oh MAN!

you just have to go over to carole’s blog and see where hypoteneuse has gotten to now!
hahaha—i love it!

it is really hard to describe the feeling of seeing one’s work wrought from another’s hands. it’s . . . well, it’s really exciting. i get butterflies in my stomach every time, but good ones. it’s almost better than christmas.

thank you for all the assurances me that i am not weird—i think some weirdness is a very good thing. but it was interesting that so many people enjoyed a little look into my trains of thought.

so, about that pattern—ha! well working things out completely beforehand is nice, because now i have a pattern of my own NOT to follow, and i don’t have to experience that slightly guilty feeling i get when i tweak other people’s patterns.

i was about one row in when, with stunning clarity, i realized i could have done it another way, which would have made the stitch pattern a little nicer. r-i-i-i-p.

so i organized the stitches a little differently and then commenced. basically though, it IS really nice to have the numbers all worked out somehwere besides inside my head, where there is a much higher liklihood of them getting jumbled. and it does make for greater speed—this is how much i go done at the shop yesterday during classes

the skirt is complete up to the decreases, and now it will go even faster. i worked through three balls of yarn. i am totally in LOVE with the colorway, which is not quite accurate in this photo. so far, so good, and i am excited.

but i didn’t do any other knitting except to work on the obstacles shawl some more. i am SO close to being done with that, too—and not just mentally . . .

in other news, my iPod died.
now, i am not an iPod addict—i don’t really even use it much except if i am biking on the trainer. when i spin (fiber, that is) i hook it up to my stereo so i can listen to podcasts, but i am so far behind on those . . . i haven’t even listened to cast-on’s LAST season yet.

anyway, david thought it would be a good thing to update my iPod a few weeks back with a new battery. but the surgery didn’t go so well—it still wasn’t holding a charge, AND it would not turn off (maybe the two were connected, eh??). it has had three years of good hard use (he’s a REAL iPod addict).

so today we got me a new one. i dunno how i feel about geting new a gizmo—i always kinda liked getting the ones david grew out of, and i felt good about recycling electronics. on the the other hand, this one is fascinatingly small—thinner than most chocolate bars. so small that i would be afraid of losing it and not realizing i did, until it was long gone.

that is, if i ever took it out of the house. as you can see, it will not be able to wear the hand-me-downs of its predecessor. but a new orange sleeve is expected in the mail any day now, this one with an armband even, so i can wear it while using the bike.

now that’s progress.