My First Day

Today was my first day of work at Knitorious. It was so much fun. I got to knit a swatch, and put some labels on things, and help some people. Suzie came in to visit. A guy came in with a scarf he had made, but needed to know how to weave in the ends, and how to block it. He left with yarn to make another scarf. I got to teach someone to purl, whom had learned to knit last week. She was very grateful and excited about her first project - a sweater. I fixed the faucet in the bathroom so the "H" means hot and the "C" means cold (instead of the other way around), and I got to use the new swift and ball winder. We did one ball of Kureyon and another ball of microfiber ribbon from Tess' Yarns. It's beautiful, but slippery, and comes in a big hank. It was tricky, and we had to pretty much get it into a ziploc bag immediately, but it's done. Sandy said that since she knows we can do it, she's going to stock it. Yummy!

I left work to to go Opera Workshop rehearsal, and then I stopped at the grocery store. I was so happy to see these:


They're Big Giant Fuji Apples. They had them for a long time, and then they were gone. They're back. The plate in this picture is one of my dinner plates. The three of them together weigh almost two and a half pounds. And, since I went through the self-checkout lane, and they didn't have any PLU code stickers on them, I had to ring them up as regular Fuji apples, which are only a dollar a pound. They are crunchy and juicy and enormous and I Love Them.

After work, I bought the necessary needles to continue on the thrummed mittens.

Here I am thrumming:


OH! No! That's a picture of me strumming.

Here's a picture of my progress:


Look at all that poofy goodness. It's wonderfully soft and, well, poofy! I think I'm making the thrums too thick, but they look ok, so I'm not going to re-do it. Twisting them takes more work than I thought it would. They just pop back unless you really twist them hard and move them around. Maybe if I make them smaller it will be better. And I started out working the thrums so that as I knit them they were over the working yarn, and they look much better if they're under the working yarn. They make much prettier little hearts.