Monthly Archives: August 2004

finished objects

Welcome to my most image-heavy entry ever!

To begin with, here is the finished Haiti!

haiti's hem haiti's neck

Here is a full length picture if you are interested.

I’m glad that this one is finally finished. Mom pulled out the edging several times (and changed hook sizes several times) before she was happy with it. I am very happy with it – Haiti is a perfectly delicious tank.

And here is the finished Mercury:

finished bag, buttoned up showing its pocket

Princess Arjumand is right inside, with room left over for the power source and the camera cable. I may never felt another thing again. My poor bag looks like it’s made out of a muppet.

Last but not least, I’ve been trying to finish up Sitcom Chic. I spent the afternoon pinning, basting and sewing the ribbons onto the front edges. And look at the lovely disaster I made.

The fronts don't match up!

Three guesses what my Genius Self did wrong.

I managed to get one side of the front attached to a MUCH shorter ribbon. That takes Skills, people. It gathered just beautifully. I’ll get out the seam ripper and try again tomorrow. Incidentally, that was the only shot I got of my disaster. I was going to take another but something got in my way.

Off to fix supper, work on That Sock, and watch the Olympics.

Presidentail visit

The President drove right by the house on Tuesday! We all ran out to the street to watch the motorcade go down highway 98. He was standing down in little stairwell thing of his bus waving right to us (we could see this because we were on the bus door side of the road). I have literally never seen Great Gran so excited.

why does it always take so long?

I’ve had the following picture taken for a week and a half.

Sitcom on the bed

Here’s a close up of the neck.

Michael made a little program to get my pictures out of the camera, onto Princess Arjumand (my laptop), into the editor and then delete them from the camera. While he was gone, the program decided to save itself some trouble and just delete the pictures. Bah. I had to wait until M came back to get it fixed. In the meantime: I finished the knitting on Sitcom, finished the book I was reading while knitting on Sticom, felted Mercury, put Mercury together and started over on Hammie’s graduation sock. After a field trip to JoAnn (Oooh, look! Free shipping!) for some buttons, I should be able to show you some finished products.

But for now, I need to go and feed the masses – they are demanding lunch. Grilled Cheese and french fries for everyone! Except Great Gran, who has opted for leftover Chicken Pot Pie.

PS We have had ZERO bad weather from TS Bonnie, who was originally headed straight for Okaloosa county (that’s us), and Charlie doesn’t look like he’ll be a problem for us either. It did rain solidly all day Tuesday from one in the morning to the following evening. But that was from an ordinary storm system. Nothing special.

fekty finished

After an entire day of knitting and reading, I have finished all of Mercury’s parts.

neatly folded bag pieces

In case you’re interested, here is the strap streatched out looong.

Today I am going to throw it all in the washing machine and see what happens. Hope for the best!

In the meantime, I have picked up Sitcom Chic. I had set it aside (gasp!) at the start of the summer because it was just too hot to think about something with sleeves and I was having problems with “ladders” where the DPNs met. I am almost finished with the first sleeve, and there doesn’t seem to be any unhappiness at the joins like before. Maybe it’s the humidity.