Here is the progress so far with Rose of England. Riveting, isn't it? I'm only this far into the pattern:
Mired in row after row of p3tog's and m3's, with row after row of ever-increasing stitches. Making the rose petals will break up the monotony, but after that, more stitch pattern repeats for a loooong time.
That dropped stitch I made last week - did a bad job picking it up. The mangled parts are noticeable even to the untrained eye. OH WELL. Just can't seem to garner enough perfectionism to care. Too lazy.
I was almost too lazy to make this consecutive-day post. I just got back from playing hooky all day long. (For the record, I do work. But not very hard.) First I went to the library in the North End and picked up Knitting Vintage Socks. Then I hopped over to Filene's Basement - I liked to call it Feline's Basement - to buy a replacement RedSox cap. I was going to get the green cap with the clover stitched on the back to commemorate me being newly Irish and all, but damn it was really really green. The Asians don't pull off green so well.
After Filene's, I made a quick stop at Windsor Buttons to kill some time and not buy any yarn, then rounded the corner to meet my friend Kitty (who had just quit her job and has 2 weeks before her new job starts) at the theatre for a matinee. And it wasn't even noon yet! The last time I saw a movie that early was...never! Yes, we were two grown women out to see Cars before the sun was high.
After the movies we had sushi at the Corner Mall Food Court in Downtown Xing. A little sushi stand across from Dunkin and Sbarro in a ghetto mall seems a horrible, illogical place to have raw fish, but really the fish is no joke: They have incredible, fresh sushi.
After lunch we walked the entire (nearly) length of Boston, from Downtown to Fenway, but not before stopping once for lemon slush at the corner of the Public Gardens. It was hot out there.
It was at this time that we were approached by some intern working for the Metro morning commuter paper. She was working on the "What Do You Think?" opinion section and wanted to ask us the question of the day. It went something like, What is your opinion on Vermont's campaign financing law? a topic that I am very, very, extremely not opinionated about. I pulled something out of the air (it doesn't matter since they distill what you say into like, 10 words or less), got my picture taken, and will be in tomorrow's paper. Ha!
But please don't look for me, fellow Bostonians. It was hot and windy and my hair was plastered all over my face and my posture was all rickity; I think I was standing pigeon-toed with my butt sticking out.
We ducked into a few stores along Newbury before catching a breather at a bar near Fenway, and had a beer. By this time it was 6pm, we parted ways, I went home and made myself a mojito.
Quite a productive day, I'd say.
It sure is good to be self-employed, especially in the middle of summer :)
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