We had a glorious time with the girls in Seattle yesterday where we saw some amazing bubble stuffs. First, we learned about the physics of bubbles, which included a pyrotechnic show of flaming hydrogen soap spheres. Next, we saw a terrific show by Fan Yang, (click on that link, it’s a good one). Then there was the basic coolness that is the Pacific Science Center. To top it off, we ate dinner at Dick’s Drive In on Queen Anne. (You know, for a local restaurant chain that has some style and attitude to it, their website SUCKS! It isn’t even orange. All their restaurants are orange! I don’t get it.) So why am I grumpy? Because, I forgot my camera. Many fabulous photo opportunities, and I didn’t have my stupid camera. As usual, Abigail looked like a mini version of Audrey Hepburn, and I didn’t have my camera. (She’s been wearing this cute little scarf thing in her hair the last few days. It is so cute. She is such a little lady, and she has that porcelain doll look to her that she’s had since the day she entered this world).
I didn’t get any knitting done (although I brought it along, as always), which is OK. We had a great time, and my life really doesn’t revolve around knitting. Well, I suppose that if you looked at it LITERALLY, considering that knitting is always present in some sense, (either as the verb, or as the noun that is tucked away close by), you might, maybe could say that my life revolves around knitting, but only in the strictest, physical sense of the term. Emotionally, my life does NOT revolve around knitting. I can’t exactly say that knitting revolves around life, because that would imply that it had more of a casual and detached role, which it certainly does not. (Notice here that the knitting made it to the city, but not the camera!)
How about you? How does knitting fit in to YOUR life?
August 5th, 2004 at 1:28 am
Love the dolls! Searching for yarn here to begin mine own! (Yes, 49 year olds need their cuddly dolls…)
Perhaps a bald doll, or a haloed bald one, to show off that Kitchener work?
Hmm…or a bad comb-over doll! Ooh!
August 5th, 2004 at 8:18 am
Hi Laura! Some days, I can count many chores done, but then there was no time for knitting. When I decide that I am just going to sit down and knit, well then, it’s just likely that there will be a whole lotta something, like dishes or laundry, piled up! I always take knitting along when I know I am going to sit and wait somewhere, like when I have my vehicle serviced, or visiting my in-laws, but that is my ‘mindless’ knitting. If I don’t take any knitting with me when we go out, it is for certain that something will come up, and I’ll be sitting somewhere wishing that I had brought it along. What I really like to do at home, but don’t usually, is , do a chore-knit a row! Ahhh, but some of my ‘knitting time’ is actually taken up by reading knitting magazines or books, or knitting blogs!! I also check ebay everyday, always on the look-out for another neat pattern that I have to have!
I spent alot of time today trying to figure out how to knit that doll’s body. I have not knit small circumferences before, and the way it seems easiest to me, means that the stockinette is on the inside!!! I had to question my cousin, and I had to look up a sock website to see how to arrange the needles!! It was frustrating to sit down with the pattern, and then be stalled by being ‘all thumbs’! I often think that I think about knitting too much!
August 5th, 2004 at 8:42 am
Oh yeah! I forgot to mention that my cousin and I spend lots of time each week emailing, or talking on the phone about knitting! Jenny
August 5th, 2004 at 9:09 am
How about a Pippi Longstocking doll? May not show off that great Kitchener stitch, but it would be DARN CUTE!
I fit knitting (and all other crafts into my life) as much as possible. At times I allow it to consume me, at times I want nothing to do with them, but that is RARE, I try to find balance, although Art, the man, not the creativity might disagree and say I spend too much time with my projects. We seem to have different ideas of what is important and appropriate. However, he is extremely talented and great with color and when I need help on choosing colors in design, he is awesome. I cannot just sit and watch TV, so I knit or do something during a show or movie. Quite often I have no idea what we’re watching. When I am alone, a lot of the time the TV is off. Although I do love those home decorating and improvement and craft shows.
I really regret that I didn’t pick up any of my projects or get to know Laura when I was home on bedrest for 4 months a few years ago. I’m not sure why I didn’t, other than we had just moved and everything was packed, I was on some pretty nasty meds and didn’t feel good and couldn’t see well either, but I wish I had known you then, La, it would have been awesome. Thank God I have you as a friend now!