Stuff. And, uh, Stuff.
I sat down to read a few blogs and try to think up something to say in my own blog tonight. I still don't have a whole lot, but I do have a few random thoughts.
A couple of you wanted to know what bike I bought. It's a Specialized brand. It's this one, in the navy colorway. I'll let you know how I like it more after I've actually ridden it for more than ten minutes at a time. I think we're going to try to go for a bike ride this weekend.
Tonight was the end-of-year picnic for Julie's preschool. It was fun for the kids, and all, but my denial of the fact that this *is* the last week of school for her till September is now shattered. I mean, we love school. We need school. What are we going to do without school for three months? I don't want to think about it.
I've been thinking about what socks to knit for my Sockapalooza pal. She hasn't given me much guidance on what she wants - her only restriction was no pastels. She likes fingering weight wool/nylon, which makes me happy because that's what I like to knit and I have a lot of it. The possibilities are endless! I think I have an idea, but I'm not 100% sure. The only thing I am sure of is that I'm not going to knit those ubiquitous monkey socks. Forgive me for what I'm about to say, but although the socks look great on the Knitty article pictures, all the others I've seen in blog-land look like ass. Maybe it's because they're not properly blocked or something, I don't know. But I do know that I have no desire to knit them right now. Sorry for being so mean. I do love Cookie's designs in general, and I'm even planning to teach that class on her lace socks this late summer. The monkeys just aren't doing it for me.
Speaking of that class, someone posted a comment a while back saying they are signed up to take the class and asked a couple of questions about it. I can't remember now whether I ever answered those questions, and I feel really badly for not having responded right away - sometimes e-mails get buried in the in-box and then I loose track of them. If I recall correctly, they were questions about sizing on the Baudelaire and whether the instep was too tight. To be honest, the pair that I knit up didn't have a tight instep, but the ankle was a little problematic. I had to do some adjustments to the pattern, and they fit my foot fine now, but getting them on over the heel is still a bit of a struggle. I have fairly skinny feet and heels, so I think most people might have this problem. That said, it's easily fixed by adjusting for it as you knit. As long as you have a good idea of the wearer's build, it shouldn't be a problem.
Also speaking of my classes at the Yarnery...it's a little weird when I show up to teach a first class these days because I always wonder if any of my students have been reading here, but I don't like to mention the blog in class because I don't want to offend anyone. As in, I try to be fairly non-political and unopinionated as far as non-knitting topics go while I'm teaching a class, and if I go and tell everyone "Hey, go check out my blog!" on the first night of class then some devoutly religious person might show up here, see my blog title, and decide they don't want to be in my class any more. Even though, if you've read here for a while, you know that the title is not meant to be offensive to religious people, it's just owning what I am. But hopefully you get the idea.
The whole issue of blog persona meets real-life Shelly persona continues to boggle me. We're the same person, but if you show up and meet me at an event or something, I may not be as witty and charming and generally focused as I appear in print. One reason for that is if my children are with me, I'm busy trying to keep them from putting stickers on everything they see and/or eating all the crackers and snacks we brought in the bag within the first five minutes of our outing.
What a ramble. I'm off to vegetate and commune with the blankie for a while.
A couple of you wanted to know what bike I bought. It's a Specialized brand. It's this one, in the navy colorway. I'll let you know how I like it more after I've actually ridden it for more than ten minutes at a time. I think we're going to try to go for a bike ride this weekend.
Tonight was the end-of-year picnic for Julie's preschool. It was fun for the kids, and all, but my denial of the fact that this *is* the last week of school for her till September is now shattered. I mean, we love school. We need school. What are we going to do without school for three months? I don't want to think about it.
I've been thinking about what socks to knit for my Sockapalooza pal. She hasn't given me much guidance on what she wants - her only restriction was no pastels. She likes fingering weight wool/nylon, which makes me happy because that's what I like to knit and I have a lot of it. The possibilities are endless! I think I have an idea, but I'm not 100% sure. The only thing I am sure of is that I'm not going to knit those ubiquitous monkey socks. Forgive me for what I'm about to say, but although the socks look great on the Knitty article pictures, all the others I've seen in blog-land look like ass. Maybe it's because they're not properly blocked or something, I don't know. But I do know that I have no desire to knit them right now. Sorry for being so mean. I do love Cookie's designs in general, and I'm even planning to teach that class on her lace socks this late summer. The monkeys just aren't doing it for me.
Speaking of that class, someone posted a comment a while back saying they are signed up to take the class and asked a couple of questions about it. I can't remember now whether I ever answered those questions, and I feel really badly for not having responded right away - sometimes e-mails get buried in the in-box and then I loose track of them. If I recall correctly, they were questions about sizing on the Baudelaire and whether the instep was too tight. To be honest, the pair that I knit up didn't have a tight instep, but the ankle was a little problematic. I had to do some adjustments to the pattern, and they fit my foot fine now, but getting them on over the heel is still a bit of a struggle. I have fairly skinny feet and heels, so I think most people might have this problem. That said, it's easily fixed by adjusting for it as you knit. As long as you have a good idea of the wearer's build, it shouldn't be a problem.
Also speaking of my classes at the Yarnery...it's a little weird when I show up to teach a first class these days because I always wonder if any of my students have been reading here, but I don't like to mention the blog in class because I don't want to offend anyone. As in, I try to be fairly non-political and unopinionated as far as non-knitting topics go while I'm teaching a class, and if I go and tell everyone "Hey, go check out my blog!" on the first night of class then some devoutly religious person might show up here, see my blog title, and decide they don't want to be in my class any more. Even though, if you've read here for a while, you know that the title is not meant to be offensive to religious people, it's just owning what I am. But hopefully you get the idea.
The whole issue of blog persona meets real-life Shelly persona continues to boggle me. We're the same person, but if you show up and meet me at an event or something, I may not be as witty and charming and generally focused as I appear in print. One reason for that is if my children are with me, I'm busy trying to keep them from putting stickers on everything they see and/or eating all the crackers and snacks we brought in the bag within the first five minutes of our outing.
What a ramble. I'm off to vegetate and commune with the blankie for a while.
posted by Shelly Kang at 9:17 PM
3 Comments:
Funny, I am just the opposite on the Monkey socks. I think the pictures in the article don't look so hot, but others I've seen aroung bloglane look great. One of these days, I'm going to have to knit them.
Congrats on the new bike. My 1999 Specialized is still doing yeoman service from the end of the snow in March (usually) to early December. I love it!
Lisa in Toronto
...speaking of summer activities for kids....I feel your pain on the preschool being over for the summer thing. Since you are in SLP and close to Knollwood, how about a swim class at Foss? (They run 2 week "camps" all summer long). (Sorry to be anonymous, I'm a blogless long-time reader...and the mother of a 4 year old who loves his swimming lessons.)
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