#1. Tomorrow I will be FREE! Only one more paper to finish off, and then grad school will be over and knitting can resume. I can’t WAIT to get started again. I have small gift projects to make for two lucky recipients. Then I’ll whip up (hopefully whip, not f***) an iPod cozy for Andrew and go back to the stockinette bunny that is not yet of doom but may well be later. The iPod thing might be too ambitious though…you see, it requires two colors. EEP!
#2. I need money to feed my habit. As soon as the tax rebate gets here I’ll be able to order more needles and get on with more projects! There’s the Brown Bag where my gauge is completely FUBARed despite using the exact same yarn the pattern calls for. I wanted it a teensy bit bigger than it is and figured felting would be forgiving…but I knit the bottom and realized there was NO WAY all those stitches would fit on my dinky 16″ circs. Plus I would like a Paris Loop for fall, since I already bought yarn for it on eBay! Oh, I could go on and on. Hurry up, free government money! I want to spend you to reinvigorate my knitting addiction the economy! With you I will also buy DPNs, because…
#3. I have yet to knit my first pair of socks, but I think I may be addicted already. I love looking at all the cool sock designs on Ravelry. I love imagining myself wearing the socks. I think all the time about taking my sock-in-progress on a tour of Manhattan a la Yarn Harlot. I have like five bajillion sock patterns in my favorites on Ravelry, plus I’ve saved off all of those and dozens more to my computer…plus I may have to knit every single thing Cookie A. has ever designed or I will explode. That happens to me sometimes.
#4. I also hope to spend more time outside this summer. I haven’t really fully taken advantage of living in New York City, and now that I only have a year left before a possible move I really would like to remedy that. Perhaps there is some knitting-in-public in lovely Central Park in my future? I like to think so. If I am careful to vary my tank top sleeve placement each day I do this before the wedding, possibly I will not blind everyone with my pasty whiteness and yet not have to visit ::gasp:: a tanning salon.
#5. I need a clever scheme to minimize the likelihood of knitting needles being confiscated on airplanes, even flying out of Heathrow Airport which is apparently VERY strict about knitting needles. From everything I’ve heard, I should be OK going over when we fly out of Philadelphia, but coming back I will probably opt for a nice safe book. Not that that’s bad – I do love reading and I can’t knit and read at the same time. But on principle, I think it’s a little ridiculous not to allow wood or plastic knitting needles when wood pencils and plastic pens are no problem. Metal, ok, MAYBE. But come on.
knit with pencils on the plane!
I’ve heard that mentioned before, I may have to give it a try! I think that’s an excellent example of why “no knitting needles” is a stupid rule.
Good luck with joining the “mile high Knitting club”. (tee hee)
I too have never knit a pair of socks – I need the motivation. I fear I’d also suffer from second sock syndrome.
Knitting in Central Park would be Way Too Cool. I think, just to be cheesy, I’d knit a Central Park Hoodie while I was there.
You’re on rav? Tres cool. Here’s my name:
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