283. My Bridge

No picture, imagine the Old Halifax bridge (MacDonald) from North Street in the evening.

Today was filled with lots of fun. Out with my Aunt, Uncle, and little cousin, visiting a friend I haven't seen in over a year, and then seeing a friend who I haven't seen since he left for two months in Europe. It was a full day, but a very fun day.

I'm feeling the pain of only bringing one project to work on. I finished the mittens, and now I've got nothing to work on. So I'm making cuffs. Not the full mittens because I don't have any fibre here for the thrums, but just the cuffs. I've got one pair of cuffs down, and I'm nearly done the first of a second set of kids mittens. Note to self, even if space is at a premium, bring a second project. Always.

-Cheers folks!

282. My Home Coming

no picture yet, I left my adapter back in Ottawa by mistake. Just imagine an arial view of Halifax from the plane with one of the props in the picture.

I'm home. I'm back in Halifax for the weekend and I couldn't be happier. The flight down was quick, and uneventful. There was cloud and fog for about 90% of it, so not even much in the way of scenery. That's okay though, the guy sitting next to me was a decent guy and we had a nice chat. Now I'm off to bed becayse 2 hours sleep in about 40 hours... even though I can function, I want sleep. In a nice bed. In my bed. In my room. I'm happy to be home.

-Cheers folks!

281. My Mittens Redux

Once again, no picture, camera is packed with picture on it.

I finished the Newfie mitten #1. I’m not sold. First off, I put the thumb up too high, didn’t do enough pattern repeats, and the gauge is very loose. They don’t fit me, but then again I have weird hands, my thumbs are long, as well as my fingers. Hopefully they’ll fit someone, just not me. I’m going to knit the other mitten, just because I know they’re not for me. If they were for me I wouldn’t do it. Not worth my time. I think I might make some kids thrummed mittens. They’re quicker to make, and smaller. Gotta love that.

I don’t plan on sleeping tonight, getting up at 3am to leave the house at 4am just wouldn’t happen, where as staying up till 3am is easy for me. I’ll just have a nap sometime tomorrow. Because I’m not sleeping, I’m hoping to get a bunch of knitting done. I’m also going to wind up some yarn and I’ll prepare a bunch of thrums so if I finish the Newfie mitten #2 while on my way back to Halifax, I can cast something else on. I had thought of packing the Garter Stitch sweater in my suitcase so I’ll have something else to knit while home, but I decided against it. Mittens. Mittens mittens mittens. That’s my focus right now. Everything else is on hold. I’ll finish things… eventually.

-Cheers folks!

280. My Mittens

No picture today, I already packed my camera and forgot to transfer the pictures. oops.

I finished the thrum mittens and love them. They’re so soft and yummy. I’m definitely going to make a million more pairs of them. I’ve got enough fibre to do so, I just need to stock up on some Cascade 220 to get a bunch of different colors. I think that I might use up a fair bit of my stash, but I don’t have much in the way of worsted that I’d have the yardage of to make a pair. I’ll most likely end up striping a bunch of pairs. I need more to sell, and I’ve cast on a pair of Newfie mittens. Let’s see how they turn out.

-Cheers folks!

279. My Night Out

First off, I was up and awake without an alarm at 8am this morning. It was weird. Normally I do wake up if the guys downstairs are loud getting ready in the morning, but then I just roll over and it’s right back to sleep. Not today for some reason. So I rearranged my room. I now have a lot more natural sunlight coming onto my bed, and what seems like more floor space. Then one of my roomies made crepes. They were tasty. I spent the afternoon finishing a Thrum mitten and getting well over halfway on the other one. My evening was taken up with a meeting at the Theatre for the Musical in December. Can I just say how excited I am. I even got the music script. all 200+ pages. Gwen is happy. Very happy to be back in the Theatre, and this time it’s a musical. Then I went to the mall to pick up a memory card for my phone so I could take some pictures with it and have a way to transfer them to my laptop. I came home, punched holes in my script to put it in a binder, and then it was off again. I went with my Crepe making roomie to The Royal Oak. It was open mic night. Everyone was good, but the dobro player was amazing. Absolutely amazing. Oh, and the Scotch was good too.

-Cheers folks!