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Friday, May 20, 2005

A Game of Pick-Up-Sticks?

Howdie..

Well, today is finally the day.. The day I have dubbed... ZIPPER DAY!!.... Doesn't that kinda sound ominous? (Well.. I think it does...) I have to admit I'm a tidbit intimidated by the whole zipper process.. but I was intimidated about the sweater in the first place.. and that seems to have turned out ok.. so.. We'll see what happens.

Last night Brad got home from work and we had to go to the library. (We had a book overdue, shame on us.) So I asked him if we could go to the fabric store too since we were already heading out.. and he reluctantly said yes. Woo.

So we went to Hancock Fabrics to look for zippers... They had quite a few.. but they didn't have EXACTLY what I wanted... They had another zipper that I liked the style and feel of much better than the one I ended up with.. but the one I did buy's color was almost too good to pass up. (And this is why I bought it.) Hopefully it'll work out ok.. It's actually a YKK zipper, which I was surprised to have found. I also bought matching thread.. and.... (get ready for it...) my first set of........ DPNS!

So I started trying them out last night.... I'm not so sure that I like the ones I bought.. I may end up returning them.. (They're the LionBrand plastic type.) The feel of the plastic isn't very nice.. and they have a weird rattling sound to them. As for actually knitting with them.. at first it was pretty slow going.. but by the time I wanted to quit last night I seemed to be getting the hang of it more..

And is it just me or does it really look like a weird game of Pick-Up-Sticks?

That yarn by the way is the same yarn I used for the body of my sweater.. and you can see there that the zipper is QUITE close to the color.. Neat huh?

If I buy some other kind of DPNs I don't know what they'll be.. I really don't like bamboo.. (Really hate it actually.) and I don't think I'd like metal ones either... Personally I wish the Denise people would make a line of DPNs out of their magical feeling needle plastic type stuff.

So stay tuned for tails of either zipper triumph.. or.. zipper woes.
-Kim-   12:59 PM
 


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