24 January 2006


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.

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