Today I finished my article analysis paper which ended being 13 pages long.
And then I went yarn shopping.
You’re looking at 6 skeins of Tosh DK in Thyme and 5 skeins of Berocco Ultra Alpaca, color #6294. It’s kind of dark in my room so I’ll take better photos tomorrow.
Squee!!
Things I’m proud of this week:
-The 1 hour, 33 slide, 6 page paper my group and I wrote and presented on Monday
-The Rae #2 I finished this morning
–The 10-12 page research article critique I’ve been working on all day instead of knitting and am currently on page 9 of even though it’s not due until Thursday It’s done!! All 13 pages. Did I mention it’s not due for two days? This has never happened before. Yee!
-The sweater in progress I finally finished instead of ignoring in favor of buying shinier new yarn for new sweaters
Therefore I have decided that getting homework done on time and refraining from buying yarn means I get to splurge on Madelinetosh for my next project.
-glee-
(And yes, not buying yarn means I get to buy yarn. The logic of a knitter.)
In other news, I now have two shiny Rae’s to keep my necksicles warm.
It occurred to me yesterday that the title of my blog is “When Big Kids Play Dress-up” and yet there’s hardly anything costume-related in here.
I’ve been sewing since I was about fourteen. I had gone to see Lord of the Rings with a friend and came home having decided to be Arwen when I grew up. Since then it’s grown increasingly dangerous for me to watch any sort of sci-fi/fantasy movies/tv shows because I will inevitably end up at the nearest fabric store picking out fabrics and notions so I can run home and recreate my favorite costumes whilst my bank account shrieks in pain.
In fact, I started this blog as a place to showcase and write about costuming adventures. Except then I learned to knit and since then pretty much everything has been about knitting projects. Whoops.
The point of all this rambling is, I’m going to have to remedy this. So expect some costumey-related posts in the near future.
I did manage to scrape together a last minute costume yesterday. Boyfriend and I had plans to go to a party hosted by his school at a club downtown, but neither of us had had time to discuss or put together a costume until the day of.
Still, I think we did pretty well!
Dwight K. Schrute and a Schrute Farms beet.
He bought his entire outfit at a thrift/costume shop and I picked out a purple dress at Forever21 and plucked some leaves and tied them to a headband. The sticker on my side is a Schrute Farms logo like those stickers that come on veggies. 🙂
Sidenote: IT’S SNOWING!! I’ve never lived anywhere where it snowed!! There are literally bits of ice falling out of the sky!! Thisissocool.
Guys, I’m freaking out a little.
Laminaria: 50%, just started the last Star Chart repeat and then it’s on to the edging 75%! Halfway through Edging Chart #1
Rae #2: 30%, I think I’m somewhere around 50-something stitches
Papers written: 3 of 4
I’d say we’re doing pretty well.
Oh, except:
Halloween costumes made: zero
Whoops.