Strip of something

I'm basically knitting a huge drawstring pouch/bag right now (I hope to be able to fit my boxing gloves in it), and I'm cautiously cheerful so far. I'm at 320 stitches as given by the pattern, and I am at the point where I'm supposed to knit straight for 4". I'm thinking about playing with it and putting in eyelets and stuff (learned the basics of increasing/decreasing over the weekend! \o/ want to practice) but I can't find anything suitable (with the right number of stitches in the pattern) which I can adapt to knitting in the round *rueful*

There is also the issue of needing to adjust any pattern I find so it works in the round, rather than straight knitting. Feather and fan looked okay-ish to try, but I'm having difficulty with the second round; things not lining up not sure if it's because I made a mistake, or it's because I'd tried to adapt it to the round, hehehe.

So maybe I'll just stud the strip with eyelets, in a plain repetition, if I can't figure anything else out. I'll probably play with it a bit more first, though. (I have a hank of yarn which I'm using to try to mock stuff on. Casting on 60 stitches, seeing if it's possible to knit a pattern in the round, tearing everything down... So far nothing has worked! But it is kinda fun to try. But I want to finish my pouch. I am torn.)

Forgetting and not forgetting and getting things done

Oh man! I am sometimes this forgetful, but I am not usually this forgetful all at once. Today I:

* forgot my cellphone at home (bad timing! I was expecting a call today)
* forgot my jacket at home (it is a coooold / windy day, and I have the sniffles, so I really wanted that jacket)
* forgot my umbrella at home (it is also an overcast / rainy day!)

However, I:

* did remember my wallet
* did remember to bring my boxing gloves
* did remember to bring my knitting
* finished preparing everything I need to apply for my first credit card
* have withdrawn a lot of money to console myself
* bought another cup of peppermint mocha

So it is not utterly hopeless :)

A day's worth of Twitter ($5.00)

11:21:11	—	LJ's sending me a message? Slow/giving me blank pages. downforeveryoneorjustme.com says it is just me though, so not really worried.
11:37:18	—	@pir_anha ah! not just me. I was hoping it was just my connection being slow, as it sometimes is. Well, I will wait then. thanks :)
14:31:09	—	jumping from learning about JPA to learning about spring
15:21:37	—	my eclipse installation does not have the update sites! trying to download dependencies one at a time
15:25:25	—	aha there appears to be a better link here: http://bit.ly/2f4Ed8

Total: 5 tweets

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