Wow. That was an embarrassing silence, huh?! Lately I've been really busy at work rewriting a paper, preparing and giving a presentation about my research, preparing an exam and now studying for an exam. In the meanwhile I've received some fabulous things by mail. In order of arrival, the first package was from amazon and it made me a proud owner of four books: Knitting Nature, Knitter's Almanac, Knitting without Tears, and last but certainly not the least: Knitting Rules! which I have already read from cover to cover. I had planned to save it until my long flight to the US, but how is it possible to resist such an excellent book? You tell me!
The books arrived on the same day as my Emergency Sock Kit made by Cassie.
Emergency Sock Kit by Cassie
Isn't it beautiful? Isn't she clever? I love it so much that I carry it with me everywhere I go, even though I'm not knitting any socks at the moment! But you know, it's handy for the crochet needle and scissors.
I sent out the sockapaloooza socks to my sockapal on May 2nd. Since this was my first KAL (apart from the Olympics) I wasn't sure what people generally include in the packet. I decided in the end to send a few bars of Finnish chocolate to my pal, 'cause y'know, chocolate makes you happy. I still haven't heard anything from my pal and it worries me a bit, but she's been blogging very little lately, so perhaps she's not spending much time online. I sure hope it's not because she hates the socks!
Mmmm, chocolate and socks!
Last week my sockapaloooza packet came and WOW, my pal is the greatest! Not only are the socks beautiful and fit me perfectly, she stuffed the envelope full of Kool-Aid so that now I can dye like crazy! Just look:
My fabulous sockapaloooza pal's gifts
My pal was Faith, whose blog I've been reading since she commented on my Olympic project. In her last post about the socks, she pretty much gave it away and I was rather sure that I was her lucky pal. But I didn't dare hope, just the Kool-Aid made me dizzy. Thank you so much Faith :-)
The last gift this time is my mom's birthday sweater. Except it isn't really a gift anymore. Turns out it fits me pretty perfectly, which means it probably won't fit my mom at all! It seems that when I knit something for myself, it turns out too big, but if I knit something for others, it turns out too small. What to do to break this evil circle? (Don't say gauge swatching, it won't be appreciated.)
Inspecting my first sleeve seam
Don't mind the messy hair and sheepish look (I'm ashamed), I'm in the middle of exam reading and a pleasant appearance is of little importance to me now. Which reminds me, I should really get back to the book because, to put it mildly, I'm in deep shit.
I might not blog for the next two weeks, I'll be leaving to the US on saturday and who knows, they might not have the internet over there ;-). Anyways, I'm stuck in a million gift projects at the moment which can't be blogged about. I can't wait to have only me me me to knit for.
