{"id":773,"date":"2012-10-25T23:03:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T23:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/?p=773"},"modified":"2023-04-24T15:02:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T15:02:34","slug":"the-mental-design-team-is-pleasantly-simmering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/the-mental-design-team-is-pleasantly-simmering\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mental Design Team is Pleasantly Simmering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mental Design Team are the voices in my head.  It amuses me to write them out as if they were different people, but they are all me.<\/p>\n<p>Sample Knitter: I love this yarn.  It&#8217;s soft, but not limp, and the color is like that perfect skirt I had when B was a baby.<a href=\"http:\/\/christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=193\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-193\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eagleswingscoop.org\/christineguestdesigns\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/forhoughton-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"<KENOX S630  \/ Samsung S630>&#8221; width=&#8221;225&#8243; height=&#8221;300&#8243; class=&#8221;alignright size-medium wp-image-193&#8243;><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Butterfly the Visual Inspiration Girl: What else can we do with it?  Color work?  Is it good for lace?<\/p>\n<p>Mamma Bear the Realist about the Rest of Life: It felts nicely, some threads went through the laundry in my pocket, they turned into a perfect little ball.<\/p>\n<p>Sample Knitter: I&#8217;m not sure about other projects, I&#8217;m only 1\/4 of the way done with this one.  I feel like I&#8217;m back in Jr High reading Moby Dick.<\/p>\n<p>Mamma Bear: How on Earth does this project remind you of Moby Dick?<\/p>\n<p>Sample Knitter: At first I calculated it would take me 25 pages a night, then 35, then 50.  At first I calculated I&#8217;d finish this sample if I made 8 rows a day, then 10, now 12.<\/p>\n<p>Mamma Bear: Do you want me to find you a video Sample Knitter?  It does make the fingers fly.<\/p>\n<p>Sample Knitter:  Oh, I think Dan and the boys will put old episodes of Space 1999 on again, just 7 rows to go today.  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