Month: May 2006

  • and a yee-haw!

    Well, I finished my last exam of my third year of undergrad on Tuesday, so of course I’ve been busy out and about since then! (I start my summer term on monday, but at least that’s only one class, twice a week, for two months.) Today I went indoor rock climbing for the first time in a long while and my arms, they are a-sore.

    So. I don’t really have any knitting progress to report – I’ve been working a little bit on VBC, and I finished the first front of the Rowanspun jacket (which I’m not really feeling anymore…hmm). Not much spinning to talk about either, because I’ve been spinning a whole lotta skinny white merino. I need to spice that up and soon, so I think I’ll quickly spin up some dyed merino at a chunkier gauge very, very soon.

    I do have ideas, though, so new and exciting things are soon to come! In the meanwhile…I really need to concentrate on having a rockin’ couple days of freedom!

  • just popping in to say

    I am soooooo jealous seeing people’s hauls from MDSW! Why oh why didn’t I ask Rachel H to pick me up at least some merino top on the cheap, now that I’m out of things to dye?!

    I did just get an email back from RHLindsay saying that it would cost $35 US to ship 15 pounds of merino (priced at $9.50 US/pound) here, and the same amount to ship a full bump (about 30 pounds)!

    They have free shipping in the States on a full bump, so to Canada they charge whatever’s above what they would pay UPS to ship within the states – so it comes out about the same. Of course, there’d also be taxes to pay on top of that but…maybe I could get them to put the value down as less than what it actually is, so I’d pay less taxes.

    Hmmm. Anyone in town here need some merino, around $16-17 canadian per pound?

    Or…any Americans driving up to visit Toronto in a few months (it takes them awhile to send out a full bump order) that’d be willing to be a merino mule carrier?

    Oy. Self, stop thinking about merino. Study, dammit.

  • hoo boy

    I am freaking out about the two exams I have left – one on Monday night and one on Tuesday afternoon. So I probably won’t be around the next couple days! But today I’ve actually got a couple of FO’s…

    First off, a longstanding project, the Whitby socks.

    Whitby socks
    Pattern: “Whitby Socks” from Knitting on the Road by Nancy Bush
    Yarn: Louet Gems Opal, 2 50 g skeins
    Needles: 2.5 mm bamboo circ
    Finished: May 5, 2006

    Why’d these take so long? Fun, easy to remember pattern; pretty chunky, soft yarn – well, I was saving it to do at work, and I did do most of the knitting while I was there (and since I was only in one day a week, I wasn’t getting that much time in on them). If you counted the actual days I worked on this pair, it’d certainly be less than a week. They really are fast, I just took my time.

    The finished Dulaan raglan:

    Cute sweater, super fast, and a stashbuster! I just hope it fits someone.

    I made another hat, too – I was running out of both of the colours, so I just alternated them at the top.

    And although I should really be spending about *all* of my time studying, I have done a wee bit of spinning as well (hey, gotta go something to unwind before bed). The white skein is one ply of merino and one ply of tussah, and is soooooo soft. I’ve got another skein of it done, too (slightly smaller skein). I think I shall dye it a slate grey-blue, perhaps. The one in back is the last skein spun up from the batts I got at the Frolic, a nice pinky-purpley-heathery colour.

    Have a good couple days! I know I uh…won’t.