Good (Knitting) News and Bad News
Well, at last some good news!!!! My dad gave me his digital camera! Yippeeeee!!!!! Now I can take pictures of my stuff and my knitting machine and post them online! Yaaaaayyyy!!! One catch, though: He gave me the camera and that is it, so I have been looking online for a charger and a reader so I can download the pictures from the camera into my computer. Look for pictures within the week!!!!!!
The bad news is this: I finally found the time and the energy to knit and even brought Sonja's (fusionknitting.com) directions for how to hem my brown suit home, but I can't find my brown suit!!!!!!! I've looked everywhere....I think the cleaning lady put it away somewhere....I just have to keep looking....
The other bad news is that I jammed my bulky machine, which is my main machine right now. I don't know how I did it, but the carriage is stuck on the main bed. I had just finished oiling down the main bed and the carriage and for some reason it got stuck. I'll wait a few days and maybe it will get unstuck. At least, that's what happened the last time my carriage got stuck on the machine.
I went to my favorite yarn lady yesterday and yes, I bought another huge lot of yarn. I am really getting out of control with this yarn obsession. I do not even want to think about how much my purchases cost me. The only good thing about my purchases yesterday was that I got a lot of great felting yarn (24 cones--like I have ever felted before, other than the little phone sock I made in March). Lots of variegated wool and matching mohair yarn. I guess felted bags are what everyone is getting for Christmas this year! She also gave me a great price on about 15 cones of mixed types of yarn. I got 3 cones of blue venetian with metallic blue thread running through it (good for my shawls), and a couple of cones of germaine yarn, which I also run with the expensive novelty yarn I buy from her. Those yarns I call the "birthday gift" yarns. My friends and co-workers all like the stuff I knit to sell, but they are way too expensive (for me, anyway) to just give away. I need nice yarn at reasonable, clearance sale prices. The felting yarn and the mixed lot of yarn were great deals and are nice enough to either sell, or more likely, give as knitted birthday/holiday gifts.
BUT I also bought some expensive yarn which I am looking at right now. Really pretty hand-dyed rayon boucle with a matching slinky variegated yarn in Monet-like water colors. The Japanese yarn in wonderful colors that cost and arm and a leg per ball (and it takes 4 balls to make a shawl). But I think that I could sell the shawls for close to $200, enough to make my money back and give me a tidy profit. My friend also told me I need to start putting fringe on my shawls to give my shawls a nicer look and a nicer feel. I hate fringing. But I guess I can do it if that's what it takes to set my work apart and get me the prices that I want.
I have so much yarn, it is not funny. I think I will donate most of the acrylics that I bought when I first started machine knitting to the ladies who knit for hospitals and preemies and for our soldiers.
My new preoccupation: my diet. At least, I am going to make it my new preoccupation. Since I hurt my ankle last fall and broke my arm in January and hurt my knee a couple of months ago, I have not been able to work out at the gym. I am very upset that I am beginning to look more and more disgusting. My stomach has gotten bigger, not just the lower abs, but also the part right under my boobs, where the diaphragm is. It is disgusting. My hips have gotten bigger, and so has my waist. And let's not even talk about my boobs. My face has gotten rounder. My thighs touch when walk. I CAN'T STAND IT!!!!! I am going to go on a diet. My physical therapists say I can't do the treadmill or the elliptical or swim. But they said I can bike and walk in the pool. Oh great. I tried to walk on the treadmill this morning, but my knee started hurting after 3 minutes. So I moved to the bike for 30 unsatisfactory minutes.
When I got home, I rummaged through my bookcases for my diet books and I've decided to do a modified Lindora/South Beach/Weight Watchers diet. I will start on Lindora for 1 week, then move on to the South Beach Diet, all the while keeping track of my Weight Watchers points on my palm. Sound complicated? It might be, but I will give it a try. I have got nothing left to lose....except my fat tummy and big butt and huge arms.
And all because I have no willpower. One drawback to my great job is that I eat a (usually nice) catered lunch every day at the hospitals and then at night I go out to eat at my favorite restaurants. That's the great thing about having my kids away at college; I can do whatever I want and eat whatever and whenever and wherever i want. I don't have to cook or set a good example for them. But boy oh boy am I paying for it!!!!!!!
The bad news is this: I finally found the time and the energy to knit and even brought Sonja's (fusionknitting.com) directions for how to hem my brown suit home, but I can't find my brown suit!!!!!!! I've looked everywhere....I think the cleaning lady put it away somewhere....I just have to keep looking....
The other bad news is that I jammed my bulky machine, which is my main machine right now. I don't know how I did it, but the carriage is stuck on the main bed. I had just finished oiling down the main bed and the carriage and for some reason it got stuck. I'll wait a few days and maybe it will get unstuck. At least, that's what happened the last time my carriage got stuck on the machine.
I went to my favorite yarn lady yesterday and yes, I bought another huge lot of yarn. I am really getting out of control with this yarn obsession. I do not even want to think about how much my purchases cost me. The only good thing about my purchases yesterday was that I got a lot of great felting yarn (24 cones--like I have ever felted before, other than the little phone sock I made in March). Lots of variegated wool and matching mohair yarn. I guess felted bags are what everyone is getting for Christmas this year! She also gave me a great price on about 15 cones of mixed types of yarn. I got 3 cones of blue venetian with metallic blue thread running through it (good for my shawls), and a couple of cones of germaine yarn, which I also run with the expensive novelty yarn I buy from her. Those yarns I call the "birthday gift" yarns. My friends and co-workers all like the stuff I knit to sell, but they are way too expensive (for me, anyway) to just give away. I need nice yarn at reasonable, clearance sale prices. The felting yarn and the mixed lot of yarn were great deals and are nice enough to either sell, or more likely, give as knitted birthday/holiday gifts.
BUT I also bought some expensive yarn which I am looking at right now. Really pretty hand-dyed rayon boucle with a matching slinky variegated yarn in Monet-like water colors. The Japanese yarn in wonderful colors that cost and arm and a leg per ball (and it takes 4 balls to make a shawl). But I think that I could sell the shawls for close to $200, enough to make my money back and give me a tidy profit. My friend also told me I need to start putting fringe on my shawls to give my shawls a nicer look and a nicer feel. I hate fringing. But I guess I can do it if that's what it takes to set my work apart and get me the prices that I want.
I have so much yarn, it is not funny. I think I will donate most of the acrylics that I bought when I first started machine knitting to the ladies who knit for hospitals and preemies and for our soldiers.
My new preoccupation: my diet. At least, I am going to make it my new preoccupation. Since I hurt my ankle last fall and broke my arm in January and hurt my knee a couple of months ago, I have not been able to work out at the gym. I am very upset that I am beginning to look more and more disgusting. My stomach has gotten bigger, not just the lower abs, but also the part right under my boobs, where the diaphragm is. It is disgusting. My hips have gotten bigger, and so has my waist. And let's not even talk about my boobs. My face has gotten rounder. My thighs touch when walk. I CAN'T STAND IT!!!!! I am going to go on a diet. My physical therapists say I can't do the treadmill or the elliptical or swim. But they said I can bike and walk in the pool. Oh great. I tried to walk on the treadmill this morning, but my knee started hurting after 3 minutes. So I moved to the bike for 30 unsatisfactory minutes.
When I got home, I rummaged through my bookcases for my diet books and I've decided to do a modified Lindora/South Beach/Weight Watchers diet. I will start on Lindora for 1 week, then move on to the South Beach Diet, all the while keeping track of my Weight Watchers points on my palm. Sound complicated? It might be, but I will give it a try. I have got nothing left to lose....except my fat tummy and big butt and huge arms.
And all because I have no willpower. One drawback to my great job is that I eat a (usually nice) catered lunch every day at the hospitals and then at night I go out to eat at my favorite restaurants. That's the great thing about having my kids away at college; I can do whatever I want and eat whatever and whenever and wherever i want. I don't have to cook or set a good example for them. But boy oh boy am I paying for it!!!!!!!
posted by knutty4knitting @ 1:12 PM
1 Comments:
At 2:19 PM,
knutty4knitting said…
Hi Sonja--I figured it out: I just stuck one of the transfer tools and pushed a needle out of the way and voila! the carriage came unstuck from the main bed. As I predicted, it took about 2 days for me to figure it out. My Studio bulky--while it is my favorite machine--is also my most temperamental. I love it, but would like to buy a Brother 270 for ease of use and familiarity and also because I would like to create patterns on my shawls/ponchos. But that may have to wait for another income tax refund!
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