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. 

Today is the last day of the semester. All I’ve got left is exams. That makes me incredibly, incredibly happy.

I’m going to Texas Tech this summer to do research in their chemistry/biochemistry department as a Welch Scholar. I worked incessantly on preparing applications for four internships from November-February, and I am beyond excited about this.

I actually haven’t been not knitting, though I don’t have any FO photos because the camera’s batteries have degraded to the point that they last little more than two to three minutes per charge.

I finished the Noro sweater, started and finished a felted bag that I gave to my mom, started and finished a quick blue hat made out of Bernat Boa, and have made quite a bit of progress on Maxwell.

Pictures are probably not forthcoming until I get a new camera or search out new batteries for the current one.

 How has the online knitting community been in the past few months?

It is 2007; I have not blogged in months, apparently. With my sporadic nature it seems impractical to have a blog at all; I cannot maintain a reader base because I’m sure that anyone who has a slight interest wanders away when they realize I am so rarely here.

We have been iced in, so today is a knitting day. I hope to teach my mom today; she’s learned before but she never really picks up the habit.

I’m currently finishing up the sleeves for my Butterfly sweater. It’s looking very nice, but our family camera does not seem up to the job of photographing anything. It isn’t the camera, actually, but the batteries–it cannot hold a charge long enough to take a single photo.

I bought some cheap yarn at Hobby Lobby and Michael’s because it was on sale for $1 and $2. It’s all floofy acrylic stuff, but I’m not very picky when it comes to what I knit with. I’ll make a sweater out of a yarn someone else considers unfit for human use.

I received both my SAT and PSAT scores, but I’m not sure I feel comfortable shouting them out to the internet. I suppose I should just say I am very pleased.

I begin a new semester tomorrow! I’ll be taking the first course in Calculus, which I am excited to begin. My precalculus course during fall semester was very rigorous, and I am immensely thankful that I did not stay in my high school, where my friends report to me that their precalculus is a direct repeat of Algebra 2. I learned more in a semester at community college than I had in my two years at high school.

Okay, I take the SAT next Saturday and the PSAT the Wednesday after that, so in the remaining time before the madness of November and National Novel Writing Month, I think I might actually knit something. Maybe.

College is fun.