Author: Laura

I bought two more balls of Esprit just in case, and I can always return the extra as long as I hustle to get things knit. I also bought four balls of Cascade Fixation from Hello Knitty, for Mon Petit Chou.

I had quite a few errands to run today, and I went by Fabricland to pick up a bunch of notions for my garter belt experiment as well as for petit chou. All the better that they were 25% off!

I made a special trip downtown as well, to go to Lush. I looooove Lush, but it’s so dang expensive. Oh well, I think it’s worth it to feel soft and smooth and smell nice!

My old standby, Sympathy for the Skin, as well as a Buffy the Backside Slayer and King of Skin body butter. The Party On temple balm is supposed to keep you alert – we’ll see. I can definitely use all the help I can get for this studying craziness.

What’s that? Knitting?

I knit the first sleeve until there was a little more than half the ball left (according to my not-so-accurate kitchen scale), then started on the second sleeve. I’ll have to see where the yarn takes me – I don’t want to end up with a too-short, weird sleeve length cardi, but I don’t really want to use yet another colour to finish it up, and it’s probably going to be impossible to find the same dyelot (Patons Classic Wool, burgundy, 115328).

Last night I spent some time balling and organizing some of my yarn (note: only some, not the stuff seen in earlier pictures of my yarn shelf that was actually on the shelves). I put all the needles and acrylics I’m not really going to use ever in an opaque tub, and the good stuff in clear bins – I need to be reminded visually that I have the stuff!

In the bin on the left is all blue and white cottons and cotton blends. I see a scrapy wrap sometime soon, but probably not until the actual spring or summer. In the right bin is other stuff – reds, wools, other yarns, and the really little scrap balls in a plastic bag.

I’ve finished the first tall sock!

It’s not quite a long as I wanted, but I’m just sick of knitting it, I think. Now to finish the other one…

Oh, and here’s a nice sunny shot of the secret project (several of you will know what this is):

It’s so nice out today! I’m going to open up my blinds and my window, to let in some nice fresh air…while I study.

I’m very close to finishing that first goal:

I started the ribbing, took the picture, then stood up and looked in the mirror and decided that I want it to be a few inches longer. I’ll do those few inches in ribbing. But…

I’ve only got that much yarn left of the second ball for this sock. I was saving the remaining two balls of yarn (I ordered six) for a matching Betty, which calls for 2 balls of fixation. I just checked elann, and the stock of this colour is only 15! I don’t want to order more and have too much, but I don’t want to run out either. I also really don’t want to spend money…although I just checked how much it’ll be if I order another 2 balls (enough so that I’d have enough yarn for a pair of normal socks after these are done) and it’s under $15.00.

Hmmmm. I guess I’ll just have to see what happens with this sock – maybe I won’t need much of the reserved yarn.