243. My Moving Day

Sorry this is a day late, but I didn’t get internet at my new place last night, so I’m now sitting at a coffee shop with a couple other knitters, using the internet, eating a cookie, and drinking lemonade. It’s a gorgeous day outside and I really don’t want to stay in the house to unpack, but I have to. The kitten is getting lost in all of it, and I never know where I can step. It’s a slippery little thing. So cute though.

I’m working on a pair of socks out of Cherry Tree Hill, using Yarnissima’s Kiila pattern. I guess I needed to fill the void that the hole in my Firestarters left in my heart.

I want internet at home. I need to get that figured out soon.

-Cheers folks!

242. My Packing

I’m packing again. This time to move to a place that I will be for longer than two months. It’s just on the other side of the river and I’m really excited to be there. Which is not here with all the preppy Uni kids who think that popped collars, fake tans, and fake blondes are the best things since sliced bread. Can you tell I’m a little annoyed to be here right now? I can’t wait to be gone.

-Cheers folks

241. My Bumbleberry Pi Shawl

 

I finished the bind off on my Pi shawl today. It was a happy moment, I never thought that the 256 points would end. I also didn’t realize how intense blocking out 256 points was going to be. But I got it done alright by doing the 8 compass points first, then splitting the difference between those and pinning that out, then splitting the difference again, and so on and so forth. I really like the way it turned out.

Even though I didn’t really get it perfectly circular (I didn’t have the patience), I still really like it.

I think that once it dries and I take all the pins out it’s going to drape really really nicely. I love freshly blocked knitting, Especially something fine gauge like a shawl. I can’t wait to finish off my Laminaria.

Using up a fair bit of my sock yarn left overs was a great perk with this shawl. I don’t know what else I’d ever use them for. A sock yarn afghan just isn’t my style. Speaking of blankets, I really need to finish up my Lizard Ridge. I’m so close, and yet I don’t work on it. Sad.

-Cheers folks!

240. My Last Day

Today was the last day of the summer camps. One of my coworkers brought in cake with fondant and marshmallows, and creatures.

That’s right, creatures. Toadstools, and Space Invaders, and Chocobos. And Dark Mages.

It was chocolate, and amazing. I’m going to miss the two I worked with so much. We spent tonight laughing, and eating, and having fun.

-Cheers folks!

239. My Winter Knitting Begins

I cast on Yarn Harlot’s Unoriginal Hat yesterday and pretty much finished it. It was a little too shallow though, so I picked up all around on the cast on edge, and knit down for five rows, that was enough. The yarn is from Designs by Breanna Mewborn, in the Mutant Enemy colorway (grrrr, argh). It’s soft, squishy, and awesome. One of my coworkers wore it pretty much all afternoon. I love hats because they are so quick, and everyone needs a hat if you plan on surviving a Canadian Winter.

I also popped into the Yarn Store to get a skein of sock yarn to make Daybreak. It’s not my fault that 10 skeins of a beautiful wool-cashmere blend came home with me too. I couldn’t pass up the price! about $23 for over 2100 yards, 500 grams. It’s a beautiful forest green. No idea what I’ll make with it, but I love it, and it’s soooooooft. I got some Yummy for the shawl in a brown/purple variegated for the shawl. I need to get pictures because it is purdy. I also need a ball winder. Desperately, but I’m moving this weekend/next week, so I wont have time to get to the other yarn store to buy one. I guess I’ll just have to work on the projects that I have on the go already. Damn.

-Cheers folks!