The Knitting Has Resurfaced

So this week has been fairly easy and productive so far. I have had a mid-term and have managed to finish my new hat. I think this hat will go very well with a purple hirt and plan on figuring this out later this week. I have also finished one book and am most of theway through another. The book I finished is something that every knitter should read. It is "Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off" and has inspired me to take on a new fairly complicated knitting project. I want to be able to knit a sweater that is made to fit instead of following a pattern and hoping that it will fit. I have bought another three books on top of the two that I am in the process of. I have also started two new projects. A pair of slippers and a bolero for Kat. I have also started the front of the sweater but so far that is not going so well, after a mishap in the theatre last night I have had to start it again.

I am very excited to be off to Abbotsford in less than 48 hours now. This also means that I have 3 hours of ferry time in which I can knit. But I have also found a yar shop in Abbotsford that I want to explore. So this means I may come back with much more yarn that I left with. This is not necessarily a bad thing since I have recently discovered that if I need more than one skein of yarn for a project I have to go out and buy new yarn since I only have single skeins left in my stash. I am off for now since I want to get back to my knitting, I think I'm going to work on the bolero for a while before getting back to the slippers, the sweater is still annoying me.

Happy knitting.

Weeks End

It is nearly the end of my crazy crazy week at school. I am very excited about this fact, except that this wekeend I have to start and finish a group project, write a two page outline for an essay that I haven't even started to think about, and study for an exam on Monday.
There are no pictures this time around because not only is my knitting about 2 inches long, after pulling out my skirt and giving up for now and insead starting a hat. It's very pretty but not so long quite yet. My room is also a complete mess even though I have managed to clean parts of it.
Well wish me luck and hopefully by next weekend I can start my knitting again (especially on the three hours of ferry time I will have) and have a picute of this hat for you after Halloween.

BAAAAAAAAAH!

I am posting for the record that I am not supposed to be on here. I am supposed to be studying for my 5 mid-terms next week and finishing off a 15 page paper. But nooooo I've been harrassed into doing another post about why I'm not posting more often. Did I mention the 5 MIDTERMS NEXT WEEK! Not to mention this stupid paper, all it does is remind me of a comment someone made about me this summer, the point being that my fingers move faster than my brain sometimes, so that when I'm typing there is rapid typing for a minute or so and then a pause as I think of what I want to say next and then more rapid typing. Of course it helps that all the people I worked with this summer typed at like 10 words a minute, whereas me (not bragging I swear) can type 60 words a minute if I'm jazzed up on caffeine and not worrying about how many spelling mistakes there are.
Anyways you will all be happy to note that I have currently cast on 50 of the 90 stitches for the front of the sweater, it only took me 3 tries to remember how much yarn it takes to cast on 90 stitches (it's a lot). And next post I will take a picture of the cool dishcloth that I finished while watching a movie last night. That makes 3 dish clothes down and 4 to go.

Mmmm, side note, I have officially made the best coffee ever thanks to food network and Alton Brown, which makes me so happy since its raining so hard that I don't want to go outside let alone get to Starbucks for my venti americano.

I am now off to the land of banging my head against a wall while I wait for the words to come to me so I can finish my essay.

Oh and I'm going out later to get new yarn!!!! Yarn to make the skirt that I like out of "It Girl Knits" which means that I will hopefully, at some point have a new skirt to wear and not have to go buy one.

Happy knitting and wish me luck.

Turkey Weekend

So this weekend is the ultimate weekend for eating and possibly for knitting. I'm heading home in less than an hour and a half to do laundry, make some cookies and knit if I get around to it. I like to think that I'll start the front half of my sweater and make some good progress for it too. This may be just wishful thinking however since I also have to do a take home midterm.
So you can wish me lucky knitting since I'm heading home and ready to get knitting.

Lack of Knitting

So I realized today that a blog strictly about knitting will not get many posts from me until Christmas. Mainly because I have way too much homework to do to get much knitting done in my free time, and I'd much rather eat than knit during TV. So today is all about how my hip hurts because I went all out at the gym, and about how seven hours of class in a day really really really sucks.
So I had a group presentation first thing this morning. Not only do I have to leave 20 minutes earlier than normal but when I get there nobody else is there for at least 5 minutes with the latest person showing up with 20 minutes later. I was upset because I had run across campus thinking I was going to be late and had run out of the house barely prepared at all. So that went on alright. But by the time my last class rolls around, ending at six pm, my brain was totally fried and though I took three pages of frantic notes I'm not quite sure if I understood or absorbed anything. So that is my rant about how seven hours of class is not productive or heathy. Also I think my mondays next term consist of 10 hours of class, therefore I'm totally dropping at least one of those classes.
Went to the gym today, hurrah for me, and went on the elliptical. Not so good since the last time I was on the elliptical I left the gym almost crying because my hip and knee were in so much pain. But the AMT's were busy and I don't do treadmills or bikes if I can help it. So I was doing good and not feeling any pain, and ended up doing 35 minutes on it to try and let my friend get in her work out to before I said I'm leaving. Now I am totally regretting it and don't know how I'm going to sleep.

But anyways I need to get some slep since I have to get up and do laundry in the morning, then go apply for a job and harrass people into giving me a new 360 along with course readings for tomorrows 3 hour lecture. So I doubt much knitting is going to take place anyways.

Fun, fun.

P.S. I have finished the back of my sweater, there will be pictures to follow but since I'm not quite sure how to continue the sweater is on hold and I'm working on wash cloths for Christmas gifts..