So THERE you are!

I've been checking my Canada Post app every 5 minutes trying to figure out where my order from Must Stash Yarns is.  I keep getting the same message stating "International item mailed in originating country".  Great at least I know it's in the mail but what the heck is taking it so long?  I was right about to send a message to find out if the shipper could perhaps help me locate it when I decided to check USPS with the same tracking number.  My yarn is in LA...after it went through Portland...isn't that further away from Canada?  A quick ride from Portland can land you in BC.  Sure it's on the other side of the country but at least it's in the country.

I dunno, may this means it'll be on a plane and head straight for Toronto and I can get it sometime this week so I can start gushing on how beautiful my yarn is!

On a somewhat happier note, I have decided to knit a pair of plain stockinette socks for myself with Turtle Purl Yarns sock yarn in the colourway Trenchcoat - I'll still be calling in Burberry in my head.  I wound it up in a ball using a method commonly called "The Everlasting Gobstopper" introduced to me by Susan B. Anderson.  It really does remind me of a big ball of candy from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

I found 2 sets of circulars in a size 0 and went to work, knitting the socks 2 in conjunction (not 2 at a time since I'm doing them on 2 sets of circulars).  I've made wonderful progress and I love the fact that they match exactly however Hiya Hiya Sharps are really that sharp since I now have a wound in my index finger.  I need to hurry up and get a calous so I can get back to my knitting.  But I could also take this as a sign to work on something else until the finger is not so sensitive.

Sigh...I have expensive taste

I discovered (or was made aware of) this blog called The Latest Wrinkle after meeting the blogger who had come into my store for an event.  I love clothes but I usually don't have the funds to dress the way I wish I could.

So enter the lastest entry from The Latest Wrinkle regarding the TIBI skirt and the 3 ways you can wear it and I fall in love with the TIBI skirt.  Of course I have to go see where this skirt is available.and unfortunately, I cannot afford it but I am now on the look out for a midi skirt in the same type of style.

Feeling good? Definitely!

I have been having a great few weeks.  I'm almost finished my first term in college and I'm really enjoying it so far.  I learned that I don't have final exams as universities do.  We get a final test for the stuff we haven't been tested on yet.  So much less stressful.  In the beginning of December, I can start picking my classes for term 2 and before term 2 starts, I can work my butt off for the holiday season at my workplace and hopefully amass enough money to take care of some stuff (ahem...stash enhancement).

Yesterday I got an email telling me a skein I ordered from Must Stash Yarns is on it's way to my house.  I swear I squeed.  I can't wait until I get a skein of Dark Side of the Moon.  I think I'm going to make a pair of plain vanilla sock or perhaps another pair of Socks on a Plane...which reminds me that I have weave in ends for my last pair of Socks on a Plane.

Despite all this happiness for new sock yarn, I am actually starting to feel the need for new socks and the quickest way to do so is to finish the many pairs that I have that are part way done.  Finish-itis is finally starting to hit and about time too.

ARGH!

I am struggling with my knitting.  I have finally found something that I cannot do or at least I am not understanding the YouTube videos or the written directions.  Let's just say it:

I CANNOT BRIOCHE!!!

And darn you Stephen West for putting me in a false sense of security with Clue #1 for the 2014 MKAL.  I am trying and it looks like crap and nothing like what it's supposed to (and I'm basing that off of other knitters who have already finished Clue #2).  I'm just about ready to throw it aside and say forget it, especially since I forgot to put in a life line.  I don't know where to go with it.

In the mean time, I'm going to work on my Bonnie Wee Mouse by Susan Claudino.  I've already decided I'm knitting her a skirt and colourblocking in a shirt.  I hope it all works out the way I have in my head.