My LYS Knit Night

On Thursday nights and Saturday afternoons my LYS has knit time. It's pretty much always the same people; mostly older women. My friend and I are always (unless someone brings their kids) the youngest there. I often don't agree with the political views of the LYSO and her employers. I don't always buy my yarn there. But I love it. Everyone is nice, they ask how school is going, remember where Corinne and I go to college, where we're traveling, what we're doing.

Since we see each other most when we go there, we tend to talk on our own most of the time, but it's still fun listening to others conversations, seeing what their knitting etc.

That say, if I have a problem, I'm much more likely to look it up online than ask someone. I think it's because I taught myself. This benefits me, because my mom and friend who were taught usually need someone to help them. Nothing bad about it, just different.

I started the ribbing on my Central Park Hoodie!

In the Box

You know how when you have a big purse there are always a million things in it? Like a lighter, kniting, needles, a wallet, tampons, paperwork, hair ties, lipstick, Shakespeare's The Tempest (or maybe that's me), but the thing you need is never there?

Yesterday, I finished, except for felting, my guitar strap (need to go to Guitar Center today and get a knob put onto my guitar so I can use it), so I decided to clean out my stash box. In it I found: all my books, a baby hat in donated acrylic that I may never finish, yarn bands, empty Hefty bags, sock yarn, remnants of Cascade, a broken needle threader, a "doodad", many many DPNs without a home (note to self, needle case), a hair tie, trash, a bag full of scrap yarn...

And oh yes, size 8 straights to do the gauge swatch for my Central Park Hoodie

Oops

I suck as a blogger. I mean to, and then it does not happen. I've been busy! Doing things like....clearing out my iTunes! Yes, that's important...And finishing socks!

 


And an iPod case.


 

And now all I have is a felted guitar strap and a Central Park Hoodie and I will be done with my stash! That's right, with the exception of some sock yarn I don't know if I want to use and a ball I can't find, all the yarn in my stash will be significantly used enough for me to justify buying more. It'll be good, because I am not, strictly speaking, a stasher. And I want to start buying yarns that feel more "me". Less "ooh shiny MINES" and more, I could wear this, add it to a wardrobe. So, once the no-more-stash happens, there will be many hats (I need more hats) a sweater or two, and some bags. "Wardrobe"-"real knitter" things. Not just knick-knacks that I won't use. Because I tend to do that!

Simple Joy

I'm swatching. For a new project. Wendy's iPod sweater. My socks are done (pictures when I put batteries in my camera).

I'm making headway on my summer projects. I can play a couple chords on the guitar. I've driven around the neighborhood at a glorious speed of fifteen miles per hour. I only have three hundred pages left in the huge book i want to finish. It's been a pretty productive day. Add to that, two more skeins of yarn to use up before I start my Central Park Hoodie all makes me a happy nose-pierced knitter!

Sad Story

I just binned a pair of socks. The socks I knit last summer, the blue ones that I like very much. They are very soft and have lovely colors. And many holes. Those socks travelled with me to Europe. I should keep them for sentimental value. But I can't. Because they have irreparable holes.

 

I am considering buying more of the yarn and reknitting them to make myself feel better. 

ETA

Yeah binning is a lie. they're going in the back of my sock drawer.

BusyBusyBusy

it has been quite a semester. So I'll give it to you in pictures, while I sit back here trying to knit these freaking two-month-long socks! 

Moe's picnic inside in April. It was cold. 


My school is pretty in April:



 

Renaissance Faire!!




FINISHING THE SOCKS

 

PS. if anyone knows a good place to buy a cabled cardigan in summer (no time to knit one), let me know.

I Am Not Yet Dead

Hey guys, looks like I survived finals! And as soon as I find my camera link I'm going to try my damnedest to get back to posting regularly here! I really do adore this blog.

 

For a rundown, I'm home for the summer. And by summer I mean until July 12th when I go back to London. So, until it's warm enough to swim I have various projects going. I'm putting photos in albums tomorrow, learning guitar, going to start a recipe book for my mom and I, finish sewing some skirts, read some books and...

 

KNIT! 

Last night, last night I cast off ONE sock from the pair I started in MARCH. I freakin' hate finals. But I love y'all! 

As for book reviews, there are quite a few I should give, but I think I may just start up from now on again, with perhaps the exception of my favorite book of the semester.