of that for the moment now that I've hit a season break and am needing to catch up on all my online classes.
(For the five of you who still remember and will be amused, Samael just essentially showed up in Lost Girl, or their version of his type anyway. There may have been shrieking.)
The knitting continues! I did get my yarn for the sweater, so I cast that on last night and promptly discovered wrote the pattern as though every word had to be accounted for, so there is no real feasible way to knit a couple rows, double check the pattern to make sure I'm in the right spot, knit some more. Put it down, pick it up double checking whether I'm in the right spot, etc. Do other people knit like this? Or do people prefer patterns where everything is as concise as possible? Because right now I want to gently shake her and go no, give me the stitch increases on every row where there are stitch increases goddammit, so I know how many stitches I have. Or at LEAST do more than just the first two and a half right-side rows. Argh. At this point I'm just going to write out the pattern in a form that's easier for me to work with and maybe send that to her. I'm also double checking with the knitting aunts at work, though. Just to make sure I'm not a crazy or stupid person.
Other than that the knitting's great! I put the My God It's Full Of Stars shawl on hold while I do the sweater, I'm still doing pairs of baby mitts off and on. Probably switch that out with the sweater. And I've managed not to lose any stitch markers in the couch the first day. I swear to god. In the damn couch. So many of them. I should pull up the cushions at some point and vacuum up breadcrumbs and see how many are in there. The Heartskull hat is probably going to have to wait at least until after the sweater, alas. On the other hand, that means I can remind myself of that whenever I get tempted to go buy yarn for it.
But at least things are back to proceeding more or less smoothly and like normal despite a couple days of ick. Writing and editing are back to relative normal, I'm knitting and catching up on things, and I'm much more relaxed than when ... well, than a lot of times before and around and after DragonCon. I guess because I'm not rushing to catch up on things or pushing to meet a deadline. Thank god. Can we try not to do that anymore, self? I knew we could.
I've also been only semi-explicably binging on Lost Girl for a while. It's decent enough background noise while I do twenty other things, everyone is very pretty and appropriately snarky, and the music's good. That's about all I can say for it, I don't find it stellar must-see TV or anything, I don't find it horribly awful? I enjoy it for how I enjoy it. And then there's other reading and video watching I'm doing, there may be a lot more of that for the moment now that I've hit a season break and am needing to catch up on all my online classes.
(For the five of you who still remember and will be amused, Samael just essentially showed up in Lost Girl, or their version of his type anyway. There may have been shrieking.)
The knitting continues! I did get my yarn for the sweater, so I cast that on last night and promptly discovered wrote the pattern as though every word had to be accounted for, so there is no real feasible way to knit a couple rows, double check the pattern to make sure I'm in the right spot, knit some more. Put it down, pick it up double checking whether I'm in the right spot, etc. Do other people knit like this? Or do people prefer patterns where everything is as concise as possible? Because right now I want to gently shake her and go no, give me the stitch increases on every row where there are stitch increases goddammit, so I know how many stitches I have. Or at LEAST do more than just the first two and a half right-side rows. Argh. At this point I'm just going to write out the pattern in a form that's easier for me to work with and maybe send that to her. I'm also double checking with the knitting aunts at work, though. Just to make sure I'm not a crazy or stupid person.
Other than that the knitting's great! I put the My God It's Full Of Stars shawl on hold while I do the sweater, I'm still doing pairs of baby mitts off and on. Probably switch that out with the sweater. And I've managed not to lose any stitch markers in the couch the first day. I swear to god. In the damn couch. So many of them. I should pull up the cushions at some point and vacuum up breadcrumbs and see how many are in there. The Heartskull hat is probably going to have to wait at least until after the sweater, alas. On the other hand, that means I can remind myself of that whenever I get tempted to go buy yarn for it.
But at least things are back to proceeding more or less smoothly and like normal despite a couple days of ick. Writing and editing are back to relative normal, I'm knitting and catching up on things, and I'm much more relaxed than when ... well, than a lot of times before and around and after DragonCon. I guess because I'm not rushing to catch up on things or pushing to meet a deadline. Thank god. Can we try not to do that anymore, self? I knew we could.
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Date: 2015-11-20 02:31 am (UTC)That knitting pattern sounds frustrating. Yes - it's nice to have check points built in - it also allows people who know what they're doing to alter things accordingly.
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Date: 2015-11-20 04:07 am (UTC)Exactly. I'm not sure if she doesn't get it or if I'm not explaining my recommendations clearly. Also nitpicky, she either doesn't understand the concept of line breaks/paragraph breaks, or she just hadn't put them in yet. But knitting patterns don't work like prose text, it helps to have a small amount of white space between instructions. Especially paragraph sized instructions.
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Date: 2015-11-22 10:36 pm (UTC)Hahahah, that sounds INCREDIBLY unfinished for a pattern. If you have to re-write the entire thing to be useful to yourself, it might be worth it to just send to her as well - on the one hand that seems INCREDIBLY snarky, but, then again, if it's already done and she's not going to do the work to make it useable may as well.
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Date: 2015-11-24 04:33 pm (UTC)It LOOKS very unfinished. I'm really thinking that's just what I'm going to do, or at least try and put in something about "okay, here's how I reformatted it so I could follow along while I knitted, I hope this helps" or something to tone down the "here I fixed it for you" sound of it.
On the plus side, once I got the pattern all written out and clarified and started knitting it is going really fast and well!
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Date: 2015-11-28 03:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-11-29 02:58 am (UTC)And yeah, I go through knitting phases. I mean right now I have three ... four projects on needles, I have some more going around in the Rav, but I'm currently only working on one because in theory it has a deadline. And then I juggle two or so at least. XD