I hate knitting with Snowflake yarn but I like your take on reading the patterns using that yarn.

Did you look in the refrigerator? Inside pillowcases? The nice boy next door follows DD around, retrieving her glasses for her when she sets them down, and trying not to laugh too hard when she walks into walls...

Think of knitting with Snowflake yarn like being lost in a blizzard - it will feel so good when you finally find your way back to a warm safe place.

When my son's glasses were lost we found them inside a bucket of legos. Of course that was AFTER we had order his new ones!!!

Under the bed? You know, sometimes they're on the night stand, and they get knocked off, and then there's that horrible search for them because you can't SEE to find them because you need the glasses for that... Well ok, it's probably worse for me because I'm pretty much blind as a bat without my glasses/contacts.

Love the snowflake yarn. Doesn't Bernat also do a yarn like that?

It's even more fun to watch a brand new knitter look for a dropped stitch in Snowflake.

As I recall, a 'barrel of monkeys' was only as much fun as the hysterics and insanity level of the babysitter that we threw them at, one by one, from the top of the stairs (she was slightly off-kilter, anyway...). She called our mother and said we were 'endangering her life'. I was partial to the blue ones. We were rotten children.

That Snowflake yarn looks like something I wouldn't mind wrapping up and taking a nap in today. It's snowing here in Wyoming....summer was fun, but now it's time to think of Christmas shopping... *g*

The car. Down in the well between the seat and the door.

So I know I'm really asking for trouble here, but.....where did you get the pattern for the felted Borg Clogs? and do you put anything on the bottom of them for traction? I would like a pair and am willing to risk being invaded by clog clones.

Ummm...Have you by any chance checked the bathroom floor...like mother like daughter? *giggle* Perhaps they got kicked behind the commode.

Reading your page has become a regular routine! Thanks. Keep looking for those glasses and recheck the first place you looked for them often (was that on top of his head? This is typically where I loose mine. hahaha) Wondering? I'm glad you find time for your weblog. It is great!

Ah, yes, the eternal search for glasses. Question: does Sam *like* the glasses? 'Cuz if she doesn't, well... I once "lost" a pair of tie-up shoes because I wanted to wear my buckle-up ones. Imagine that. How about looking inside books that might have been closed with them inside, on the floor beside the sink, in her dresser drawers in case they got put in there with clean laundry, on top of books in a bookcase...

Snowflake. No beginning. No middle. No end. All is emptiness.

Courtesy of the Knitting-Buddhist-Quote-of-the-Day.

I believe Sam's glasses are keeping company with my sunglasses or as we say in Danish "Nissen har taget dem" (he was blamed for everything in my house.) We'll probably find them when the new ones have been bought.

Love your blog! Your snowflake blurb cracked me up! I'm a new knitter, and guess what I started my first project in - yup, snowflake. I was baffled at all the things you mentioned, but in then end, the project turned out great. In fact, I have quite a stash of SF going - love the stuff! (Snowflake is also good for hiding a beginner's irregularities!)

For the glasses: Try the clothes hamper. Then recheck the places you have looked. I often find things where I thought I had already looked. I assume you have checked her pockets of jackets, etc. Does she have a backpack ? How about her locker and/or desk at school ? Good luck. When my daughter was a toddler (as of last Monday, she is a college graduate !!!!) she took my best necklace and toddled off with it. I was frantic looking for it and she did not have the words to tell me where it was. I finally found it draped neatly over a hangar in my closet. It could have been there for months before I found it. Betsy

The pattern clearly has an error. It should read: "With a spare needle, stab blindly into the neck edge in twelve evenly spaced increments, somehow coming up with a stitch each time."

I'm a lurker but just had to add my two cents about Snowflake. I used it once, just once, never again, to make a bright yellow baby sweater. I was asked several times why I was knitting Big Bird! By the time I was done, I wanted to pluck out my eyes.

Such a weird yarn! Maybe your glasses are in that sleeve somewhere.

It looks kind of like styrofoam. I do like the way the stripes are working. Way to soldier on!

Re: the lost glasses--call upon St. Anthony aka St. Extortionist. Doesn't matter what your religion is (or isn't) -- if you just promise St. Anthony a few bucks in a poorbox, before you know it, those glasses will appear! Works every time.

That Snowflake stuff reminds me of a horribly fluffy yarn I once made a scarf of for a friend. I hated nearly everything about it -- the fat needles, the fluffiness, the inability to rip back, the disappearing dropped stitch -- good thing she liked it!

The leftovers now live in a basket and I stick clusters of my dps into it to keep them organized (something like a pincushion).

I knit a sweater with Snowflake. Once. Then sold the pattern and what I had leftover on eBay. At least it knits up quickly.

Yep I hear ya! I made a bunny from it once. Cute bunny... hated the yarn and that is putting is nicely! :)

Sam go to the dentist or anywhere like that lately? Just go ahead and get new ones. It's only money and they'll turn up as soon as you do.

If any lovely SF yarn falls in my lap, I'll send it your way :-)

Glad the snowflake is so "fun!"

About the glasses. Have you tried looking up? Whenever I can't find something, it is usually somewhere at or above my shoulder height. For whatever reason, I always look *down* for things like sunglasses or keys, and if I inadvertently set them on a bookshelf or on top of the TV... They may as well be in outerspace.

OK. A comment on your blog entry, and on your response to MY blog entry. First, as a glasses wearer who is always putting down her glasses, I will bet they are either under the bed (they DO jump off the night table you know) or out there in the open laughing at you.

Second, I am trying to reconcile your blog entries to your comment on my blog that you would never have dared go up to folks who are knitting in public to talk.... I did go talk to them, and it was a little awkward but they seemed nice. They didn't respond with joy to the news that we had started a guild -- they immediately decided the guild was full of expert knitters. But Steph, I am having a bit of trouble imagining you as shy in public. Are you really? Even with KNITTERS??????????

Under the sofa? Or anywhere she might lie down and slip her glasses off? Between the headboard/top of bed and wall. Under the pillow. Bathroom? Vanity top, drawers, edge of bathtub/shower? Patio table? Did she spend the night anywhere? Jacket/coat pocket?

I belong to the sleeve-hating club. I like the mindless knitting of straight panels until you get to the interesting shaping parts at the top (armholes, neck & shoulders of the front/back pieces), but with sleeves, you're counting rows for increases and can't just let your mind wander.

I think that the inventors of Sirdar snowflake AND Phildar neige are the same people. Really, they are. I had to stick my swatch up against a window just to see if I got gauge. Seaming was a blast. I did it blindfolded and just jabbed the embroidery needle anywhere. Didn't make a smidgen of difference in the way the seam looked.

P.S. Okay, I'm kidding about the blindfold.

A customer came into the LYS where I work and wanted me to unpick the stitches that held the hood onto her Snowflake sweater. Oh how I laughed and laughed! I still remember the joyous three hours it took me! Then I start twitching.....

(I went home and sold all my Snowflake on Ebay too. But your sweater looks great.)

In the teapot? ;-). Good luck for finding the glasses. I know my mum has ALWAYS and AGAIn and Again been looking for her glasses. I was the one before who would find them for her, now she has her grand children. They know her so well, that if they find them, they'll bring them : "I found your glasses, Mamie!", even when she's not looking for them! Lol!

I've been looking for my glasses all afternoon - my finder (Hans) is in the mountains measuring snow. I have been reduced to watching television with my computer glasses - hardly noticing the difference, as reception has been rather poor lately anyway. I did finally find them, in the glasses case. For some strange reason I put them there when I took out the computer glasses!

Hope Sam's glasses have turned up.

Elizaabeth in Norway

If you're crazy, we both know where the blame lies. Wanna know what's more fun than Snowflake?(last year during Spring Break my daughter thought it was so damn fun she cut a couple of holes in the baby sweater I had just finished knitting) Watching a group of attachment moms admitting their vices when their kids aren't around. With kids, my friends are the most straight-edge Mrs. Cosby wannabes you could find. With out kids, they're like Patsy Stone. So, unless you're a five-martini-luncher on a daily basis, you're probably okay.

um, i just want to let sam know that this has happened to me twice. one time was a normal disappearance during the school bus ride home (oh suburbia), but the other was during a canoe ride on a private lake. the other girl dumped the canoe, and my glasses took three weeks to wash up on the beach. the water made the lenses completely innacurate. i did however, manage to reboard the canoe. she had to swim to shore.
my parents had to foot the bill for new glasses.
see, it happens to the best of us, and me too. but look in the lunchbox, too.

I am looking for a nice one armed pirate to give all of my unfinished projects -- its the second sleeve that always kills me. As for lost items, I am not Catholic, but this little chant never fails (and you don't have to publish it in the newspaper): St. Anthony, St. Anthony please come around; something is lost and it cannot be found. . .

My current solution for sleeve-aversion is to cast on for both on separate needles and move back and forth between them intermittantly. In that way, at least they are the same knitting event.

In terms of lame instructions, my current "laugh-riot" is the instruction to increase (or decrease!) in travelling lace pattern every x number of rows. Do magazines EVER explain exactly how they want you to do such increases? Or how "increase in the pattern" when the pattern itself increases and decreases. Arrgghhh.

My son Mat 'lost' his hated specs several times when he was between 3 and 4. There was one time I never found them, but the kids had been fascinated by the truck pouring concrete foundations for a new shed that day... The insurance paid up.

Thanks for making me laugh out loud, your blog is great to read and thanks I am NEVER buying snowflake wool but your perseverance paid off you made a great job of that sweater. My sons best place for losing his glasses, was the bottom of the lake, after an hour searching for them, we checked out the photos taken just before they were noticed to be missing, and sure enough he was wearing them as he was about to dive in. It was of course the brand new 260euros pair, not the old ones, or the ones he didn't like as much,
Hope you find them soon

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