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It's aliiiive
Apr. 1st, 2008 05:27 pmOkay, okay. I've been meaning to write stuff, and now I've been nudged, so I'll try to be better about it.
In the last couple of weeks I seem to have been seized by a knitting bug. I made a scarf (it's about 8 inches wide and six feet long, out of a few different types of Noro), I blocked 8 out of 13 squares of the Wedding Blanket (if I could just make myself knit the last 3...) and they look incredible, I finally cast on for the huge crazy lace Dragone shawl (and knit about ten rows before getting tired of crossing out lines of the pattern and set the whole thing down for a faster project), I made a purse and have run it through the washer three times in a (futile??) attempt to get it to felt down to a reasonable size, and I started a Clapotis (using alpaca silk, omg it's like knitting with a cloud). I also ordered yarn to make a second drop stitch scarf, this time for Emily (this yarn is also alpaca and cloud-like, and the pattern I use means I also get to use some of the gorgeous lace alpaca Ann brought me from Peru), and firmly resisted buying two more skeins of super-expensive wool/silk to add to the single skein of Lady Godiva I own.
I'm gonna try to remember to take pictures tomorrow, since I should be home while it's actually light outside, and I can never get indoor pictures to light the projects correctly.
Also, in the last ten days I've watched two seasons of Battlestar Galactica. This means I have about 36 hours to watch season 3 before season 4 starts on Friday. Unfortunately, Thursday night is my weekly Warcraft Karazhan run, Wednesday night I might go climbing (I seriously need the exercise), and tonight my labmate is giving a talk from 7 to 7:30, so somehow I have to squeeze 22 episodes into approximately three hours of free time between now and Friday.
Admittedly, this is not a life-ending dilemma.
In the last couple of weeks I seem to have been seized by a knitting bug. I made a scarf (it's about 8 inches wide and six feet long, out of a few different types of Noro), I blocked 8 out of 13 squares of the Wedding Blanket (if I could just make myself knit the last 3...) and they look incredible, I finally cast on for the huge crazy lace Dragone shawl (and knit about ten rows before getting tired of crossing out lines of the pattern and set the whole thing down for a faster project), I made a purse and have run it through the washer three times in a (futile??) attempt to get it to felt down to a reasonable size, and I started a Clapotis (using alpaca silk, omg it's like knitting with a cloud). I also ordered yarn to make a second drop stitch scarf, this time for Emily (this yarn is also alpaca and cloud-like, and the pattern I use means I also get to use some of the gorgeous lace alpaca Ann brought me from Peru), and firmly resisted buying two more skeins of super-expensive wool/silk to add to the single skein of Lady Godiva I own.
I'm gonna try to remember to take pictures tomorrow, since I should be home while it's actually light outside, and I can never get indoor pictures to light the projects correctly.
Also, in the last ten days I've watched two seasons of Battlestar Galactica. This means I have about 36 hours to watch season 3 before season 4 starts on Friday. Unfortunately, Thursday night is my weekly Warcraft Karazhan run, Wednesday night I might go climbing (I seriously need the exercise), and tonight my labmate is giving a talk from 7 to 7:30, so somehow I have to squeeze 22 episodes into approximately three hours of free time between now and Friday.
Admittedly, this is not a life-ending dilemma.
