This has been an excellent few days for creating things. This past weekend I finished my Endpaper Mitts (not photographed yet), my Shroom hat (also not pictured yet) and my emerald Bombshell Betty hat (pictured below).






I also started a cranberry red fleece jacket. The body and hood are completed, but I need to find some fasteners and finish the sleeves, then figure out how i'm going to go about hemming/edging everything. Fleece doesn't lend itself to hemming in the traditional manner, so I was planning on zig-zag stitching along the edges to finish. I need to do some interfacing on the inside to keep the fleece from losing its shape and I'm also throwing around the idea of edging with bias tape. Interfacing naturally means that I'm going to have to find my interfacing collection.

I've finally been granted a sort of respite from the rigors of college for the time being. I have an Immunology exam coming up later this week, but that is all that I have to worry about.

I've frogged the TTL socks and have started a simpler pattern. Socktoberfest is coming up very soon and I recently ordered some Knit Picks Firecracker heather Stroll to knit the TTL mystery socks for this October. Since I've knocked out some of the WIPs that were sitting around, I can focus on the garter rib socks that I'm currently working on and will hopefully have them done by the time Socktoberfest rolls around.

As it stands, a trip to the library is in order. After that, a relaxing evening at home and hopefully some quality time with my boyfriend.

Things

Tomorrow morning at 945 AM I have the first pharmacology exam of the semester. Wednesday is my birthday. I'm turbo stressed about all of it. And I already took an exam today and had a piece of flash fiction workshopped today. My sympathetic nervous system is all ramped up. Time to go study some more.

FML.

At long last...Pictures!

Garb - Wool tunic and quilter's cotton pantaloons


Susie's Reading Mitts in Berroco Vintage, colorway: Gingham


Lavalette (TTL) - Some kind of superwash wool sock yarn from Mary Maxim (lost the yarn band)




Endpaper Mitts (Eunny Jang)



TTL Mystery Socks '09

On the To-Do list for today:
*Study Immunology
*Study Pharmacology
*Make other tunic out of leftover wool
*Work on Endpaper mitts

I love Sundays.

WIPs for September

Still working on Mom's shawl. Also in the basket are the following: Reading Mitts, Endpaper Mitts, TTL Mystery Socks '09, Ruffled Scarf, Yoga Socks, My So-Called Scarf, and the Sandman Scarf. I'm forbidden to start any new projects until I finish these. Ugh. It would really help if I was close to finishing...any of them. I have one Reading Mitt and one Endpaper mitt done. I'm roughly a third of the way through my Ruffled Scarf and My So-Called scarf. I have two or so repeats of the lace pattern of the Sandman Scarf done and a little bit more than the cuffs done on the yoga socks and ttl mystery socks.

In other news, I went running tonight and went much further than I thought I was going to. Some hooligans hooted at me from their passing Honda, which was both an ego boost and kind of disconcerting. I've never had that happen when I've gone running on the streets where I live before and frankly I'm quite shocked. My neighborhood consists of families and retired couples. We don't have a lot of teenagers running around (being hooligans). It was an absolutely beautiful night while I was out - cool, clean air...peaceful weather - and I found myself feeling sad about the changing seasons. I love the summer and will miss it dearly. With the Fall comes opportunities to curl up under blankets, indulge in slippers and woolly socks and shawls and scarves. I'm finally going to get to wear the fingerless gloves that I've been making this summer.

I'm going to be far more inclined to settle down and stay in and work on the projects that I have piled up from summer. It's already down to 69 degrees in my house and the sun has only been down for two hours. I think it's time to change out of work out clothes and put on some warm, cuddly pajamas and get a cup of tea and relax for a bit before I go to bed.

Labor Day Weekend Wreckage

My house is a mess. I have projects to finish up and homework to do. Projects to finish include Reading Mitts and Mom's birthday shawl. Homework: Flash Fiction online stuff, reading Immunology, reviewing and starting to study for Immunology and Pharmacology, and two Toxicokinetics homework assignments (metabolism and elimination). Laundry needs to be done. Grocery shopping needs to happen. General straightening and cleaning needs to be accomplished. Various spiders need to meet their demise.

It looks like today is going to be me versus my house while being read The Birth of Venus (because it's due back at the library tomorrow).

Later tonight, date night with Lee. :D