I am straight up procrastinating

This post is largely not about knitting. But. As a blogger with no readers, I GET TO SAY WHAT I WANT.
HA!

I am procrastinating. As you [who don't exist] know, I'm in law school. Spring brings flowers and birdies and light and finals and appellate briefs. My appellate brief is due Friday. It is largely finished. I couldn't turn it in the way it is now, but it won't require must more of my time. Which is cool. Because I'm tired of giving it my time.

Mostly though, I'm tired of it staring at me, hiding in my bag, whispering "you're not working on me, but you should be. Why aren't you? Don't you have great big plans? don't you whimper and moan about how you just want to be alive and do the things you're supposed to do and be all grown up about it?" Stupid thing. Stupid me.

I find, that everything that I am frustrates me to no end. I know what traits I would trade out. I would rather be friendless, if I could be disciplined. So unfortunate. I don't know what to do about it; I envy people who are naturally obsessive. Who cares if you're momentarily miserable? You do well don't you? I wish I could do that. I'm trying to cultivate more discipline and work ethic, and it is going relatively well, I suppose. But its till frustrates me to no end.

Because, I know exactly what it is that I want, and this doesn't seem the best way to get it.

Knitting! (see. knitting.)

-TK et. al.

Fun times

I make a lot of mistakes when I knit.
A lot. of mistakes. I very rarely go back to fix them. I mean, if I drop a stitch, or realize that I've messed up in the same row, I'll fix that. But... I tend to notice after a couple of inches that I totally messed up a pattern. Shoo, I don't go back to fix it. I just deal with it...

For instance. My Cap Shawl. Totally. Screwy. It's not even for me. It's a gift, for goodness sake. But... nope. Not going to go back and fix it. The funny thing is, that I looove knitting lace things. But i ALWAYS mess them up. always. When I finish it, and block it, and photograph it. You'll see. you'll see.

In other tragic news: alpaca makes me itch. Like no tomorrow. The two Andrea's that I'm making make me crazy. It feels great on my hands, mind you. Doesn't bother me to knit with it; but i could never wear it. NEVER. I tried. I just wanted to make sure it was acceptable [I'm extremely self conscious about knitting gifts for people]. And it made me crazy... I'm thinking, though, about making one for myself with KnitPicks Merino Style. I love Merino... doesn't make me itch at all :)

Yo yo.

Not yo yo as in "toy". But yo yo as in... hello. I don't know.
Still no camera. Sad.

BUT! I have two cool things to say:

1. yesterday i finished all the decreases in the Andrea shawl in class (the painfully boring class). So now i'm just working on the picot bind of, which I despise, but it's almost done. It really is lovely.
2. I found the ball of Shadow that I thought I had lost/used up already. So now, I can finish the ladies cap shawl without having to wait for a) the yarn to be in stock and b) the yarn to get shipped to me. YAY ME!

Dumb.
This is a picture of me a couple years ago, at my friend's family's dairy farm in Pennsylvania. You can't see how beautiful the farm is, obviously.
but.
A HANDFUL OF KITTENS.
that is all.

- TK et. al.

Firsties!

i'm not that cutesy.

First things first: TK. TK is my cat. TastyKake, is her name, but my mom called her TK once and it stuck. She DOES eat yarn... dumb cat.

Mainly... this blog is of knitting. I've also been gardening, and I'm going to start doing fun kitchen things. Also, I am in law school which means, naturally, that I will probably find it necessary to vent now and then.

As for what I am knitting [too many things, really]:
1. "Andrea's Shawl". I'm using the most lovely of alpaca yarns. I'm actually making two, one for each of a friend of mine's sisters.
2. Mittens for another friend of mine.
3. Fingerless gloves that I am making up for a THIRD friend of mine
4. A shawl, straight up lace, in the round, eggplant purple. lovely. ["ladies cap shawl" from victorian knitting today]
5. I'm about to start ye old "heart breakingly cute kimono" a la mason dixon knitting for a pregnant friend of mine.

That is all, I think.
I did a dumb thing: I started a blog and *gasp I DON'T HAVE A CAMERA.
i"ll have to remedy that issue some how or other... I have ideas.
;)

- TK et. al.