Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Craftbotch continues ...

The right sleeve on my Liesl cardigan has gone all wonky. I'm not sure how this is possible, because I have the right number of stitches and after making the body I'm pretty sure I know know to do a simple 12-stitch fan and feather lace pattern. And yet, whenever I do a lace row, it doesn't align with the previous row. HOW CAN THIS BE?

I'm so close to being done that this setback is maddening.

So I am coping with craft-failure by knitting a rectangle. An effortless waffle-stitch rectangle in Misson Falls Cotton, in a colour that I think of as candy-blue. I'll throw some buttons on it later and make it a cowl. Secretly, I think it's going to be awesome but I almost don't want to type that in case it isn't.

The knitting failure is making me more crazy than usual because some exciting-yet-stressful things have been happening lately. I've received a number of job offers. Plus, I'm interviewing for another desirable position in a a few weeks. Having to decide between positions--all of which have strong and weak points--kind of makes me want to hide under the bed.

Awesome things:
  • getting job offers
  • the prospect of making money for the first time in my life
  • the This American Life t-shirt my sister sent me for my birthday
  • new rice maker that is also a crock pot!
  • watching Six Feet Under for the first time only to find that Rainn Wilson plays a really great minor part in season three
  • the fact that Rainn Wilson's wife's name is Holiday Reinhorn
  • getting a job, because then I won't continue to become a recluse who secretly considers the Fisher family my personal friends

Frustrating things:
  • deciding between job offers
  • making adult decisions like an actual adult
  • buying pants that are not jeans (for wearing to new jobs)
  • my Liesl cardigan
  • my granny's slippers
  • the new Lily Allen album (the music is weirdly over-novel and the lyrics read like Lily wrote them all in one night while half-watching TV)
  • the new Joss Whedon series (even though I'll keep watching 'till its canceled)

1 comment:

  1. Any further developments on the job offer front? We're excited for you!
    How did those slippers turn out?

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