I was incredibly productive this week, as well as incredibly tired, averaging five and a half hours of sleep each night. My laptop has been acting up as well, so I am typing this from my little pop up lap desk on my bed so it wont go into death cries of fan exhaustion from overheating. Thanks, IKEA.
Anyway, I only had to skip one class this week in order to make it through it all, and it was well worth it.
Now that I've made it through the week, I am giving myself the weekend off. Last night I organized my yarn stash and planned out some future projects, after finishing my Garland Cowl after forever. It was originally going to be a present for my math professor for letting me into her class even though she shouldn't, but after she went off on me in the middle of class for knitting while she lectured, I decided to let that project take a backburner and I gave it to myself.
A side note, I completely understand her being upset that I seemed to be not paying attention in class, but she had to take into account that everyone learns differently and I was doing what was best for me to stay awake in her class. And she didn't have to bring my grades into it, I was doing fine.
Coming back from my meandering, I finally picked it back up again for my February 'Frog or Finish' project, but it had languished so long in the middle of the lace section that I had completely forgotten what was going on, and couldn't work it out from the row before. After about five minutes, I said eh whatever and I just knit regularly until the end of the row and continued on with the pattern after the lace.
It came together pretty quickly after that, even with my hectic schedule, and I was able to cast off last night. My only gripe is that I couldn't fine a cast off stretchy enough for it. I tried a little bit of "jenny's super stretchy" whatever, but hated it, then a little of that Icelandic bind off that's been floating around on tumblr, but didn't like anything so I just said fuck it and did a regular bind of for the rest of it.
This morning, I also 'blocked' my other February FoF project, a beanie using the Barley pattern from Tin Can Knits using some acrylic Heartland from Lion Brand. And by block, I mean run it under some very hot water real quick and put it on my wig head. And by using the Barley pattern, I mean look at the pattern then kind of do whatever the hell I want until it looks like a beanie.
Oh well, oh well. Its probably gonna be a shitty present anyway, a guy in the other wing was talking about how cool handmade gits were, and was actually really genuine, so I said what the heck. My friend, who is the wing mom for her wing as I am the wing mom for mine, had made everyone little needle felted presents over winter break, and he was genuinely so happy, he kept going on about how nice and heartfelt it was when people put effort into gifts like that. I decided then that it would probably be more loved by him than by the other person I was considering giving it to, so soon it will find a home with him.
I'm pretty tired for the night, and my computer is wheezing, so I think I'll end it there and talk about my works in progress on a separate post soon. I'm off to knit and watch X-Files!
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