Kristen, thanks for the info! Can't wait to see some of your episodes.
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
The Minearverse 6: Fiery Thread of Death
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath. Oh, and help us get Terriers dvds!
IJSTS, I love that I can have a folder of recorded episodes on my DVR with Kristen's name on it. So cool.
Did I tell you guys my TRIUMPH in speedy stranded knitting?
It was (of course) preceded by an epic FAIL of stranded knitting. i.e, for the last pair of traveling socks I worked on, I decided to do something fancy - the first graph of the Nordic Lights Socks from Janel Laidman's Eclectic Sole book of sock patterns. I was knitting on ones. It took forever. . . I had to start over several times before I really got going. . . and then I was done. Last Thursday, upon which I realized that the socks would in no way fit on a adult human foot. I got in touch with my downstream partner and determined that if I knit like a madwoman I could probably get them to her in time for her to do the last bit before the intended sock owner moved to Germany.
So Thursday evening I frogged the first sock and re-cast on - this time using 2.5 sock needles. I knit madly all evening and FINISHED the sock. In one night.
And still got some sleep.
I did the second sock yesterday. I still cannot quite believe that I did it.
I'm mailing the socks to the downstream partner after work today.
Yay for craft triumphs!
Family legend says that my great-grandmother knit a pair of socks a night for the soldiers during WWI. Here's more about patriotic knitting: [link]
Holy crap - a pair of socks a night????
That's awesome!
As I said, legend, although most people who talked about her said she could get more done in a day than anyone they'd ever known. If only I'd inherited that.
I just paused on a frame of Birkoff's monitor which has a post it saying "Call your mom. This time I mean it."
So, is Birkoff canonically not separated from his family?
And why am I wondering about a gag?
Say what?