Conversations at home

[cjsmith]

Background: My sister-in-law knits. I do not.

Rob: [looking at mail] You got some kind of envelope or something.
Me: Um, that certainly narrows it down.
Rob: It's handwritten. It's from a person, not a company.
Me: I got mail from a person? Huh...
Rob: It's one of those yellow padded envelopes.
Me: ... OH I KNOW what that is! It's YARN!!
Rob: Like we really needed some of THAT.
Me: It's pretty. I'm going to give it to Rosemary.
Rob: [relieved] Oh, okay.

Heh. He had exactly the stereotypical reaction to yarn coming into the house... and he's not even partnered to a knitter. I could hear his eyes rolling from the next room. He and my brother should chat. :-)

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I hear the challenge is to knit the second identical sock. Apparently that's less fun than knitting the first one. Me, I think knitters should go around wearing two completely different nifty socks. Why show off only one example at a time? :)

[wooddragon.livejournal.com]

And the learning curve on sock #1 is, of course, much steeper, which definitely contributes to its, um, uniqueness.

I've learned lots of new vocabulary so far though: frogged and LYS, for two.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

What's LYS?

Me, I wonder how anyone can ever make two swatches the same size on different days. If I (re-)learned how to knit, I'd get one giant Christmas stocking and one little Barbie doll anklet.

[wooddragon.livejournal.com]

Local yarn store (took me a number of iterations to figure that out)