Laundry and dishes done. Right now, avoiding schoolwork by playing with yarn.
I'm frogging a red & blue hooded scarf that I made a few years ago and winding the yarn into skeins. I also finished a pair of socks and started two new pairs in the past day, continuing to make a firm dent in my yarn stash.
I dearly wish I could post new photos of all of these wondrous projects, but alas, I lent my camera to my sister yesterday. I don't know when I'll see her next. J's two digital cameras are damaged beyond use, unfortunately.
I have decided to start knitting a new sweater sometime soon. The pattern I have chosen is Roam by Laura Chau, and the yarn I want to use is Peace Fleece worsted in Patience Blue. I'll order my skeins within a week or two.
I also want to knit some fingerless mitts before winter starts.
Here's one of the socks of the pair I finished yesterday at Craft Club. I call them my "commuters", since most of the knitting was done on the bus to and from work.
A basic, rather mindless pattern. I used leftover Mirasol Chirapa.
For the remainder of today, I'm going to:
*put laundry away
*study
*make soup from scratch (sweet potato-coco-peanut)
*knit & spin, of course!
Wish wish wish I had my camera. I have some handspun that I plied last week (2-ply) and I wanna show it off. I used Corriedale (white) and Coopworth (brown) roving, and the effect is marvelous.
There's been some discussion lately about the possibility of J and me moving into my sister's house in St. Paul. The house, which is dubbed the Black Lodge, is technically owned by my sister's partner's mother, but my sis and her partner (or fiance/boyfriend/dude, all the same thing) live there and maintain it. I used to live there too, over a year ago. It's a 3-bedroom, not huge, and somewhat ramshackle. However, the rent is insanely cheap, no lease, chickens and ducks live in the backyard, there's a garden, the neighborhood is very quiet, and there's a lot of freedom to do what you want. J & I would be able to have my old bedroom, which is a nice space. When I lived there, I painted the walls a deep blue and stripped the old carpets to have the original hardwood floors.
The apartment where J and I live right now is okay. We've done some work to it lately, like cleaning/organizing and putting in some new shelving. It's garden-level, near the Wedge co-op and countless cafes, but also next to a highway entrance ramp, as I mentioned before. It can be noisy (as I type this, a motorcycle is revving its engine). :-(
We'll see what happens.
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