If Syracuse receives an average of 123.8 inches of snow and we are now at 126.9, then we must be done for the season, right? RIGHT? (Pay no attention to the "normal average to date" statistic.)
Thursday, March 13, 2014
All done
GoldenSnowball.com is a web site that tracks the annual snowfall for Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, and bestows the Golden Snowball award to the city with the highest total. Here are the current standings as of 8:30 this morning:
If Syracuse receives an average of 123.8 inches of snow and we are now at 126.9, then we must be done for the season, right? RIGHT? (Pay no attention to the "normal average to date" statistic.)
If Syracuse receives an average of 123.8 inches of snow and we are now at 126.9, then we must be done for the season, right? RIGHT? (Pay no attention to the "normal average to date" statistic.)
Monday, March 10, 2014
Quick kick in the knitting mojo
I have been in a knitting slump for quite a while now. It is not that I don't want to knit or don't enjoy it anymore, it just seems that I don't make time to knit or when I do make time to knit, it does not hold my interest. There is a pair of fingerless mitts that have been on the needles for months that I have no idea why I am ignoring, and I started a scarf back in January that is very pretty but is lace so my eyes get tired very quickly.
But the straw that broke this knitter's back was a hat that I had to frog two weeks ago. It is a beautiful slouchy hat with an outrageous single cable and I chose to knit it from a deep purple yarn that has been in my stash for years. Gorgeous pattern, gorgeous yarn. I was almost done with the hat - on the decrease rounds for the crown - when I noticed a glaringly obvious error that I had made about an inch prior. (Well, not glaringly obvious when I made it but certainly many rows later.) This was in addition to two other obvious errors that I had made in other places on the hat but had decided I could accept. I could not, however, accept three obvious errors; I knew that I would always see those mistakes and never wear the hat. And so I frogged it, and put the yarn and pattern into timeout.
I decided that I needed a quick and easy project to be a knitting success. I had a skein of Malabrigo Merino Worsted on hand and found a free pattern for a very easy hat. Cast on, start knitting round and round and round, increase a little, knit some more, decrease and done. Yay!
Neither the style of the hat nor the colorway of the yarn suit me, so I will give the hat to charity. Whether I like it or not is really irrelevant; the important point is that I completed a project and I did a good job of knitting it.
But the straw that broke this knitter's back was a hat that I had to frog two weeks ago. It is a beautiful slouchy hat with an outrageous single cable and I chose to knit it from a deep purple yarn that has been in my stash for years. Gorgeous pattern, gorgeous yarn. I was almost done with the hat - on the decrease rounds for the crown - when I noticed a glaringly obvious error that I had made about an inch prior. (Well, not glaringly obvious when I made it but certainly many rows later.) This was in addition to two other obvious errors that I had made in other places on the hat but had decided I could accept. I could not, however, accept three obvious errors; I knew that I would always see those mistakes and never wear the hat. And so I frogged it, and put the yarn and pattern into timeout.
I decided that I needed a quick and easy project to be a knitting success. I had a skein of Malabrigo Merino Worsted on hand and found a free pattern for a very easy hat. Cast on, start knitting round and round and round, increase a little, knit some more, decrease and done. Yay!
Neither the style of the hat nor the colorway of the yarn suit me, so I will give the hat to charity. Whether I like it or not is really irrelevant; the important point is that I completed a project and I did a good job of knitting it.
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