Weird? Why yes we are!
I was going to do this whole naming posts after days of the week thing, but it just seemed a tad bit weird to me. Then I realized; we’re weird! So I guess it’s okay.
We’re still waiting on the lawyer for all the fine print before we can post the full details of our upcoming contest, but I can give you another little hint:
Judging will be partially done by your peers via a rating system and then we will take the top 5 entries based on the publics vote and pick the winner from those 5. So, good news! You will not only be able to enter the contest but you can also help pick the winners!
We’re really hoping this will be huge, so the more people we can get involved the better. If this one goes off well and we get a good response, you can expect many more contests from ADHD Knitting in the future. So that means, tell your knitting groups, post it on your blog, remind your Ravelry groups and friends, mention it on Craftster.org or any other craft sites your on. The more people we get involved the easier it will be to convince my boss that he wants to keep giving yarn away!
Now for today’s blog survey question: what are your weird little tics? (they can be knitting related, or just in general. Do you have a weird thing you must do or you feel out of whack? That’s a tic.)
And of course I’m going to share some of our own neurosis with you guys, just to make the whole sharing thing easier:
Gail almost always casts on 100 sts to start a project. Even if this means she was to knit the project on US00 needles with lace weight yarn. (I’ve seen her do it, she has a beautiful christening gown that she’s been knitting that is still a WIP, but it’s done in a ridiculously small gauge.) She will completely rewrite a pattern if she doesn’t like the cast on number and some how she always makes it work. If it’s not 100 sts then it needs to be an even number. This does make working most of her patterns really easy, especially if they have decreases or increases in them because it’s always even. When I’ve helped her write patterns in the past if it isn’t an even number, I can’t tell her about it because she’ll want to change the number, sadly though sometimes you need to work an odd number, especially if it’s lace.
My own weird tic is needing to check the mail almost as soon as it comes. I usually open the curtains in my room so I can see when the mail man comes, he comes at between 2 and 3 p.m. every day and if I see he came I have to immediately go check the mail. If he doesn’t come by 3:30 I start to get anxious and upset.
Lately both of us have been on a website checking tic. I’m pretty sure I’m going to wear out the ‘refresh’ button some time soon. I keep waiting for the Internet to suddenly just pop up with a message that says “STOP! No one else has posted anything in the forum! Quite hitting refresh!” but it hasn’t yet so I still keep doing it. Gail has admitted to doing the same thing. This is what happens when you give two manic, OCD prone people night and day access to the internets. We just tic out on the refresh button until we pass out from exhaustion.
So, now that we’ve established the full tilt level of crazy that goes on behind the scenes at ADHD Knitting (don’t even get us started on what happens when we start tweezing our eyebrows….) share with us your weird habits. We’re dying to know we’re not the only ones!
More about the contest coming soon! I promise!
“Is it weird in here? Or is it just me?”
-Stephan Wright
February 27th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
that is as usual great…
February 27th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
The refresh button is your friend! Someone will post something or send you mail when you are not paying attention and it is probably super important, and you will miss it if you don’t refresh!!! How do I know? Its happened to me.
February 27th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
hmmmm……….not sure I have any really weird ones. I do constantly stop what I’m doing to check my email though……….doesn’t matter what it is, I have to stop and check. I guess I’m worried that I’ll miss something. I do the same at Ravelry, constantly refreshing to see if there’s something new……….LOL
March 7th, 2008 at 8:06 am
I have a question about your contest. The “My Ex Purse” Contest. How many times are you’re allowed to enter?
I have two people in mind I can’t stand. One is my first real boyfriend at the time and the second is a woman who tried to destroy my marriage 6 years ago and I’m still bitter about this person although my Marriage improoved a great deal.
I may photos of the ex boyfriend, but I don’t of the woman (unfortunatly I put the photos thru the shredder after I found them). Before I did that, I sewed a voodoo doll of this person using the photo as a reference.
I dress the voodoo doll they way she was dressed on the photograph I found of her. she was wearing a Red T-Shirt and blue jeans. I painted white sneakers on the dolls feet (with no idea what her footwear looked like) and she has brunette hair. I found some brunette roving wool that looked like human hair at a Michael’s craft store that I used.
This doll now resides in my sewing room as a pin cushion. My Husband never saw it until 2 years later. He started laughting about it looking like a voodoo doll and asked who that supposed to be, but I wouldn’t tell him, I just laughed. His Mom and My Mom, along with a few closed friends knows who that doll supposed to be. Each time my Mom came to visit she always went into my Craft Room to see what projects I was doing and saw the doll for the first time and chuckled to herself. I showed my Mother N Law without my Husband’s knowledge when she visited and got a laugh.
I had the voodoo doll hanging on my wall in my Office at my job the year I made it as a halloween decoration with straight pins sticking in the legs, arms, center of body and her face. My co workers had a good laugh and told me to remind them not to piss me off.
The year 2002 was something else and one of the saddest year of my life as an adult until after Halloween came and gone. I’m great at expressing my feelings with my artwork if something or someone is bothering me bad enough and don’t care how bad I offend them. They brought that among themselves!