What I’ve been working on:
Also provides some quality knitting time, of which I do have photos, but no time to upload them today. Perhaps tomorrow, although apparently I have to get up early to go to school!
I’ve got an FO, a LOT of knits in progress, handspun yarns to post and upcoming knitterly plans. I can’t believe it’s a week into 2007 already! More to come…as soon as I finish watching 24. Talk about addictive.
Yummmmm. I am in serious love with this yarn – The Fibre Co. Terra. It’s merino, alpaca and silk and has just the MOST AMAZING COLOURS EVER. Seriously. They’re very deep and complex, and look overdyed or something.
Anyway, I’m knitting up the grownup bonnet from Knit 2 Together (it’s a bonnet attached to a scarf) because I need something to cover my head and look pretty stupid in most hats (plus I almost always wear a ponytail, especially in winter). Oh, and yes, I know about Calorimetry. I should make one of those soon.
Of course, since it’s ridiculously warm here – okay, maybe not ridiculously, it’s still freezing at night – I don’t have THAT much of an urgent need for these things, nor the *cough* large number of sweaters I have on the needles. And yet I still keep casting on, and wanting to start new project, etc…
I’m aiming to have the grey cabled cardi from Vogue (it’s Fall 2006 for those wondering) done up for christmas. And maybe sew up a silk skirt out of some dupioni that I bought a little while ago. The cream bell-sleeve jacket is going swimmingly too – I got a good chunk of the back done at the lettuce knit party, and it’s just really fun knitting. I think my plain knitting is going a bit slower because it’s a bit boring…but I love stockinette! It should be going faster!
On the sweet front, I tried making some carob balls (carob, coconut, almond, milk, stevia) and….eh. They’re okay. Pretty rich tasting so it kind of kills the craving, but I’m not sure I like carob. Next up is to make some almond-type cookies and maybe try to find a rice flour shortbread recipe. I’m still thinking about how to best adapt a coconut cheesecake recipe that I found in a magazine – it doesn’t have much sugar in the filling (it’s a no-bake) so I could just sweeten it with stevia; it doesn’t have eggs; I could use an almond-meal crust.
Hope it’s warm and comfortable where you are, filled with laughter and wool! I’ll be around the next while, but I know some of you won’t be, so – happy holidays!
I have knitting to show! Not right now though, unfortunately…right after my exam tomorrow. It’s going to be sweet.
In the meanwhile, hopefully some of you techy-types might have a bit of insight for me. My old (G3) ibook has been exhibiting some strange behaviour.
Mysterious Computer Problem #1:
Not being assigned an IP address. Might be to do with the router rather than my computer, but weird nonetheless. I think it started happing after I did a software update (security update) but I can’t be sure. I wasn’t able to get on the internet this morning again because of it, but when I mooched off someone else’s wireless and then went back to my own, it worked.
Mysterious Computer Problem #2:
Battery gauge not working. I unplugged my computer so I could move it around the room (to mooch wireless signal) and now it seems to be stuck at 90% when clearly it should be going down. When I plug in the charger it turns orange (meaning it’s charging) but the gauge doesn’t register it being plugged in, and the charge doesn’t rise. It’s been stuck at 90% for over half an hour now.
So strange. Help?