How would you combine the two?
Posted by Elizabeth on 04-28-2010 at 8:02 am
Writing and knitting do not generally go together. This is not to say that there is not a lot of people who do both, just that it is hard to do both at the same time, what with it being hard to type with yarn wrapped around your fingers.
My script is not done. Not even close. I do, however, have a much better idea of what I need to do with it, now that April has given me the kick in the pants to get started in the first place. But what, you ask, have I done with the month besides not write?
I am working on an Alphasmart Cozy pattern, that's what.
The yarn is the very last of the leftovers from the Harry Potter scarves of two years ago. I think I might have done some of my math wrong, but we shall see. Probably I need to lengthen the straight bit at the bottom. The trouble with felting things is that you cannot really tell before you felt them how they will look afterward. The swatch, for example (that felted rectangle on top of the Alphasmart) started out as a 5.5" square. Now it is about 4.5x4". It shrunk more vertically than horizontally. The cozy will probably do the same.
The other reason it looks a little strange is because I ran out of yarn just before I needed to knit the flap that would close up the bottom. Fortunately, that is the least-important part, fit-wise.
We will find out the next time I wash a load of sheets or towels, which will probably be this week.
After I see what modifications I need to make, I will knit a new one in the yarn left from my sweater (that I just realized I never posted pictures for). I have about half again as much of the sweater yarn than I did of the scarf yarn, so it should be plenty.
Maybe after the Alphasmart is no longer naked I will be able to get some writing done.
My script is not done. Not even close. I do, however, have a much better idea of what I need to do with it, now that April has given me the kick in the pants to get started in the first place. But what, you ask, have I done with the month besides not write?
I am working on an Alphasmart Cozy pattern, that's what.
The yarn is the very last of the leftovers from the Harry Potter scarves of two years ago. I think I might have done some of my math wrong, but we shall see. Probably I need to lengthen the straight bit at the bottom. The trouble with felting things is that you cannot really tell before you felt them how they will look afterward. The swatch, for example (that felted rectangle on top of the Alphasmart) started out as a 5.5" square. Now it is about 4.5x4". It shrunk more vertically than horizontally. The cozy will probably do the same.
The other reason it looks a little strange is because I ran out of yarn just before I needed to knit the flap that would close up the bottom. Fortunately, that is the least-important part, fit-wise.
We will find out the next time I wash a load of sheets or towels, which will probably be this week.
After I see what modifications I need to make, I will knit a new one in the yarn left from my sweater (that I just realized I never posted pictures for). I have about half again as much of the sweater yarn than I did of the scarf yarn, so it should be plenty.
Maybe after the Alphasmart is no longer naked I will be able to get some writing done.
Knitting
