claw-choo

Nothing says love like Meow-choo clawing your chest with his happy kneading paws. Ow-choo!

veste picasso

Still knitting on Veste Everest.

It’d go faster if Picasso didn’t help me so much with it.

Not that he minds.

my own private Everest

Did you know I was knitting a Veste Everest?

I hardly knew, myself. I cast on last Saturday, I think. Or was it Sunday? I don’t remember anymore. Around and around in the round I went, cabling ribbing cabling ribbing. While the original Veste Everest pattern was knit flat, I wanted to do the body in the round to better gauge (I slay me) the fit of the body because while I did do a washed gauge swatch, I didn’t have time to reknit if there was a tragic lying swatch incident. So.

So far it’s been great, though, and today, after adding an extra repeat over that called for in the pattern, which I find weird since I have a short torso but I digress, I finally split for the front and back with the armhole decreases.

One unforeseen result of the split, or really, a foreseeable one if I didn’t have my brain in Brazil and my body here, is that my poor numb brain has been having trouble handling the switch from in the round knitting to back and forth knitting. Despite my best efforts to fail, though, so far so good. And that’s about all you can ask for, I think.

Knittingwise.

I’d really like my brain cells and my consciousness back, though. I mean, I’m happy that my friend had surgery and she feels better, but what about me! Antibiotics are both good and crappy. I feel better than I did but jeez I’m tired of being sick. Wah wah. Sorry.

January Magknits

 INDIAN SUMMER COLLAR

Tiphanie: Yo. Guess what? I’m blogging!  I’m so embarrassed because I forgot my password a few weeks ago.  And then I forgot what I forgot.  Anyway, let’s review January Magknits!
Frarochvia: Oops.  You’re funny.
Tiphanie: Okay. Let me pull up Magknits.   AIEEEE.  That is ONE UGLY FUCKING SCARF.  Aiee.  Oh my god.  Leaves?  Flowers?  Fun Fur?  Fruit Pebbles?  I am so gonna die.  Aiee and Aiee.  This burns my eyes.  Oh my god.  Do people actually wear THIS?  NOT FUCKING ME NO FUCKING WAY.
Frarochvia:  *smiles happily at the Tiphanie freakfest*
Tiphanie:  Aiee.  And Fruit pebbles!  And I-cord flowers!  Aiee. And what’s that? Rainbow crochet??  Ruffles?  What is this?  A scarf made with little swatches?!? With LEFTOVERS from other SCARVES??  I’m freaking out.  I see a pom-pom.  I see a loopy thingy.
Frarochvia:  Where’s the pompom?
Tiphanie:  Uhh.  This purple yellow thingy.  I don’t know.  I’m not going to examine this closely.   This is NO JOLIE LAIDE scarf.  I see this and I think the only way people would wear this is if they paid 150 for this.   And fruit pebbles!
Frarochvia:  Yeah. It’s uh, a work of art.  Or…something.   I’d say it seared my retinas but I’m already sick.
Tiphanie:  Yeah.  Probably the reason why you’re not recovering because you got knocked flat on your ass at this…
Frarochvia: *laughing*
Tiphanie:  Flowery foo foo.  Even bouquets at Wal-Mart are prettier than this.
Frarochvia:  Little rabbit foo foo went through the wood and pick him on the head and felt him. Or something.    I can live with this if it’s just orange and red leaves.  Flowers. Whatever.
Frarochvia:  I do like some individual motifs but I would never wear this as a collar.
Tiphanie:  Why the hell would I want to stick leftover yarns on my collar?
Frarochvia:  And definitely not orange.
Tiphanie:  It doesn’t look orange.  It looks more red.
Frarochvia:  Whatever!  Not that color!  Leaves should not be whatever it is.

HOLEY CABLES

Tiphanie:  It’s cute.  I would wear it but I don’t have any arm  tattoos.
Frarochvia:  I think it’s clever!  We need arm tattoos.  I want one on my left bicep.   Cascade 128.  We would enjoy that.
Tiphanie:  I’m puzzling the pattern out.
Frarochvia:  The seams are in the front and back.  I think it’s so clever.  I love the way it’s made.   Cables- they’re clever!   Um.  I don’t need to tell you what color I first thought of.
Tiphanie:  Pink of course.  Blah!  Try orange!  Yellow!  Neon green! Lime!
Frarochvia:  No yellow or orange.   Or I’ll make you knit it in barf yellow.
Tiphanie:  Ooh.  Tart granny apple green shade.
Frarochvia:  Okay that I would accede to.  Granny smith green is fun.

NEW YORK HAT

Frarochvia: It’s a really cute hat. I would coo if I saw it in person. But for me? No
Tiphanie: Well.  It’s different.  You gotta admit that it’s different.
Frarochvia:  Yes, it definitely is.
Tiphanie:  Two directional hat.   I don’t see many two directional hats.
Frarochvia:  And I applaud that.   Maybe with plain or something like Lamb’s Pride…but not this yarn.  Just really dislike the yarn.  But can see using Rowan kidsilk haze with Cascade 220.

R31

Frarochvia:  I think it’s useful.
Tiphanie:  I’m okay with it but I think about lint. I suppose that the computer fan can blow lint out.
Frarochvia:  Hahahahahahaha.   I would probably make a felted tote sleeve rather than this but it is a clever little design.   Other than the boring color.  It should be… Pink!
Tiphanie:  *rolling my eyes* You and your Pink Vendetta.

WADERS SOCKS

Tiphanie:  I like the pattern.   Same idea as dyeing as me. Dyeing over ugly colors.
Frarochvia:  I like the socks.
Tiphanie:  Especially when it’s toe up.

twenty four hours with the granddaddy of all neck cricks

 10:00

Dream about adopting a long narrow headed and long straight furred body doggy and naming him Pollock.  What breed is this dog? Anyone?

11:00

Wake up pretzeled around the purring form of Picasso.  Notice a neck crick.  I get those sometimes.  No big deal, I’ll just rotate my neck and move around my shoulders.

11:01

Notice that the routine strategy is a Very Bad Idea as pain comes in bright waves if I move my neck at all.

11:09

Hold my neck with my hands just so I can go to the bathroom.

11:15

Whining copiously, I move to the sofa and gingerly arrange myself onto pillows.

12:00

Put ice onto the neck, because I still can’t move it an iota without pain.

12:40

Eat lunch, in a fashion that is surely comical if anyone was watching me.  Ingest hydrocodone and a muscle relaxant.

12:46

Take a picture of my hunched over form, documenting how my neck is twisted to the right and is bent over.

1:13

Accidentally learn by moving my head without thinking, that despite beginning to get high on pain medication, I experience lamaze-level pain if I even move.  Scream a few times as I move about, scaring the catchen.

1:27

Think about how comical it would be to go to the emergency room for my neck.  Marvel at my talent.

2:31

Note that my neck still hurts.  Consult Tiphanie about the notion of going to the er.

3:43

Dazedly sit at the bus stop, fresh from washing up and getting dressedand walking, replete with lots of screaming.  Hope feverently that the er will be able to do anything to help.

3:51

Board the bus.

4:04

Plot how to murder the bus.  Fail miserably at progressing past my first plan, which is pointing at the bus and saying, “die, bus, die!”  Feel every bump and lurch the bus drives over in my neck.  Become fairly nauseous.  Ponder that whole dramaqueeny thing again.

4:08

Take another picture of my hunched over form.

4:17

Wonder about the etymology of “he’s a pain in the neck”.

4:27

Checked in, I wait for the triage nurse. I feel sufficiently miserable, thank you.

4:50

Learn that lipreading is a very exciting artform when my head is bent forward.

5:05

Got morphine and a muscle relaxant and a anti-puke shot. Oooo.

5:13

Watch as it snows, whilst waiting for the bus.  Test out the neck to see if the shots work yet. Short answer: no.

5:33

More range of movement returning. I love shots. At least this was a good short-term help.

6:09

Sit on the sofa, ready for the Kiefer’s appearance in 51 minutes. Wrench my neck a fair bit. Ow! The pain!  But at least I’m becoming more comfortable, thank you, as I sit and hurt a bit less.

The following takes place between 7 pm and 9 pm on the day of the Crickfest:

Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland.

10:50

Lying in bed mostly asleep from the meds, I declare self much better, if not yet fine.  This will count as a very good thing.  Bleah!

6:04

Wake up and take more pain meds, eating some crackers to keep my stomach happy.

7:38

Write emails that are nonsensical.  Including this prime example:  But when it huers I just follow what other pin

What was THAT about?

10:22

Wake up again. Notice I still have crackers in my mouth.  Feel amazed I fell asleep that quickly.

Winter Knitty

*the blog minion is back!!! Yay!!! with a few posts to do!  Some may be backdated… for meaningfulness… *   

CENTER SQUARE

Tiphanie:   Eh.  It’s okay.  I don’t like the hat.
Frarochvia:  I like the bottom motifs.
Tiphanie:  I know you do.  You got a thing for circles and it’s even pink.   Circles and pink!
Frarochvia:  I would do it in a bag maybe.
Tiphanie:  You’re obsessed with bags.   Knit a damn sweater for a change!
Frarochvia:  Yes ma’am! The top of it has room for improvement.  But I like the basic idea.
Tiphanie:  It’s really easy- to do Fair Isle.  You can even do circles.  You used to whine about how you wanted to knit circles so you had to take up crocheting.   Circles!
Frarochvia:  Circles in stand alone shapes, silly girl.  But mmmm circles.

CALORIMETRY

Tiphanie:   Calorimetry- maybe.  I may try one for myself.
Frarochvia:  I hate Calorimetry.   I don’t see the point.
Tiphanie:  You got short hair that’s why.  If you put your hair up in a bun, or in a ponytail, it’s hard to find a hat to keep your head warm.   I like buns and French twists.  You don’t do ponytails.
Frarochvia:  You look good in them unlike me.
Tiphanie:  Yep.  You hate it because you don’t see the point.  Me, I’ll try one.
Frarochvia:  Your hair is uh, coarser.   And that means it holds hairdos better.
Tiphanie:  Now you’re fugging my hair.
Frarochvia:  I’m not fugging! I’m saying!
Tiphanie:  Hehe.  I find myself wondering about that button/clasp.  I don’t want to wear anything that would catch on my hair.  Sometimes I have trouble with sweaters with a button in the back.  Even a necklace.
Frarochvia:  Why can’t it be a tube?
Tiphanie:  Because she wanted to unbutton it without dragging it over her nice hairdo.
Frarochvia:  Ah yes.

HEXED

Tiphanie:   I don’t like Hexed.   It looks like a rhino’s foot.  With purple toenails.    It’s perfect for Flattop [from Dick Tracy].
Frarochvia:  I like the pattern head on but don’t like the hat.  If that makes sense.
Tiphanie:  If she wanted a hexed hat, why not do hexagons and half hexes?
Frarochvia:  Half hexes, good idea.  Maybe I’ll try it myself.

ANTIFREEZE

Tiphanie:  Just don’t wear it in dangerous areas or you would be shot by a cop.  Black- bad idea.
Frarochvia:  Hehehehe.  The thought passed my mind that it was extremely practical.
Tiphanie:  Why not do a pink version.  A thief won’t wear a pink ski mask you know.
Frarochvia:  Realistically I would prefer a neckwarmer/scarf/hat/uberscarf combination.   I wonder about my glasses fogging up.   If I were skiing I’d definitely make it.   But uh since the odds of that is only slightly less than the odds of me winning the lottery, I might not.
Tiphanie:  You should knit it anyway.
Frarochvia:  Hmmm.
Tiphanie:  If you hate it, you can frog it.  Or save it as a gift for a friend who ski.
Frarochvia:  Maybe I should.   It’s a good cold weather thing.  IN PINK DAMMIT.   This is one item that really would benefit from pink. Pink with grey trim.

BINARY

Tiphanie:   It’s nice for a computer geek but not for me.  You got a thing for Matrix.  Knit it.
Frarochvia:  Letters, not binary.
Tiphanie:  So? Just replace numbers with letters.
Frarochvia:  Maybe I should see if anyone has a chart for Matrix.  If not, maybe *gulp* I should make that a project.
Tiphanie:   Buy some chart papers and chart yourself.

ARGOSY

Tiphanie:  Argosy I like.   Say the word, Noro, and I’m yours.
Frarochvia:  I like it a lot.
Tiphanie:  I like it but not enough to entice me to knit another scarf.   It’s on my list of potential projects but not A MUST KNIT project.
Frarochvia:  You’re scarved out? Oh come on, you know you wanna.  Noro Silk Garden Lite!
Tiphanie:  Maybe.  I’m picky about scarf patterns/color choices.  I want a scarf to show off its colors.   It’s different- something different, Not a simple garter scarf.
Frarochvia:  Yes.   This is a big winner for me.

CORAZON

Tiphanie:  Eh.  I’ll pass.  Sorry.
Frarochvia:   Eunny’s are much better.
Tiphanie:  I doubt that I would even want to knit a pair of mittens. If I want to do a pair, I’ll probably go with Eunny’s Amemoi.
Frarochvia:  Hers are so unusual I’d enjoy the knit.
Tiphanie:  So what makes this pair [Corazon] different from others?
Frarochvia: One other problem is the colors are so washed out.  Hard to see the pattern.

TIFFANY

Tiphanie:  I don’t like Tiffany.
Frarochvia:  I actually like the Fair Isle in the main pattern but the colors are wrong.
Tiphanie:  Colors easy to change.
Frarochvia:  Maybe for a bag or a hat.  Definitely a bag.
Tiphanie: *sigh* You and your bag fetish.
Frarochvia:  I would do this whole thing into a bag, flipped around with the thick band on top. I know.  I’m sorry I have a fetish.  *hangs head* (blog minion: but but… she has a sock fetish TOO!!  hehe)
Tiphanie:  You’re talking about turning everything into a bag.  You may as well as send me all of your lace yarns and your sock yarns.
Frarochvia: Nooooooooooo!

LEGWARMER SOCKS

Tiphanie:  Legwarmer socks??
Frarochvia:  I did kind of like that. *shrinks from shame* but because then I could have no cold air.   I see it as something practical, but then wouldn’t a knee high work just as well? (blog minion: seee seee!!! proves my point, she’s got a sock fetish TOO!!)
Tiphanie:  Yeah.  Can see you loving them.  Socks with free toes.
Frarochvia:  Yeah.  Because I get hot in bed with encased toes.  So it just seems practical, wearing with flip flops against the cold floor.

ROLLING THUNDER

Tiphanie:  I wouldn’t mind a pair but not really a priority or a must for me.
Frarochvia:  The garter rib is what caught my eye not the motif. Can’t really see the motif.  I like this.  Not a must, but I like.

MONKEY

Frarochvia:  I love the monkey socks.  Cookie’s socks are always so great.   She did Hedera, Herringbone, Pomatomus, and now this.
Tiphanie:  She should charge for her patterns.  I would buy her patterns.
Frarochvia:  I know!  She would be rich.  She’s for socks what Bonne Marie is for sweaters and Mim is for shawls.

EIFFEL

Tiphanie:  I’m okay with the body but the arms blah.
Frarochvia:  I like it without the patterned sleeves.  If the sleeves stopped at the ribbons, it’d be a great spring sweater.
Tiphanie: It’s cute   I may wear it over a long sleeved tee.
Frarochvia:  I’d wear it with a tank top.  I have a really nice one that has built in underwire bra.  I like the idea of the close fitting slightly long short sleeves.

LAUREN

Tiphanie:  Aiee.  Lauren’s ugly.  Chunky handspun.  I don’t like.
Frarochvia:  Hate it.
Tiphanie:  Why is the back longer than the front?
Frarochvia:  Shapeless.
Tiphanie:  To hide your underwear? When you sit down with your hip huggers?
Frarochvia:  butt flap.  Like how shirts are made.  I don’t like it.
Tiphanie:  Using handspun for trimming, I’m fine with – but this looks terrible.
Frarochvia:  I like the idea of fusion.
Tiphanie:  A butt flap and a collar?  Is it a sailor collar? Or a shawl on your shoulders? I mean, if she’s going to do a butt flap, why not do it on the front?  What’s up with that butt flap?
Frarochvia:  Because your bum isn’t on the front.   I would use handspun on wrists.  Or on the collar.  But not down the front like that.
Tiphanie:  Why the butt flap?  You sit on that handspun.  To prevent sitting on stinky school seats?
Frarochvia:  Or maybe yes down the front, but it’s not the way it should be.
Tiphanie: I hate the wrist slits.  And I hate the collar.  It’s a HUGE collar.  Collar.  Butt flap. Slit wrists.  Oh this is painful.    A big collar that wraps the shoulder.  Wide front panels.  Split belled cuffs. And a bum flap.  Terrible. Terrible.
Frarochvia:  I need brain bleach or I *will* slit my wrists.
Tiphanie: This would be a better sweater if she used handspun only for wrists and for the collar.  No bum flaps!

EMERALD

Frarochvia:  I think the Emerald is a much better idea for what an at-home sweater should look like.  I like emerald.  I probably would omit the button and knit one size larger.
Tiphanie:  I don’t like the huge button but it’s easily remedied. Looks pretty comfy.  I probably won’t knit but if I see someone wearing it I will admire it.
Frarochvia:  I like it for an at home sweater.  Not at the top of my list but I like it.
Tiphanie:  What’s even important- it’s butt flap free.  What’s the purpose of a butt flap?  I want to know why a butt flap exists.    I shall research!
Frarochvia:  Ask Sally Melville.  So many things she makes have butt flaps.  Including the asymmetrical stuff that made you claw your eyes
out.

TWINKLETOES

Tiphanie:  Cute but um.  No way am I going to put them on every night. Laces would cut in my legs.  Why not do ribbons?
Frarochvia:  Twinkletoes.  It would quickly become a cat toy in the Frarochvia household.   Hate them.
Tiphanie:  Can see doing them for a wee lass.  But on me?  Nah.
Frarochvia:  Ah she added uh, the square thick things on the soles?
Tiphanie: If I needed a last minute gift for a girl, I’ll just run to a bookstore and get a book.
Frarochvia:  Can see it for a ballerina wannabe little girl.  I’d make it only only if it was greatly wanted.  And even then, wouldn’t a store bought with leather soles be safer?
Tiphanie:  Probably twenty bucks or so.  Used to take ballet classes.
Frarochvia:  Used to be a modern dancer.  I used to have a pair with leather soles.

SPANISH DANCER

Tiphanie:  It’s beautiful.   I would do it.
Frarochvia:  Yes.  I think it’s actually a great use of a variegated yarn.
Tiphanie:  Seven skeins of Claudia hand painted yarns.  Pricey so I’ll probably go with something else.
Frarochvia:  Perfect travel shawl.   Memories would be perfect.  Stretches? So what.   Thin and light but warm.
Tiphanie:  1204 yds total.
Frarochvia:  It’s not “lace” but I like it a lot.  I got a catalog somewhere lemme check. 7 hanks of memories.  $28. Sold!

SLINGSHOT

Tiphanie:  it’s cute.
Frarochvia:  Slingshot is cute but at the same time I go um wtf.
Tiphanie:  you don’t drink coffee while dashing around.  I do! And yeow!  Useful when you need to carry a lot of stuff.  I like it but I may not knit it.
Frarochvia:  Wouldn’t it tilt and risk spilling?
Tiphanie:  It’s to carry HOT coffee and I would prefer for it to spill on the ground rather than on my hand.  You don’t have to get a wad of napkins to hold the cup. (blog minion: I’ve wanted one of these for a long time, well, two, actually.  One for holding hot drinks.  One for holding VERY cold pints of ice cream.  *G* I’d want mine without a strap, because I’d be sitting here or in bed munching/drinking and reading.)

BABE

Tiphanie:   I don’t care for hockey so who cares.  But I wonder- will the blades cut thru the felted pieces?  I suppose that she can knit more.
Frarochvia:  I was thinking about the cutting factor.

VENEZIA

Tiphanie:  Oh napkin rings.  Cute and it’s cover but I think that I may prefer to get Modesitt’s book.
Frarochvia:  Venezia is great. But you’ll be doing all the metal knitting.
Tiphanie:  Yeah.  I wouldn’t mind trying knitting with wire.

BROWN BAG

Frarochvia:  I love Brown Bag, just for the quirkiness.
Tiphanie: I would probably throw it out by accident.
Frarochvia:  Brown Bag makes me laugh.
Tiphanie:  Now that’s what I like about quirky designs.  Approved!
Frarochvia:  This is what I like too.  It’s something you don’t notice on first glance.  It’s not trying too hard to be cool.
Tiphanie:  Yeah.  It’s a clever twist.
Frarochvia:  It’s something I hadn’t thought of doing but now I see it? Love it.  The button thing is good too.

STARSKY JR.

Tiphanie:  It’s cute.
Tiphanie & Frarochvia:  [talking about the Starsky Sr. version for the
next 30 minutes]

BLENDED HUES

Frarochvia:  It’s cute but I wouldn’t make it.  It’s an effect that relies more on the yarn than anything.
Tiphanie:  Yeah.  You would have to buy actual yarns to recreate this but it’s cute.
Frarochvia:  Yeah it is.  I just feel it limits creativity.  Or rather, you’d really have to swatch a lot for a similarly good result.

PIGGLE

Tiphanie: *giggle* Cute for a little girl.
Frarochvia:  It is cute.   But I’m not knitting one for you.

NORBERTA

Frarochvia:  I love Norberta.  It just cracks me up.
Tiphanie:  I would knit it! And then keep it for myself!
Frarochvia:  Norberta.  The name is soo funny.  And then the dragon itself.
Tiphanie:  Norberta-   Harry Potter.  Norbert.
Frarochvia:  Aaaa!  Love.

SHELDON

Frarochvia:  Sheldon looks wrongly proportioned.  Huge head.  Tiny legs.  The shell looks smaller.
Tiphanie:  Deformed.   Chemicals in sea.    A poor deformed turtle with no tail.   I like the turtle and the removable shell.   Is the shell a choking hazard?
Frarochvia:  Sheldon The Turtle  OMG.  I love the angry angry catchen picture.
Tiphanie:  I guess that the size of the head depends on the knitter. Overzealous in stuffing the head or not.
Frarochvia:  They’re still all deformed.

BOOK OF KNITTY

Tiphanie:  Heh.  Good way of using up swatches.
Frarochvia:  *dies laughing* You were supposed to rant about that one. That was the worst one blech.
Tiphanie:  Nah.  I like it.
Frarochvia:  *shudder*
Tiphanie:  Good way of using up swatches!  Probably a good way of keeping a baby out of knitter’s stash.   And if the baby ruins a project, the knitter can just add the project to the book.
Frarochvia:  It still sucks.

it’s a wild ride with the Kiefer

My friend Matt and I watched the Kiefer’s season six premiere together
via im. Whew!

 ———————- 6:50 pm ———————-
frarochvia: I’m parked in front of the tv
frarochvia: Ready for the Kiefer
 ———————- 6:59 pm ———————-
insaneraph: *prepares for Jackgasm*
frarochvia: Eric Balfour! WOOHOO!
frarochvia: Whoa!
 ———————- 7:05 pm ———————-
frarochvia: Milo! *drool*
insaneraph: Chloe! *drool*
insaneraph: Bzzt *ack*
frarochvia: Milo is amazing with his hair
frarochvia: The action is amazingly fast so far
insaneraph: Certainly started with a bang
frarochvia: Yeah
frarochvia: Wayne’s the president? wow
frarochvia: Nooooo! No guns on the Kiefer!
insaneraph: Curtis!   Bill!
frarochvia: The Kiefer! Oooo! He’s tortured. Poor guy.
frarochvia: His hand… Ooh.
frarochvia: You’ll have to tell me if he sounds hoarse
insaneraph: nothing yet
frarochvia: I know
frarochvia: Poor Kiefliciousness
frarochvia: Whoa.
insaneraph: quiet, not too hoarse
frarochvia: Mm
frarochvia: Damn
insaneraph: damn
insaneraph: All he needs is jeans, shirt, and his man bag
frarochvia: *laughs*
frarochvia: Fucking intense
 ———————- 7:18 pm ———————-
insaneraph: Ooooo
frarochvia: Bitch fight!
 ———————- 7:21 pm ———————-
frarochvia: *drools copiously at the sight of Eric Balfour*
insaneraph: Question is how did he keep that muscle mass under torture?
frarochvia: Indeed.
frarochvia: He sorta looks like Forrest Gump with his shirt like that
insaneraph: I think the time frame is two years later
insaneraph: snerk
frarochvia: No, it’s definitely 2 years later
frarochvia: The Kiefer is depressed
insaneraph: Laf, you weren’t only one to say Forrest Gump
frarochvia: Who else said it?
insaneraph: Also from fark:  Hi Jack, you’re hosed.  Unless you pull this out of your ass.  Good luck.
frarochvia: Blah blah angst. Shut up, Wayne.
insaneraph: Dude has a mad on about Jack dying
frarochvia: As if it was news
frarochvia: Fracas! Dissent!
frarochvia: Depressed Forrest Kiefer
frarochvia: Yeah
frarochvia: Angst! Shut up, Bill!
frarochvia: Today is a good day to die!
insaneraph: snerk
frarochvia: Worf Kiefer
insaneraph: Work that neck pinch
frarochvia: That’s our Kiefer, with the death wish we know and love.
insaneraph: Tempted to put 24 in my game rental queue
frarochvia: Why not
insaneraph: It supposedly didn’t do so hot, but I’ll give it a try
insaneraph: Prudential commercial was open captioned.  Odd.
frarochvia: Yeah? Weird
frarochvia: Not that I’d have noticed either way
 ———————- 7:31 pm ———————-
frarochvia: Deathwish Kiefer!
insaneraph: Be glad you can’t hear that ;p
frarochvia: Streotypical racial violence!
frarochvia: Shut up racial stereotyping. Where’s the Kiefer?
frarochvia: No mistakes! The Kiefer must die! So sayeth the Bill!
insaneraph: snort
insaneraph: Go Brit guy
frarochvia: He’s a brit?
insaneraph: Accent, at least
frarochvia: Forrest Deathwish Kiefer!
insaneraph: Jack go splat?
frarochvia: See Kiefer.  See Kiefer perpwalk.  Forrest Kiefer Forrest.
frarochvia: *laughs*
frarochvia: Wtf kind of run/walk was that
insaneraph: Dude, bad guy rule #1.  You have the good guy at your mercy, WASTE HIM!
frarochvia: Aw. He’s bloody and it’s only been 37 minutes.
frarochvia: Yeah, no kidding
insaneraph: Uh oh
insaneraph: Bad Brit boy
frarochvia: They’re on to him already?
insaneraph: yup
frarochvia: *dies again from the Eric Balfour cute*
frarochvia: Umbelievably cute Eric Balfour. *purrrrrrr*
insaneraph: Chloe and Morris are FUBARED
frarochvia: What was the subtitle?
insaneraph: missed
insaneraph: clock I think
frarochvia: Me too
frarochvia: No it wasnt
frarochvia: She spoke in arabic
insaneraph: was looking here
frarochvia: Captions helpfully told me that right on top of the subtitle
frarochvia: Chloe, the Kiefer, he must die. So sayeth the Bill.
 ———————- 7:42 pm ———————-
insaneraph: Fark:  Chloe is sad!  Bill is mad!  Morris is bad?
frarochvia: *laughs*
frarochvia: Chloe, why do you hate America? Let the Kiefer die!
insaneraph: Subtitles were “Where’s your honor?”
frarochvia: Thanks
frarochvia: I thought there was no honor amongst terra-ists and government employees
frarochvia: Bill: the Kiefer is not dead yet! Dammit!
insaneraph: “Say, wanna get dinner tonight?”
frarochvia: Awwwwww,  half shirted Kiefer. Not so much with the Forrest anymore.
frarochvia: Ooooo. Torture.  So. It’s to be torture.
insaneraph: eep
insaneraph: Didn’t we do this in the third season already?
frarochvia: Yeah, I was just thinking that. Don’t you mean season 2?
frarochvia: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
insaneraph: whatever ;p
frarochvia: *shudders*
insaneraph: ow
frarochvia: Season 2 was naked torture Kiefer
frarochvia: You need to tell me what kind of screaming it was
insaneraph: NYARGH!
insaneraph: As such
frarochvia: The bad man is speechifying.
frarochvia: Ooooooooooo
frarochvia: The Kiefer has just learned his death will be meaningless.
frarochvia: Wuh woh.
insaneraph: *twitch*
frarochvia: *fans self* Eric! Call me!
insaneraph: Someone is about to go boom
insaneraph: Naturally, it’ll be the wrong person
frarochvia: Yep.
frarochvia: Of course. Because it’s hour 1.
frarochvia: Hee.
frarochvia: *shudder*
insaneraph: Saved by the dickwad
frarochvia: *lets breath out*
frarochvia: The Kiefer! Escape!
frarochvia: Oh frell. The innocent guy wasn’t innocent.
insaneraph: blink
insaneraph: And whitebread family going boom
frarochvia: I so did NOT see that coming
frarochvia: The Kiefer!
frarochvia: He’s getting feisty.
insaneraph: DUDE
 ———————- 7:52 pm ———————-
frarochvia: And possibly vampireish.
frarochvia: DUUUUUUUUDE
insaneraph: He’s a vampire again!!!
frarochvia: *laughing*
frarochvia: Wow, I guess the Kiefer is a lost boy, not a Forrest
insaneraph: Entire fark: VAMIPRE JACK!
frarochvia: Took the Kiefer 52 minutes to get his groove back
frarochvia: *fans self*
insaneraph: Jack’s loose, we likely have a barrage of copter missiles coming down on suburbia, oh yeah
frarochvia: I should be creeped out and stuff but mostly I’m all duuuuuuuuuude
insaneraph: Meanwhile, Ghost Rider?  NICHOLAS CAGE???
frarochvia: With a good side of Eric Balfour. Mmmmm.
frarochvia: Oh that was Nicholas Cage? Wtf
frarochvia: Ack! There’s dead President Palmer!
frarochvia: Not to be confused with dread pirate Roberts
insaneraph: snort
insaneraph: And now, five minutes of bullshit ;p
frarochvia: Five minutes of breathing.
frarochvia: Shut up, commercials. I need Eric or the Kiefer now. *twitch*
insaneraph: Fark: That makes up for the lack of Jack Kill, quality over quantity
insaneraph: Oooer
frarochvia: *laugh*
frarochvia: Definitely quality
frarochvia: Stay strong, Kiefer!
insaneraph: Blood is a good breakfast, high in iron and vitamins
frarochvia: *laughs*
frarochvia: That’s what you get for doing the bad guy speech. Duh!
frarochvia: Eric Balfour is a cast member! Eric! CALL ME!
frarochvia: *whimpers*
insaneraph: Ooo, Bashir is in here
frarochvia: He is?
insaneraph: Yup
frarochvia: I didn’t see Alexander Siddig in the credits but I got distracted
insaneraph: During the coming out run by
frarochvia: Poor scarred Kiefer
frarochvia: Point Bashir out ok
insaneraph: if I recognise him
 ———————- 8:02 pm ———————-
frarochvia: Try not to sound too happy, Wayne
frarochvia: You should have seen him, Karen
frarochvia: Kill the Kiefer! Kill the Kiefer!
frarochvia: Crap. He’s gonna try to save Assad
frarochvia: Oh, Kiefer.
insaneraph: Oh you’re fucking kidding me ;p
frarochvia: Hm?
insaneraph: This is so gonna fucking rock ;p
frarochvia: Yup
frarochvia: Shut up, american dupe.
frarochvia: The Kiefer! Kick ass!
frarochvia: Run Kiefer run!
insaneraph: That’s Bashir I think
frarochvia: Limping terrorist. Obviously a bad guy.
insaneraph: or not
frarochvia: No, it wasn’t
frarochvia: Shut up aerial soldier.
frarochvia: Bashir!
insaneraph: He’s Assed
insaneraph: er Assad
frarochvia: *laughs*
insaneraph: damn my typing
frarochvia: Yell, Kiefer, yell!
frarochvia: No love like terra-ist love
frarochvia: Shoot! Shoot!
frarochvia: Or kidnap, kidnap, that works for me too.
frarochvia: Mmmmmm destruction
 ———————- 8:12 pm ———————-
frarochvia: Exciting!
insaneraph: One missle?  What happened to our honorable tradition of bombing back to the stone age?
frarochvia: *laugh* well it’s Los Angeles. You don’t want to go too overboard.
insaneraph: Like LA will notice
frarochvia: Hahahahahahaha
insaneraph: “I didn’t know they were filming here!”
frarochvia: Ah, this is true.
frarochvia: Brings new meaning to a furious thunder.
insaneraph: I’m still amazed at Hugh Laurie in House.  I’ve nearly wet myself watching him do comedy
frarochvia: Yeah?
insaneraph: And he’s British, but does a flawless american accent
frarochvia: Commander Lock!
frarochvia: Oh!
frarochvia: Burrrrrrn
insaneraph: Ooo, playing the David card
frarochvia: That guy is Commander Lock from the Matrix
insaneraph: Ooo, yup
insaneraph: Oooo
frarochvia: Kiefer is not dead! Assad is not dead! Our day is ruined!
frarochvia: Hey it’s the patented red terra-ist van from season 1!
 ———————- 8:24 pm ———————-
insaneraph: Fark:  Just a kiss on the cheek?  If I was gonna die for someone I’d expect at least buttsex
frarochvia: *laughs*
frarochvia: they’re saving themselves for Kiefer
frarochvia: For you know, an uh, love bite.
frarochvia: Kiefertime!
frarochvia: Terrorists prefer uhaul.
frarochvia: Awwwww
frarochvia: Kiefer is ashamed.
insaneraph: What, never saw scars before? ;p
frarochvia: Yeah, I know. Mmm man-love
frarochvia: Chloe is glad! Bill is mad!
insaneraph: Morris, though, IS HE BAD?
frarochvia: *laughs*
insaneraph: snerk
frarochvia: Oh Kiefer.
insaneraph: Ow
frarochvia: I guess being tortured doesn’t make him chary of torturing.
frarochvia: Aw
insaneraph: I think it’s like you need to be tasered or pepper sprayed
before being allowed to use it
frarochvia: *laugh*
insaneraph: OW
frarochvia: Where did Assad put the knife?
frarochvia: Oh, Kiefer.
insaneraph: Knee, or worse
frarochvia: Damn.
frarochvia: Well, there’s our unholy alliance.
insaneraph: So, how does one properly put a body in a uhual so it doesn’t flop around?
frarochvia: *laughs*
 ———————- 8:34 pm ———————-
frarochvia: Strapping probably comes in handy. Extra charge, though.
insaneraph: Maybe it works better in quantity
insaneraph: You know, have them all pressing against each other
frarochvia: That sounds vaguely sensual.
insaneraph: heh
insaneraph: “Jack!  Twist my nipples!  PLEASE!”
frarochvia: *laughs*
insaneraph: I want magic deleting OS
frarochvia: Hanky panky!
frarochvia: Dude, no kidding.
frarochvia: Wow, she confessed to her crime
frarochvia: That was fun
frarochvia: If exceedingly brief.
insaneraph: Fark: Hi, FedEx here.  Package for Mr. Jack Bauwa from China.  I think it’s your balls.  Sign here please.
frarochvia: Snerk
insaneraph: uh oh
insaneraph: Magic wall package
frarochvia: That’s never good
frarochvia: Ow!
frarochvia: Ow some more!
frarochvia: Gun! Should have seen that coming, american dupe.
insaneraph: I think self defense covers this
frarochvia: I agree, even if he’s a terrorist
insaneraph: OW
frarochvia: Whoa!
frarochvia: Ooooo.  Bitter over his name much?
insaneraph: Dammit, does Jack have to save the whiny kid again?
frarochvia: He’s exceeded his quota
frarochvia: I vote no. Let the whiny kid die!
insaneraph: Everyone on Fark wants Behrooz to show up and start capping ass ;p
 ———————- 8:44 pm ———————-
frarochvia: *laughs*
frarochvia: Duuuuuude.
frarochvia: I want Shohreh Aghdashloo!
insaneraph: I’m waiting for Ms. pardoned three frigging times already to show up
frarochvia: Who’s that?
frarochvia: Oh
frarochvia: Nina
frarochvia: She’s dead!
insaneraph: oh?
frarochvia: She died in season 3
frarochvia: Kiefer accidentally executed her a few times. Blam blam!
insaneraph: Must have my characters mixed
frarochvia: By accidentally I mean except not, of course
frarochvia: Terrorist dude, you just don’t understand Kiefer’s death wish.
insaneraph: Mandy, that’s who I’m thinking of
frarochvia: Aha!
frarochvia: Mandy’s still alive, as far as I know
frarochvia: Nina’s very dead. Sherry’s very dead.
insaneraph: But yah, want Mandybitch to show up and set Jack off ;p
frarochvia: Whoa, wait, how did Assad get a car?
insaneraph: “I want immunity!” “Immune this…”
frarochvia: Mandy and Kiefer in a bathroom, KISSING
frarochvia: And stuff.
frarochvia: And 1 hour 50 minutes before Kiefer took out the federal agent mojo
frarochvia: Fight! Fight!
frarochvia: Awesome
insaneraph: dude
frarochvia: I liked that
frarochvia: Milo!
frarochvia: *fans self*
insaneraph: Okay, where’s our second hour twist/cliffhanger
frarochvia: Word
frarochvia: Here it is.
insaneraph: “Whoops.”
frarochvia: That’s not a twist. We knew that. Shut up, angst.
 ———————- 8:55 pm ———————-
frarochvia: Ya think!?! It’ll get worse? Only a tiny bit.  Maybe some mustard on your shirt from here on.
frarochvia: No twist. Booooooo.
insaneraph: Fark: So, the team of Jack and Assad will be known as
Jackass
frarochvia: *laughs*
insaneraph: Also fark:  Jack shoulda punched bomb dude out the door, turned, and said “NO TICKET!”
frarochvia: *laughs*  I love it.
insaneraph: From an Indy Jones movie ;p
frarochvia: Come on. Shut up, commercials.
insaneraph: But still perfectly applicable
frarochvia: I know.  The crusade one
frarochvia: Less commercials. More Kiefer.  Come on.
frarochvia: A prisoner transport?
insaneraph: Uh oh, big ass boom coming
frarochvia: A stunning ending changes everything? But it doesn’t end tomorrow
frarochvia: Mmm. Fun fun.  Can’t wait for tomorrow.

December Magknits

CINNABAR

Tiphanie: I’m actually surprised at myself.  I said that I wouldn’t knit a scarf for me anymore.  Aside from maybe Backyard Leaves.  When I saw this, ahhh I love this.  The color!  Cinnabar!  Color! (blog minion: you sure you wouldn’t rather go to Cinnabon and have their Cinnabons… mmmmm – that’s what the name Cinnabar evokes in my head…)
Frarochvia:  *laugh* I like that it’s reversible.  The color is great too.  And oh yeah.  I got two balls of alpaca/silk I thought about using for this.
Tiphanie:  I find myself preferring reversible scarves.  I love backyard leaves yes but sometimes I need to flip the ends when I’m wearing.   I love the Irish Hiking Scarf too but I want it to look right so I flip the ends too.
Frarochvia:  *laugh* I’d do that too.   I thought about flipping the Irish so that the twists were on both sides.  So I understand.

PARTY LACE SCARF

Tiphanie:  I like the scarf but I’m afraid of knitting this and then losing it.
Frarochvia:  I do too.  But not with the beads. At all.
Tiphanie:  Yeah.  I would probably nix the beads.  I don’t like beads on the ends.
Frarochvia:  Party lace…Rowan kidsilk haze, one skien.  I have one skein of pink Rowan kidsilk in the stash.  This is your cue to groan.
Tiphanie:  Pink Pink.    Crystal bicone.  What’s bicone?
Frarochvia: Two coned?
Tiphanie:  Probably.  We need to ask a bead expert.  I would probably do beads but I would scatter the beads around.  Random placement.
Frarochvia:  No beads for me.
Tiphanie:  Not even pink beads?
Frarochvia: No.

HOURGLASS

Frarochvia:  I liked it.
Tiphanie:  It comes in M and L only.
Frarochvia:  What?!
Tiphanie:  Yep.  Read the description.  M will stretch to fit her Size 10 feet.
Frarochvia: Oh it will *stretch*  Must be stretchy.
Tiphanie:  On my feet and yours.  It would be uh…baggy?
Frarochvia:  Clowny!
Tiphanie:  US 2/2.75 mm.  I would probably go with Size 1 or 2.
Frarochvia: I’d knit it on 2s.
Tiphanie:  Lovely but I’m worried about sizing for smaller feet.
Frarochvia:  Size 1 for me if you’re knitting it .  But yeah.  I’d worry too.   I like the doggy picture on the fridge.
Tiphanie:  Yeah.  The doggy pic’s nice too.

MALAGAITER

Frarochvia:  I know it’s not the most creative pattern but I really liked it.
Tiphanie: *lukewarm response*
Frarochvia:  Still like…Yeah I could knit this in the German handspun maybe?
Tiphanie:  Go for it. You need more warm items anyway.  And then you’ll knit 20 more.  All in pinks of course.
Frarochvia:  Of course.   Which should I do?  Brioche or Pennant. Pennant has I guess different gathering.  Flatter at the bottom.
Tiphanie: I dunno.  Play the random number game.
Frarochvia: You’re no help. (blog minion: me help! me help! do pennant cuz it’s sports season now… even if i hate sports… hehehe.  there! all helped!)

COUNTERPOINT

Tiphanie:  It’s cute.  If I knew anyone who is a classical piano player, I would knit this.
Frarochvia:  I like it a lot.  I would not knit it for me…But the look of it straight on vs. the side is awesome.
Tiphanie:  Agreed.  Illusion knitting’s fun. I wouldn’t mind making one for fun.  But not a piano, or an alien.  Or hearts or something sappy.
Frarochvia:  I think maybe…We would knit the shadow part on different sides, rather than one like in there.  And it’d be less pianoy.  Make sense?
Tiphanie:  Uhhh.  No.
Frarochvia:  No, like the blips are all on one side to present a piano like bbbbbbb.    I’m talking pbpbpbpb.
Tiphanie:  It would be meaningless.  So nah.

RUFFLE BOA

Tiphanie:  Blah.  Not enticing me.   I’m bored with ruffles.  I see ruffles everywhere.  Ruffle this and that.  There’s a ruffled scarf which I like better in the Scarf Style book.  And did I say that I’m bored with ruffles?  Ruffle me bored.
Frarochvia:  It’s cute enough.  That’s all I can say.  I don’t hate it.  But I like the Scarf Style version better.
Tiphanie:  I don’t want one.  Unless it’s BIG and POUFY.   Not skimpy on RUFFLES.
Frarochvia:  I don’t want one either unless it was  huge and pink.
Tiphanie:  The Scarf Style version too skinny.  I WANT GORGEOUS RUFFLES.  BIG AND POUFY.  Oh yes, now you’re talking.
Frarochvia: *giggles*  Hey! You aren’t yelling at me at the pink.  I think you should get Handknit Holidays.   There’s a ruffle one there more like what you want…Huge.  And In Rowan kidsilk haze.   So it’s huge but not heavy.
Tiphanie:   I want a HUGE one.  That people would walk by and say what the hell is she wearing? Is she wearing it or is it wearing her? Ruffles!  (blog minion: Hey, that made me crack up, Tiphanie, as I read this… Make one!!! *enablerenablerenabler*)
Frarochvia:  Handknit Holidays version looks almost like stacked bells.  I love it.
Tiphanie:  What makes this Ruffles boa different from others?
Frarochvia:  Agreed.  I like the designer and read her blog.  But don’t love this.
Tiphanie:  Ohh.  Stacked Bells.  Now you’re talking.  PINK!
Frarochvia:  Stacked bells,  definitely different.  Enormous pink. We want a pink belled scarf. And we want a handknit sweater. The two should clash horribly, for best effect.
Tiphanie: I want Ruffles to be wide.  5 or 7 inches wide!
Frarochvia:  It’d eat up a lot of yarn, but yes.  Mmmm.
Tiphanie:  So? Lot of yarns yes but we would be sexy Chicks.  Savoir Faire!

EASY GOING POTHOLDERS

Tiphanie:  I’m going to burn my hands.  Messy real fast.  I’m a cook and I’m a messy one.
Frarochvia:  I use a crappy one because I’m lazy.  I really should make a felted mitt.
Tiphanie:  I don’t like potholders.  They look too dainty and too pretty to be used.  Can they be laundered?  Looks too good to be uh used.
Frarochvia:  Sugar n’ Cream.  But you gotta sew and batt.  Too lazy for that.  Why not just sew both sides? (blog minion: what the heck is batt???  it sounds like you’re supposed to sew the stuff then do a baseball game using it as a ball, batting it over and over until it’s properly batted!)

KUREYON-CHAN

Tiphanie:  I admit that it’s cute.  I wouldn’t mind making one for my quick errands when I just want to take my car keys and my DL.  Is the strap long enough to slung over the shoulder? Or is it more of a hand bag?
Frarochvia:  You can make the strap longer.   I could have.  I didn’t.
Tiphanie:  Oh.  I could make the strap shorter.  I like two types of bags:  shoulder bags and handbags.
Frarochvia:  I like the length I knit my kchan to, but I want to knit a second one with the strap long enough across my body.

picassos are weird

This is what I found on the floor this afternoon, a carefully arranged handiwork of Picasso’s.  What does it mean? Is it a signal?  Is there a significance to how close the two mousies are, how they are parallel and facing the same direction?

Or is this a further sign of Picasso’s…. strangeness?

November magknits

Don’t mind us.  We talked, we laughed, we plotted, and then we forgot to post our review.  Hey, at least I didn’t forget my blog password! Tee hee hee.  Hopefully you’ll enjoy this, all the same!

(blog minion: I sneaked in some comments after these two did their review, tee hee!  evil cackle)

COCO

Tiphanie: If I ever knit this and paraded this around in this city, I’m going to be laughed out and mocked.  Then stores will refuse to extend me store credit.
Frarochvia:  I like the cable pattern and would like to knit it for…I don’t know, maybe an afghan square, maybe a scarf.  But the purse itself, no.
Tiphanie:  I hate this purse.   It looks like a big grape zit. It looks like a raisin.  A little square raisin.  A wrinkly raisin purse.  I don’t even like Chanel purses.
Frarochvia:  The chain.  Interesting stabilizing method, tho.  I like the cabling.
Tiphanie:  I don’t like metal chains.
Frarochvia:  Me too.  But if you MUST make a silk purse…
Tiphanie:  It’s fine when you want to pretend that it’s a REAL Chanel.  I don’t get the needlepoint canvas.  It would get dirty fast.  I mean, if she wanted a Chanel purse, why not purchase a Chanel scarf and then line the purse with it?
Frarochvia:  I guess I don’t get the point of uh, homemade faux-label.

STARLIGHT EVENING GLOVES

Frarochvia:   Ah yes.  The starlight.  Not even wool.  That part puzzles me.
Tiphanie:  Not crazy about the gloves.   Saggy elbows.  I love eyelet patterns- cute.  But…
Frarochvia:  Me too.  Plus I think it’d be better without the “seam.” The eyelets are great.
Tiphanie:  If I want to make fancy sexy gloves, why not start with a fancy pattern.  I would even consider making an FnF gloves – and with delicate yarns.  They would look sexy.   With scalloped edges.
Frarochvia:  These are knit at sock gauge.
Tiphanie:  So it’s like wearing a sock on your hand.
Frarochvia:  Pair of GLOVES at sock gauge.
Tiphanie:  I’m fine with fingers and with the hand part.  I doubt that anyone would want to work out fancy lace patterns for hands and fingers.  But for elbows/upper arm sure.
Frarochvia:  It’s not sexy, no.
Tiphanie:  What’s the purpose?   Warm gloves?  Sexy gloves?  It looks more like a pair of warm gloves.   I would prefer to go with a fancy wrap.
Frarochvia:  Whoa, do you see the ribbing at the very cuff of the gloves.
Tiphanie:  Yep. That’s the problem.  See?  That’s why I was thinking of FnF.   With scalloped edging.
Frarochvia:  Or with picot edging.   Picot would be very appropriate. Period-appropriate.   I had antique gloves as a wee bairn with picot edging.
Tiphanie:  Looks like a pair of legwarmers with fingers.  I can live with eyelet stitch legwarmers.
Frarochvia:  I want a pair of sexy gloves but not in cotton.

BLUEBERRY PIE

Frarochvia:   It’s just wrong on many levels.
Tiphanie:  I can accept it as a cute pillow.  A cute throw pillow but a pin cushion?   How big is this?  And do you want to do cabling with tiny needles for this?  It looks unbaked.
Frarochvia:  4×4x4.   It’s cute. Uh, yeah.  It’s cute.  I don’t get it.  It’s cute on the level of…oh wow.
Tiphanie:  I keep on thinking.  Do I want to display this?  With sharp dpns sticking out? (blog minion: Not if you have any children or pets running around!)
Frarochvia:  Gah.  I don’t even want to receive it.
Tiphanie:  Yeah.  You would have given it to Picasso to destroy.
Frarochvia:  I would have.  I do admit as such. (blog minion: after removing the sharp dpns for your own future usage, right??? And his safety???)
Tiphanie:  I can live with this if it’s a sofa pillow.
Frarochvia:  I don’t want an effing blueberry pie pillow.
Tiphanie:  Or may be if it’s a tea cozy.
Frarochvia:  You are strange.   If it was a pie as a tea cozy that’d actually sorta of be cute.  I can’t see myself knitting a whimsy for no reason.

PEEPS

Frarochvia:  I love the peeps socks.  The slip stitches work with the striping well I think.
Tiphanie:   Cute slip stitches but um.  I’m actually shocked that I don’t like the colorway.
Frarochvia:  *gasp*
Tiphanie:  And that is a shock- because I’m the one who said that I would wear anything on my feet.
Frarochvia:  Yes. You are.  Are you Tiphanie?
Tiphanie: [answers some secret questions before Frarochvia's satisfied
that it's actually Tiphanie and not an alien]
Frarochvia:  I think if I did a toe-up sock and it was striping, like my first Koigu pair, I’d like to try this slip pattern.

ROSSNYEV CARDIGAN

Tiphanie:  On me, it would just fall off.   Sloping shoulders.
Frarochvia:  Wait, this is made of sock yarn too.  It would fall off of mine too.  We can modify it to make it more of a v-neck.   Yeah. Look at the back of the sweater.  You totally could make the front panels wider to make it more v-neck.
Tiphanie:  I don’t like the clasp.  It’s a clasp or a hook?  Looks like hook and eye?  It looks more like a sweater for a dancer.
Frarochvia:  WTF is it with hook and eye closure love? PEOPLE!  THAT
STUFF NEVER STAYS ON! (blog minion: maybe they don’t want it to STAY on…)
Tiphanie:  I could wear it but I would need to buy a strapless bra.
Frarochvia:  Why bother, cuz your sweater would just be hanging off of the strapless bra.
Tiphanie:  There’s another detailing that kinda bother me.  See the second picture?  It looks like a braided detailing on the neckline which I like.  I know that it’s not braided but it looks braided.  I think it’s cool.  But see the back? There’s no detailing.
Frarochvia:  There’s nothing.   I know.  I immediately noticed that.

FAKE ISLE HAT

Tiphanie:  By now you probably knitted three of them, hmm?
Frarochvia:  Hate the name with a big white hot passion. Love the hat. I haven’t yet.  CAN YOU BELIEVE IT.
Tiphanie:  I like the fake Fair Isle.  Not exactly novel but really cool-  inspiration.  Enough to make me go hmm.  Now I need more Noro Kureyon.   I don’t have any more.
Frarochvia:  It’s not fake,  that annoys me.  But yes, I like it. I have some Noro Kureyon but finding a contrast 220 would be the interesting part.

KLISA

Tiphanie:  It’s cute.  Not my thing.  It would look horrible on me. Boobs, Boobs, and boobs.  And did I say boobs?
Frarochvia:  We would just look saggy if we weren’t hanging out of it already.
Tiphanie:  Sad looking sack.   Not sexy.   What I think is cool is that she designed it.  It’s perfect for teenagers.
Frarochvia:  It’s great for her, for tiny tiny teenagers.
Tiphanie: Not for me. With my matronly figure.
Frarochvia:  We are not so much with the tiny or the teen. Reubenseque.   It is not a crime.  But this sweater, for us, yes..   We would just be MADE to look saggy even if we had uh, the world’s most spectacular chest.
Frarochvia:  Okay.  Next!  No more going ahhh. Not tiny.  We are spectacular, mmkay.

UNISCARFITY

Tiphanie:  I love the scarf idea but um I don’t get it.  It’s a stitch pattern.
Frarochvia:  Half of me thinks it’s great.  Half of me is like, uh, IT’S A PATTERN?
Tiphanie:  You can find the pattern in one Walker treasury.  I’m sure that you can find the honeycomb brioche stitch in any stitch dictionary.  Walker.  Vogue. Whatever.  I doubt that anyone invented a new stitch lately.
Frarochvia:  No, I’m not gonna worry about invented stitches.   Yeah, I don’t get the pattern thing.  But I –am- glad to be introduced to the pattern, even if that’s contradictory.