bunster and the colossal nerd
I must confess, fellow Voxies, that I've been a bit preoccupied lately. I'm wading through that nebulous, disoriented state that goes along with stuffing your life into a bunch of Home Depot boxes. Or rather, trying to remove your life from said boxes and put it back into action.
Distractions abound, of course. In the process of trying to find the perfect new home for X, I'll end up cleaning A, reorganizing B (for the umpteenth time), and discovering somewhere along the way that I never finished dealing with C in the first place. Eventually, defeated and exhausted, I end up plunking X back into the box whence it came.Where is X? Where should X live in the new home?
Other major distractions include, but are not limited to:
- The Great Snape Debate, and Harry Potter in general (tomorrow, tomorrow!) -- you don't even want to know how much time and energy has been spent considering Snape lately, or which books I've pulled off the shelves in the course of my considerations
- Knitting, knitting, knitting
- Team PidgenDove Administrivia, like name changes and immigration paperwork
He will be gifted this Saturday at a baby shower for one of my colleagues, along with an altogether charming hardback copy of The Velveteen Rabbit. Just to prevent the whole thing from getting so sweet that even I can't stomach it, I bought them a nipple rack for the dishwasher, too.
Off I go to turn more thoughts of anti-heros, tragedy, and all the books I've loved before.
7/12 Addendum:
How remiss of me not to post the pattern details. Sorry, knitsters!
The bunster's pattern came from Last-Minute Knitted Gifts by Joelle Hoverson. Note that at two weeks to complete there was nothing last-minute about it, but at least I made my deadline. This was in the 6 to 8 hour gift section of the book (divided by time...genius!), but with the Elaina frog factor and it took me more along the order of 14 hours to finish.
I substituted the altogether lovely but ridiculoualy expensive Blue Sky Alpaca sportweight (doubled!) with non-doubled Rowan Calmer that knit up to the same gauge. I used Calm for the main and Sugar for the ears. It wasn't so much the expense that drove me to choose another yarn as the fact that the recipient is an infant. If it turns out that this baby latches onto Bunster (e.g. drools and vomits on, drags around, etc.) I want it to be washable for mom & dad. Also, alpaca can be kinda itchy for some folks.
Other deviations: I knit most of this on a set of double-points rather than on two circulars like it suggests. This was only slightly more confusing during the increase and descrease rounds, but not too terrible. I also discovered that something I heard speculated on KnittingHelp.com is true: if one double-point is one size smaller or larger than the rest, it does not show up in the work. Neato, huh? Lastly, I stuffed the bunny with scrap yarn rather than getting filler. The consistency is great, but you can see the color of the yarn through the work. Keep that in mind if you're thinkng of doing something similar. I used a reddish-maroon yarn, and my husband quickly pointed out that it was "like guts". Which he thought was cool.
Off I go to turn more thoughts of anti-heros, tragedy, and all the books I've loved before.
7/12 Addendum:
How remiss of me not to post the pattern details. Sorry, knitsters!
The bunster's pattern came from Last-Minute Knitted Gifts by Joelle Hoverson. Note that at two weeks to complete there was nothing last-minute about it, but at least I made my deadline. This was in the 6 to 8 hour gift section of the book (divided by time...genius!), but with the Elaina frog factor and it took me more along the order of 14 hours to finish.
I substituted the altogether lovely but ridiculoualy expensive Blue Sky Alpaca sportweight (doubled!) with non-doubled Rowan Calmer that knit up to the same gauge. I used Calm for the main and Sugar for the ears. It wasn't so much the expense that drove me to choose another yarn as the fact that the recipient is an infant. If it turns out that this baby latches onto Bunster (e.g. drools and vomits on, drags around, etc.) I want it to be washable for mom & dad. Also, alpaca can be kinda itchy for some folks.
Other deviations: I knit most of this on a set of double-points rather than on two circulars like it suggests. This was only slightly more confusing during the increase and descrease rounds, but not too terrible. I also discovered that something I heard speculated on KnittingHelp.com is true: if one double-point is one size smaller or larger than the rest, it does not show up in the work. Neato, huh? Lastly, I stuffed the bunny with scrap yarn rather than getting filler. The consistency is great, but you can see the color of the yarn through the work. Keep that in mind if you're thinkng of doing something similar. I used a reddish-maroon yarn, and my husband quickly pointed out that it was "like guts". Which he thought was cool.
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My hope (and almost belief) is that Snape is being misunderstood because of information that we're not privy to. My fear is that he will meet his demise in book seven before we are made privy to the information, such that all of us Snape-Supporters will be converted into Snape-Haters and then BAM! new information arises and Snape's name is cleared.
What do I think is going to happen? Snape will, on some level, have to give his life for Harry's safety (or maybe just the "cause" considering Snape seems to genuinely dislike Harry), but no one will realize his greatness until after he's dead (just like so many great people in real life). I really hope that doesn't happen, but it makes sense that it would.
Eight days until the book is released! :):):)
Currently, I've decided that the MOST disappointing possibility is that Snape is killed by Voldemort in the first few chapters, and no further indication of his morality and allegiance is given one way or the other. So sad. It could be *great* if the same thing happens and a series of redeeming discoveries that took place throughout the book, but I'm not holding my breath for that since Harry has so many other things to sort out. Then again, this is a clever author. She could roll several things into one single monumental discovery.
Oh boy oh boy oh boy!