OMG! An update?!

Hi, this is me putting off doing homework. I have to write a paper on some form of cost accounting and I decided to write it on the differences between a CPA and a CMA. It’s really boring. So, I decided to inform anyone who reads this (read: Sra) about my future plans for this blog.

My future plans for this blog really aren’t much different that my past plans, except that I intend to actually post my projects after I finish them as well as some in-progress pictures. This will serve as a record of my progress and of all of my finished projects. Due to this change, I expect that I will be making more regular posts (by more regular, I do simply mean more than one or two a year).

Now that I got that little tid-bit of not-quite-news is out of the way… I’m excited to announce that I will soon be finishing a very neat project and starting a new knit-along. Technically this new knit-along will only include me and my only current reader, Sra, but if anyone else happens upon this blog they should feel welcome to knit-along as well and share their progress too. The new knit-along is going to be the Spring/Summer Shawl and Fall/Winter Shawl from knitpicks.com. It will begin as soon as I receive my order of the kits from KnitPicks, but only after I have finished my current project and after Sra and I have decided which of us will be doing which shawl (they’re both so beautiful!). An approximate starting date for this knit-along might be during the last week of July or the first week of August.

That means that I have to have my current project—knitty.com’s Inamorata—completely done by the end of this month! Although not completely impossible, it will be quite difficult for me to accomplish this in its entirety. Don’t get me wrong, I have no doubt that I’ll be done knitting the cute top by then; it’s simply the finishing work that worries me. There isn’t too much finishing work to do though, so I might be okay. I just took some pictures of what I have done so far. The colors in the pictures are a bit off, but even with the real-life colors I’m not sure if it works. I’m going with it anyway. I think I like the colors, I’m just not sure anyone else will.

There you see the colors sorta. Like I said, the colors don't look quite right in the pictures.

This is the best close-up detail picture that my camera and my photography skill (or lack thereof) can handle. The above detail shows the cable pattern on the chest section of the top.

This detail shows the lace-like body of the shirt. I'm not sure if it actually counts as lace. Wow, the flash on my camera really screws with the colors. That bottom section that looks white in this picture is really light green.

This is the front center part of the chest. This is where the most finishing work is. I have to find buttons for this part. I really had hoped that the purple would last until the end of the cable section, but I suppose it doesn't look too awful switching colors during the cable pattern, does it?

This is just another picture of the shirt (though this one is oriented the correct way. For some reason that first picture wouldn't turn. I still have quite a bit to go to make the shirt long enough for my liking. I only hope that I'll have enough yarn. I may have to add one more ball of this type to my order on knitpicks.

Fanfiction note: I’ve banned myself from fanfictions until I’ve finished all of my homework that’s due this Sunday, but I did so whilst in the middle of a story. So, now it’s haunting me, but I will refrain from making any more comments about it so as to not tease myself further.

On a completely different note: my brother just asked me what my typing speed was so I took a test online to check. Apparently I’m only slightly above average at about 51 wpm. He laughed and said he was around 70 or so. :P to him. I am slightly surprised though. I’ve always considered myself quite a fast typist. It’s possible that I’m slower when I have to type something that someone else has given me to copy than when I just type off the top of my head (much like I’m doing right now). Also, I think I’ve gotten a bit lazy as I’m quite used to Microsoft Word fixing some of my more common typos like typing “t e h” instead of “t h e”. See, I even had to space the letters out because when I spelled “the” wrong it just fixed it for me! I did have a 99% accuracy on the typing test though. Oh, just in case anyone’s interested, I took the test at typingtest.com.

I'd intended to post a few more pictures of the Monopoly game night that my friends and I had last Thursday, but the pictures are annoying on here and I don't feel like messing with them. So, that's it for my post. Until next time, toodles!

Knitting and Ice Skating!

Hi everyone (read: Hi Sra),
Well, I've actually finished quite a bit lately--though I know Sra will say otherwise (I still haven't worked on her sweater lately...). I finished those two Slytherin scarves for Mindy and she has them. Also, her sister, Shel, commissioned another scarf, same as the Gryffindor and Slytherin ones except in black and hot pink. I've even started it already and I really like how it looks. I had a hell of a time finding hot pink yarn in a wool blend at an affordable price. I finally gave in and ordered Azalea Pink Wool-Ease from The Yarn Basket in Tecumseh. It looked hot pink in the magazine... In real life it looks more purple-ish. I'm hoping Shel likes it anyway, otherwise my mom offered to buy it for a friend of hers. So, really it doesn't matter one way or another. I'm already three stripe patterns in and I just started on Wednesday.

I also recently finished knitting a ribbed hat and fingerless mitts. I made the ribbed hat along with Michael. That's right. I got my brother to knit! And actually, he's pretty good! He surprised me. He picked up knitting faster than anyone else I've tried to teach. Sure he made a fair amount of beginners mistakes, but he recognized them as mistakes! That almost never happens. Usually I find out about mess-ups multiple rows later--after it's too late to do anything about it. So, anyway, his hat turned out really good for a first project and not bad at all as a project in general. He made it for Mindy for Christmas. I think she'll like it and hopefully she doesn't have a sudden urge to look up my blog and read about her Christmas gift before she gets it. Michael left a few hours ago to go stay with her for a few weeks so, she'll get it soon anyway.

Oh, and the fingerless mitts I made are going to Hannah eventually. Did I mention that I didn't do the finishing work for either of those projects? I take it I didn't. Yeah... did I mention that I really hate finishing work? grrr....

On to my ice skating experience! I was having a blast... until I fell, which was literally just as I was headed off the ice. The little pick section in the front of my figure skates caught on the ice somehow. I managed to not have a problem right up until then. *rolls eyes* Anyway, I was unlucky enough to fall right on my knee. I bruised it all up and then when I tried to get up and walk on it... I couldn't. Well, it hurt really bad anyway. It's only gotten a little bit better. It still hurts. :( I still want to go ice skating again when my knee heals though! It was fun.

Lastly, I recently joined Ravelry and my username on there is Somethingwithtail. There's no a because I couldn't put that many letters in unfortunately. I'm sure that's going to get annoying quick, but I didn't want to change it completely. I happen to like my username a lot!

Toodles!