Finished mum’s River scarf/stole thing last night at around 12:40am. All knitted, washed, blocked and pinned out. Wove in the ends this morning, and it’s ready to be wrapped.

Pictures after the weekend. Me tired.

I believe River will be done in time for the arrival of mum this Friday. I’m on repeat #18, and I should have enough yarn for 22. Only a few more to go….

And then it’ll be time to move all my old blog posts over here. I know I don’t need to do that, but I’m a big fan of everything being in one place. And if I can ever get categories to work here, it’ll be great. I’ve found quite a few hacks to get categories on blogger, I’m not on my computer right now, but I’ll link to the list when I am. This post is mainly a test to see if I can get it to work. Apparently it can take a day or two to show up if you edit old posts, so this is a test post. This is only a test.

The long-awaited blog entry. I just signed up for a flickr account, and oooh it’s fun. I had taken some pictures of red stuff in the apartment, but thought they were pretty boring by themselves. Along comes flickr toys and they don’t look so bad.

I’ve also been madly knitting on River, the scarf/stole I’m making for mum’s birthday. This needs to be wrapped and ready to give by March 31st. I started on the 3rd, and only just started on ball #2 of 2 on Monday. I still think I can do it, if I make sure I make time to knit at least 1.5 pattern repeats per day, no more exceptions. And now, a River mosaic, as I haven’t posted any of these pics yet, and all would be too many.

This is a good pattern, it’s not too boring, and every other row is straight knitting, so it can be sort of mindless. I haven’t had any problems with the yarn (Kidsilk Haze) even though it is so thin and slippery. I’m using Denise needles, and yes, sometimes it does catch on the join, but not too badly. My main worry right now is how I store it. I keep my current project in a little drawstring mesh bag that once held MEC long underwear. It’s great for keeping everything together. My concern now is that pulling it in and out is fluffing it up. I don’t want it too fluffy. I’m hoping blocking will get rid of this problem. The other fun thing is the amount of static in it. What with said rubbing and the crazy high altitude, it’s quite the staticky ball of fluff.

So, no, not much content here lately.
I’ve been working a lot, and furiously knitting away at my mum’s River stole. I started ball #2 last night, which is good and bad all at once. Good, because I’m half done. Bad, because it’s taken me since early March to get this far, and I want to have it blocked and wrapped up by March 31. Small panic, over here in the corner.

That’s also why the blog looks like a construction site. Can ANYONE help with the stupid line down the right hand side? This template was too thin for my liking, and I found where to change the width, but I can’t seem to get that vertical bar, and the header to match up.
Also, I thought blogger had a tagging feature, so I could say, look at all my posts about Rogue by clicking on the appropriate link. I see now that this is typepad. Typepad not good because (a) you have to pay, and (b) as you can tell by the above plea, I’m no good with code. I’ll live. I’ve opened a Flickr account so I don’t link to my LJ gallery. I’d like to keep those separate. Plus Flickr has fun toys.

Come the end of the month, I will be done River, and then I will spend some quality time making this blog look pretty. And gathering together pics of all the stuff I want to make, so I can easily reference and think.

I have bought a few small knittythings recently, a couple weeks ago I went to a yarn store (heaven! I will save my LYS rant for another post) and bought some white sock yarn. Last week I went to Safeway and bought Kool Aid. I’m going to dye sock yarn! I can’t decide if I want self-striping or just mottled coloured. It’s going to be my Project Spectrum: April project (the dyeing, not the socks. I don’t know if I’d get that much done) so I have orange, and pink. There was no yellow, and I’m not really a yellow fan, but orange is an April colour.

My roommates will think I’m batty.

But first, I need to eat more pasta, because I’ll need at least one more sauce jar for this project.

One of my good friends is getting married in July. This is the first of my high school friends to get married, and it’s going to be a great big thing. I, therefore, need a dress. I have found a dress that’s about 3 times what I was planning on spending, but I’m in love.

Only picture me being shorter, and not blonde.

Wouldn’t a lacy brown shrug look so great with it?

If I do go with this dress, I will be on the yarn diet to break all yarn diets. I would be selling off yarn, to make myself feel better about buying a $300 dress.

Or I could be sensible and look for another dress. Damn me and my champagne tastes on a beer water budget. Damn my not-really-paid job. I mean, sure, I get a cheque on the 15th and last day of each month, but it’s a pittance because I’m an intern.

EDIT: Yeah, after a visit back to the dress in the store (and beign recognized by the girl working there, oh the embarassment!) and actually really thinking…. it’s a stupid idea. I need to save as much money as possible for when this contract ends. Because then…. I’ll actually be trying to find actual work in the actual theatre world in Calgary. Actually. For real. eek.

I’ve become too frustrated with My Old Blog, so I’ve come back here. Notice that right now the one and only post here is from September of 2004!
I originally ran away from here because my programming knowledge wasn’t good enough to get it to look how I wanted. Now I’m better, but still not quite good enough. Why is my sidebar not continuous? It jogs partway down, right where it says ‘archives’. Can I stop this happening? I made everything wider, because I’m not a fan of the very thin content, surrounded by two stripes of dead space. But I can’t move that little bit.