The Great Flood

Okay, so I had this big long entry about my Christmas knitting half-typed out with spaces for pictures, and the draft got scrapped somehow. Ugh. So I'll skip it for now. All the sock-angst, the scary old Chinese lady who taught me how to knit continental barely speaking a word of English, the success of my X-Ring shawl, all of it. Skipped.

My apartment building flooded on Friday night. None of the yarn was harmed! I know that was everyone's first thought. But it's all safe. Only the living room and kitchen was affected, and the yarn lives in the hall closet at the other end of the apartment. But right now it lives with Caitlin. Because of the extent of the water damage in most of the building (we got off lightly), almost all the students have been moved to another residence on campus. Small, crappier, sketchier. No kitchens. We had to pack everything - everything - and move, in the space of a few hours. It was . . . an ordeal. People keep calling it an adventure.

Anyways, I've been doing some stress-knitting. It's good to have the needles back in my hands after having to give it up for so long because of papers and thesis. I've finished a repeat and a half of my Highland Triangle Shawl in the last few days. I only have one more repeat to go (24 rows) on the centre triangle before I start on the knitted border, which really will be an adventure. I've been taking pictures of it every time I finish one repeat. This thing is going to be huge. It's already larger than my completed and blocked Shetland Triangle.



That's after five repeats. I should have put something in for scale, but each of those floor tiles is one foot by one foot (if you can see the lines for the tiles).

I also started Maddie's Rose Wristwarmers for what feels like the thousandth time. This is the cursed project, I swear. Something is always wrong. The yarn (I'm on the third one I've tried), the needles, the gauge, the cables . . . I frogged my latest attempt this morning, but I know what to do for next time. I'm going to use Sapphire2001's mods for the pattern, and loosen up the cables along the sides - four or five rows between cables instead of two. The Cascade 220 seems comparable to the Creative Focus Nashua Handknits Worsted I'm using. I love the colour, though:



I got a skein pretty yarn for Christmas that I want to turn into wristies for myself, but I don't know if I'll even have enough. Definitely don't have enough for Knucks, which was my first plan. Think I might just do a big squishy rib with a thumb slit. It's Noro Sakura, which apparently is discontinued. It's so funky and different and awesome, I wish I had more!



Just seems so full of promise . . . I want to fulfill that promise before all my time is taken up with school again.

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