Recipe for disaster: acrylic yarn + DVD player
Well, it’s been a busy couple of days. Sort of. I got a little tired of Forecast getting practically nowhere, and due to a certain financial problem I was unable to buy myself the right size dpn’s for the sleeves, so… I did as I always do, and started something new.
I decided on this vest-thing. Also, I’m much better off knitting this right now, since I’ll be too big for regular cardigans in a couple of months and the vest is sort of bolero-length instead. It turns out the vest-thing makes wonderful TV knitting, especially after I got my contacts this Thursday and was actually able to make out the characters’ faces without squinting. (I love my contacts.)
Yup, that’s the Dallas season three DVD that’s peeking out from underneath the creepy acrylic piece of knitting (from this cheap acrylic stash yarn) that’s destined to one day become the (hopefully) quite lovely and very practical vest. I had just finished the Who Shot J.R.? episode and was about to replay the last ten minutes of it for my boyfriend, who had missed that crucial part of the intrigue (I keep him updated), when this evil, evil piece of equipment decided to develop a mind of its own:
(Doesn’t it look evil to you?)
It stopped working. It just stopped. It won’t play my Dallas DVDs anymore. (Well, it won’t play anything anymore, but I wouldn’t be nearly as upset had this happened during, say, uh, anything but my darling Dallas.)
I’m sure it’s the acrylic yarn that finally pushed the DVD over the edge. It probably would have survived much, much longer had I used the alpaca the vest pattern originally called for.
Fortunately, there’s a computer here that my boyfriend promises will play my precious little babies, but it’s just not the same. It doesn’t have a remote, for one. I think we’ll be getting a cheap new DVD player very, very soon.
July 28th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Hi Fi!
It’s me…the secret pal. Does “I’ll be too big for cardigans in a couple of months” mean that H will have a sibling sooner rather than later? If so, huge hug and congratulations…if not, what does that comment mean?
PS> What size DPN’s do you need….I have a ton that I bought at an estate sale, but NEVER use.
July 29th, 2006 at 8:36 pm
Um… well, yes, you got me. He’ll be getting some company in December, hopefully not too close to Christmas. So I won’t exactly be wearing anything tiny this fall
As for dpn’s, I’m completely lacking 4.5mm (the ones needed for Forecast).