ok i lied.

So 20 mins before the end of the day, my dad calls me up and says that he's able to eat dinner after all. So me and him ended up having a birthday dinner all by ourselves, at the Shabu place where they serve fresh shrimp. By fresh I mean, so fresh, they will jump right into the hotpot for you, literally. He ordered Kobe beef, i ordered some other part of Japan beef & shrimp. after dinner, we picked up cake, and ended up cutting the cake also just by ourselves. although it was a bit lonely just the two of us. we made do, it was still good to spend time together as a family, since we used to not regularly.

now back to your normally scheduled program.

while i was waiting for dinner, I managed to knit a couple of rows. after dinner i also knit more rows. I am on the second repeat now. I have made the solids not so thick, only 20 rows not 27, so it looks a bit squished... but i'm thinking it should be ok with more repeats. I'm just not used to it because i was used to having the 27 rows.

A felting thought occured to me. what if the Jaeger matchmaker that i was making the owl with superwash. I know it didn't say so on the package, but that thought occured to me while i was handling my 100 % wool yarn with the scarf, this 100$ wool yarn from Japan is coarse, not like the DK. the jaeger dk was soft to the touch... thus making me feel like it was superwash, thus not felt-able. hm... defintely worth trying felting with this japanese yarn... i have a swatch that i may use in my felting experiment.

(oh why must i always try to felt non-feltable items???!!! this isn't the first time!!!!!)