I’ve come to accept the fact that I’m just not a regular blogger. Brave Ysolda is trying to blog every day in November: I think I should come up with my own challenge and try to blog at least once a week for the rest of the year. Do long-standing readers remember my Thursdays are update days! resolution? That didn’t last very long! Maybe I should re-introduce it for 2010?
Everything just feels so all over the place at the moment. I started back at uni. and the least I say about that, the better. I have major motivational issues at the moment. I’m in that kind of mood where I can barely be bothered to get out of bed to go to work, nevermind go to work, come home, do all the usual junk you have to do, then do a load of homework and online postings in my class’s internet discussion forum. But whatever. Deep breaths, I shall prevail.
That’s not to say I’ve been going without adventures and japery. Since my last post, I’ve had a birthday, Mutti’s had a birthday, Keith has moved out (hurrah), I’ve been to Edinburgh with Neil, been to see Michael McIntyre in Newcastle with Laura, finally registered with a doctor (after about 3 years of not bothering), climbed Helvellyn and managed to not get scorched at Neil’s bonfire party. All of which were super-dooper. Apart from registering with the doctor, but you can’t have it all.
Photo-wise, I’ve been slipping. I kept forgetting to take my camera out of the hotel room when we were in Edinburgh, and didn’t even take it to the lakes when we climbed Helvellyn. I have, however, just snapped some photos of my knitting progress. Not that I’ve made much progress since my last post, whe I was casting on for my red lace hat.
After spending considerable hours asking myself if I was really happy with my k1, p1 ribbing (I wasn’t), I frogged the hat, tossed my DPNs to one side and got cracking with the co-ordinating scarf, using the same lace pattern as the Grace Lace beret, using Blue Sky Alpacas Silk Alpaca on 5 mm straights. It’s going OK, considering I’ve barely picked up my needles this past 6 weeks. I’m planning on knitting the scarf in two halves then grafting it together in the middle. I bought 4 hanks of Silk Alpaca: I’ve used two so far, one on each half of the scarf. The two scarf pieces are now sat on stitch holders. Now I need to get the hat done, then use whatever yarn I have left (hopefully at least one hank) to complete the scarf.
So last night, after Mutti and I moved lots and lots of furniture, hoovered, dusted, washed down woodwork and took down curtains and blinds (I forgot to say, we’re getting the house decorated, too) I made a half-hearted attempt at reading on of my uni books before settling down to some knitting. I had to wind a hank into a ball, because I was too lazy to do all 4 hanks when I bought them. I used two sets of DPNs, lots of waste yarn and a tapestry needle, with a circular needles on standby, to do my own preferred method of tubular cast-on in the round. It might not be the most economic way of doing things but it certainly avoids the tantrums of dropped stitches and tubular tantrums! By the time I retired to mon boudoir last night, I had a lovely looking (if I do say so myself) k1, p1 rib going on my 3.75 mm DPNs. I’m looking forward to getting to the main bit of the hat so I can break out the shiny new Addi Turbos I treated myself to in a flying visit to K1 in Edinburgh last week. Clacketty clacketty clack!
