Well, that whole momentum thing didn't really work out as planned. For that matter, neither did getting this project properly underway. So much for my fuzzy valentine! Knitting christmas presents and a busy holiday gave me a bad case of cheese-monger's elbow. Which is a real affliction related to tennis elbow that can strike those of us that spend our work days dragging what amounts to a guitar string on a handle through hunks of cheese. So I took a few weeks off and just read about knitting instead.
But now I'm ready to get back in action! What's really digging the spurs into my donkey is getting the sweaters cut into strips. After wearing the sharpness off 2 pairs of scissors on the hard to cut sweaters, I rigged up a temporary solution by clamping a razor blade to the back of a low chair (sounds dangerous, eh? It sort of looks like a torture device too). I'm not positive its really a solution because it's much harder to get an even width on the strips. The sweaters are still pretty springy even though they've passed through washer and dryer. Wavy wavy edges on the cut strips. It still seems to take a really long time to convert pretty small sweaters into balls of crochetable ribbon.
Less typing, more cutting.
Monday, February 25, 2008
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