I think it’s cute.

I knit this little guy yesterday afternoon. 

This is the blue doily, finally blocked. I did not, as is probably apparent, measure a perfect circle. I just started pinning wildly.

This is the Zissou Hat. I don’t like working on it very much; the acrylic is squeaky on the bamboo.

I started another sweater. 

I finished another semester. The unrelenting passage of time is unnerving, young as I am. It seems only to be speeding up each year. Perhaps it returns to a more leisurely pace in middle age? I’ve been leaving the house only unwillingly since my break began; I prefer to knit, read, or go for walks (I suppose that, technically, is leaving the house. I mean, then, ‘home.’)

On the bookshelf: I just finished The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow) and I’m about halfway through The Death of the Heart (Elizabeth Bowen). I’m also reading Cien Años de Soledad (Gabriel García Márquez) but that’s very slow going; I’m far from fluent in Spanish.

One the needles: I finally got around to blocking a doily I made a year ago. I still need to block Butterfly; I have had little motivation to do so, as only a few days so far have been cold enough to require sweaters. I’ve worked a miniscule amount on the Zissou Hat, and I’ve made a bit of progress on Maxwell’s sleeves.

This is an Austrian Patterned Knee Sock from Socks Socks Socks that I started ages ago.

I am absolutely addicted to knitting it (despite more pressing demands, such as the swiftly approaching SAT II exams).

Sadly, when I started this sock (in 2005!) I did not bother to read ahead through all the charts and missed a very glaring error in the first row of Pattern B. There’s a row of all purl stitches that is certainly not supposed to be there; I remember thinking it odd at the time but decided to just go with it after seeing a few repeats. Well, when I picked up the sock last week I realized that it was not the same pattern that the calf-shaping called for. Instead of frogging everything, I’m just continuing to stick in a purl row every fourth row.

I actually think the pattern is rather neat, though it’s supposed to look like the criss-cross section of this pattern on the front of the sock:

I reseamed the right sleeve of Butterfly because I hadn’t lined it up perfectly; I need to block the sweater and then I’ll post a picture.

This neat little felted bag was my Mom’s early Mother’s Day present.

I am rather fond of the ruffle.

Here’s the fuzzy blue hat I made. 

I apologize for the insane blurriness. The camera was balanced on a spare tire; I suppose it wasn’t as stable as I thought.

4.0 for my 22 hour semester. Glad that’s over. It was tough.