a FO and thoughts

Saturday, May 23, 2009 at 10:05 p.m.
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Hey look! another Tomten jacket!
This one took forever to knit, for a variety of reasons:
-I only knit it at work (it's a store sample)
-I knit it during the end of term hell
-it's plain garter stitch. easy but boring!
But, it's finished now, and it looks beautiful. it's so soft too, which surprises me, as I'm not usually a fan of cotton.
Yarn: Estelle Cloud Cotton 5 balls (three MC, one of each of the others)

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I spun this yarn up ages ago, but never blogged it. it's a light worsted, and it's been so long, I forget how many yards. There's lots though. It's Dyed in the Wool Handmade roving, which I bought back in September and spun up. It needs to be something. I'm thinking maybe mitered handwarmers, or part of a scarf.

Next up: I'm thinking of jumping on the Whisper Cardigan bandwagon. Because I don't quite have enough mindless projects on the go, right? This is the yarn I have in my stash that would work:
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I think it might be too variegated. Thoughts?
I can't really justify shelling out any money for another ball for it (say, of the Tanis laceweight we just got in at the Sheep!) because I'm painfully broke this summer due to working for free, and paying tuition, and all the money I have left has to go to things like rent, and food. So, if this yarn won't work for it, I'll just have to do it another time!

Last week of freedom : (

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 4:31 p.m.
I start my internship on Monday at the Royal Ontario Museum - in the Chinese culture section. I will be working with 19th century Chinese photographs for June - scanning, and re-housing them, then in July I will be working with a collection of Indian photographs - cataloging and researching the photographers. I am looking forward to it, but it does mean that my staying up all night, knitting and watching Battlestar Galactica, and sleeping all day will have to come to an end.
I'm only six episodes away from the end of BSG anyways!

Gabby

Gabby, the classiest kitty around, is having a rough month. First, she cut up her toenail, and it was bleeding, and raw, and I had to wash it out with salt water every night. Then, lately, she's been losing her winter coat, i guess, and that combined with her eating fleece whenever I turn my back on here whilst spinning means that she's been coughing up hairballs all over the house, most notably, on the loveseat. grr.

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Long weekend

Every weekend lately has been a long weekend for me! No school, my internship hasn't started yet, and only working at the Sheep 2 or three days a week means I've got a lotta free time on my hands! 

What have I been doing? That's a good question actually, as I don't have much to show for it! 

On the knitting front, I'm working on a fair-isle sweater that is not photo-worthy, as I'm only working on the body, and 250+ stitches of stockinette in the round isn't that interesting to knit or photograph. 

I'm also working on an Ishbel, in Koigu, and am afraid that i'm going to run out of yarn. And... the infamous Dr. Who scarf is about 7+ feet long... getting there! 

I have been sleeping in - one of my favourite things to do ever, which I never get enough time to do. I could seriously sleep all day and be perfectly happy!

I've finished reading three of the vampire books that True Blood is based off of, and while they don't suck entirely, they are pretty trashy reading. Tonight, i am starting to read this: 


I will let you know how it is! 

Mothers Day FO's

Friday, May 15, 2009 at 12:52 a.m.
I made my mommy two pairs of socks! 

Socks the first: 
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plain socks
Yarn: Regia
Needles: 2.5

Socks the second:
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Pattern: Evening Stockings for a Young Lady (rav) From Vintage Socks
Yarn: Tanis Fibre Arts Fingering Weight
Needles: 2.5mm

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Mommy liked them, and I got them done in time! (it was hairy there for a while!)
I like my socks simple. I do a lot of streetcar knitting, and TV knitting, and I like to be able to do both. These lacy socks were a good choice- they were very easy to memorize.
Currently, I'm working on Spring Forwards from Knitty, also in Tanis (which is a dream to knit with) and have started a fair-isle yoked pullover of my own design featuring bunnies (!)

Early Morning

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 8:52 a.m.
Dave goes for a jog every morning. This morning, when he woke up, I was still awake. He asked if I wanted to go with him, and I agreed, but we went for a walk, not a jog. 
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The beach is beautiful in the morning, there's no one around. 
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It's almost 9am now, and i'm starting to get tired. I don't know if I'll go to sleep, or just suck it up and wait till tonight, to try and reset my sleep cycle- i've been going to bed later and later every night.

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missing from this photo - thankfully is one billion dogs without leashes running around and generally being annoying. Dogs off leash in the off leash park RIGHT NEARBY = fine by me. dogs of leash here - where it's NOT an off leash area = a pain in the ass. Well, only badly trained dogs i guess.

Hello Blogger

Hmm. I think i will switch over here from LJ. So much is better. LJ has begun all kinds of evil things, like forced ads in the blogs, it's so annoying. Plus, I can't customize, and have cool headers, and stuff on the side, like my tweets, and links, and fun stuff like that. 

So, I'm going to move over here, see how I like it. 

For reference, my old blog is here