knitting is a hereditary disease

Doh!

Posted on 08/11/2008 by Barb | Comments (3)
Filed under : Knitting, Ravelympics 2008

I had intended to post a bit of braggery about my Ravelympics progress the end of day Saturday but was too exhausted, didn't get it done. Then Saturday became Sunday and Andrea came over for dinner. I pulled out the knitting projects and proudly showed off my progress.

She cocked her head sideways and said, "but this is wrong ...", pointing out to me that Santa is going to end up on the inside of the stocking, not the outside. It's totally backward from what it should be when compared to the original stocking. And this has to exactly match the original. Besides, it would just be stupid to have the Santa on the inside and the plain ole tree on the outside. So it's tinking time! This could be fatal for my completion of the event it's entered in, Holiday Handball. I’ll start over, though, but I really think I have to put the majority of my efforts into the Sweater Sprint, which is progressing nicely.

You realize, Moms, that Andrea finding the problem with the Vintage Holiday Stocking is payback for the hard time I gave her during our liveblogging Friday night during the televising of the 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony.

The pearl of “mother-wisdom” out of this sad saga: Don't go giving people superior-attitude sass ... that kind of neener-neener attitude will come back to bite you in the butt every time!

3 Comments

Now that I am going to become a Mom, I'm going to have to learn from these things so I don't fall victim to them as well!

Sorry to have been the bearer of bad news! But better now than after the entire intarsia part was done with.

If it makes you feel any better, I have so much bathroom painting work to get done in the next week, I won't have very much knitting time.

- said andrea (08/11/2008, 2:03 PM)

Also, I'm glad to see you've incorporated the word "neener-neener" into this post.

- said andrea (08/11/2008, 2:03 PM)

I just found your blog because a Rav friend fav'ed your mitten ornament. I HAVE to knit some of those for Christmas. Anyways...when i hopped over here...I saw "my" stocking. My Gram made stockings for all the grandkids from that vintage pattern. Except...it wasn't so vintage when I got my socking. =0) I'm sure I have the pattern somewhere from when I inherited her knitting notions. Knitting definitely is hereditary. =0)

- said km (08/11/2008, 2:03 PM)