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Friday, August 15, 2003
A New Knitter Is Born!!!Last night, when I went to my friend K's house to watch CSI (as usual), she was knitting!!! Her grandmother is visiting, and showed her how. She's doing a striped scarf/swatch in stockinette- and I am totally amazed at how even her stitches are. So, being the great fiber-enabler that I am, I lent her my stock of straight needles, and the knitpicks catalogue that just HAPPENED to show up in my mailbox as I was heading to her house. Oh, and I told her that she is DEFINITELY coming to the knitting group next week. :) And this is REALLY bad because now I'll have someone to encourage me in my fiber-purchases. Ah well....In other knitting news, I finished the cardigan fronts: 
Next time I do laundry, I'm going to give them a wash so I get the shrinking out of the way. I don't want to wash it after I put it all together just in case things don't quite fit together the same way after they shrink into place... I started the first sleeve yesterday, and am making great progress... it's really nice when there's only 1 cable to worry about. Hopefully by this time next week I'll get the sleeves done and in the wash, and get started on the back. I'm planning on using a zipper on the fronts, so I guess I need to get one of those too... of course, I'm not sure how long yet- it'll depend on how much it shrinks. I'm planning for 12%, according to my swatches, so hopefully that'll be just about right. Cricket got all excited this morning about her little squirrel-friend (or foe as the case may be) who lives in the tree outside my apartment: 
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