detox just to retox

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As the semester comes to an end, so does my in-class knitting – for now, at least. And fittingly, I’ve managed to finish something. This is one single sock, knit during respirology, cardiology, biochemistry, and pharmacology, in fits and starts whenever we had a lecturer who didn’t require incessant note-writing. It’s partner is, I guess, a project for 2009.

Song of the Entry: Fall Out Boy – Disloyal Order of Water Buffalos

it's not christmas if the snow don't fall

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I’ve started a new pair of socks to knit while I sit and listen in lecture. (The knitting helps me focus – we have so much lecture, I’d fall asleep if I didn’t bring something to keep me awake.)

The yarn is Trekking XXL, and they’re incredibly long-looking because I am knitting them with an afterthought heel – I’ll pick up stitches where the row of green yarn is just peeking out, and knit the heel like it’s a toe. It’s my favourite kind of sock to knit when I can’t focus on counting to turn a proper heel.

Song of the Entry: Colbie Calliat – Mistletoe

i will crochet you a hat

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This is the project I decided to knit up after I cast off for my sweater, that I first blogged here. It’s a hat. A purple, tweedy hat with garter stitch (and really, there are few things in life I find more satisfying than working with good quality tweedy yarn. I may start sucking it up and paying the stupid-expensive prices to use it for bigger projects.) and earflaps and stupid goofy braids, because it is cold out and I wanted to wear something that felt warm, you know?

It’s a little large on me – not length-wise, but circumference-wise. I definitely could have worked it up with fewer stitches and been okay. That said, I was sort of winging it anyway – the pattern I used is Thorpe (on Ravelry here), which is very well-written but for chunky yarn on large needles. I worked this hat up on Takhi Yarns Donegal Tweed (in purple, obviously) on 3.75mm needles, so I had to make some modifications. I also opted to not do the half-crochet along the edges, partly because I’m not actually that good at crocheting, partly because I didn’t have an appropriately-sized crochet hook around the house and I wanted to have a finished hat more than I wanted pretty edging.

I forgot how satisfying it is to knit toques. I really should do it more often.

Song of the Entry: Sufjan Stevens – Sister