Elementary, my dear readers

I love downtown Toronto, I really do. And I've spent over 40 dollars at Americo and Romni Wools. Good thing or bad? I still haven't decided yet. However, I do have everything necessary to finish my Ester, and I'm totally prepared for the Knitting Olympics!

Seraphina is coming along splendidly - and I'm starting to get bored/frustrated. It's taking me over an hour now to work one row, and as pierine (butterfly-like, in the same manner that canine and feline is used. =) Proud English geek, what can I say?) as it looks right now, I'm itching to go back to my needles.

Speaking of which, needles hold an amazing potential to hurt. Not that I've experienced it first hand (yet), but I'm sure that the good community of knitters could vouch for my statement. Forget the butler, wouldn't it be awesome if we've got a Clue-type mystery going, and it turns out that the sweet little old lady across the street did it with her knitting needles?

Also, yesterday at the subway station:

(On the subject of our love of all things Sherlock Holmesian. Julie's fault. Conversation very paraphrased. Julie, you can yell at me if you ever find this.)
Moi: Seriously, I should knit you the hat, ya know, the one he doesn't actually wear. And the cape too, which he also doesn't actually wear.
Julie: I can go as him for Halloween this year, then! So that makes you Watson, then?
Me: Considering that I'm a lot less observant? That's a given.

So, um, does anyone know a good pattern for Sherlock Holmes knitted stuff?

Summer!

...which started over two weeks ago for me, so yeah...

But yay, I can get back to my knitting now!

My report card just came in the mail today; final average of 93.8 according to the card, but I calculated 93.9 (small difference, but every decimal counts when my parents are holding me accountable...), even factoring in the civics/career as one course. Math was the one that weighed my marks down, coming in at 83, *wince*.

Summer to-do list: Find a summer job to support my yarn habit (nixed by Dad's insistence), figure out what the heck universities are looking for in terms of marks, how the heck applications work, and HOW ON EARTH DOES IT WORK STARTING FROM HERE???, study for the SAT, practise math, go to Wonderland/ROM/science center with friends...

Oh, and knit and crochet in the free seconds I have.

On the bright side, I did finish one project to date!
I call him Baka, because of an obscure pun that traverses two different cultures .

Current project is Seraphina, worked with Sirdar Blur (acrylic + kid mohair). What I've learned so far? Working a big crochet project when my grasp is *very* tentative at best, and with a delicate (read: frustrating) yarn? Not exactly my best idea to date.

Also, Knitting Olympics! I'm a proud member of Team Teen! going for the Sweater Sprint with Titania, my current summer fling <3.

Happy belated Canada Day to my fellow Canucks, and Happy Fourth of July to my American neighbours!