I have started my Christmas knitting! I have a list and I'm trying to work through it. One of the presents I'm going to take a stab at designing. We'll see how that goes and I'll post the results. I don't want to jinx it :) I've finished one Calorimetry and may make another one. I had to decrease the number of cast on stitches but it took up almost an entire ball of Mission Falls yarn that I picked up at the tent sale. I also have one slipper of a pair finished but I'm kind of bored with it so I'm not sure when I'll start the next one. I'm now using the needle size to make the TTL mystery sock 2010.
Not mentioning names but I had a weird encounter at a LYS recently. First let me say that it is a HUGE store. I had limited time because I got there half hour before closing and looking for specific yarns myself would have taken forever! An employee asked if they could help me, so I asked if they had Madelinetosh. She said no. I asked if they had any Spud and Chloe and she said "No, we don't carry any of those American yarns." She sounded extremely annoyed and you'd think American yarns were a bad thing from her tone. I honestly can't believe there couldn't be any American yarns in the store. Maybe she's sick of being asked about those particular yarns? Being annoyed by those yarns seems kinda weird considering among their many many nice yarns they also have quite the collection of fun fur and eyelash yarns. Plus it was just a question. No need for rudeness. The rest of the employees were very nice so I won't hold it against the store...this time :P
And now for another exciting installment of Those Aren't Pants! I was standing in line for the bus and saw these. I had to take a picture, they're the worst ones I've seen so far. I swear I've seen bras that match these. She wasn't wearing anything over top, just wearing them like pants.
I know my comment comes months late, but I had to let you know I let out an embarrassingly loud laugh when I saw that pic and read the commentary. Whoo boy, I think we need to set up a "You Can't Wear That!" class, wherein we do the good cop/bad cop thing. One of us tries to educate the fasionably wayward souls, and the other takes the fun job of shaming them into submission :)
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