November 20, 2005

Now, on to knitting! Even though my work table currently looks like a fabric store exploded on it thanks to another school project due next week, I found the time to complete the front piece of my Butterfly camisole:




Both back and front pieces are ready for seaming! Unfortunately, I've been too busy to sit down and dedicate the time required to seam the floatiness of Kid Silk Haze. And, well, I'm just plain lazy about seaming. Soon, soon. All I need is a few free hours, a couple of kirs and a really good DVD, like Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Unless, of course, someone wants to send over a little elf to come over and do the seaming for me. Anyone? Bueller?

There's something else I want to show you. Even though I haven't seamed my Butterfly, I figured that having two completed pieces is equal to an almost finished project so I get to start something new. Here is my most recently begun project:




What is it? It's a fuzzy something for me, otherwise known as The Mystery Project for Winter, which means that you'll know for sure what it is when I've finished with it. And aren't I just awful with all this suspense?

In other non-knitting news:

1) Remember my first skirt project? At the risk of sounding like I'm bragging (oh, what the heck...I am bragging), I received the highest grade in the year for it. Woooooooot! (The skirts are kept on display at school for a while. As soon as I get mine back I'll share a photo of it.)

2) Speaking of school, I started a knitting club over there because I'm such a whack knitter, yo. Almost thirty members to start with. Can I get another "Wooooooot!"?

3) Switching reels back to my "berfday", I'd like to give a BIG THANK YOU to my thoughtful friend Miss HEJ for sending me a birthday present (which I just picked up at the post office yesterday): Seven lovely skeins of Jo Sharp Kid Mohair in a pearly gray. Gorgeous! And I also received a beautiful pair of hand-knit socks from dear sweet Emma, who spoils me with the lovely socks she knits for me. (I'm the proud owner of four pair, and now that the weather is so cool I am able to wear all the socks Emma has knit for me. Just the other day, as I was sitting in class, the cuffs of my hand-knit socks were peeking out of my ankle boots and someone complimented me on them. I felt very spoiled when I said that a friend in England knit them for me!)

*P.S. Thirty-*cougheightcough* years old and I've yet to get a gray hair. Hair's still natural, bay-bee! Think it's all the stash enhancing I like to do on a regular basis? I think so.

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