Challenge Accepted-- well, a little
So, I'll be honest.I gave up with the GIANT CHRISTMAS KNITTING QUEUE about six years ago.
The people I love get knitwear when they ask for it, I'm always working on something and I'll give it to them when I'm done.
But as this Christmas approached I had... urges. Unholy, unhealthy, inescapable urges.
I wanted to KNIT for people.
People I hadn't knit for before. Or hadn't knit for in a long time. Or just... people. *gestures vaguely* I'll be honest--it might have been ZoomBoy asking me to knit the Infinity Mitten for him, but I have a BIG cache of patterns so it might have been building for a while.
Anyway--
This pattern-- Incognito, found on Knitty-- is one of those things I wanted to knit for a friend. This one's for a specific friend, but if I can overcome my aversion to duplicate stitch and sewing (and there's a LOT of it in this pattern!) I may make a couple of them for other friends.
I don't know what to tell you. The mustache... OMG the mustache.
Anyway... Blogging may possibly become a little spottier as this urge continues... but I promise to post pictures.
BTW? This mustache is called "Snidely"-- there are two other types on the pattern-- Buckaroo and Poirot.
I gotta tell you, knitting as a warm, squishy, hilarious joke is one of my favorite things :-)
Also? Squish told me she wants one with an entire cartoon face on it. I told her she had to create the graph. I think she's thinking about it.
So there you go.
The evil urges of knitting for Christmas.
May Goddess save my soul-- preferably before 4 a.m. Christmas morning as I'm trying to crochet a doll and a complete set of clothes for it before the kids get up for Christmas.
Yes, I've done that before.
No, I don't still have the dolls.
But I must tell you-- Big T's doll looked so much like him as a kid, I put one of his old onesies on it. He loved it. It was adorable.
*sigh*
Yeah. I'mma need a wake up call. Hopefully when I'm done with the rest of these Incognito cowls...
Scuse me--I'm running away to knit.
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Nov 30, 2018 06:04PM
ah, the knitting que, much similar to the common to-read que, wherein it shall never be truly finished because there is always something to be added to it
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Jacqueline wrote: "ah, the knitting que, much similar to the common to-read que, wherein it shall never be truly finished because there is always something to be added to it"One of the saddest things I ever wrote (and GOD it was from a self-insert character--the books were supposed to be legacies to my children) was at the end of the Triane's Son books. Bethen (Amy) knows she's dying, so when her niece goes to a dangerous situation to fetch Yarri's lover, she gives her a bag of her favorite sock yarn as a sort of calendar. Yarri knits about a pair a week-- so Bethen gives her 30 of her favorite, most precious skeins of sock-weight yarn, and knows that Yarri will get through it in time to come home in the spring. "But Bethen, these are your favorites." "But baby, I'm going to be finishing my queue--I won't have time to get to these."
In the end, she doesn't finish her queue-- her youngest child picks up the final things on it and starts to work on them, as a way to honor her mother.
....I haven’t finished that series yet... I’m gonna cry a lot huh?
Jacqueline wrote: "....I haven’t finished that series yet... I’m gonna cry a lot huh?"Existing technology has not yet measured how much...
Amy wrote: "Jacqueline wrote: "....I haven’t finished that series yet... I’m gonna cry a lot huh?"Existing technology has not yet measured how much..."
I'm scared.
Jacqueline wrote: "Amy wrote: "Jacqueline wrote: "....I haven’t finished that series yet... I’m gonna cry a lot huh?"Existing technology has not yet measured how much..."
I'm scared."
*pets* Good news is, Torrant, Yarri, and Aylan are alive and well many years later <3
