2008-08-23

arguchik: (pretty girl)
2008-08-23 02:14 pm
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Forgot to do this yesterday so here it is today (Saturday):

READING: Adrienne Rich's On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. A wonderful collection of essays by one of my favorite second-wave feminists.

WEARING: Black capri pants. White tee with black big floral design on it. My usual silver necklace (the one with a little dog on the pendant) and ring. My usual white gold piercing jewelry. Brown Simple sandals. Blue toenail polish.

PLANNING: Going to a pre-wedding party in Tacoma this evening--we're leaving shortly. Later on, after the party, we'll be going to Olympia to hang with [livejournal.com profile] drjohn and his chica (whose LJ name I still need to learn). We're staying down there overnight and training it back up to Seattle on Sunday, not sure what time.

KNITTING: I started a sleeve for my rendition of the Strawberry Lace Cardigan from Veronik Avery's Knitting Classic Style on Tuesday, while waiting for my flight to board at Midway Airport in Chicago. I'm using some deep brownish red--one might even call it "raisin"--Cascade 220 Superwash that is truly lovely to knit. Like I like it really a lot. I finished the first sleeve on Thursday and started the back yesterday. I have about 6 inches of that done so far. I'm basically following the pattern, except I knitted the hem closed rather than waiting to whip stitch it closed after finishing the rest of the sweater. I just like hems better that way. I'm also knitting at a tighter gauge, though I expect the fabric to relax some after washing just because it's superwash wool. (The superwash treatment renders yarn unfeltable and more pill resistant than regular wool, but that also means it's more slippery and doesn't have the "memory" of untreated wool.) Oh, I plan to do the belt differently, and also to add waist shaping. It's weird that the pattern doesn't give instructions for waist shaping, actually, because the sweater modeled in the photographs clearly was made with waist shaping. You can see the lace pattern slowly get "eaten up" between the hip and the waist. It's a belted, wrap cardigan that falls about to the hip, so it doesn't technically need waist shaping, but I'd prefer to have less bulk under the belt, personally. The problem with adding it is that...this sweater is knit in pieces and then seamed together, so it's harder to make sure the waist shaping falls in the right place. Harder...but not impossible.

So that's my day. How's yours?