I beat the game. Hahahaha ...
Mary is off in India now. Well, her flight left this morning, going through Minneapolis and Amsterdam to Hyderabad. 30 hours???
I really have been knitting less. It's just that my friend Michelle had a party and everyone had to bring a purple tree ornament, and I had this purple yarn lying around, so obviously it was going to be better to knit a little purple stocking than to run around looking for a purple ornament. (Filled it with Smarties! Yay!) And then my advisory (homeroom) is having a Secret Santa and I didn't want to buy Amber something, I wanted to make her something, and she loves black and yellow and Winnie the Pooh, so you know ...
And then there are my old projects from before I said I was going to start knitting less, which I want to post because I don't really have another way of keeping track of my knitting, especially the stuff I give away. And it doesn't even matter if I knit more or less anyway. But I am spending a lot of time trying to figure out what the deal is at my school, and what the best way for me to contribute in these last six months is. Some good things are happening. Some other things are crazy. It's hard work, just sorting it out, let alone doing something about it.
I have some catching up to do with posting. In October, I knit this dopey sweater for Don's baby. The yarn is too crazy. I love the fish buttons, though. Don loves to fish. I hope it fits Dino. I have a pretty limited sense of how big babies are and especially of how fast they grow. At least the proportions on this one seem all right. The sleeves were too small, I think, on the fuzzy one I knit for Riley last spring ...
Then I knit this hat for Mali. Learning to make bobbles was cool. It's still kind of dopey-looking though. It started as Norah Gaughan's Droplet Hat, but the "droplets" looked like poo in the brown yarn I was using, so I ripped it back and modified it some. At least the photo is mildly interesting. I made a hat for Denali, too, basically a large version of Coronet on Knitty, in a color Patrick chose called "black cherry" or some such thing. I didn't photo it though. Too bad!I am really looking forward to the break, less because I want a rest from school than because I really want to see my folks. My brother just turned 22--happy birthday, J!!--and my cousin is just getting her BA--happy graduation, Can!!--and my littlest cousins are getting bigger by the minute. The biggest ones just seem to be getting more sleepy. I had a conversation by phone with one of them over Thanksgiving:
me: hey, how's it going?
"johnny": zzzzz
me: OK then! Happy Thanksgiving!
"johnny": zzzzz
me: love you, man. see you soon!
"johnny": zZzz [snort]
I hope that wasn't too embarrassing. I'll use a pseudonym. Now no one will know who it was. Teehee!
