grr. i have restarted the tubular cast-on 3 times now! the backward loop gets tight and i drop a loop and then have to start over, or i am not paying enough attention on the yarn-over row and end up with two knits next to each other when i need a YO in betwwen them and and and…
maybe tonight i will be in tubular balance

well, actually it is a tubular cast-on for this top from interweave knits that i have started to make. “started to make” as in i am halfway through the tubular cast-on, which apparently takes 4 rows. The first is a backward-loop cast-on, then you knit and do yarn overs for the next row, then knit and slip purl-wise for the third and then you do other things of which i am not sure because i haven’t done them yet. i started the backward-loop on my way to work and got partway through the second row when i realized that i needed to at least do the third row or everything would fall apart in my bag. So, i sat in the park and finished the third row and instead of being early for work, as would have been the case, i was late. not too late, but not early, which is what i had been going for. Ah well, it will be worth it!

my hair in its natural array of lovliness:

picture taken by sop

it started at 10:00 friday night. went to the store, bought posterboard and then headed to my parents’ to water their lawn while i made signs. by 1:30 am, i was home.

it continued at 6:00 am on saturday. drove around, posting signs, and then taking out the “goods”.

‘highlights’ of the day:

met someone who was learning to knit and may want to go to the Stitch n Bitch! She seemed cool and it would be fun. i really need to get to the stitch n bitch more often.

the morning “yard sale freak” experience: This guy rolled up in a pick-up truck LOADED with junk. Stuff strapped down in a huge mound in the bed of the truck. Came up and asked if i had any socks. “um, yeah, they’re inside, i can bring them out”. Actually, i had been planning on just taking the socks to the salvation army, but if he wanted to buy socks, fine with me. brought out the socks and he started going through them. “are they clean?” “yes,” i replied. “what? are they clean?” “Yes,” i reply again. he asked how much they were and i said 50 cents a pair, he asked if i’ll sell them for a quarter a pair if he boughy a bunch. i said, “sure, if you buy a bunch.” “this pair isn’t a match!!!” he exclaimed. I got a matching pair for him. “are they clean?” he asked. “yes, they are clean” (you freak!!). “okay, i’ll give you a dollar for 5″. “Nope,” i said, “a dollar for 4″. Sure, i had been going to give these away, but i was going to give them to people who needed them and that is still a better deal than selling them to this guy! He then wandered over to the t-shirts and started working on those until he exclaimed, “these are getting wet! They’re on the grass and they are getting wet!” “i’m sure they’ll be okay.” i said. i just wanted this guy to go away! “no, they’re getting wet, that is bad” he said and left. whoohoo!

the end-if-yard-sale weirdo experience: This guy rolled on on his bike complaining about the mugginess. Seemed nice enough, actually, but then he wanted me to sell him an outfit so bizarre that he would be a spectacle riding home in it. He refused the work-out wear as too much (and tell me, what plump man wouldn’t be a spectacle biking along in a red-velvet, mock-tank workout top? He refused the graduation gown as too mundane. He wanted a dress. Well, he came to the wrong house for that. He said he’d give me his sony clie if i could come up with an outfit that was too outrageous for him to wear. I said that i already had: He had declared the workout clothes as something he just could not wear. But he said that didn’t count. He ended up leaving in the clothes that he arrived in.

check out SOP demonstrating his purchases (the hat and the exersize band):

this week. sorry. it’s been a stresser (not a stressOR, which would imply that i have had one measly stressor this week, but a stressER, by which i mean i am at a just about functioning level, but only just.). i don’t like to go into the yucky stuff here, so i’ll wait to post until next week. there have been some good things, so i am excited to post, but i just have to get rid of some of the evil beforehand.