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Greetings at the start of Winter Storm "My Name Is" Jonas!  It's blustery outside, and the city has decided to shut down.  What does that mean?  Well, it means I got to leave the office at 2pm today!  YAYYYYYY!


via GIPHY

I decided to spend my newfound free time providing a quick update on the blog, since I missed this past weekend.  I had a very good reason for missing this weekend - tasty homemade dinner with some friends, and then a rousing game of PANDEMIC.  It's a game where the whole point is to work together to save the world!  HOW AWESOME IS THAT?  We unfortunately didn't succeed, but next time... we got this.

In actual knitting news, the hat has been mailed to my dad, so here's hoping he receives it soon!  I lost the receipt, so I hope it doesn't get lost in the mail!

I went to Fibre Space in Alexandria last week as well, because they said they had Sweet Georgia yarn.  Lo and behold, they did!  And I bought a lot:

Well I mostly just bought a lot per my usual standard.  This is for my mom's shawl, and since I'm not sure what exactly I am making yet, I decided to err on the side of caution.  And it's pretty, so I'll find other uses for whatever is leftover.  And yes, I did wind that one cake with the winder dad made me.  Worked just as well the second time!

I enjoyed walking through Fibre Space.  It's much roomier than Looped Yarn Works (but LYW is in Dupont and an old townhome and has the same amount of variety, so you can't really fault the size).  I looked at the samples they had there, looked at the difference between fingering and lace, and decided to stick with fingering.  I may end up selecting a lace weight pattern, but I wanted to knit something a little bit heavier.  I hope she likes the color... she wanted more of a navy, but I didn't see anything I liked, so I went with a more modern blue-grey.  But the yarn is super smooshy and I love it!

I also have decided I want to learn how to knit Continental, because I am working on a double knit dishcloth, and it is taking FOREVER.  It takes almost 10 minutes to do one row!  And it's only 60 stitches!  So I'm hoping learning Continental will help the speed factor.  Maybe it will also just help the general gracefulness of my left hand.  It's pretty clunky.

Alright, I think today is a short post.  Will write more later, as I am snowed in this weekend.  

Jyoti

Haha, so much for Mondays

Whoops, missed my Monday post - but there was foodstuffs to be made!  nom nom fajitas!  :)

Other than that, I had started an awesome post about redlining my knitting, but unfortunately I haven't finished it, and I have a lot to do, so I won't be able to post it tonite.  I'm also really tired for some reason.

Here's status updates about what I have on my needles (there are only two):

1) Boneyard shawl - I finished the first skein, and am now working on the second.  oof, this takes a long time!  I'm thinking maybe I'll add some sort of pattern during one of the repeats to spice it up.  I'm getting bored.  Plus, alpaca might be too itchy for me... oops.  The colors are at least super pretty!  I really like the deep blue on here.  I think I may overdye that other knitpicks yarn I got with blue and see what happens.  I really like blue right now.  (wait, I just realize I was at 50%! woo hoo! yea, I'm slow...)

Using an actual scaling device for scale - no bananas here!

2) Bike helmet earwarmers - hey look, buttons!  yayyy!  makes them look like anteaters or elephants or something else cute.  :)  I'm going to make the button loop tonite and give them back this week.  Yay!  One 2013 WIP complete!  :)

look like aliens... do do do do do dooooooooo ("x-files")

I hope to start my mom's socks this weekend.  I officially joined the My Sister's Knitter KAL, so I want to finish at least those! (I'll be really off my new year's goals if that's all I finish by then, though.  So I probably should have at least two done by March 15!)


Have a nice night!