I have been knitting (and I have proof!)

First, as promised in my previous post, photographic evidence of the completion of Not-So-Aprikot's fronts: I put the remaining live stitches on scrap yarn instead of binding off, so that I can extend/shorten the bits that wrap around the neck as needed, and so that I can kitchener them together for a nice clean seam.…

plotting and scheming

That's what I'm up to these days. I'm pretty busy with the end-of-semester crunch, plus the research stuff that never ends (not that I mind, I enjoy it quite a lot, which is a good thing seeing as I'll be doing it for the rest of my life, most likely!), so I don't have a…

on to the fronts…

Oh, Spring Break, and the resultant opportunity to stay home from the office for an entire day with only a marginal amount of guilt, how I love thee! (She says, while typing from her office because she's stuck here today fighting with the code for her experiment and preparing for a lab meeting). Yesterday, I…

Back to back

After an extremely busy week that wound up pouring into the first half of the weekend, I decided I deserved to take yesterday afternoon completely OFF (it is Spring Break, after all, as little as that means for graduate students), and just relax on the couch and knit. This move payed off (well, not so…

I’m back, with backs

Sorry for the little hiatus; I'd hoped to be posting more regularly, but my parents' visit (which was wonderful) plus the resulting catch-up at work has kept me a bit too busy to be doing the whole blog thing. My mom loved her Rogue, and it fits her very, very nicely, but I don't have…

new and blue

I mentioned to Lolly in my reply to her comment that among my reasons for being happy to have finished my mom's sweater was the fact that I'm now free to play around more with the current Project Spectrum colors (of which that dark olive green is certainly not a member). While realistically, I probably…