Strickstuendchen


hmm, yarn and cookies...

This has been a hard week. I spent most of it teaching, or preparing for teaching, or worrying about teaching, and consequently worrying about the thesis that will apparently never be completed. Sigh. Happily, all my tutorials went really well, and by the time I went out lunch on Friday, after finishing everything, all I could do was stare at my coffee with this feeling euphoria, not unlike the feeling I get after a really long run. My perseverance this week was 100% the result of praying, and 0% that of my own talents. It's hard to explain.

So today was the mighty rejuvenation day, and rejuvenate, I did. First I got up and drank a pot of coffee. Then I did a bigass mountain of laundry, cleaned my entire apartment from top to bottom, and got groceries, all of which made me feel like a champ. I can't explain how happy a squeaky clean apartment and wardrobe make me. Enough to dance around like an idiot chanting "clean clean clean!"

In the afternoon I had some friends from my church over. I'd told them beforehand to bring yarn and needles so that I could teach them knitting, and I was amazed at how many people brought craft projects already on the go. My friend Sue, who sews fabulously, brought a fabulous purse that she's making for her grandma. Rebecca brought a knitted-purse kit. Jen whipped out a huge-ass rectangle of crochet and was like, "Um, I started crocheting this last night," like it weren't no thang, while my jaw dropped (I'm not so handy with the hook anymore). So I only had to teach two people, who are now happily well on their way to making garter stitch scarves. I've never taught anyone to knit before, so I can't believe it actually worked.

So I learned that sitting around all afternoon drinking coffee, eating 2-bite-brownies and Nutella (you know, you can put the Nutella on the 2BB! My friend Jen taught me this... we were all about sharing knowledge today), and chatting with a group of friends, is totally the way to spend a Saturday in the dead of winter. And all this time, like a sucker, I've been going to work on Saturdays and running my ass around in the cold for "errands." Pwah!

I also got a lot of knitting done, and now that I've finished the Dad Socks, I feel less pressure to finish other stuff, and instead started something new.


This will be a hat from the Viking Knits book by Elsebeth Lavold. Check out that infinity symbol! It's a hat for mathletes.
I really need a warm wooly hat, so I'm going to finish this as soon as possible, before the weather gets any more frigid. The yarn is this lovely wool/mohair blend that I picked up in Boston over the summer. It's from Steadfast Fibers and the color (a blend of tans, rose, and cream) is called "Carrot Cake", and a certain yarn-store-enabler out there knows what a sucker I am for yarn colors named after foods, hehe.

Note also from the photo that my bananas have been booted out of the fruit bowl. This is to make room for more yarn.

I think my coffee addiction might be out of control (note time of blog post).

Posted: Sun - January 16, 2005 at 01:29 AM        

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