destashing and fair isle

recently, greg asked me to start destashing my yarn. I wanted some new yarn to start a sweater, but greg told me that I couldn't buy anything new until I got rid of the extra yarn around the house. so, on thursday, i brought 2 extra large bags of yarn to my knitting circle, and now I'm down to I large rubbermaid container.

in other destashing news, I learned fair isle knitting. fair isle is a way to knit with multiple colors. i started with a hat from knitty's website.

http://knitty.com/ISSUEwinter06/PATTcentersquare.html

i knit it out of blue and white yarn I had left in my stash... here is the finished product.

i have to say, it was a lot easier than i ever thought possible... i have to do more fair isle knitting.

when good tv shows go bad...

not all television is good... there are definitely a large amount of crap tv for everyone to watch (including me...)

but there is something so sad when a really good tv show goes bad. when the story line gets so absurd that you start to wonder why you are watching at all. when the characters start acting like other people then they are, and you start yelling at the tv screen...

sometimes this happens because the writers have written themselves into a corner and can't get themselves out. sometimes it is when the writers and producers have left, and the show is now being run by other people and there are mistakes in continuity... sometime things just all go to hell...

this has officially happened to one of my favorite tv shows - Gilmore Girls.

i have faithfully watched this show since the beginning. in fact, i still enjoy watching old episodes on ABC family. but this season has happened and a good show has gone bad. characters aren't acting like themselves. the old writers and producers put the show in a corner when they left at the end of the last season, and now the new staff is trying to get out of the corner while still pleasing the fans... and what has happened is now we have a show that doesn't make any sense with any of the other seasons, and i am angry!

what shows have you watched that have gone bad? i'm not talking about one or two episodes that weren't good, i'm talking entire seasons of badness... please comment.