Scorpion! AAAAAHHHHH!

Woke up at 1:55 this morning because my arm hurt. REALLY HURT. Looked to see what had bit me, but I didn't see anything, so I lifted up the pillow and saw this:

I freaked out, and ran into the kitchen to get a glass so I could catch it. When I got home from work, I moved furniture. Let's hope this never happens again.

Wowsers, It has Been a Long Time

So, uh. Hi. I've been really really busy. You simply cannot believe how busy I've been. I've been student teaching, and I've decided that teaching isn't for me. I now want to become either a librarian or stenographer, since there are significantly fewer kids involved. The kids, they drive me bonkers, and don't listen to me at all. Next Friday is my last day, then I graduate and I'm free. Sweet, sweet freedom.

I've knit a few things in the meantime, but not as many as I would have liked, since I have about an hour of free time a night. I'm making a pair of fingerless gloves, and I made an Everlasting Bagstopper bag, and I've started a few different pairs of socks, and haven't gotten far on them because of time constraints. I wore a hole in my Petticoat socks and darned them (Darn!) I made another Le Slouch hat, and another Quant.

I also went to a yarn store and bought (gasp!) yarn! I got four skeins of 100% silk laceweight yarn (for socks for Mom and Grandmom), and one skein of Pima cotton and silk sock yarn (for me mwa ha ha!)!

Ouch, I have a papercut! Pain!

My roommate who I taught to knit has made a scarf and a hat, and is making a pair of fingerless gloves (wristwarmers). I'm so proud.

Oh yeah I also made a black baby hat with a skull and cross-bones cross stitched on it for a preggy friend. She's a goth, of course, so the baby needed a "Skull cap." I think I need to make another in a larger size for the growing-ness tendencies of babies and the cuteness factor involved. Wow that sentence was confusing.

Anyways, hopefully after next week I can catch up with pictures and start posting regularly again. I intend to start a lace shawl (narrowed it down to two choices) and need to finish the mothers silk socks for mothers day hopefully.

May rain fall and dissolve your troubles and lull you to sleep with pattering on a tin roof.

Speading the Word of Knitting throughout the Hearts of Many

I taught my new roommate how to knit! She's very good at it, with few bad starts, and has started a scarf. Oh, I'm so proud of her. Now she can teach everyone she knows, and the powerful Word of Knitting can continue to spread. Ah. I feel aglow in the heavenly love of Knitting.

In the name of Yarn,
Amen.

Bad Cables! Bad!

So I started the Ariel Hat the other day, and the cabling is killing me. Check it out:

Having trouble? Lemmee help:
There are more mistakes too. I'm debating whether or not to rip it out and start over, but I don't think I will. I'm not that much of a perfectionist, I need this hat ASAP, so speed takes precedence over beauty, and, personally, I don't think anyone of consequence (other knitters) will be getting close enough to it to notice.

So I push on, vainly trying to ignore the sporadic nature of my cables, and just try to finish the darn thing.

I've also been working on Clessidra again, but I'm at the point at the beginning of the cables, and I don't want to do this without 1) my new row counter and 2) ridding myself of the stigma of the irregularly cabled hat. Wish me luck!

A Vow of Silence

Ok, not really, I've just been really busy. I have been knitting too. I made this:

This is the Ice Queen hood. It took less than one skein of lacette and size 8 needles. It's ok. not my favorite.

This is another Entrelac headband. I've made about 6 or 7 of these. They're great fun to make.

I finished one Petticoat sock. I don't remember if I posted a pic of it yet, so there ya go.

I made a pair of mittens, but they were too small for my finger, so I gave them to my grandma. I love the way the colors turned out of them.

I'm sure I've forgotten something, so I'll post again when I have time. I'm student teaching this semester, so I'm really really busy this semester, but hopefully I'll learn how to do this really well, and be able to get a job. I still don't know where I want to move, but I still want to move north and east. I'm really nervous about this, because I'm only 21, and the oldest kid I'll be teaching is 19, so I feel silly trying to keep the kids in line, and having them call me ma'am. Sigh. And it's so much work. Isn't there a job where I can be lazy every day and make twice as much? Cause there should be. It would be awesome. I wish I was all creative and stuff and could invent knitting patterns like all the cool knitters on the internet. Maybe I can get my mom to think stuff up for me...

Why, I do Believe a new Knitty returned my Knitting Mojo

I love the winter Knitty! Lots of pretty stuff, and just a couple things I wouldn't touch with a thirty-nine-and-a-half-foot pole. Muuch better than the last one. I already knit a whole project, last night from 9pm to 3am. It was so much fun! I knit Quant, an entrelac headband-type thing. I'd never tried entrelac; I was a bit intimidated by the complexity-looking-ness of it, but I really like it now. I'll have to look up that pair of entrelac socks I saw somewhere...

I wish I had a pic, but I already wrapped it and gave it for a present. It's ok, though, I have lots of that yarn left, and I'll make another one. I've been trying to make other stuff, but just can't get in the mood, till last night at least. I made a pair of mittens, working on both pairs of socks I have going, still need to finish that baby sweater, and I'm sure something else I'm forgetting.

Anyways, two finals, one PPR test (wish me luck!), and I'll be home free for a month! Yay! Free time = knitting time, hopefully.

I'm planning on knitting at least one more Quant this weekend, and hopefully I'll take some pics before I give it away.

So by Monday I should have another post for you, with pics. Yay!

Perhaps I Should Just Go On Sabbatical and Forget This Life Thing

So yeah. Another week deprived of the wonder that is knitting. Because of school. This is what I get for taking 19 hours, huh? Anyways, next week is Thanksgiving, and I won't have such easy access to a computer during that week. So I won't be blogging for a few weeks. Not that this is anything new.

I redid the Serenity sock's castoff so now it's stretchy and I finished the first Petticoat sock too. That's what I've been knitting, socks while I sit in class. Yay. I like socks. Anyway, that's about it. Sure wish I had some free time. I might get a few hours' sleep. Or knit. Same dif.