A Tiny Change of Plans

Well, knitting the squares is going well. I've done 40 of them so far and once the two that are on the needles are finished, I'm going to wash them. I figured that if I wash them in batches of 40, then I won't have too much to do.

The next batch of 40 will be knitted half-and-half colour squares. Cast on a colour, purl a row and on the next row introduce a colour on the last stitch (intarsia knitting technique). After that, increase the new colour by knitting one extra stitch of the second colour and decreasing the first colour by a stitch. Eventually, the square will be finished by casting off in the second colour.

Colours will be moderatly randomly picked. There are colour combinations I cannot abide, like red and green (any shades) or bright yellow and royal blue.
Other than that, if it looks ok, it gets knitted.

Wish me luck.

Ok.

I'm proving not so frequent at updating for this month.

So what's new.

I don't spend a lot of time on the internet because I'm crafting.
And in the case of this particular journal, if I'm crafting, I'm not doing this, and if I'm doing this, I'm not crafting.
A hell of a catch 22.

Then add to this I'm doing two university courses, both with enormous reading lists.
(Philosophy and Neurobiology teamed with psychology)
and there's another problem for the majority of this year.

I'll update when I can.
And when I don't, please imagine me sweating over large textbooks or trying to complete mountains of knitting.
Because I'll probably be doing just that.

The knitting projects have increased by two - I've started a new knitting project consisting of small squares of doubled skeins of embroidery floss (2 skeins make one square). They work out very nice knitted on 3.25mm needles, casting on 20 stitches and knitting stocking stitch for 21 rows (slipping the first stitch of every row after the first row), then casting off using stretchy cast-off. It works out that a square takes 30 minutes to do and I can knit them while I'm watching TV.
I'll keep knitting squares until I've used up my large-ish stash of cheap embroidery floss and then I'll update on this when I'm at another stage.

Then there's the baby sweater adapted from a pattern (Baby's First Tattoo) in the "Stitch and Bitch Nation" Book.
I'm knitting it in 4-ply blue King Cole. I've also dropped it down 2 sizes. It's still pretty big for a NeoNatal unit, but I'm hoping it'll work. I've finished the back, and started on the left front.

Bye for now.

Not much happening here

I've gone into limbo, crafting-wise. I just can't do any work on anything. Not that I'm in a funk, or that I have no energy. There's a LOT of work that needs to be finished, or started, or just worked on.

I do not want to do anything enough to actually do it.

I'll pick things up and look at them, then put them down.

A few days ago, I was working on the scarf for the hat-and-scarf set (hat was completed a while ago) and I had to frog it due to a dropped stitch. I've cast the stitches back on, but that's all.

*sigh*.

I think spring fever is slowly building and it's affecting me by creating this feeling of "not now, there's something important coming".

I hope it's bloody important.

Later.