Knitting Frustration

September 12, 2005
Filed under: Knitting

Prior to starting my job, I got two projects set up on needles. One is a “free form” top-down children’s sweater, and the other is a children’s hat. The first one took some time to figure out the math, and so did the latter. I did a swatch even with the hat.

So that makes me all the more frustrated when I realized that my half finished sweater needs to be completely frogged (ripped out) because the sides are too short compared to the back, and that the hat is too big for even a child with encephalitis!

I’ve put the sweater away until my next knitting group meeting, because I can’t bear to think about it. The hat is already just a ball of yarn, and I’ll be starting it again.

Sometimes things just don’t go as planned. My first thought is to start with scarves again, but I know I can do more than that!

Summer Knitting Project: The Booga Bag

September 10, 2005
Filed under: Knitting
booga bag

Booga Bag

Originally uploaded by safranit.

This is my 20 shekel knitting project. I bought the wool–four balls from a women who sells at the AACI Yard Sale, and found a good free project on line.

It could still use some more felting in the washing machine, but for now it is the home of my current knitting projects.

The colors do look pretty accurate.

New Job!!!

September 9, 2005
Filed under: Life in Israel, Work

I’ve finally landed in a job that is what I wanted. I’m not going public on the place now, but for those who know me, it is someplace in Jerusalem which have have previously worked.

I started this past Sunday, and I already know that I’ll be doing enough varied things that I’ll be happy there. For this job I’ll be cataloging historical movies about Israel..this can be good, but I already had to watch a depressing movie about a terror attack on the Lebanese border. Many children were killed, and the film shows where they were killed (blood and all). Sigh..

My other duties include computer software support and creating a few databases. Finally I’m back in the professional world of Library and Information Science!!!

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