So it's not like I didn't have time

I just got lazy and now it's 15 minutes to midnight. Instead of writing something for today's entry, I ended up writing up my Year of Projects entry. And as I am tired, I'm off to bed. Good night!

Too tired to even knit

Barely any sleep + a job interview + a funeral = a very tired Mona who is too tired to go to Knitting Circle and is going down for a nap.

Nite-nite!

To alter or not to alter

Before I went to bed last night, I tried in the Shapely Boyfriend cardigan. I think I already want to do an alteration.

I am short; only 5'1 1/2", if I stretch it. As the cardigan stands now, with only 4 rows past the hip shaping and without the ribbing, is just at my hips. Imagine if I go the next 21 rows as recommend in the pattern and still do the 10 rows of ribbing...that would be almost past my thighs and I don't think I should rock that look. I know the concept is supposed to be like your boyfriend's sweater but I don't think I want it that long on me.

I was going to ask for suggestions but it couldn't even wait until I posted (I originally typed this up just after midnight on Wednesday) before I made up my mind. I'll just add a few more rows and go into the ribbing and do the 3/4 sleeves. I'll end up pushing the sleeves to my forearms anyways.

I got my yarn for August/September months! It's by MissBabs in an exclusive colourway called Inkwell. It is beautiful and it would have been a perfect colour for the Spocks. 

(This picture doesn't do the yarn justice. It's much bluer in real life)

While this is all fine and good, I still have not finished Spock Socks and haven't even made it past the cuff for the Tiberius. I think I'm at the very least, I'm going to finish the Spock Socks before I even consider starting any other socks.

Project of the week

Again! I picked up the Shapely Boyfriend cardigan and I am not regretting it :)

It is coming along quite nicely. I just finished the hip shaping and I got 35 more rows to go. At the rate that I'm going, I might just finish it tomorrow. Then onto the sleeves! I am so excited! I want to make another in a shorter version or a 3/4 sleeve or maybe even a slightly slimmer fit. Ah the possibilities!

There really should have been a warning

My bestfriend and I went out to a new place to lunch. It's like a restaurant-wide buffet table. I decided on perogies, vegetables and couscous. I sat down to eat and went straight for the perogies, ate some vegetables and dug into the couscous. As I was eating, the back of my throat felt weird but I didn't think anything of it. When I was down to my last perogies, I looked at the half eaten couscous, and wondered what kind of vegetable they had put in it. Once I had examined it closely, I realized it was pecans.

I am allergic to walnuts and pecans. It's nothing to serious, I just may break out into a rash but it's nothing deadly. I even went back to the station and checked for  any kind of nut warning and there was sign. I just kindly informed them about the nuts and that there should be a sign of some sort.

I wasn't expecting any kind of recompense, especially since I had eaten over half of the nut infused couscous. But they took out a new container and asked me what 2 sides I wanted. I was surprised but decided on the vegetables again and mashed potatoes. 

Day ended well.

Year of Projects: Week 5

117! Woot-woot! That's how many squares I have in total on my Blankie! Plus a few triangles for the sides :)

(Thank you to cousin Khadija for standing on a table to get the Blankie in its entirety)

My-! Look at how the right side has grown! I think at this point, I'm going to join the parts I have (which will make the total 119) and that will begin making this project no longer portable.

I picked up another WIP, the Shapely boyfriend. I still have a ways to go but the fact that I picked it up after almost 3 months of inactivity is good. There is no picture of it for this week since I am not at home and haven't taken a recent picture. This will definitely be travelling with me when I go to my best friend's house this week.

No additional work has been done on any socks so those are in the same state they were in last week. I will be taking the Spock Socks with me.

 I think I will be limiting myself to 2 projects a week to work in.

Just some thinking I have been thinking on the construction of the Petal Blanket that I am going to be donating to my church in a couple of years. I believe I have narrowed down my yarn choices to Knit Picks Brava in Acrylic, due to already having some unused in my stash and not having to really worry about dye lots (or at least I hope that's the case). The colour I have is Tidepool in worsted, I think (and after checking my order email from last year, yes that is the colour). Brava is soft enough and should be durable (due to it being acrylic). Whenever I can get around to making another order, it will be for that and Black Stroll sock yarn for the Blankie.

Back to the Basics

My cousin Akilah has gone vegetarian for the summer. Because of this, she has been experimenting further in the kitchen, making me jealous of her creations and me not being close enough to try any.

Luckily, today I'm at her house and she decided she wanted a broth-like soup. However like a true Jamaican household, there was goat head soup and no vegetarian option. That didn't stop Akilah. She rummaged through the 2 fridges in the house, pulling out garlic, onion, green onion, celery, tomato, ginger and olive oil. She stuck everything in the blender, seasoned the water and set it to boil. Quite quickly, she had a bowl of soup.

I SO want to try this!