There's a guy who's been awake since the second world war.
Things that are keeping me from sleeping:
1. Hunger.
2. Sadie.
3. Three lectures to give today.
4. The people digging up my street for sewer work. LOUD.
I finished work last night at about 1:30am, had to finish lecture notes, then give said lecture at 7 am. Will give it again at noon and 7 pm. Oh well, has to be done. I'm used to sleeping in weird patches, mostly, although it does get a bit tiresome. The husband is out of town for two days (sad) so that helps the sleeping situation. Although a certain dog will wake me up a lot. She's bad.
Knitting, please.
So many updates. My sister's sweater is now on size 3's (3.25 mm) needles and at about 10 inches in length!!! Three more inches to the armholes. Yay.
I finished one Jaywalker. Update THIS, Cara!!!! Hahahahaha!
We shall not speak of the pooling.
This is Knitpicks Sock Memories. Didn't pool till the foot, so I'm leaving it. A little big for me, these are*, but I like them still.
How 'bout Mittens?
LOOKIE HERE!
Psych!** They aren't actually done.
Now, let me say something about that gusset. The instructions call for you to put the thumb stitches on waste yarn, and cast on by backward loop the stitches over the gusset in the contrast yarn. I got nothing on Beth Brown-Reinsel, that's fo 'sho, but I did something a little different. I carried the main color through the cast-on stitches, cause I didn't want a big loop hanging out every time I put my thumb in. And I didn't want to stop/start the yarn. So I cast on with a knit-on method and wove the burgundy yarn through:
When I pick up the stitches I swear you will not be able to tell. Well, at least I think so. I guess we'll find out. ;-)
Ok, kids. Must take a small nappynap.
*Apparently I'm channeling Yoda now. What is happening? Happening what is?
** Oops. My age is showing.
NO, it ain't another hiatus...
Hello there! Sorry I've been away so long. Had tons to do, but have been really productive, so that's good.
I also went to my first DRIVE-THRU pharmacy. What a good idea! Why hadn't I done this before? Going IN to the store? It's so passé!
SOME NEWS: There is a big stash sale coming your way from HEK. Stay tuned, will post this weekend. Seriously good deals for seriously good knitters.
Update us.
1) I started a Klaralund (from Cornelia Hamilton Book 2) for my mom:
Knit during the Harry Potter 4 movie. Completed during Scrabble. Which I won. Ha!*
This is the second one I've made. Only for family could I knit something twice. It's going to be SO. COOL. Silk Garden, I love thee.
2) And, I did some more work on the Nordic gloves:
I'm in love with this gusset.
3) Madli is done, but no picture yet. I want to be able to take a good one, and today it's overcast. Soon, though. I'm super pleased with this helpful blocking post by the Harlot, as it made blocking Madli much more easy. Thanks so much for all your sweet comments on Madli so far!
4) And, I never did post a picture of my NBaT, but I finally finished it (in like SEPTEMBER, hello!):
I hated that intarsia. It actually looks like crap close up. No more for this girl for awhile. Onward and upward. Forward ho! Or something like that...
*Ok, but only by like a few points. My sister usually kicks my scrabble ass. And our dad ALWAYS, and I mean without fail, wins the following: Parcheesi, Clue, and Croquet. Amazing. Mom kicks all our butts at Wheel of Fortune. My mom can guess a wheel of fortune clue with NO letters on the board. Vanna ain't got nothin' on my mom.
Of a cottage on the shore.. of a dark... Scottish laaaaake....
Oh, the Police when they were cool. Before Sting went all soft. Oh well.
We're Waiting.
Oh, hi. And welcome. Want a tasty beverage?
High Energy Jenny has been Exhausted Jenny. Many crazy nights at work, especially the weekend of Auburn v. Georgia. My ER full of drunk teens, mostly. We all felt pickled, there was so much alcohol around.
However, because I am being really really good and being Knit-one-thing-at-a-time-or-mostly-so Jenny, I have finished twenty-eight TWENTY-NINE of 31 repeats on Madli's shawl!!!! I want to have it done by this weekend, because the husband will be out of town and I can block it on the bed. Priorities, you know.
I'll show a pic when it's all done.
I added a few new things to the Gallery so you might look around there, if'n you have time.
Picture, or we leave.
Ok, I did start a new fun set of mittens from IK Winter 2004. My LYS made me. Well, okay, maybe didn't make me exactly. But they were having a "buy 5 get 5" so, really, I call that coercion, don't you?
The cuffs are corregated ribbing, which I hadn't done before, and I learned the Norweigan purl to be more efficient at it. And it worked. A new way to purl. I love it. Here's a link to the .pdf for the technique: Hi, click me for the .pdf.
I am doing a little at a time on these, but I really am working steadily on Madli. Then, I have a list:
1. My sister's "Stripes Go Round"
2. A shrug my friend Theressa has commanded me wants me to make.
3. A Klaralund for my mom.
4. That turtleneck shrug deal from Scarf Style.
5. Finish Honeysuckle before another winter goes by.
Not necessarily in this order. And subject to change. And there are a FEW knits in the wings, of course... I'll tell ya, though, it's pretty cool how fast things go if you do just one at a time, huh? Pretty neat trick, that.