Election 2008

Barack Obama is going to be the next president of the United States of America, and I voted for him. I have a paper due Monday that I have been working on tonight. But I'm not going to remember that. I'll remember sitting with my little sister in my sorority watching McCain concede to the man that I knew I wanted as president when I saw him on TV four years ago.

 

We've lived through 9/11, the War in Iraq, the invention of the iPod, hanging chads and now BARACK AS THE 44TH US PRESIDENT.

Eyes. On. The. Prize

I'm kniting Rose Red, by Ysolda. It's my first pattern that requires you to really pay attention every round, do YOs and has 180 stitches. I want it done so I can cast on socks for going to NYC weekend after this. I'm about halfway in with very little time to knit. Today was going to be great, a movie to watch for French and two hours at work, at which I do little but knit because only one or two people per shift come into the Writing Center.

 

And I left my knitting in my dorm.

Two Finished Hats!

I'm knitting hats at the moment. I don't have enough hats and I'm never mad about store ones, so now I've knit two with another on the needles. Two weeks ago (pre-Recruitment) I finished the Fisherman's Beanie, from Rowan Coast Book:



. The hat fits really well, a bit big. It knit flat, but I got tired of that quite quickly and decided to join it. It moved much more quickly after that. I love that bit on a hat when you get to the decreases and think you're almost done. Two hours later.... (Details of yarn and such here)




The next hat, my project for the week of sorority recruitment and this week was this Burgundy Ribbed Hat that I knit out of some gorgeous hand-dyed I got at iKnit. The yarn was thinner than I thought, but I swatched, cast on 112 stitches and went. I even figured out the decreases on my own. I love it. If you look carefully at that picture you can see my new piercing. My cartilage came out over the summer so Mom took me to get it redo Friday. (Hat details here)

Now I'm working on Straun, by Ysolda. I've done the nifty Invisible Cast-On and am increasing.

Calm Before The Storm?

It's a Sunday. I have an hour before I have chapter for TWO organizations, sorority recruitment is next week, and I have time to knit? What is this??

The project I'm working on is the Fisherman's Beanie from Rowan's  Coast which i bought at Liberty's last year with yarn i bought there this year. (Circular, no?)

I finished the Central Park Hoodie in July, but I haven't taken pictures yet *bad knitter*. I shall do soon. Classes are fun, nothing too exciting.

Um...Hi

So I've been awful at this blogging thing, haven't I been? I'm sorry! I got back from London a little over a week ago, and besides that all I've done is read at a speed to fast to review and knit a Central Park Hoodie that I have no pictures of. BUT! I have yarn I bought in London and there are Hats to be Made! So I will blog more! Promise!

Let's see, what news? London was amazing, it's my favorite place in the universe. I've read everything from Austen to Joyce to Anna Karenina this summer. I'm now on Sons and Lovers by DH Lawerence. Classes start Monday. That's really it, but more soon.

Seaming

I am not great at seaming, mainly because I am too impatient to baste or occasionally even pin. Things get lined up by chance and some effort in that general direction. But they're not overly lumpy or anything like that. I don't mind doing it, though, unlike the majority of the knitting universe. As a matter of fact, I like it. It's kind of magical, drawing yarn together and coming out with a finished garment.

Just saying.

Summer Knitting?

A lot of people, Stash and Burn in particular, have been talking about 'summer knitting'. Word about not wanting to have hot sweaters on laps, and cotton have been mentioned. And I sit here seaming a cardigan.

Summer is an entirely different beast, I think, for me than it is for other people. Being a student, I don't have as much time to knit in the school year, so summer is for big projects. Like afghans. And sweaters. Destashing has happened, as well, which also controlled what I knit. Two balls of sock yarn are ready to be packed for London, and there I will buy yarn. For hats. Not for summer, whose colors in fabric I don't really like, but in preparation for autumn, which I prefer anyway.