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Jul. 13th, 2005 10:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickIt's been beastly hot here of late and, while I like to cook, I don't like to cook when the temperature in my house is over ninety. Since the local weather has been uncooperative and since I don't have a/c, I'm currently having No-Cooking dinners.
My absolute favorite No-Cooking dinner is the tomato-and-mayo sandwich. Two slices of whole-wheat bread, toasted (making toast is not cooking), sliced room-temperature tomato, mayo, a sprinkle of salt on the tomato slices. I like tomato-and-mayo sandwiches a whole lot -- they are my food of choice when it's hot and I can get proper tomatoes that do not taste like cardboard.
Despite the heat, progress continues on the two-handed knitting front. I've done a swatch. I have gauge. Using Cascade 220 on #2 needles, I get seven stitches to the inch (horizontal). It doesn't matter how many I get to the vertical inch because I will stop when they are big enough. That's how we do things here in now, bring me that horizon land. If we're lucky, I will take notes. If we're not lucky, I will have mittens that are fraternal rather than identical. Anyway, I need 9" to go around my broad, field-hand mitts with room for movement and gripping things like, say, snow shovels. Since 63 does not lend itself to being divided for purposes of patterning the damn mittens (and they will OF COURSE be patterned because that's why I learned to do two-color, two-handed knitting), I've upgraded this to 64, a substantially more divisible number.
I don't want to discuss the reasonableness of the gauge I'm using. I am aware that you're SUPPOSED to knit Cascade 220 on something like size 7 needles. (For the non-knitters and/or furriners in the audience, #2 needles are about 2.5 mm in diameter and #7 are about 4.5 mm. Knitting this yarn on little toothpicky size 2 needles is something quite a few knitters will perceive as evil, wrong, and bad. Screw 'em.) However, Cascade 220 looks damn good on #2 needles and it makes a gorgeous, tight fabric for mittens so that snow and cold won't get inside them. Besides that, I already have #2 needles. Projects where I don't have to buy more stuff are BETTER than projects where I have to buy more stuff.
My absolute favorite No-Cooking dinner is the tomato-and-mayo sandwich. Two slices of whole-wheat bread, toasted (making toast is not cooking), sliced room-temperature tomato, mayo, a sprinkle of salt on the tomato slices. I like tomato-and-mayo sandwiches a whole lot -- they are my food of choice when it's hot and I can get proper tomatoes that do not taste like cardboard.
Despite the heat, progress continues on the two-handed knitting front. I've done a swatch. I have gauge. Using Cascade 220 on #2 needles, I get seven stitches to the inch (horizontal). It doesn't matter how many I get to the vertical inch because I will stop when they are big enough. That's how we do things here in now, bring me that horizon land. If we're lucky, I will take notes. If we're not lucky, I will have mittens that are fraternal rather than identical. Anyway, I need 9" to go around my broad, field-hand mitts with room for movement and gripping things like, say, snow shovels. Since 63 does not lend itself to being divided for purposes of patterning the damn mittens (and they will OF COURSE be patterned because that's why I learned to do two-color, two-handed knitting), I've upgraded this to 64, a substantially more divisible number.
I don't want to discuss the reasonableness of the gauge I'm using. I am aware that you're SUPPOSED to knit Cascade 220 on something like size 7 needles. (For the non-knitters and/or furriners in the audience, #2 needles are about 2.5 mm in diameter and #7 are about 4.5 mm. Knitting this yarn on little toothpicky size 2 needles is something quite a few knitters will perceive as evil, wrong, and bad. Screw 'em.) However, Cascade 220 looks damn good on #2 needles and it makes a gorgeous, tight fabric for mittens so that snow and cold won't get inside them. Besides that, I already have #2 needles. Projects where I don't have to buy more stuff are BETTER than projects where I have to buy more stuff.
