theknitlette
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06:08:55 pm on February 15, 2009 |
Greetings blogfolk.
I don’t have much to say at the moment, so I am going to let the knitting speak for itself.
And remember how I mentioned I was cataloging my sock yarn.I finished.
Here are the stats for the Lime-n-Violet 2009 Sock Marathon.
- Skeins of sock yarn: 38.
- Yards of sock yarn: 19,870
- Miles of sock yarn: 11.29
It’s not quite a half marathon, and way more than I’ll be able to knit by September 1. My goal is 8 pairs of socks, or a total of approximately 3,680 yards, which equals 11,040 feet.
Let’s harken back to school. 1 mile =5280 feet. Therefore 11,040 /5280 = 2.09 miles.
With any luck I’ll also find time to knit the Jaywalker sock-inspired Chevron Scarf since I couldn’t make the Jaywalkers fit my feet without applying a belt sander.
Wish me luck!
Oh, and something else that came to my attention today, thanks to twitter, is the shady church that American Idol constestant and early front-runner Danny Gokey attends. *shudder* I’ve never been a huge fan of organized religion in general, but the whole culture of pastors as pseudo-deities/ celebrities who own flashy cars and wear expensive clothes makes me nauseous. Maybe it’s because I was briefly raised Catholic. There’s something about a vow of poverty that I can get behind. If your god is going to work through you, do you need to let him do it while driving a Cadillac Escalade. I think not.
/rant
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TopIdol 6:44 pm on 02.15.2009 | #
I often wish I knew how to knit.
theknitlette 7:06 pm on 02.15.2009 | #
It’s really not all that difficult to learn. I’d recommend going to a local yarn store if you learn better from a teacher – and there are several great books and websites out there if you learn better from reading/watching videos. l I’d recommend good needles and good yarn to learn. There’s nothing fun about learning how to knit on aluminum needles with acrylic yarn!
There’s even this community called ravelry.com that has forums – and there’s an Idol forum, in which I also linked to your post. I find the style mission particularly disturbing, and while I really would have liked whoever wrote the piece to say who they are, I have little doubt of the veracity of what they’re saying.
Dana 9:03 pm on 02.15.2009 | #
The sock looks great! And you have a lot of sock yarn… but I’d bet I have more.
My guess is I’ll probably keep accumulating more and will never knit it all up. *sigh* oh well!
When are you coming back to Chatt? Call me SOON… I have a lot to catch you up on!