Hooray for New Yarn!

[crysthewolf]

So for the first time in evar and evar, I ACTUALLY have a bit of extra cash. I decided I want to spend a teeeeeeensy bit of it, on this site: http://www.knitpicks.com . The self-striping sock yarn makes me go oooo and aaaaaaaah. I’m so excited. I haven’t decided what I want to get yet tho. Here’s the self-striping sock-yarn section… any suggestions?

For the time being I’ve been working on the ever-elusive afghan project (no, it’s not a suicide bomber.  Elana already beat you to that joke, sorry.)  I picked a color, picked a pattern from “Beginner’s Guide - Knit Stitches and Easy Projects“, and this is what I’ve got so far:

From knitting

It makes me happy. I like the horshoe stitch in particular…

From knitting

it just feels very, flow-ey. Is that a word? And if so, am I butchering it? =)

Been mostly working it while Chris and I get caught up on Battlestar Galactica (DO NOT spoil me. I’m only just starting season 3. If you aren’t sure what you’ve seen in which season, JUST DON’T TALK ABOUT IT. I am SERIOUSLY sick of being spoiled on this show, and I WILL eat you.) I’m hoping to be caught up by the finale… and I’m equally hopeful that someone will throw a finale party.

It’s nice to be making an afghan but it’s definitely an exercise in patience. The therapist suggests DO NOT PULL OUT THE PROJECT AND START OVER.

So NOW the question becomes… do I stick with a solid color, or do I vary??? Hmmmm, decisions decisions…

Love,
Crystal

Originally published at Crystal Knits. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[crysthewolf.livejournal.com]

On the one hand... if you feel offended by it, then I would say it's anti-semitic. However, in just a very basic way, I would say that the term itself, without any of the follow up, isn't, necessarily... or, that is to say, if someone says that, in their experience, Jews are good with money, and they perhaps don't KNOW it carries that kind of baggage (I realize it's difficult to imagine that but some people live in a bubble. A hypothetical one, but a bubble nonetheless. ;) ), then is it anti-semitic for them to say it, or is it a stereotype?

Granted, it by far is not a HARMLESS stereotype (few are, really), but I wonder if it doesn't have to go into the baggage, or maybe even if the person saying it doesn't have to feel ill will toward Jews (for, presumably, "not deserving" to be well off) before it becomes true anti-semitism.

Again I say this because I think that anti-semitism is horribly grievous, and I don't want to diminish some of the deep horrific suffering that people have gone through by comparing what they've gone through with an ignorant comment.

...at the same time, that ignorant comment can definitely bring up memories of what people have gone through and what people's families have gone through. But does that make it anti-semitic? ...I'm not sure. Perhaps it does. But I'm cautious to say so, I suppose.

And I just realized I've spent a few entries spelling semitic wrong. Because I'm kindof a moron like that. ;)

...gmail doesn't seem to recognize semitic as a word. That's a little unnerving. ...oh, wait, no... it just wants me to capitalize it. I was about to be concerned. Then again, gmail doesn't recognize gmail as a word, either. Does it want me to capitalize that too? Gmail. Hmm, nope, still has a read line. How odd is that?

[mycybertuffet.livejournal.com]

Actually, I only recently learned how to spell semitic correctly. I'd been misspelling it my whole life.

I think another, similar comparison might be when someone calls Barack Obama "uppity." Automatically, it means something totally different than if someone used the same word to describe, say, John McCain.

If it's truly said in a bubble, then it's not racist. But those bubbles are pretty rare. Even people who claim they weren't aware of the connotation of what they were saying, had most likely gotten the idea to connect those two ideas - Obama and uppity - from somewhere. And it's a lot less likely that he'd connect the word to John McCain.

[crysthewolf.livejournal.com]

Very true.

I'm kindof a compartmentalist. ;) I know, it fails when the rest of the world doesn't, lol.