holy crap, that looks so awesome. go rubrchick mom! and special assistant tommy dog! that sweater is lovely.
oh and i totally just helped my mom read a knitting pattern, over the phone. she was so frustrated because she "was doing the yarn overs but it still kept decreasing". mom hasn't done much knitting, but is already using charts (that were bass-ackwardly written, grr). go mom. but she couldn't figure out what was wrong. so i looked the pattern up on ravelry to make sure there were no corrections and then i had her read the sequence to me and i worked it out on paper and we reorganized it so it made better sense to her. and now hopefully the only problem will be that she casts on too tight and has to fight herself for a couple rows.
but it all totally made me think of you teaching me knitting techniques via webcam at this distance. you rock. just wanted to say that and remind you.
hope you had a good time this afternoon and a safe trip back west.
That is so awesome that you helped your mom out over the phone. I am so proud of how far you've come in such a short period! And you're so sweet with your reminder there. Right back atcha, babe. You, my dear, are a knitting rock star.
Mariquita is ladybug in Spanish.
anonymous
January 25 2009, 05:50:15 UTC
Wow! Tell me she made that for you. I want to see you in a ladybug sweater.
I've seen my mom knit one thing in 45 years, but it was this complicated lace vest she started for my son when we thought I was pregnant with a girl, then finished when I finally had a girl three years later. But nothing else, before or since.
Re: Mariquita is ladybug in Spanish.knittingordeathFebruary 1 2009, 07:06:43 UTC
Is the "mari-" prefix something to do with wings or flight? I seem to recall that the word for butterfly is "mariposa".
And sadly, the mariquita sweater was knit about 27 years too late to fit me. I do have a photo of myself at age 2 in a little frock complete with rickrack that I'm pretty sure my mom sewed for me, if that will suffice as a substitute.
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oh and i totally just helped my mom read a knitting pattern, over the phone. she was so frustrated because she "was doing the yarn overs but it still kept decreasing". mom hasn't done much knitting, but is already using charts (that were bass-ackwardly written, grr). go mom. but she couldn't figure out what was wrong. so i looked the pattern up on ravelry to make sure there were no corrections and then i had her read the sequence to me and i worked it out on paper and we reorganized it so it made better sense to her. and now hopefully the only problem will be that she casts on too tight and has to fight herself for a couple rows.
but it all totally made me think of you teaching me knitting techniques via webcam at this distance. you rock. just wanted to say that and remind you.
hope you had a good time this afternoon and a safe trip back west.
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I've seen my mom knit one thing in 45 years, but it was this complicated lace vest she started for my son when we thought I was pregnant with a girl, then finished when I finally had a girl three years later. But nothing else, before or since.
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And sadly, the mariquita sweater was knit about 27 years too late to fit me. I do have a photo of myself at age 2 in a little frock complete with rickrack that I'm pretty sure my mom sewed for me, if that will suffice as a substitute.
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