Mad Knitta
Thursday, June 21st, 2007
I finished one hat last night and have started the second one. I was going to work on the booties, but encountered two problems:
- not sure if I have enough yarn
- Didn’t copy the actual instructions, just the picture.
So, on to the next hat I went.
Tomorrow is the last day of school and I’ve been telling my daughter we were going to make her teacher a bag as a gift- for about 4 weeks now. So last night, we sat down and sewed her bag together. It was going to be a nice floral oilcloth bag, but my sewing machine did not like the fabric at all, so I cut some pieces out of some Hello Kitty fabric I had left over after making a knitting needle roll. The bag came out very cute. After I had my daughter trim all the loose strings, she said her teacher loves to knit and asked if we could put some needles and yarn in… We did. She said her teacher loved frogs, so I put in a wind up frog I bought. She said her teacher LOVED incense… so we put in a nice pack of incense (since I used to sell them, I have tons), then we put in the burner- since I have a lot of those too. She found a leather journal I had (unused, with the price on it still) and asked to include that too. I would say her teacher has an excellent advocate in my daughter. She went from only recieving a handmade bag to getting a bag full of stuff. But she deserves it and I know she cares for and is very supportive of my daughter- so I was more than happy to do this. It was just so funny how my daughter thought she was hustling me.I also made little cards for her to give to her friends with her email address on it so they can keep in contact with each other. I figured it would be a invisible way for her to work on her writing skills. She wrote a nice letter to her teacher and put it in the bag. I had a nice laugh over it, because it was one of those letters where you ask the boy if he likes you- yes or no, except hers said “are you going to CarMello’s graduation party? Yes or No?” It was very mis-spelled, but phonetic. So keeping up with email will be a great way for her to work on her writing. I hope. I might regret it later.
So anyways, I started thinking of my own street name. I have sorority names, “Miss Sagacious” (which means wise one), or “Sagacious Rhomantic” but those are prissy and sweet… but describe me well. I need a name to intimidate all those crocheters out there. So I came up with:
