I'm broke!

But I have a new ball winder and swift! They arrived at the office today. I'd been waiting patiently for the fabled Joann.com 50% off sales that Karin told me about. For like a year now I've been getting annoying sales emails from them at my junkmail address . . . which, really isn't that much of an imposition, I suppose.

October is almost over . . .

Mom's birthday present is in the mail. Soon she will have it, and then I will be able to post pictures!

My crazy birthday month is almost over and I've only sucessfully completed one present! I was knitting sleeves all weekend (and made some substantial progress while watching The Science of Sleep, which was just okay). Dad . . . is not getting a handknit gift, I'm sorry to say. The socks just weren't working out. The yarn choice was a mistake. It was a learning experience. And he will get something almost as nice. I just don't know what it is yet.

Location: The cubicle
Listening: The B-52s - Give Me Back My Man
Reading: Casenotes
Knitting: Cycling Aran (I've successfully restrained myself from starting anything else, which is an accomplishment. But a box from Knitpicks might have arrived at the apartment today, so all bets are off).

Hat v. Sweater

Another hat (on my v. cluttered desk).
Matt M. got the last one. This one is going to J.Co.


I love making hats. They are quick. I have serious sweater-block right now. This sweater for Owen is kind of killing me. I want it to be done! I have the body basically done, and I am working on the sleeves right now, and I just don't think I can make sweaters anymore. Jessica tells me that this is all normal because it is my first sweater, but I don't know. Today is Owen's 30th birthday, but I have until the 27th to finish the sweater. Arg.

Location: The Cubicle
Listening: Cat Power - Wild is the Wind
Reading: _The End_ by Lemony Snicket
Knitting: Cycling Aran!

Nothing to see here

Just sick of my profile pic.

Also, is Sufjan Stevens a knitter?


Location: The Cubicle
Listening: Elvis Costello - Starting to Come to Me
Reading: "The Comparative Structure and Experience of Urban Exclusion: Race, Class, and Space in Chicago and Paris" by Loic Wacquant; _The End_ by Lemony Snicket
Knitting: Owen's Cycling Aran, still

Mini-post

It's Halfdome from Knitty, knitted out of Knitpicks Merino Style.

ETA: "halfdone"? My misspellings are beginning to amuse me.

Bag Fiesta

More pictures of the bag!

The thermos nook. (After months of searching, I do not posess a leakproof travel mug, but it makes me nervous to have it rattling around the bottom of my bag.


The cool stripes on the back.











I just returned from the International Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I am not a balloon enthusiast (or a fan of getting up at 4:00 am to watch balloons), but I do have grandparents who live in Albuquerque. It was pretty fun. I knit a hat, and did a bunch of readings for my Political Processes in Policy Formation class. And what could me more fun than that?

A long, long time ago.

I've been busy. This is what I've done:
Worked.
Taken a mini-vacation (spent mostly sitting at home watching DVDs).
Started school.
Worked some more.

Went to Merz Apothecary and spend too much money on soap that looks kind of like ice cream.



I've also knitted. I've been working on Owen's sweater and Dad's socks. I've put away all the yarn not related to these two projects to prevent myself from getting distracted.

I finished my felted messenger bag! It was knitted on US13s with a combination of green, blue, purple, and brown KnitPicks Wool of the Andes. It has overalls-type clips for fasteners, an outside pocket, and an inside nook that holds a thermos or a bottle of water. I may have to post more pictures of it because I love it. It is a little too wide and too shallow (felting really does shrink an object more in length that in width), but I've been using it and it works just fine. Plus it's so cozy feeling, and I get compliments on it everywhere I go.



So, yeah. This whole school thing is making knitting and blogging (and reading knitting blogs!) more difficult, but I am going to do my best to take a least one knitting photograph per week.