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Apparently there is no such thing as “enough” yarn.

Oh, hello there!

I could start off with an excuse about how busy grad school has been and how I just haven’t had the time to post, but that would only be half true. Apparently when I bought all of that yarn I forgot to account for the fact that I would immediately start every project and ignore every other aspect of life. My mistake.

In any case, I now have tons to post and will hopefully be less of a lazy blogger. Hopefully.

In other news, my friend came to visit for the weekend and I may have dragged her along to a delightful yarn shop I discovered near my apartment. She needed some yarn for Christmas presents and I may have come up with several excuses (that I can no longer recall) for why I needed to buy more yarn.

They had a ton of Madelinetosh that I wanted to crawl in bed with, along with some gorgeous multicolored skeins of a brand I didn’t recognize (and currently can’t remember the name of). I’ve always had a bit of a love-hate relationship with yarns like that. They’ve absolutely beautiful on the skein but I never like how they look knitted because they colors mesh together and it never looks as pretty as they did before. Sad.

I came away with this:

Suri surprise

60% alpaca and 40% merino wool. I’m drooling just looking at them. I’ve started projects with both of them (seriously, it was impossible to resist. I dare you to try.) and they’re SO lovely to pet knit with.

Project photos coming up!

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A real update!

I feel like I haven’t posted knitting photos (or any photos) in ages.

To start off, here is Georgia!

Georgia

I had knitted the entire body before I realized that it was both too short and too wide (I have a really long torso and a small waist). So I started over. Luckily I’ve been moving and getting over jetlag and settling into school and whatnot so mindless stockinette has been about as complicated as I needed.

The first time around I had knit a size 36. The second time around I cast on a size 32 and then switched to 28 when putting the sleeve stitches aside. So far it’s a teeny bit tighter in the chest than I would like but it fits infinitely better than the 36 and I’m hoping blocking it will make it just a smidge looser. I also lengthened it so there are twelve buttons instead of ten.

I also finally took pictures of the Ghost Fambly duvet cover in action!

Ghost fambly duvet cover finished!

I think it turned out pretty awesome. I put an Ikea comforter in it and it’s so scrumptiously warm and delightly. I forgot to take pictures of the pearl button closures on the end of it. I think I need lace-trimmed throw pillows.

Access to a fully stocked kitchen and a fancy grocery store down the street means I’ve been cooking a bunch too! I’ve missed experimenting with recipes. Last week I made Irish stew. Yesterday I had a huge craving for these Brazilian cheese breads that Boyfriend’s grandma makes. So I read about two blog posts and six different recipes (plus the comments and reviews) and came up with something that came out pretty decent!

Cheese breads

Aren’t they cute? They’re made of tapioca flour and cheese so they’re kind of chewy and cheesey.

Anddd time to get back to knitting homework.

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Nothing really that interesting.

Have I mentioned lately how much I adore Knit Picks?
Don’t get me wrong, I can’t wait for the day when I can afford to knit garments from yarns that cost $30 per skein. But for someone juggling expensive hobbies and graduate school, this site is pretty damn awesome.

I’ve been really good lately about finishing up projects and using up scrap yarn for new projects so I decided to treat myself.

And by treat myself I mean that I just spent $96 and bought yarn for five new projects. FIVE.

I think maybe someone needs to remind me that I did just start graduate school.

In other news, I’m almost entirely moved into my new apartment! I’ll take pictures when we’ve got things more set up. I even have an entire shelf with cubbies for yarn/knitting supplies. Scrumptious!

Knitting-wise, I’m still chugging along with Georgia. Granted, I had it all done except for the sleeves when I decided to start over. Now I’m about eight out of twelve button-holes in and then have the sleeves left. I also started a Thermis, which I haven’t made a Ravelry page on yet. I’m using the leftover pale sea-green yarn from my Peaks Island Hood.

Anddd now back to homework. I have so much reading to do it’s ridiculous. Too bad they don’t make audiobook versions of textbooks so I can knit whilst “reading.”

Sidenote: Between Christmas presents and getting used to the grad school workload, I really won’t have that much time to be doing any commission work. Also I won’t have my sewing machine with me until after Thanksgiving so I won’t physically be able to do any sewing commissions in the meantime either. I’ll update again when I’m accepting commissions again but it likely won’t be until just after the holidays.

Moooving Part 2

Holy crap moving is exhausting!

I got into Boston super late Thursday night and have been staying with Boyfriend whilst I slowly move in.

No knitting to speak of, but I did spend Saturday buying out Ikea and today Boyfriend’s roommate drove us down to her parents’ house by a lake. We basically spent the afternoon hanging out on their boat and wakeboarding/tubing. Until we ran out of gas in the middle of the lake and had to swim back. Whoops.

I don’t really remember Friday. There was jetlag and wine.

I was all set to start school on Tuesday until I looked at my schedule and realized I don’t have class on Tuesdays. So I’ll be spending tomorrow and Tuesday attempting to build Ikea furniture and setting up my room!

And then maybe I’ll write a real update. I think I’m the most excited about the little shelfy thing I bought for yarns.

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