Just a quick note amongst the hardcore crammage: lettuce knit’s holiday/anniversary party has been postponed from this Wednesday to next (the 20th).
This is a great thing for me, because a) perhaps I shall be able to eat wheat and dairy by then (today’s my dairy re-intro day! yay cheese!) and b) I have an exam on Thursday.
back to it.
And I am stressed.
I keep wanting to post, but don’t have time to take photos in the morning, knitting is more slogging along than interesting, internet = slow, etc. And it probably isn’t going to get better…until the 14th! I have a big paper due on Monday, and exams on Tuesday and Thursday. Then I’m dooooone for the term and will not think about school one bit. Not a bit.
In the meanwhile, an update on what I am knitting – the grey cabled cardi from Vogue has one-half of a collar (terribly sorry for the blurry):
I ended up picking up far fewer stitches than the pattern called for, and had to adjust the short row shaping accordingly. Plus, the pattern has each side fold under for a doubled collar and buttonband, which I think would just be too darn heavy – so I just knit half the depth that it asked for. I’m fairly certain that it’s going to be fine. I really want to get this sweater done to wear, because I really want a new sweater!
The log cabin is pretty much done – it’s off the needles, just need to do a bit of a border and weave in some ends. Completion is near, maybe. What else am I working on? Socks, a black alpaca sweater, a sweater out of the Briar Rose Tuscany I got in Rhinebeck, a shop sample, a sweater with a deadline I’m kind of sailing past…
and what do I want to do? I bought some DB alpaca silk off Elann last week and I really want to cast on a top-down sweater – I keep thinking it’ll be a super fast sweater, but that’s only if I actually work on it! Need it for the warmth though! Brrrr!
I also bought some Fibre Company Terra from work today for the scarf/bonnet in Knit 2 Together – I desperately need a hat, and most hats look really stupid on me. I’m thinking the bonnet might be just the ticket. Plus I’ve wanted to use the Terra forever and it’s a great small project for it, I think.
For those interested – I’m currently on week three of the elimination diet and I’m getting really sick of it. Plus, my skin improved last week but seems to not be doing so great this week. Monday I get to eat lots of dairy and see if I have a reaction, and then I also get to try wheat a few days after that. Then it’s back to the naturopath again. I’ve found a really good rice bread, and a great sugar-free blueberry jam, so I’m doing ok but really? I want a bowl of pasta with tomato sauce and cheese.
One more thing, a sadder note to lettuce knit-ers: Brad the cat has passed away. I may have been allergic to him, but sniffle anyway. Everyone knew him.
It is rainy and grey and I don’t want to make the trek (50 minutes) down to school for one class. Blegh. But, it’s my man’s 22nd birthday and I will meet up with him downtown. So all is good. And since it’s warm, I can wear my new(ish) Gore-Tex jacket.
I ran out of one colour of the log cabin (a random ball of blue with a bit of red from long ago) as I was binding off that section. So I subbed in some other blue (which was leftover, not enough to do a section) for the bind off. Realization: the bind off yarn doesn’t show from the right side! Good good.
I still can’t decide between mitred squares and mini log cabins for the STR blanket. Not that I’m going to be starting it anytime soon. Did I mention that we got in a shipment of Socks that Rock lightweight at lettuce knit? You can call Denny today and do mail order! *ducks* Call or go soon, it’s going be sold out fast!
After more than a week of the elimination diet, my skin is finally starting to look better. Just starting, mind you – definitely not spectaular results yet. But I guess it’s giving me a bit of encouragement when I’m really, really starting to get tired of this. I want EVERYTHING. Even things I didn’t eat much before, like French toast. Mmmmmm, french toast. And eggs. And fake bacon.
As soon as my yarn arrives I’m going to start the cabled little jacket thing (#15, I think it is?) from the latest Vogue. In cream Andean Silk – that thing calls for a LOT of yarn – 9 skeins of Cascade 220 for a 35″ (which, by the way, is the biggest size. Bummer, man). So I ordered 20 balls.
I also bought some dupioni silk from Fabricland, way on sale – 30% off $18.99/m. I bought both a chocolate brown and a nice rose-y pink-y colour for holiday skirts. So this year I won’t just be wearing my usual red top and black pants! Cream sweater and brown skirt = awesome. I’m going to just jump into a skirt pattern without making a muslin, but I have used the pattern before and hey, I know how to make a skirt. I’m hoping for fairly long but I only bought 2 m, so I might have to go back and get some more. Maybe get megan to serge the insides of the seams for me (I usually just zigzag ’em but since she’s got the fancy serger it would look super!).
Well, that got long eh? I’ve got 2 big papers (10 and 20 pages), a poster session, and two exams before I’m free of school for the rest of the month. I’m out on the 14th. So a lot of this will have to wait until then!