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afuna ([personal profile] afuna) wrote2010-10-04 11:28 pm
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Mooooooooooom

OMG.

My mom over dinner: "Hey, so you're knitting right? I don't suppose that you'd have a shawl ready for Tuesday"

Me: *hopeful look, trying to play it cool*
Mom: "...for the birthday of this old lady I know. I don't know what else I can give her. I'll buy it from you."

Burn. BURN! Each sentence as it came out! A knife! Through my heart! A BURNING KNIFE.
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[personal profile] madelienegrey 2010-10-04 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Awh, so cruel! You were hoping that she would want a shawl, no?

Also, I am new to your space, and wanted to wave and say hello!
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[personal profile] james 2010-10-04 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
My partner does something very similar to this. She will say 'I don't suppose you've got a small quilt lying around that I can give to so-and-so next week?' And of course it only takes three days to make a small quilt, but arg, a little more warning would be nice.

I like that she's proud enough of my quilts to want to give them as presents, but jeepers! More than a week's notice, please. Maybe even more than two weeks' notice.

I did finally figure out that my partner will wear hand knit fingerless gloves I make for her. And sometimes hats. But no socks or scarves or anything. Oh well. My mother in law will gleefully take anything I make!
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[personal profile] afuna 2010-10-07 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
*giggles*

And that reminds me, I need to figure out what my partner will wear. I've yet to test the waters on that.

Warning is always awesome *G* So is tiiiime.
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[personal profile] kerravonsen 2010-10-04 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
That is so awful.
(a) As if anyone could knit that fast, well, not without rescheduling other stuff
(b) That it isn't for herself, but for some casual acquaintance
(c) as an afterthought, a scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel afterthought at that
(d) for MONEY. She would probably die if you told her what it would be worth if one got paid per hour for the making of it.

Taking you for GRANTED! Showing she doesn't CARE!

BOOOOOOOO!
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[personal profile] afuna 2010-10-07 08:57 am (UTC)(link)
She tries, but sometimes we just end up on such wavelengths, it is ridiculous!

I don't think that I could ever knit a whole shawl that fast, too, not even if I were to sit down and dedicate all my waking hours to it.

I think the most frustrating part is that it's for someone I don't know! She got me to knit a scarf for my grandpa last Christmas, and that was all sorts of fun because I had a little bit more notice and it was someone whose taste I could gauge. But this was just, eeek.

♥ and thanks
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[personal profile] pinesandmaples 2010-10-05 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Old ladies like flowers. Hrmph.
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[personal profile] afuna 2010-10-07 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
*grin*

I think the absolute worst part of it is that she didn't even refer to her by name, so I knew that I did not know this person at all!
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[personal profile] pinesandmaples 2010-10-07 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Boo.

My family finally understands that my knitting is my hobby, not their personal request line. Which means they will finally get some knit gifts.
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[personal profile] afuna 2010-10-11 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
*grin*

I'm on the opposite end of things. I'm still trying to get up the courage to gift my family members something I've knit. Slowly getting there!
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[personal profile] dreamatdrew 2010-10-05 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Shall I fly out and edumacate your mother?
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[personal profile] afuna 2010-10-07 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
<3

OR you can fly out here and hang out with me :-)
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[personal profile] dreamatdrew 2010-10-07 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
is "and" not an option?
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[personal profile] afuna 2010-10-07 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, AND is now an option :-)
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