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[cimorene]

icicles on outdoor area lighting during blizzard last night

The light isn't actually green, usually. I'm not sure what made it turn out like that.

The Crazy Bed is a small cat bed shaped like a cookie tin (you can see it in numerous cat pictures like this one) and it's been lined for a year or so with a piece of discarded knitting (a sweater vest of chunky three-ply beige-taupe yarn) because the Crazy loves this yarn. It's like catnip to her, and she always wants to snuggle it when she sees it, so we sort of used the unfinished vest as a little blanket for her... until Wax took it out and unravelled it, intending to start over and make me a vest that fit better. So I took a skein of the same yarn and crocheted a fitted liner for the bed like a giant bucket hat, with a wide edge that flips out and over the top. The Crazy is now happily snuggled in her refurbished perch under her baby blanket. And I did the entire thing yesterday and this morning, pretty much. We had six hours of tv or so to catch up on, I think. In conclusion: my crocheting is getting fast. I did it for a few hours last night while reading, for the most part without looking at my hands. Muscle memory: it's pretty grate akshully.

Comments

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

Yay! Sounds like you could easily diversify to other sorts of crocheting now, or even knitting. I can try to help with stuff again at some point if you like, but sites like knittinghelp.com (http://www.knittinghelp.com/) are probably more useful than I am. (Sadly I don't know of a similar video tutorial site for crocheting. But crochet stitches are easier to figure out from pictures, anyway.)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah, I haven't really wanted to do anything exotic anyway! I feel like I read a tutorial somewhere on how to resize knits up or down, which could be handy - I have a half-finished cable sweater in Wax's mom's size in the Big Box o' Yarn that I'd like to finish, it'd be a shame to have it go to waste... maybe I want some of those big place holder clips, or needles to hold the edges or something?

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

Have you taken photos of that light before that didn't turn out green? Because it may be that the light IS actually green (in the sense that there is more green in it than other colors) but it looks white to our eyes, because our brain compensates.

It could also just be that the brightness of the light threw off the white balance in the camera, if it does auto-white balance.

Either way, if you wanted it to be not-green, it should be a pretty easy fix with a photo program, since you want to take the green tint out of the whole photo. That said, it's pretty cool looking as is. :)