Well it's been a while

I know its been a while so I am doing a post about why I haven't been posting lately.

Warning: This will be a very photo laden entry.

So I am sure you remember last November when I gave you a victorious post about why I hadn't been posting and how I should be able to post more often, if you don't remember it you can find it here. So you have some sort of reference about how ridiculous my last couple weeks have been.

This gives you a little taste of what my reading list has been. The purple binder is the readings for two of my courses. One of the courses has yet to be printed off all yet, the other one has three other books with it.

The blue binder is all of my projects. The four essays and blog project that I have done. I have just this morning finished my third edit of the last essay. I have to get someone else to read it for grammar and content after this and I have another one that needs the same treatment and then I am done with the projects. I am also going to be rereading half of the purple binder so that I can be ready for my exam on the fourteenth.

This gives you another view of the annoying, much hated, binders as well as about 1/4 of the books that I have read for the last two of my essays.

Don't be worried my knitting has also progressed as well.

Here is my sweater which I haven't showed you in forever, mainly because I haven't been working on it. I really dislike the feel of the yarn as I knit it so it hasn't been on the top of my list for things to knit. It is progressing though. It is now 17 inches long and has to get to 20.5 inches before I get to start shaping for the neck and shoulders.

Here is a picture of the progress of my shawl. I have restarted it four times by this time. It is evading me because I keep dropping stitches. I then tried to knit a swatch to appease the Knitting God's but I even managed to drop stitches on that two rows before it was done. So here is the most I have managed to progress on it since Sunday.

One more picture of the shawl. A close up this time so you can see how horrible it looks right now. And I know everyone says shawls look horrible until they are blocked but I still wish it would look a little prettier as I knit it.

One last item for this post. I am suffering from knitting monogamy. This is strange for me. I am having no urge to knit anything other than the bf's sweater, even though it is plain stockinette stitch for another 5 inches. I am even going so far as to tell myself that I can only finish the skein that is attatched before Saturday when I am going to be on the ferry. I don't know why I feel so obsessed with this sweater when I have four other projects on the go as well. They hold no interest for me but since I feel like I should be knitting other objects as well I am forcing myself to go through with this. Wish me luck. I am also going to be knitting and posting more often now that I have finished my essays. The knitting I am looking forward to. We'll see how the posts go, maybe I'll actually finish something and remember to post.

Lady Polly.

P.S. Does anybody know of an internet site that shows you a good way to turn a heel? I am still being evaded by that knitting technique and therefore can't even look at the socks I have knitted so far.

Twenty Five Days

There are 25 days until I have finished school, conceivably forever. This is an exciting thought since it will mean that I have more of a chance to finish some knitting, though I have come along with that. It is also scary since it means that I have to find a job and move and start a life that has been on hold while I prolonged schoool for four more years.
I took a step towards something more complicated yesterday when I went and bought the yarn for a shawl, it will be my first attempt at lace knitting, and hopefully will work out since I plan on knitting at least two shawls for Christmas and hope to knit myself a shawl for my wedding one day. The wedding one should be awesome since I'll have plenty of time to practice until then.

Here is a picture of the yarn and needles I bought yesterday. The yarn, which I keep wanting to call wool and it isn't, is Diamond brand spun in Peru 100% baby alpaca in ecru and avocado. This is the softest yarn that I have ever worked with and it is amazing if not a little like knitting with super soft dental floss. Also this is a lot cheaper than I expected lace weight to be. I think I have this misconception that lace weight yarn will be more expensive because in each hank there is 400 metres of yarn. So in this picture there is 1200 metres of yarn, more than enough to make the shawl that I want. The shawl is called the Mt Vernon Shawl designed by Tanis Grey and will be features once I manage to get past the first couple rows. You can find the pattern here. Just so you know my obseessiveness with perfection has led me to pull it out twice now and I'm sure this is just the beginning. The first time I dropped a stitch and couldn't figure out how to ladder back up because of the infinite number of yarn overs that are features in this pattern. The second time I managed to have six extra stitches at the end and again because of the infinite number of stitches I couldn't tink back to find out what my problem was. Also along with this purchase I splurged and got a set of Addi Turbo Lace needles, size seven. The only reason that I purchased these, though I may have to again now, was because I finally spent the wonderfully useful gift card that I recieved for Christmas.

Just so you understand exactly how much of a splurge this purchase was. It was nearly the same price as the yarn. But they work amazingly.

Asides from my multiple attempts at starting this shawl I have grown in another way. I have begun, or tried again depending on how you look at it, to eat salad. And so far I have succeeded in eating three salads in two days, each time with home made dressing and croutons. I also made myself a semi-nutritional dinner this evening, proving that even when I am on my own I can indeed cook myself a meal that does not consist of premade food that I shove in the oven. So here is a gratuitous picture of my dinner. Just to make you jealous of course.

This consisted of a salad with a balsamic, lemon, EVOO dressing, and home made croutons of course with mixed greens, red onion, and orange peppers. I had asparagus cooked in garlic butter, and pork chops that were pan seared and then cooked in an orange juice/ginger sauce. It tasted fairly amazing though the sauce would have been better if I had actually measured everything and hadn't nearly burnt it as soon as I poured it into the frying pan.

Last but not least, do not worry that the sweater has been abandoned, it is still my favorite project for working on while I watch tv. I have six more inches to complete before I start to shape the arm holes. One more gratutious picture:

Can you believe this is eighteen inches long! It's crazy. So anyways my plans for tonight are to continue with the sweater, hopefully either working six more inches or until teh end of the skein of yarn (you can't see it but its about half a ball) continue my Harry Potter marathon and work on my last essay of the year. The Harry Potter marathon has just entered the third movie which is my least favorite so this is most likely the movie where I will do the most work on my essay and the least on my sweater, the next three will involve more work on the sweater. Wish me luck.

Lady Polly

Why hello there...

So to add to the things I have come to realize since last post (which was pretty much a week ago). I knit faster than I think possible when I actually concentrate on something. Proof of this:

Which is the sweater that needs to be ridiculously long nearly half way done the body portion which will be the most painful part of it. I have added the fourth ball of yarn about a row and a half ago.

I have also realized I have no patients for computers that are slow. Especially those that take more than 10 seconds to find my computer.

The last thing I have realized is that I have absolutely no resistance to Body Shop products when they are 50% off. Here was my haul from yesterday when there was a quick one day buy a bag and get everything else for 50% off. The bag cost $5 but $2 of it goes to charity so I don't feel so bad.

Well I would show you the swag which is awesom by the way but this is completely failing at wanting to load my picture.

Next time, more of the interminable sweater (hopefully more than half way done) and hopefully the awesome Body Shop haul.

Lady Polly

I have come to realize...

That despite what I wish I do not knit well under pressure. Needless to say I did not complete my Olympic knitting goal. Mainly this was because I don't know how to pick up stitched from the edge of a piece of knitting (you can now tell I have never attempted any pattern with the words 'entrelac' in the title and that in my mind that word causes terror). The other reason that I have not managed to make my goal was because the day after the Olympic Opening Ceremonies I became very very distracted, with an unexpected visit from the bf nonetheless.
Another thing that I have realized is that I prefer to knit things that give me nearly instant gratitude. I don't have a lot of time for knitting these days (what with three papers, none under 10 pages long, being due in a period of time that is now less than a month) and when I have to constantly go back to the same projects over and over again the loose their charm.
Also that deciding to knit a sweater that has a 2 foot length of stockinette stitch for the body with nothing to look forward to except casting off for arm holes. And then once I manage to get through that (have I mentioned that this sweater has only three pieces, the body and two arms) I have to knit two sleeves which have to measure 65 centimeters long (too lazy to convert that to imperial).
One more thing I have realized is that I do my best homework during the night. Such as tonight when I got up after having tried to sleep for half an hour only to write a three page paper that now is due tomorrow morning instead of letting myself give up for this week and try again next week. Unfortunately doing my best work at night does not help when I am confined to my bedroom late at night so as not to disturb the sleeping people.
I think that is all that I have come to realize lately. I am going to knit some more very, very boring stockinette stitch (I am just over 8 inches in) while listening to my guilty pleasure (Twilight book on tape) and then pass out, only to get up early tomorrow morning to edit my paper and make sure its well enough to turn in by noon.
Lady Polly

Socks and Olympics

Ways to Tell I am Very Serious About This Project:

1. I actually took the pattern with me to the store to make sure I got enough yarn (still doubt that I really did but that can be easily remedied)

2. I actually knit a swatch! And didn't frog it afterwards, instead I am using it and I even washed it to make sure it doesn't shrink

3. I GOT GAUGE! And I had extra needles just in case I didn't

So yes, I have finally broken down and decided to sign myself up for the Knitting Olympics associated with the Yarn Harlots blog (http://www.yarnharlot.ca/). Because I have many other things to accomplish during the Olympics I have decided to do something fairly easy, the Champs-Elysees Beret (http://www.popknits.com/index.php/patterns/page/champs-elysees_beret/) so that the only problems I am going to have are the lovely cables and picking up stitches from the brim since I have done neither before.

Here is the lovely yarn that I chose to make my beret out of. I wasn't entirely pleased with the selection that they have at Michaels but going all the way downtown to buy some yarn was far too much of a trip for me today.

On another note. My socks are coming along nicely now that I'm doing them properly. I will be working on them tonight and tomorrow morning, up until 6pm that is. So I will post a picture of how far I get tomorrow since after that I will be working on nothing but the beret for 17 days. Wish me luck that I actually can finish this project!

Sock, School, and Studying Struggles

Once again blogging when I'm really supposed to be doing something else. This time it is studying for my businss mid-term that starts at 2:30 this afternoon, I know I should at least go over my notes once, but I find it very hard to study for midterms when they are open book. It is more or less kills any will I have to study, since I never have much of it to begin with, when I am told that it is going to be an open book midterm. Especially this midterm where we've already done a mock last class and we are changing rooms to be able to spread out more which is awesome, I've had too many midterms where you can have all your books out at once.

On another note, I am crazy busy today after school that is. I have an hour between school being over and when I'm going to a Poli Sci Career Night, which I just learned is in some crazy building on the other side of campus from where I'm headed next. And then I'm going to a movie with Kat. It's one of those movies nobody has heard about but has A-List actors, so it will be interesting to see.

In other news, since Sunday I have read 4, count 'em FOUR, books. This is pretty intense, even for me. Luckily two of them were short little books, and these were even knitting books. The other two were longer novels but seemed to be the type that you just can't put down. So I have done no school work and gotten no sleep but I have read four books lately.

Reading the knitting books made me feel more content with knitting but also that I should do what I have been dreading for the past half a month. That is pull out the mistake I made in my sock. I even have pictures of how dreadful it was.

Here is my pretty littlle sock just as I started to unravel it. After painstakingly moving the stitches to the right spot and everything I started knitting the instep stitches instead of the heel because of a misread in the pattern. In my defense I think I started to divide this at like really really late at night when my brain stopped functioning etc.

And here is a picture of my sock once I had finished frogging. I am so upset, I was even going to start turning the heel and everything. Now I have to start again which is harder than I thought. Especially because *gasp* I don't feel like knitting right now. And by now I mean since like Sunday evening I haven't felt like knitting, I haven't touched any yarn or gone through any knitting books since then. (Ok... one knitting book but just because I was mentioning it to someone) And all plans of any Olympic knitting has been put on hold, lack of funds and lack of inspiration has been my problem.

Hopefully this dry spell won't last for long and I'll have some finished product to show you (ya right). But enjoy the Olympics that are happening just across the water from me while I have a lovely visit from the bf and do waaay too much homework on my week off.

Gimme a Break

Do you remember that song from elementary school? All about Kit Kat Bars, it had a whole clapping sequence that went with it. I almost feel like it really need to play that song again and again today. I have been way to productive today. Getting what is usually 4 days of homework done in one single one. Especially since I'm running on less than 6 full hours of sleep. For some reason, probably because I'm paranoid, I couldn't sleep last night, finally trying to go to sleep at midnight and then tossing and turning until 2 am before finally moving to a more comfortable position and then falling alseep a little while later. I had set my alarm to be a studious person for 8:30 am but the whole not going to bed til after 2 am meant that I decided not to get up then, but I just tossed and turned for the next half hour before dragging myself out of bed.
Once I got up however I was entirely too productive. I managed to finish my paper proposal, do all but one reading for one of my classes and do a basic outline of a group project that I'm trying to get done by the end of the week.
Right now I am soaking up some more waaaay to strong coffee in hopes that I can get the energy to finish off the readings for my EU seminar class and do the only other reading I have for the week which is for my Political Economy of Canada class.

On other topics, yesterday Kat and I got our "Glamour Me" photo shoot done which was very very fun. My hair was awesome even though it took twice as long as Kat's did but it has lasted and I still have it up right now and it doesn't look half bad even though I've slept on it. After that Kat and I had nearly two hours to waste until she had to go to ballet so we went to Chapters. I bought three books and then realized that they had all been made into movies. I then went to Mayfair all by myself, looking waaay to formal to be shopping, and tried on jeans since I need a couple new pairs, I found two lovely pairs but only realized afterwards that they weren't on sale and would have cost me well over $100 to buy both pairs.

Also this week at Michael's the lovely bamboo yarn that I have wanted forever is on for $2 off each skein so now my question is: Do I go buy the 14 skeins I need for the sweater that I want or do I just forget it and ignore the fact that it will only be a $45 sweater than a $70 sweater?

Let me know, as it is I think I've ahd enough coffee to get back to readings while watching Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Now presenting....

GLASSES THROUGH THE AGES

My good deed for the day has been procuring 6 pairs of glasses for Kat for her trip with GMB to Honduras that she leaves for in just over a week. (Can you tell my family is very very blind) Also here is a good reason that you don't want to join the navy if you are blind the glasses on the very left of the picture are my dads from when he was in the navy, and he is quite blind (-16 in each eye for contacts, of course only those people who wear contacts understand what that means) and he has always worn coke-bottle glasses as you can see until last year when he finally bought his own.

Also I have been doing a bit of knitting here and there. The sweater that will not die was calling to me yesterday and came to school with me and was petted for a while but wasn't worked on much. Then last night I decided I should learn how to knit continental style because it looks faster, at least when Kat does it and can get twice as much done as I can in the same amount of time.

So currently I have been sitting at my computer with the sweater that will not die and The Knit Stitch help videos learning how to do this. Hopefully another post will show much more lenght on the sweater, and some work on my own sweater from November, that I now hate the fiber because it is fake.

So current question is: should I continue with the plain blue sweater (only the front is done) even though I will probably never wear it and I really hate the gross cheap fiber and such, or should I give up and focus on my other sweaters to finish them.

P.S. This weekend with a gift card I got months ago I'm finally getting a new couple books. My first of which is a book on knitting Harry Potter themed clothes called Charmed Knits. I am super excited for this as you should, as is the boyfriend because he's been asking for a Gryffindor scarf for a couple months now.

Best Laid Plans

So of course as soon as I made my next New Years resolution I promptly disregarded it. Since that post (which was only 2 days ago but seems like forever to me) I have done absolutely NO knitting whatsoever at all period. Things seem to keep getting in the way life, books, sleep, school, depression, you know the things that kinda take over your life sometimes. Hopefully this weekend I will be able to get some hard core knitting done since Kat is coming over (I think this plan is still on) after we do our glamour spa thing at the salon in the afternoon and though we are doing homework for part of that day we will no doubt devolve into knitting and movies at some point during the night, especially since we can use the new 46" TV for all hours of the night.

(Here is a gratuitous picture of the sweater that will not die, though if I'm being honest I just put that blue stripe in on a ferry ride at the very end of December)

Other plans that have recently gone awry was my plan for this morning to do a lot of readings and possibly get some of the work done on the two projects I have coming up. Instead I ended up watching a ridiculous amount of CSI Miami. Just another reason why owning multiple series on DVD is a bad idea. Then I planned on going to the library to get some resources for two of my papers that are coming due and that got pushed back in favour of a good dinner and *gasp* trying to hurriedly finish a reading for my class this evening. And now I was going to work on some of my projects after getting homeand instead I am typing in this blog because it is a much easier thing to do that do real work today.

(And yet another gratuitous picture, mainly because I have no good pictures to show right now. This one is of the painting that I won at the silent auction during Black and White Casino Night for the Global Medical Brigades. It has finally been hung up and isn't it purty)

On one last note I feel horrible and I think I might be coming down with a sinus cold. Unfortunately those keep me bedridden for a good week and I can't afford to be that ill for that long especially at this time of the year and at this time of my life. Hopefully just destressing will make it go away, and by destressing I mean going and sitting on my bed with a multitude of readings that I need to do for my school work and hope that they don't drown me.

I hope you knitting is going much better than any of my non-existent knitting is right now.

Knitting Resolutions

And as I am very remiss in posting I am also very remiss in making New Years Resolutions on New Years. So now this year I am planning on trying to knit for at least 15 to 30 minutes a night. Hopefully this will be a good way to get a lot of projects further along as well as allow me to calm down and my brain to shut down before going to bed each night.
On some completely unrelated to knitting notes, wish my bf a Happy 22nd Birthday since I went to Abbotsford this last weekend to celebrate with him. Neither of us paid for a single drink on his birthday and that sad fact is that he had 2 or 3 times the amount of alcohol as me and by the end of the night (about 4 hours of time) we were equally sober.
I also got to spend the weekend with the puppies (Cindy is 3 and Hank is about a year and a half). They are much more active than Tucker is and much more fun to play with.
Well enjoy your knitting and I will be hopefully gaining ground on my own knitting soon.

Welcoming 2010 ... just a little late

So I keep getting distracted when I want to actually post this year. So far it has been an interesting year wit new classes and not as much knitting as I wish. Nevertheless I have made a New Years resolution about knitting this year. The resolution is that I am not allowed to start or buy any new projects until I have completed something. So far this has been working out well, except for the fact that I haven't been getting anywhere with my knitting at all. I am working however on the bf's sweatshirt which is about 5 inches long, maybe. My own two sweaters have been put on hold because one is too simple and I'm too lazy to cast on for the front, the second one I'm not very happy with how it looks but it's too late to turn back now. I have started a pair of socks but I screwed up the heel flap and it looks silly.
On non-knitting related topics last Friday I went to Black and White Casino Night that was to raise money for the GMB (I can't remember what the acronym stands for now) of which one of my friends belongs and she is going to Honduras in February. But on that note I am now the proud owner of my first piece of art. It was pretty cool and I was hoping to start people actually bidding on it if I wrote my name down but no such luck. I shall be recieving it on Saturday I believe and will post a picture of it later.
Anyways off to class again.

Merry Christmas

So it is Christmas season, and I might finally be in the mood for it to be so. Today was very Christmassy, 4 Christmas movies, and 2 Christmas crafts completed. Today I finally finished my stocking which makes me very happy. I just need to felt it which requires borrowing a washing machine since we only have front loaders. I also have completed this years Christmas craft from my aunt. These pretty little snow men ornaments.

This year has not been very Christmassy however, mainly because between moving, and school there has been far too much going on to really get in the Christmas spirit. But hopefully now I am and can have a good rest of the year before school starts in the New Year.

It will be a very merry knitting Christmas for me and I wish for a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for you. Just in case I do not post for the rest of the year, which is possible since I do quite often forget to post.

I Know....

Yes, I know it has been forever since I have updated. Somehow life became much more busy since finishing those essays, 3 final exams and 4 more essays descended on my life and made me too busy to update for a while. Then family and hair dying also made it much more difficult, especially coupled with the moving plans that have happened. So now hopefully I will be able to update, as well as get some knitting done.

So here is my stocking, almost done. So much more completed than the last time I had posted. I have one more round to do on the double pointed needles and then the kitchner graft or whatever it is called and then I just have to felt it. This will make me much happier since it means that I have actually finished something, something that hasn't happened much lately. Especially since the dishclothes I was doing for Christmas gifts didn't even get finished on time and they were abandoned.

Since then, however, I have recieved a nice Christmas gift from Kat, a knitting book called "Pretty Knits". It has several very pretty patterns that I am very excited to try. I am already working on one and that is my second closest done project after the Christmas Stocking.

Here is my sweater that I have started from the "Pretty Knits" book. It is already 6.5" long and just needs to get to 20.5" before I decrease. So far I'm actually getting somewhere with this. I think it is because I am working in 4 row sections of each colour and then switiching. I think that helps me feel like I'm getting somewhere.

And here is a picture of the sweater that will be concluded hopefully in the near future.

Well good knitting. New post soon.

DONE!!!!

So I am finally done my essays, excpet for the editing of the last two essays. This is the massive binder that contains all the research, and copies of edited essays for the last three weeks of my life. I wasn't sure if all of the crap for these essays would fit in one binder, but it has. I do have to add two more edited copies of essays to this binder but I'm sure it can hold 26 more pages of paper. My brain is now completely shot so you can't hold it against me if none of my sentences are coherent.

It has to do with the fact that this is my fourth of these massive energy drink that I've had since Tuesday, also that is not my only source for caffein, I've also had several pots of strongly brewed caffinated tea.

I am just soooooooo happy that they are done now that I am beside myself. I don't even want to edit anything until I have had several hours of break. It is scary that I actually managed to get three essays done while going to school full time. I think I only missed one and a half classes which is amazing. Usually I am only able to get one essay done in a weekend. I wish you could see my day planner for hte last two weeks. It is scribbled all over, there are check marks and things crossed off and some highlighting as well as the awesome happy face stickers that are there to make sure I don't start to cry when I see that things are due.

Onto happier things. Mainly knitting. Here is the beginning of my stocking that will be felted, with Fair Isle pattern, before Christmas comes around. I am very happy that next weekend I can knit to my hearts content. Also aren't the poptarts in the background distracting you and making you crave them :p.

I think that is all that I wish to say now since I'm ready to pass out despite the massive amounts of caffien coursing through my system.

Wish me luck and hopefully I'll update before too long.

I am alive

Just wanted to post saying I am alive, though I'm sure most of you know that already. I have barely gotten any knitting done since the last post. I did however, but all the yarn I need to knit a massive sweater, which since then I have restarted 3 times but it is on its way now. The problem is that all knitting projects are on hold until after I finish my dishclothes for christmas gifts. Which makes me fairly sad because they are rather boring to do. Also all knitting is on hold until I get some more of my essays done so far I am 3 for 3 and they start being due this Friday. Good Luck for me...

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..