Report on my brain.

[logansrogue]

Well, I got back from the doctor and she says that my brain is perfectly normal. No problems with it. I was so relieved when I got out of there, I don't think I'd ever been so relieved in my life.

I'm being put on these inderol pills, that'll regulate my blood vessels. And I can't have chocolate anymore, but I will still have it sometimes (holidays and such). Cause man - what is living, what is LIFE - without chocolate? I ask you!!

So anyway, just putting out the word that I'm not dying. Not yet anyway LOL!

Oh - and can anyone knit? I want to knit a Harry Potter scarf and I want to make it so it doesn't curl, but has a pearl/plain knit (like in the movies).

Nancy.

Comments

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

HUGS

Glad your brain is okay :D Sorry you have to give up chocolate most of the time :( but you'll do whatever works, I know. *hugs again*

[muddgutts.livejournal.com]

NO CHocolate!!!! OMG that bites! I would die. I had the best chocolate in Paris, and then in London. I bought a bunch at the airport to bring home with us. So F**kin' good!!!!

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

High quality chocolate doesn't give me headaches like bad quality chocolate does, so I just have to stick to the good stuff, and only when I have a day off the next day. :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/lothar_/]

No chocolate = bad
Living = good
Such a mixed blessing, but good deal on the living part!

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Less chocolate, not no chocolate! Besides, too much chocolate = bad because it also = a big fat butt. :)

[withherhands]

{hugs Nancy's brain} Bad news about the chocolate, though. Life without chocolate is too horrific to contemplate.

About the scarf... Not sure exactly what you mean by "a pearl/plain knit", but if you want it to look like in the movies, that means stockinette stitch--one row knit, one row purl (which is probably what you meant, now that I think about it). If you don't want it to curl, you'll have to knit it in a tube, either with double-pointed needles or a circular needle (or knit it flat so it's twice as wida as you want, then seam it down a long side--I hate seaming knits, though, so I go with the tube option).

Good news is that by doing it circularly you don't have to purl--just do the knit stitch the entire way--and it only curls at the ends of the tube, which can be fixed when you fringe it. Bad news is it takes twice as much yarn and twice as long (as you have twice as many stitches in the row). It'll also be really warm--good for my climate, but probably not so for yours.

Did you want this for the PoA premiere? If so you'd probably be better off doing a quicker scarf flat in knit 1, purl 1 ribbing--it'll pretty much look like stockinette, unless you stretch it, and won't take as long. Then if you really want a tube scarf, you can work on that over a longer period of time.

It really depends how fast you knit and how much time per day you can (or want to) devote to knitting. My first scarf was finished in a little over a month, but I've never duplicated that speed--usually because I was in school at the time, and because after the second (or third, or fourth) scarf I was kind of getting sick of them. :-) If you have any questions, let me know!

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Well, how do you do the second option? Cause it is for the premier, and I started but I think it'll take me forever the way I'm doing it now!! Lemme know!! (And I did mean purl - I never knit talked before).

[withherhands]

Okay, second option as in ribbing? Two questions first--what size needles are you using, and what weight of yarn?

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

4mm needles, and the wool is 8ply.

[withherhands]

Okay, if memory serves me correctly, 8 ply is approx. the same weight as our worsted weight. So cast on about 40 stitches (you rip it back and can change the number if this isn't wide enough/too wide--just make sure it's a multiple of 2), and do knit 1, purl 1 across the row. At the end of the row, turn your knitting and knit 1, purl 1 back.

Just keep doing that until the first colour stripe is the length you want it--just count the rows (hint: each little "v" is a stitch--count how many of these are in a vertical column, and you have the # of rows. Not a great description I know, but I can scan a pic from one of my knitting books if you're not sure what I mean). Make sure you do every stripe with the same # of rows, so they're all the same length. Again, it helps if you use an even # of rows, because then all the ends of the yarn are on one side of the knitting. Anyway, when you have the first stripe the length you want, cut the yarn, leaving about a 6inch tail, then start with the next colour, again leaving a 6-in. tail.

Repeat this until the scarf is the length you want, then cast off, weave in the ends and add fringe (and if you have no idea what I mean here, don't worry about it yet). There you go--one quick HP scarf!

Hopefully I'm not forgetting to mention anything--stuff that might be obvious to me won't necessarily be obvious to someone else. If you have any questions, email me!

And make sure you take pictures of the scarf! :-)

[auliana.livejournal.com]

YAY! For healthy brains!

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it! I mean, I didn't even THINK about my brain until this happened, and when I did I was like, "Oh my GOD it's so fragile!!!" But it's okay, stupid lump of grey shit. *pets feeble brain* How I love my neuron network. I will not abuse it badly again (though I will have the odd drink... mmm... alceehol).