Last night, I talked with someone other than DH on the radio. It was with a gentleman DH chats with frequently. DH was already home and I was traveling home late after shopping. We chatted about family and upcoming radio Christmas parties. Then last night, I check into the SkyWarn net.
DH and I both have roof mount antennas on our main vehicles now. DH’s is taller than his car. We’ve been joking that if he goes around a corner too fast it will turn him over. Mine is the other extreme. I have a small basic antenna on my big old truck.
There is a Foxhunt tomorrow at a local fort. It is going to be done all on foot. I’d really like to go but our monthly IDPA match is tomorrow. Also, the forecast is rain. We may hole up like hermits. Anyway, the foxhunt sounds fun and they have it planned as a family affair with food and demonstrations. I hate to miss it. We couldn’t hunt as we do not have the appropriate equipment yet but I’m sure we’d meet a lot of great people and learn alot about what we need to hunt.
Why is it that the hobbies that are the most fun are so expensive? Well, guns used to be cheap to shoot but they’re not now and HAM is getting expensive. At least from what I know right now, HAM does not have to continue to be expensive after the initial outlay. It doesn’t have the consumables shooting does. Knitting is a lot like shooting. Yarn you really want to knit with is expensive and you keep needing more of it.
This entry was posted on Friday, November 20th, 2009 and is filed under Guns, HAM, Knitting.
Author: EmmaPeel / Comments: (1)
I started a sweater. I got about 40 rows into it and have frogged it. It’s been so long since I’ve knitted and I’ve been fairly distracted while knitting (due to the insane pace at work lately) that I had dropped stitches, moved markers and, it turns out, the neck hole was too small. So, I’m looking for another pattern. This was from a pattern generator based on my measurements and knitting gauge. Apparently my head is too big for my chest and gauge. Somewhere I have a pattern I love but it is not loose enough to wear over a gun.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 and is filed under Knitting.
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The cooler air and scent of fall in the air has gotten my desire to knit peaked. I have a sweater ready to do. I also have all the makings for socks. Which do do first? I’m thinking that I should start on the socks. I have not knitted in two years (or more) and this would get me going again. But, I have never knitted socks. I have done a few sweaters and really want this one. Plus, the way the summer’s been, I may be needing the sweater in no time.
I’m a laxy knitter. I hate seaming. I love knitting in the round. All of my last few projects have been done in the round, even a scarf. I also love lace knitting. I love featherweight mohair. But I love a nice soft worsted weight wool also. I mostly knit with wool. I do not like the feel of acrylic on my needles. Cotton can be tricky to knit with since it has little stretch to it. I prefer bamboo needles but most often I use metal needles. Their size assortment is greater. I love felting items too. (Boiling wool to shrink it and make it thicker.) One of my favorite projects was a wine cooler for my mother. I knit it from beautiful handspun wool and felted it. I then trimmed it with dark green DMC floss as an accent. I was quite pleased with out it turned out. I had no pattern to follow. I just winged it.
That is my concern with socks. I must learn two socks on two circs as I just wing things so much, if I don’t do both at once, I won’t remember what I did to the first one to do it to the second one. I need to temper my desire to wing it because I have two sweaters that I don’t like. They started beautiful following a well-prescribed published pattern. Then I got off course. I should attempt both again and stick to the pattern. But, you know, I don’t think either one will cover a gun. Hmm.
Oh, I stumbled upon a sock pattern at knitty.com called target practice. There are beautiful bullseyes on the front ankle and heel of the socks. They have been put on my to-do list.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 and is filed under Knitting.
Author: EmmaPeel / Comments: (5)