Typead has upgraded the post-editing features and although everything looks promising for the future, at the moment it is driving me crazy. I couldn't get links in yesterday. I haven't mastered getting the pictures the way I want them, and I just don't have the patience right now.
Here's a rather blurry photo of me wearing the binario tee that I finished a few weeks ago. It is part of a set designed by L'Atelier in Redondo Beach CA, called Compare and Contrast. I call the tee Compare. As you can see, I am wearing it over a turtleneck rather than a camisole -- although I am generally loving the extended spring we are having, I admit that I would like it even more if it were cool and sunny so that I could bring out a few more spring and summer clothes.
The knitted fabric of this tee is very fragile and easily snagged. As I have been working around the house today, I have folded the ends of my turtleneck sleeves over the end of the binario tee, to help prevent future snags.
We still (at 4 PM) don't have water. We were told that we were the third in line when I spoke to the pump person this morning. He really was not convinced he would get here today but he did call me when he went to the second house on the list at about 12:30 to tell me that if he didn't make it, we would be the first on the list for tomorrow -- so it looks like another night in the hotel. Luckily we reserved a room this morning "just in case" as it is a busy holiday weekend with an antiques fair and two college graduations.
[ updated to add that the pump repair person will be here at 8 AM tomorrow ]
I did use a little bit of water to wet the pieces of the contrasting vest (Contrast) which is supposed to go with this tee. After the soak, I heated the water, which had turned pink, to wash up a few lunch dishes. It has been a long time since I have washed with hot water from the stove, and I keep forgetting and reaching for the tap. We are able to get water from one of our neighbors, but it is a long haul up an down the driveway with full two gallon water buckets.
Here is "contrast" on the blocking board:
I have started a new project: I was just too tired and too distracted to do any complicated color work, or to try and figure out where I was in some previous project, or to match yarn to pattern, so I just grabbed some old Missoni yarn and am making a sweater in the round without a pattern. In fact I am working with out a gauge swatch either, as I started it in the hotel last night and didn't want to wait. I'll just keep my fingers crossed until I get a little further along and see how I am doing (I have less than an inch so far)
The yarns are Missoni Shanghai, Missoni Caprera, (cream), Gedifra Crocheta (light olive green) and GGH Monsun (dark green).
At any rate, although the water issue is a bit of a pain, I am happy to have power and internet service, as well as a phone. Most of my neighborhood is still without phone service -- there are only two of us who switched our phone and internet service to the local cable company last year. That came back up within a few hours; the phone company is telling my other neighbors that they will have phone service by tomorrow sometime. Luckily I also have cell-phone service as the town of Red Hook put a tower in near the Hudson a year or two ago and my house, being close to the river, picks up it's signal. The people on beyond the ridge behind my house don't pick up that very well either and my town is embroiled in a discussions about when and where to put a cell tower.
The knitted fabric of this tee is very fragile and easily snagged. As I have been working around the house today, I have folded the ends of my turtleneck sleeves over the end of the binario tee, to help prevent future snags.
We still (at 4 PM) don't have water. We were told that we were the third in line when I spoke to the pump person this morning. He really was not convinced he would get here today but he did call me when he went to the second house on the list at about 12:30 to tell me that if he didn't make it, we would be the first on the list for tomorrow -- so it looks like another night in the hotel. Luckily we reserved a room this morning "just in case" as it is a busy holiday weekend with an antiques fair and two college graduations.
[ updated to add that the pump repair person will be here at 8 AM tomorrow ]
I did use a little bit of water to wet the pieces of the contrasting vest (Contrast) which is supposed to go with this tee. After the soak, I heated the water, which had turned pink, to wash up a few lunch dishes. It has been a long time since I have washed with hot water from the stove, and I keep forgetting and reaching for the tap. We are able to get water from one of our neighbors, but it is a long haul up an down the driveway with full two gallon water buckets.
I have started a new project: I was just too tired and too distracted to do any complicated color work, or to try and figure out where I was in some previous project, or to match yarn to pattern, so I just grabbed some old Missoni yarn and am making a sweater in the round without a pattern. In fact I am working with out a gauge swatch either, as I started it in the hotel last night and didn't want to wait. I'll just keep my fingers crossed until I get a little further along and see how I am doing (I have less than an inch so far)
At any rate, although the water issue is a bit of a pain, I am happy to have power and internet service, as well as a phone. Most of my neighborhood is still without phone service -- there are only two of us who switched our phone and internet service to the local cable company last year. That came back up within a few hours; the phone company is telling my other neighbors that they will have phone service by tomorrow sometime. Luckily I also have cell-phone service as the town of Red Hook put a tower in near the Hudson a year or two ago and my house, being close to the river, picks up it's signal. The people on beyond the ridge behind my house don't pick up that very well either and my town is embroiled in a discussions about when and where to put a cell tower.
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