For Christmas, I get yarn. Because that’s all I really ever want. So, my mom has asked me to show her some patterns I like. I’ve come up with six sweaters that caught my fancy.
Arundel Rapunzel Maxwell Sonnet Butterfly Elfin
I’m on the last row of transitioning from color 3 to 4 on Charlotte.The rows are getting longer- I’m over 200 stitches now.
It rained a lot today.
Our driveway flooded.
Our ponds flooded.
I didn’t know we had this many creeks.
Texas is swampland?
These bridges are doing a lot of good.
Isn’t our neighbor’s pond lovely? Oh wait, that’s normally dry land.
Our meandering stream that’s dried up for most of the year.
Is that really how a dock should look?
It definitely shouldn’t look like that. (Yes, it started floating away while I was on it. I had to splash through a bit of water to get back to shore.)
Anyway, I love days like this. Even if it did ruin our road. Can you tell I’m stalling to keep from working on my NaNoWriMo novel? I only need ten thousand words, but they’re going to be dragged out of me kicking and screaming.
Charlotte is going fine. I gave up counting at the end of every row when I realized that I hadn’t yet come up with the wrong number, except when I counted wrong. Of course, on the next row I got to the center and had the wrong number left to knit. I looked back over the whole row and everything was right, so it must have been the row before. I’m marveling at the irony of it and about to begin tinking out that row when I glance back at the center and realize…. I wasn’t to the center yet. I still had several repeats before I reached the center stitch, and I did, in fact, have the correct number of stitches. I’m so weird. And spazzy.
(I heartily apologize for my excessive use of pictures. But hey, I had fun walking out there taking them; somebody else ought to see them!)
It’s Charlotte! I started this Friday while watching Love Actually (I love that movie) and worked on it a lot yesterday because I drove to Tyler with a friend. I’m on row 65. Stitch markers? Gauge swatch? Let’s just hope it turns out. I count my stitches at the end of every RS row; so far only a few mishaps that were easily fixed. No tragic froggings yet. (I had to frog at row 13 because I dropped a stitch, but that was no big deal)
It seems kind of small for already staring on the third color, but I guess I’ll see.
No, not knitting projects. School projects. Sure, it may sound fun, but believe me, I don’t want to spend my evenings cutting out triangles to make into a hexagon. It’s hard to do perfectly. If your scissors wobble just a little- woops, time to draw a new one. And for even more fun, you can write a paper on the geometric properties that help it fit together. If you’re not tired out by all this merriment, then you can work on replicating a building that displays interesting designs that pertain to geometry. We’re all so delighted to work endlessly, oh yes.
So I haven’t gotten any knitting done today. I have a picture of an old crochet WIP, though:
It’s a granny square blanket I started more than a year ago. Why did I pick a blanket for a first project? It will never end. And I wouldn’t really call it a square. Granny rectangle? Granny butterfly-shaped-thing? (The longer sides pull in and remind me of butterfly wings…)
Ah, who cares if it doesn’t lay correctly. Most blankets aren’t displayed that way. Well, a lot of them are. But this one will be in a heap on the couch. It’ll be pretty that way, as the colors are nice.
(Hey, why am I jabbering on and on in my blog? I’ve finished the part of the building-thingy that’s due tomorrow, but I still have to explain the geometric properties of my hexagon. With double spacing!)
NaNoWriMo Word Count: 35,687
So the Making Waves socks are too small. I was making the smallest size, but they didn’t seem all that small, really. Before starting the heel, I put the stitches on a piece of yarn to try it on. It fits my leg nicely, yes, but the cabling isn’t exactly stretchy enough to get over my heel without a struggle. So- I started the second one, since the needles were free, and I’ve decided to make fingerless gloves. Experimentation time!
There was a school board meeting tonight, and I went for the first half hour or so to hear the petitions. They’re voting on block scheduling soon, and one of my friends spoke in favor of block. I hope they actually listened, as she had some good points, but you know how those political types can be. Anyway, I love block scheduling. When you’re taking honors classes and tons of stuff outside of school, you need that time in between class days. The problem with block was that athletics were double-blocked, so kids have those classes every day, which is ridiculous as you need more time for academics. So the problem isn’t with the type of scheduling, it’s with the schools. Football is all that matters in Texas. *sigh* The coaches teach fewer classes and get paid much more than the teachers, and our football team isn’t even any good. Okay, enough of that.
My biology test was easy, of course. I always think I’m going to badly and then I don’t. I don’t like science as much this year as I used to- all we do is take notes and then a test. No labs, no application, only the theory, which doesn’t explain the concept all that well. No time for labs even with block scheduling- what would we do with a traditional 50 min period?
