Earth Hour

Earth Hour 2008

My Mom and I reached a compromise: She'd watch TV or go on her computer and leave all other appliances turned off while I broke out my candles and (attempted to) meditate.

Course, most of my street didn't participate, and turning off street lights were out of the question due to safety issues, so stargazing wasn't exactly the best plan I could've made xD

It was fun, nonetheless.

Thank Goodness Infidelity in Knitting is Normal

Maybe it was March Break being paired so close to a four-days-weekend, maybe I'm a hopeless escapist from schoolwork. Either way, I've got too many projects going on at once, too little time to devote to knitting (well, I should have little time for knitting, but you know how obsessions are...), and both Gr. 10 EQAO Literacy Test as well as summatives looming in the nearby horizon...

This is how my desk looks like right now:

And in more details...

This is a heavily adapted version of Ranee Mueller's Tilting Blocks Baby Blanket, because I apparently can't leave any pattern unmodified. Anyway, I'm using 3 skeins of Sirdar Spree Chunky and about half a hank of Blue Sky Dyed Cotton when I was panicking about not having enough yarn to do the pattern as is. I actually have enough yarn to make the middle block much larger, so I'm
kicking myself for being so paranoid now.





Ester, from Knitty. I have no idea how weird this might turn out since I'm using worsted weight wool instead of aran and I haven't made the corresponding needle substitution (which I'm not even sure what that is...). I actually messed up the cables in the first and third columns from the right, although only the third column is even vaguely visible here. I remain optimistic, though, in the hope that sometimes, good things do happen to bad (knitting) people.



A Kittyville hat, special request by a friend of mine after she saw the one I made for myself (in pink). I'm feeling vaguely exasperated with this one, probably because it reminds me of winter (to my fellow Canadians, you know why.) and because I've made this thing once before. The fact that I'm paranoid about running out of yarn before the ears isn't helping my motivation to finish.





This is Bad Juju. Srsly. It's just a leeeetle hard to tell from the 20 rounds done, the awkward photography angle, and the excessively long waste yarn for provisional cast on (which I think I might have to scavenge in order to complete the Kittyville hat above, since it's insanely long and it's from the same skein.), and possibly the slightly n00bish photography. Yeah...






At this point, I'm going to say that I'm confident I won't run out of knitting projects any time soon (as in, for about a few months, give or take), and I really shouldn't think about starting any new projects, like learning to knit socks, knitting my first sweater, starting Seraphina, any of that stuff...

Ooh boy...

Nothing to do with knitting whatsoever - GASP!

Daniel Faraday, ILU.

*Am officially a LOST fan now*

Thank you, that is all.