Showing posts with label WIP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WIP. Show all posts

9.29.2010

WIP Wednesday: My Life + telemark sweater

tomatoes are finally ripening!
babies like knitting!!
oh boy, i need a nap and helvetica needs a nap. helvetica also needs to eat, i have a slew of emails to reply to, and the dishes and laundry both need to be done before i pile him into the car and meet stewart for a quick and dirty overnight trip to victoria so i can attend a job interview tomorrow. for a really cool job. that i can't believe even exists and that i got a call for. it means, though, that i have a 25% chance b/c they're interviewing four people. and if things go "our way" we'll be going on holidays for two weeks and returning to victoria instead of port alberni to start our new life on november 2nd! it all seems too soon. i've been feeling super weepy about it but not anxious at all. or nervous. or overwhelmed. i'm also trying not to get my hopes up. but i do feel like i'm "on my path" and that this is the next step. even though it's heartbreakingly too soon. i'm not going to get nostalgic until we find out if we're actually going or not, but i wish that i could just get a job here, or that they even came up. or that when i applied for them i'd even get a call back. who knew it would be harder to break into a small town than victoria? weird. anyway, that's enough lamenting. seth just went down for a nap and my eyes are droopy and my face is greasy in a way that is indicative of too little sleep. we stayed up late last night watching waiting (and me knitting this telemark sweater seth is playing with that's ALMOST done, i'll post finished pics and info about it tomorrow or friday) and even though i got to sleep about 6 hours in a row it still wasn't enough. on another note, i'm always surprised how much i'm obsessed with how much sleep i got.

9.22.2010

"there was no light that we could see as we listened to the sound of the engine sailing"

WIP Wednesday: telemark sweater
helvetica
lunch! cheese and cucumber sandwich with homemade peach salsa and chippies!
happy WIP Wednesday!! I'm so happy with myself that I actually have something to share that isn't something I was already working on. Which means that I've been casting on more things that I can knit! But, hey, that's what happens when I think about knitting all the time (and don't get to knit all the time). This week I've casted on the Telemark Pullover for dearest Helvetica (rav link). It's getting chillier here and I just hate fan-dangling with zippers. I'm also writing an essay, finishing it up, for the end of my zine and fingers crossed for publication in a book. I hope it's good enough! I wish I could add more at this exact moment, but all I can think about is my breasts and how much milk they're producing, as well as the above mentioned essay. So, I feel I'm kind of boring. I did catch up on my "shows" over the past two days, and I must say that I'm just BORED by all three (Gossip Girl, House, and Glee). Why can't TV just amaze me? It sucks that I feel like I just wasted those three hours. BLECK.

9.08.2010

WIP Wednesday: Shawl and catch up

working on a shawl for my midwife
on tuesday morning i got up early in my pjs and went outside to take the garbage out. my mom came out to let me know that my grandma had passed that morning. she'd been in the hospital for the past few weeks after suffering a second major stroke. death is so interesting and i find i cope so strangely, but that's what grief does, i guess. i'm most surprised by how worn out i'm feeling rather than sad, etc. i'm finding it hard to focus on anything other than dealing with my teething helvetica. who has been quite demanding lately.

rooster with my grandma!

in other news i've been working on this here shawl as a thank you gift (much belated) for our midwife. i'm using a yarn that i got from a woman at the prince george farmer's market about 2 years ago. it's a silk blend and so soft and shiny. i'm knitting the traveling woman shawl and just got to the first lace chart. i really like the pattern and am just happy how quickly it's coming together. i'm also working on some gifties for stewart's coworker's bday. rewound all the yarn from my bergen street cardigan which i've now frogged for good, and day dreamed about other knitted things. i wish i could knit all the time.

bedtime! xo