Waving

I’ve gotten a lot done on the wave border of my South Seas Stole in the last couple of days. The border is just flying along. I only have a repeat or so left to do on the long side, then round the corner, a couple repeats across the top, graft those few stitches, and that’s it. Then I get to block it.

I thought it looked rather nifty laid out across the couch. In real life the beads sparkle quite nicely in that light.

(Sorry about the color in these pictures. The ball of yarn is getting very small, and I didn’t want to move it, so I had to take these pictures in a dark room with only two incandescent lights. I tinkered with the color a bit, and that’s as close as I was able to get.)

I have a whole new appreciation for the amount of work that people like Anne and Mim put into their shawls. And the number of designs they do every year quite blows me away. Not to mention the sheer volume of knitting. I always knew I was a slow knitter—tenacious, but slow—then I started watching Anne’s progress on all the different projects she has going at the same time (and other quick knitters like her), and I’m in awe.

Out with the old

I bought a whole bunch of Tupperware in the 1980s (I think my record was seven Tupperware parties in a year). A whole bunch. So much, if fact, that when I moved from a house into a small apartment in the early 1990s I gave quite a pile of it to a girlfriend. Quite a pile. And I still had tons left. Then Dave and I got together, and he had a number of pieces. Then we cleaned out his mom’s condo a few years back, and got all of her Tupperware. In the end, there’s more Tupperware in our kitchen than we can use in a month (year?).

There are certain pieces that we gravitate toward, that get used a lot more often that the others. Most of these pieces are ones that I got back in the 80s. The lids of those favored pieces have been breaking for a long time. Some top edges have split, some lower edges have cracked and fallen off, one split in two, right down the middle. We’ve been collecting these broken lids for ages. This morning when I pulled out the cereal container, I saw that its lid had bitten the big one.

It was finally time.

I called Tupperware, and gave them the list of broken pieces. I think the gal on the phone was sort of amazed. Some, naturally my favorite trio of bowls, are discontinued. Sigh. I love that set of bowls, too. The good news is that Tupperware stands by their products, and will replace every broken lid. So long as I mail them in. And they’ll replace the containers for the sets that have been discontinued. Those containers need to be mailed in, too. But I’ll get brand new Tupperware back in the mail, for the cost of shipping the old broken pieces out to them. All in all, a reasonable guarantee. Especially considering how much some of these containers have been used.

I am going to miss that bowl set, though. The replacement bowls aren’t the same shape. Bummer.