{"id":207,"date":"2010-02-23T23:16:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T07:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2010-06-24T12:38:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T19:38:07","slug":"up-to-no-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/up-to-no-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Up To (No Good)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve spent a good portion of these first two months of 2010 doing nothing but knitting on sweaters and listening to zombies on book-on-CD while I work on some jewelry designs. My place is pretty trashed due to my tragic housekeeping skills, though I did clean my bathroom recently (the other bathroom is my de-facto paper-towel storage center and knit-wear cleaning station). And one of my new years resolutions was to keep more on top of things, and I certainly have in the kitchen, which is where things were most dire. Other places in the house it’s just full of craft-related clutter. The one thing in the kitchen that is throwing me is recycling, like where do I keep that stuff? I don’t even know. Argh.<\/p>\n

I’m trying to be a better housekeeper, but…<\/p>\n

Honestly, I have better things to do. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

So anyway, I have been knitting, and I totally knit this sweater in January:<\/p>\n

\"Gathered<\/a>
\n(hard to take a decent picture of yourself, let alone knitwear by yourself at 10 pm in the middle of winter, you know? oy.)<\/p>\n

I like it.<\/p>\n

PATTERN: <\/strong>Gathered Pullover, Interweave
\n YARN:<\/strong> Dream in Color Classy, \u00a0Happy Forest
\n MODS: <\/strong>Well, the whole thing is a mod except for the bustline cable. The original pattern has you knit from the bottom up with no ribbings. \u00a0But that is not how I roll, so I knit it as a top down raglan with 2×2 ribbings. I hate the curly look of stockinette edging. Also, I made 3\/4 sleeves instead of long sleeve. I had enough yarn to make long sleeves but I wasn’t feeling it.<\/p>\n

IN CONCLUSION:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is a picture of the zombie box I made that I found on my harddrive.<\/p>\n

\"Zombie<\/a><\/p>\n

Hard to believe that I actually made that like six or seven years ago now! Oh, zombie box. It only lost two of the Barbie arms in my travels.<\/p>\n

…I hated sculpture class. I have no aptitude for three dimensional thinking (hence making illustration\/drawing my main focus), though I did enjoy ceramics. \u00a0If I ever find my grotesques I’ll post pictures of those. I have no idea what happened to them – I remember packing them, and then they are just not here anywhere post-Texas. I’ll have to check the shed.<\/p>\n