iacta alea est

I have just sent my thesis to my committee.
It isn’t the final draft, but still kind of terrifying.

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Whoa and Blerg and Y-ay

First off – Happy New Year!! (Only half a month behind!!)
The Whoa:
* I’m supposed to submit my thesis in less than 10 weeks!!
* We are moving to Moncton!!
For those of you unfamiliar with Canadian geography here is the map showing Toronto and Moncton (the distance is a mere 1,522km/946mi [...]

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Work In Progress

Pretty much everything I doing right now is a work in progress.
There’s the scarf (for which I am not only working the chart upside down, I -being new to the whole double knitting thing- apparently did not finish the edges right and the only thing holding the edges together is the fact of the yarn [...]

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Obsess much?

Why yes, now if only I could obsess more about my thesis…
The first of Lindz’ birthday socks is done.

Somehow I always manage to mis-count somewhere in the duplicate stitching (you’d think I could manage up to 6…) and so things don’t exactly match the charts and since it would be way too cool if I [...]

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Visually Impaired Update

I don’t have any pictures, but I figured I should update anyway.
I’ve done precious little knitting or spinning or anything remotely crafty, instead I’ve been working on my thesis, which is what I’m supposed to be doing so… I guess that is a good thing.
Last weekend was the Wasaga Beach re-enactment, which was an absolute [...]

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Very little to report

I finished the Flutter-bys, I’ve still got a good amount of yarn left over from that skein so I’m thinking about whether to try to get some ankle socks out of it. I’ll probably weigh the ball and see how much I’ve got.  The plan is to get started with another pair of Ginnys in [...]

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