WARNING: Terribly disjointed post following. Forgive lack of proper continuity.
Lordy it's been too long. I'm sure I said it before, but I had always thought that the people whose knitting blogs that I came across that always went on hiatus when school was in session were just being silly. Oh how wrong I was! It's odd, the little free time I do have now, I just don't really want to spend doing anything. I want to do NOTHING. Who knew that thinking and learning could tear you up so easily.
It appears as though I will definitely be failing trig, which is terribly disappointed as I KNOW it(trig I mean), so therefore can't understand why I'm doing so poorly. I'll chalk it up to being rusty and take it over this summer. I'm almost thinking this is one of those cases of a student's learning style clashing with a teacher's teachng/test style. IF I were tested on what we actually did for homework, I think I'd be okay, but as it is the tests are on hypothetical advanced equations that are briefly looked at here and there during lecture.
But yeah, there has been a little bit of knitting going on around here. I finally started
Heather's other sock, though I'm stuck in one of those "knit for 3 hours and still only have 2 inches" type time tears.
I swear, it's going to be done before summer hits. These socks are so meant for spring that I HAVE to finish them before then.
I also randomly decided to knit a little purse thingy (for no discernable reason) out of some Daria Multi.
Sorry for the asstastic shot. I could not get this thing to photograph well at all. I don't know what I could do to make it do what it's supposed to, but there it is. All I have left to do to finish it is sew on a button, and weave in the ends. This will likely sit unfinished until I find a groovy button to go with it. I've no idea who's going to be getting the bag when it's done, though.
That birthday I mentioned? It was my mom's 50th. I appreciate all of the belated birthday wishes none-the-less, however. It was the usual affair, family members every where, dinner blah blah blah, but I made the cake! Her favorite cake in the world is a white cake filled with strawberries with a whipped cream frosting (no, not cool whip). Considering that I made this cake with far from professional tools, a limited ammount of time, and while hung-over, I'm very pleased with the way it came out.
Most importantly, my mom loved it, and that's all that really matters. By the way? If you ever get the chance, DO make your own whipped cream. It kicks the shit out of Cool Whip any day of the week.
I received a super fabulous package in the mail from the wondrous Mrs M. This is too delicious, and yes, you should be jealous.
Folk socks by Nancy Bush (as you can plainly see, and once again, I cannot recommend this book enough) two delicious skeins of
Footpath sock yarn(this stuff is simply delish, and coincidentally in one of my fave colours) and a delish ball of
Guernsey 5 ply. And as if that wasn't fabulous enough, check this out:
She had Folk Socks inscribed for me by Nancy Bush herself! Too cool, huh? It's hard to adequately show the appreciation that such a gift deserves through typed media, but rest assured, I am glowing inside (still). Thanks again, M!
I can't believe I haven't blogged about this already, but last month I went up to Viroqua to visit
Kindred Threads. I happened upon them while looking for places that actually selll spinning wheels that may be close to me (I wanted to meet a few in person), and I have to say that it's quite a lovely shop. Though the spinning wheel selection wasn't fabulous, I now know that I definitely don't want a Louet or Schact. The fiber selection, however, was fantastic. Most of the fibers to be had were locally grown and processed (local anything always pleases me to no end) and dyed there in the shop itself. There were plenty of lovely handspun yarns for sale as well, along with the usual high-end yarns you'd expect to see in a decent yarn shop. I would definitely tell anyone that's visiting this area to head on over. The owner (whose name escapes me at the moment) was very "earthy" and a delight to speak with. Though I drooled muchly, I only came away with two balls of roving.
The one on the left is hand dyed merino (about 6 oz, I believe), and the one on the right is a delicious natural brown corriedale (roughly 3.5 oz). The prices are rediculously cheap ( I believe I payed $17 for everything I got), and Tipper? They have TONS of alpaca. Just another reason for you to come back this way, babe.
Okay, I think that about covers everything I need to say at the moment. As everyone else seems to be shitting themselves over daffodils pushing their ugly little yellow heads out of the ground, thus heralding spring I think I should share the bit of spring that I have occuring in my kitchen.
This sweet little thing went to sleep for the winter and is now awakening for the spring. What is she, you might ask? Deadly Nightshade.
Hope you all have a good weekend!
