Productivity is me.

Imagine me striking a heroic pose. I am productive!

. . . okay, not really. Not in the really important, oh-shit-I-have-to-write-a-thesis way. But in the knitting way! Cleaned my room and coralled all my UFOs in one spot. Realised that I've had my Girl's Best Friend lace scarf hanging around for the last month and a half waiting for the finishing touches, so buckled down and did them.

Lesson of the day: Tassels are so much easier using a crochet hook than a darning needle and fingers.

Twenty-four tassels later, and she is complete. Yay! The total length is in the area of eight and a half feet, because clearly I am insane and normal-length scarves are just too short. Yarn was the Grand River Yarns Rayon stuff that I got at the Knitter's Frolic. The colour is gorgeous, but I found that the yarn was really slubby and fuzzy, definitely wasn't the easiest to knit with. But with the blocking I did weeks ago, it really softened up.

This was the most challenging knit to photograph thus far, I think, just because of its massive size. I tried my best, though.





And you can see it in its strung-out glory. Can't wait to show this baby off at Knitting Society on Sunday.

I am looking forward to Knitting Society. As much as I miss my old groups, I like still having something. And I'm definitely going to need the break, sitting as we are in the middle of midterms. Wrote my Welsh midterm this afternoon - the Welsh for knitting is yn gwau. Dw i'n gwau, I am knitting!

So that makes it three projects on the needles now. Highland Triangle, Stashbusters, and Christmas scrunchies. My last post was the pattern for the Stashbuster fingerless gloves, on the request of some guinea pigs lovely ladies from the Selfish Knitters, who are testing the pattern for me. I'm about halfway through my second glove. It knits up quickly, I just don't have the time! I started something a little more portable for knitting around classes, though.

Was looking at my oddballs, which are all tumbled in an old glass vase, and the ball of pale green Misti Cotton-Silk was calling my name. Inspired by Jupe's fingerless gloves, I tried it out with a double moss stitch. Holy cow, Batman. Stunner. I'm absolutely in love. Knitting a big rectangle to turn into a scrunchie for my mom; plan on making a few different ones for her as part of her Christmas present, as she loved the ones I made for Rita. And the yarn's so soft, I love having any excuse to work with it.



Will post again by Monday. Yes, I have an Irish Bardic midterm. But Canada Post has told me that that is also when my KnitPicks order will arrive! I'm bouncing just thinking about it.

Yarn diet! I swear! Just start . . . tomorrow. Honest.

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