re-locating

Apparently, I have too much time on my hands.

This blog is migrating. :)

http://www.erinknits.ca/blog/

See you there!!

Not Dead

I'm actually not dead. I'm just a bad blogger. Naughty, naughty blogger!

Anyway classes are finished for the semester, so I've succumbed to lurking around the forums on Ravelry so I can at least pretend that I'm doing something productive. (But I'm really not!)

There's been a lot of threads on there in the past little while about "stashing" yarn. Now, I'll freely admit that I've been a packrat since I can remember, so seeing that I'm not the only person obsessively hoarding yarn and other knitting crap makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Anyway, there have been posts about quantities of stash, quality of stash, queueing of stash and general stash organization, and just looking at pictures of all that yarn in one place got me to thinking about mine.

Admittedly, I haven't been knitting nearly as long as a great deal of the people on Rav, but in my defense, I'm making up for lost time with my tax return and my battered Visa. It's impressive, really, how much "stash" you can acquire in a relatively short time with proper use of the internet and the nice people at Canada Post (who are like camels, packing boxes of yarn to my door almost every day, and then packing it back to the post office because we're never home, anyway). Those little parcel slips that they slide into my mailbox when the packages won't fit just make my day!

Speaking, also, of making my day, we just got back (well, when I say "just", I really mean at the beginning of the month) from our annual "family vacation" in which the husband and I pack up and spend two weeks galavanting in the hot sun with my parents, siblings, cousins, aunt, uncle and some friends of the family. Needless to say, travelling from Northern BC to the (gorgeous) west-coast of Costa Rica was damn worth it. We sailed on a catamaran, zip-lined through the jungle, hiked through a cloud forest and sang drunken karaoke like a bunch of foreign businessmen in New York. Doesn't get any better than that. :)

midterrrrms.

Midterms, midterms! Agh!

Did I mention I had three this past week? Now, on the positive note, it means that this week is reading break (yay!) and I don't have class tonight. On the negative note, well. . .it's midterms. And who likes those?

Mind you, while making dure that I didn't did study sufficiently, I've managed to buy another whackload (scientific term, there) of Kureyon to keep working on that Lizard Ridge afghan. I've also got a pile coming in the mail from WEBS that just didn't get here fast enough. :-0

Other projects include MY FIRST SOCK EVER which is currently being completed, following a tragedy last night where my 2US ebony DPNs from Lantern Moon lost a member of their group. :( Snapped right in two! That's what I get for knitting a sock super tight on little tiny needles that aren't made of metal.

But anyway, in short, I need to develop some kind of yarn organization. :D Because I have tons. Hah!

Perhaps a cup of tea?

I spent three hours the other day winding skiens into balls/cakes.

While both skiens I wound are entirely functional, and quite good looking. . .they look completely different. Hah! What are the chances? Admittedly, I used two different methods. But still!

Baby, it's COLD outside!

D'you know what the radio told me today?

That with windchill, it's going to drop down to -49 degrees Celsious tonight. FOURTY NINE DEGREES. I just need to emphasize how much of a shock this is to me, as last week we had a couple of days that were almost zero degrees!

Damn chinooks, making me think that maybe winter was leaving us!

Bah.

ETA: I'm editing this to make a point. When I got to work Tuesday morning, my freight guys were there. When they pulled into town at about four in the morning the temperature was MINUS SIXTY ONE DEGREES with wind chill. Do I need to emphasize how sick and wrong that is? Even for up here? Dayum!

Winding and winding and winding. . .

I wound my very first center-pull ball by hand the other afternoon! A very proud moment, so bear with me. :)

It was a skien of handspun that I bought from See Jayne Knit's Etsy shop a couple of weeks ago, which is absolutely gorgeous! No idea what I'm going to use it for, but I'm madly in love with it. :P It took me way longer than I expected, though, I spent probably an hour between winding and untangling the big mess that I made of the yarn halfway through. However, the way it turned out was fantastically satisfying, so I'm not going to complain!

Aside from that, work continues on strips for the Lizard Ridge afghan, which I might finish sometime this summer. Hahaha.

Some of the most beautiful flowers live in the darkest jungles. Some of the most beautiful fish live in the deepest ocean trenches. Some of the most beautiful people are at their most beautiful in the dark.