Little Progress...

I used to get huffy whenever a favorite blog of mine didn't update regularly...now I have much more sympathy. School, musical, karate...it's nearly impossible to get anywhere near the computer, if indeed there has been any progress on the needles to write about at all. So far there hasn't been much. Here is my progress as it stands:

The Breeze socks-I got as far as halfway through the heel when I realized i had forgotten my friend's shoe size and am constantly forgetting to ask her yet again. (The yarn is pretty to look at though)!

The Muscari Socks-Recently started at a finer gauge than I usually work in, the pattern is very elegant and, true to the promise made on the pattern intro works surprisingly well with self-striping yarn. Usually any cabling is lost in the colorful yarns I prefer, and lace just isn't always quite as cozy for winter socks. The only downside is the superfine gauge I mentioned and the resulting extra time between now and a finished project, but with the economy plummeting more knit for my buck may turn into a plus.

Well I had better finish my homework. At this point with the crappy student loan situation, a scholarship is my ticket to college. That and busing tables. Wish me luck!

Ils sont finis!

French for they are finished...as in the plain socks pour moi (for me). Yay! The Yarn Harlot was right again-2x2 ribbing does stay up better than 1x1. Much less ankle saggage. Pomatomus is terminated for now, in favor of a lace ankle sock-Breeze, I think it's called. Only one skein of yarn and very cute. Then at some point I have resolved to attempt dking socks. I can't let myself wimp out. (However I will use variegated yarn from opposite ends of the skein so i can tell which string to work with when the colors differ...)

For now though, I am finishing up a garter stitch scarf I started a few years ago in an unknown Paton's yarn, slightly chunky in a delicious chocolate brown with flecks of orange, yellow, and an olive green. Even though the stitching of a more inexperienced me is far from perfect, the colors scream autumn to a degree that keeps me from caring. Time for a day of movies, pj's, tea and cider. I love lazy weekends.

I'm Alive! Really!

Sorry for my absence, but the first few weeks of high school are proving mentally taxing. Jammed lockers, obnoxiously complicated schedules rotating on a two-week basis (no, I'm not kidding. Two weeks.) and having to plan hairstyle and clothing around P.E. like never before due to the increased length of the class compared to middle school. It's exhausting, and some of the seniors in my advanced classes look like they eat freshman for breakfast, but it's all becoming easier and easier. I'm sure my views will change once I have to bring the baby simulator home for child psych, but this is going to continue to be a positive day so let's not think about that.

I'm thinking about terminating the Pomatomus socks...charted designs are great for boring summer days, but they make it hard to relax after trig homework and musical practice. Not that I'll cheat my friend out of the pair of socks-she'll need the calm, as she happens to be bringing home the baby simulator tomorrow, but I'm thinking I want something that doesn't need that degree of concentration. Ha, i mock myself as the exhaustion of the day makes me delusional. I was about to suggest I dk the socks, two at a time, one inside the other. That would defeat the purpose of simplification. Silly me. That would be cruel. I'll save that for when I'm so emotionally numb from bio lab write-ups that I need to be shocked awake :) Haha omg I'm so sleep deprived...I'd better go do something about that.

Hey, where'd the font selection go? If anyone has any idea what happened to it let me know I miss my old font choice :( lol

Knitting Fever

Home sick with a fever, which is down from 103 but still kickin'. Ugh. I'm typing now only because my mom has me on Tylenol or Advil, I forget which. She had me go without it for a few hours to see if the fever would come back, and hoo boy! I couldn't even knit I was so out of it! Once I was yet again happily (and legally) drugged, though, I was able to finish the first of the plain socks. I wasn't in the right state of mind for Pomatomus, and haven't been for a few days now. My deepest apologies to my friend who is patiently waiting for them, but I'm too dizzy to follow a chart. If I can't knit it with my eyes closed, it won't happen for a while.

(There would be a pic here if I was on the desktop, where my email is, but I'd prefer to stay horizontal so...laptop).

They're made with Kroy Jacquards in Tutti Frutti (I don't have the label with me, so I apologize for any iffy spelling). Usually my socks come out a bit tight for even small feet at first, until they're worn around a few times. These, however slide on perfectly and for some reason you can't see the toe decreases that well from the top, but I love that so no complaints here! For those of you who haven't seen this color before, it's pretty snazzy :) The stripes of lime green, neon pink, and bright orange are broken up with speckled black and white sections in between each color. Very cute.

I should go-dizzy again. I'll post again after the doctor tells me how to get rid of this.

Just a Quick Note

Really quick post-I gave my friend her Monkey socks and I couldn't get a pic cause no phones or cameras are allowed in class, but she loved them. Yay! (And I discovered the color of Sock-ease was called Taffy).

School again...and socks to make it all better!

First day of high school...wow that place is big compared to the middle school! The weirdest thing is having classes with people in other grades. It happened a lot today, as I take all of the advanced classes I can. Trig in particular is interesting, as I am one of three freshman among sophomores bumped up a year, juniors, and I think a senior or two. I got turned around once going from chorus to child psych (a class I opted to take instead of the required parenting class), we had to observe slugs in bio, my flip-flop busted a strap, and I have lunch right in the middle of English which is super inconvenient, but overall it wasn't too terrible. Maybe high school won't be so bad after all.

Now on a more fiber-y note....

I finished the Monkey socks for my dancer friend, and I won't be able to get a pic right away but just know they look super amazing even with funky kitchener stitching on one of them. I'll probably give them to her in Chorus tomorrow. I started a pair of Pomatomus (is that spelled right?) socks for yet another bff, and after realizing I get sick reading charts in the car I started a pair of plain socks for moi, using the basic sock pattern from Knitting Rules by Stephanie Pearl-McFee.

Anyway I have an essay due tomorrow for AP World History so I have to get on that before we go out to dinner...I wonder if mom will mind if I work a sock gusset during dinner...