Long time no post… again

  • Posted on March 3, 2013 at 11:54 pm

If this is going to be a blog, guess I better start using it.   Let’s see…  last year we bought an old house that we have been working on way too often.  It’s gorgeous, but things keep popping up.  Putting in insulation when you barely have a hole big enough to crawl through is a challenge.

Work is… work.  Technical support is a challenge even on the best of days.

School is coming along.  I’m more than halfway at least.  Currently taking a course on the History of the Holocaust which is interesting and disturbing at the same time.  I’ve been invited to several honors societies but had to turn them down due to the cost involved.  Keep getting dean’s list, so I must be doing something right.   I submitted an abstract a few days ago to try to get published in the school’s history journal- we’ll see how that goes!

On the knitting front- I learned I have several sweaters worth of yarn, which is insane.  Worsted weight in green and another in teal.  DK weight in purple. I’ve got my current sportweight WIP in grey and an equivalent amount in purple.  I also have another worsted WIP in pink– and those are the ones I can think of right now.  Guess I need to get sweater-knitting this year.  Got some gorgeous yarn from Unplanned Peacock in fingering and laceweight for a sister design.  Same colors and theme- fingering weight is going to be a scarf and laceweight will be a stole.   Oh yea!  I have yarn for two laceweight sweaters too!  That’s eight and counting.  Wow.   Again- need to be sweaterknitting for a long while.  Also have socks and another shawl in the design process as well as a fair isle hat and scarf set.  Have an idea bouncing around my head for a cable/lace scarf in bulky-ish/heavy worsted.

My wishlist of projects is really long and I desperately need to organize my stash.   My list of history books I want to read is longer and it’s really hard to read and knit when several of the books I want only come in paperback.  Only hardcovers or e-books are knitting-friendly.

Enough update tonight- really need to post more often!!

New yarns

  • Posted on April 29, 2012 at 9:30 pm

Just had to post my pretty new yarns from UPP :)    From left to right: Thyme, unnamed red, Borage and Emerald.

Busy Week!

  • Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:37 pm

So this week started off a bit hectic with a muddy and rainy drive to my favorite yarn dyer’s open house.  I LOVE Unplanned Peacock yarns and got some beauties! I got some Peacock Sock in an unnamed reddish color that I think will make a spectacular scarf, another Peacock Sock in thyme- shades of soft purple and green. Got one last hank of Peacock Sock in borage, which I just googled to find out is a beautiful flower.  Finally, I got a hank of emerald Twisty Sock that is destined to be a pair of leafy socks.  I think the borage may be destined to be a small shawl and the thyme may be another pair of socks with some estonian nupps on the ankle.  They are so squishy and soft, I love them!

Monday we got movers to get most of our stuff into the new house.  Still don’t have a contractor to put in the bathroom or an electrician to do the electrical.  ARGH!  This is getting rather stressful.

Then went to work Tuesday and found out we’re scheduled for mandatory extra time on Saturday night.  Great.  Already tired and now we’re dropping more on me.  Oh well… at least I’ve got a well paying job that supports my yarn addiction, right?