just kidding – unless you’re gon’ do it.

I’m slowly knitting away at the work I’m doing for P-, and getting close to being done!

This is off the needles, although all the finishing – sewing down the ends and adding fringe – is still on the go, but I’m very excited about it. I’ve also started on the second piece I need to get done, and it is flying off the needles like nothing.

I started this yesterday (it’s a hat – the Lucky 7 Hat, to be exact) and I’m already close to the crown. I think there’s something about cables that just makes me knit faster.

Song of the Entry: Jenny Owen Young – Hot in Herre

or do you take pride in being an insufferable know-it-all?

So, I tend to have two projects on the go at any given time: a “thinking” project, that I save for home, and a mindless project for school. Right now, my thinking project is my Shetland Lace Shawl, which is on hold for a week or so while I focus on a mindless project that should be very familiar to a lot of people.

This is actually my first for-reals commissioned work – a scarf in Gryffindor house colours. (For the record, Recipient: the real scarf is slightly less yellow than it looks in these photos; I took them at night.) It’s knit in a tube, so the entire project is mindless stockinette, and it’s actually turning out to be the perfect project to knit during lectures, because I barely have to think about anything while I work at it.

the opposite of a clever title.

I’ve had a bit of a stressful week – I’ve been studying since Saturday for the exam I wrote this morning, and around Wednesday my kitchen sink broke in a truly spectacular way.

So I’ve been knitting, lots and lots. Not on my friend’s scarf, because that’s in the bag I keep for knitting at school, and I’ve been working at home. Instead, I’ve been working on the sweater I started weeks ago – the one that I’m designing myself. It’s been on hold for a bit, I wanted to make sure that I sat down and had a plan before I started knitting the body, but I think I’ve got it worked out.

Anyway. The plumber has come and gone, and (hopefully) my kitchen sink is working. My future plans include washing three days of dirty dishes, so that I can sit by the window with my feet on the radiator and knit some more.