dragons beads and stinky sox

Elle and MJ talked me into this online game called Dragon Cave. I'm still learning the ropes and it's already cutting into my knitting time, so I might have to stop playing soon. But for now, meet my dragon posse:

Michaelangelo
Lucky
Spike
Sky
Ivy II
Lava Junior
Splashface

In more interesting, knitting-related news, I taught myself how to knit with beads and started a ridiculously tiny Beaded Amulet Purse. My first attempt kinda sucked because I didn't realize I was supposed to slip the beads on the WS rows also. It's not essential for aesthetic reasons, but because otherwise the spacing gets wonky. I was almost halfway done with the thing but I was good and frogged it. Now I'm nearly back to where I was before frogging.


(This was taken before the frogging, but it looks pretty much the same now)

Tuesday night I went to the Yankees Red Sox game. We were winning in the first inning, see?

Sigh. At least the sky was beautiful. It was probably my last game in Yankee Stadium, so I took a whole bunch of photos. I'm going to miss that place. I finally learned where our seats are, and now we're leaving. Oh well...

to seam or not to seam?

One of my coworkers is having twins. My first question was, of course, what are you crocheting? Now, she's not a crocheter in the sense of crochets all the time, more like she'll make a baby afghan once a year for a good friend. Anyway, she says she's going to make 1 afghan and they'll have to share it, because it's too much work for her to make 2 and her mom can't crochet that much.

How can you do that to your poor kids, make them share one blanket between them? What do you do when they hit 2 or 3 or 4 years old, and they want their security blanket... and they have to share?

So, I said I'll make the second afghan. Even though normally I don't make baby afghans unless we're related or you're my oldest friend. The next day my coworker comes over and shows me a pattern book - look, this is the one we're making. ::Screech:: Um, it's not crafter's choice? Okay.... The thing is, she picked a pattern with SEVENTY little motifs that you have to seam together.

I do NOT sew. I do NOT like sewing pieces together, and SEVENTY is WAY past my limit. My coworker said she'll sew them together if I crochet them, because it's a big just to not have to crochet all that. But seriously, can I make a pregnant lady sew up all those motifs for me? I feel like she's busy with baby stuff, or even if she has time, she's gonna get cranky that she has to go it and then she'll be pissed at me for not sewing it up myself. Like, who gives a bunch of motifs as a lazy-a** diy baby present?

I reeeeeally hate sewing and seaming. What do I do?

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