So it's 114 degrees in the valley of the sun. You're working the Broadway show that won't ever end ever. You're tired and cranky and you have two 14 hour days ahead of you still. What do you do?
1) Realize that you need to catch up your pictures of your knitwear. Your winter-approrpiate knitwear.
2) Take grainy, unsuitable pictures of it in the air-conditioned bathroom.
3) Realize that they are indeed grainy and unsuitable and the only way you will ever have good pictures is if you go outside. In the sun. With scarves and a stole.
4) Drag someone with you b/c you realize that all your picturees will be complete rubbish if you try to take them yourself. And really, why should you suffer alone?
5) Wear a dark top that seems to suddenly cling to you and your burning fair skin. Hey, who needs sunscreen? You're only going to be out there for 5 minutes, tops.
6) Realize that your partner in crime hasn't used your camera and is paranoid.
7) Realize that your face and body are going to be on the internet so now you're paranoid, too.
8) Retake pictures ad nauseum because the color was off in this one, your butt looked too big in that one, the shadows were destroying the stitch pattern's clarity, cinderblock is the only suitable background in your backyard....
9) Finally compile a collection of suitable pictures. Get them back to the computer and realize they weren't all that great after all, but the idea of going back out and trying again isn't nearly as appealing as sitting inside eating a Klondike bar. (I suppose it's not so much "what would I do for a Klondike bar", as much as what will I NOT do so I can sit and eat the Klondike bar. That list also includes doing the dishes, cleaning the litter box, and working out).
10) Post the pictures anyway.
The Chevron scarf from Last Minute Knitted Gifts in Yarn Pirate (Posie) and Lorna's Laces (Sage). Rolls a bit on the sides and curves quite a bit on one side because the alternating color is just brought up the side and I pulled it tight enough to choke the life from it. The scarf is long enough to wrap around my neck and still land in the front.
Next, a short-row scarf from here. Knit in Paton's Decor (Secret Garden colorway). Long enough to wrap around to the back. Very fun to knit.
Finally, the stole I knit for my grandmother (modified from the Branching out scarf pattern from knitty.) Knit in Valley Yarns Deerfiled (Lizard Green). I never took pictures before I gave it to her and I don't know if she ever got the chance to wear it, but I will and think of her.
And, actually, there is one more project. Jen wanted the cabled newsboy cap from Stitch and Bitch Nation, so I made it! She wanted basic black. It's made out of Red Heart (the only basic black yarn I had enough of to make it with). I made her promise that if she ever decided she didn't like the yarn, she'd tell me and I'd make her a new one. I also made her model it.
Great knits! And kudos to you for braving the heat and photography accomplices who never make us look as good as we think we should look :-) You look great, by the way!
Posted by: Julia | July 26, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Keep cool my friend... I love what you are doing!!
Posted by: Gina | August 26, 2009 at 09:44 PM