Nearly there now...

Well, I get married tomorrow. And I'm sleepy. It's hard to sleep for very long at the moment.

Finished knitting my Lelah top, though it came out far too big around the top (not sure if the yarn stretched on me a little or if my gauge was just slightly off... could be a combination of both actually). I've got a few plans to salvage it though, so hopefully it won't be a write off. The lace came out really nicely, so it would be a shame to have to frog it...

I am being very good and not starting any new projects. Nor will I be starting anything new until after I get back from honeymoon... Chris is always complaining that I knit too much, so for some reason that I've now forgotten, I bet him that I could go the whole honeymoon without knitting anything. Can't remember why I did that... oh well, hardly a hardship, I'll have lots of other stuff to do.

I definitely have wicked plans for when I get home though...

Anyway, in summary:

• Sleepy
• Nearly married
• Not currently knitting (feels odd)

Ta ta all, I'm off to do constructive things.

Insomnia and knitting

Well, still here, and still mostly sane, even though wedding is now 10 days away (it's a little scary to think of it in terms of days instead of weeks/months/>year. It's all going more or less to plan, though I'm wishing that everyone would stop trying to plan things to within an inch of their lives. I'm not so big on that kind of formal rigidity at social gatherings; I like people to be able to wander around and do what they like. Oh well, I'm sure people will do that anyway, whether they've been told otherwise or not (or all the people I know will anyway).

Anyway Anna, put a sock in it. Wedding gas-bagging is for other blog, not this one.

Decided to make a Lelah top (http://knittingforboozehags.com/freebirds/lelah-top) with my Bendigo Woollen Mills cotton yarn; it seems a pretty straightforward pattern, and some of the versions on Ravelry look so awesome. The light purple is a little bit girly by my standards, but maybe that's not a bad thing for a change (one can't live in jeans and baggy t-shirt all the time... or at least not without being mistaken for a guy from a distance when you're as tall as I am...).

Anyway, top is coming along swimmingly, albeit a little slowly since I'm knitting in a much smaller gauge. Still, I've had a bit of insomnia (probably due to wedding) the last few nights, so that's helping it along a bit. No photos yet, because my digital camera is out of batteries and I can't find new ones. So there...

Now, off to be a good girl and write my essay, even though I'm so screwed with it that it really is quite hilarious...

I survived!

Hurray, the big nasty pieces of assessment are over and done with.


Now it's just one more smaller essay to do, and I'm free...


Except I have a sneaking suspicion that freedom will involve remembering the fact that I'm getting married in two weeks from today... Yet another thing that requires me being organised. And in some ways this requires a worse kind of organised, because everyone is always asking me questions about stuff. Nobody asks me law questions, because they know I'll just bore them to death if they do...

Anyway, when I was literally running out the door to make the train and hand my essay in on time (late submission penalties and harsh and generally bitey), I nearly tripped over a parcel on my doorstep:

Yay! My Bendigo Woollen Mills yarn got here (which surprised me because I'm pretty sure I asked them to send it to my family's PO box, but that doesn't mean I wasn't happy to see it... It's an 8-ply 100% cotton yarn that I'm going to make something summery with, have yet to decide on what. They sent me a colour card as well, which is pretty and highly touchable. I'm liking the look of their alpaca yarn for when winter rolls around again...

More procrastination

Anna proves once again that she is really quite appalling at finishing things, and very good indeed at getting distracted and starting new things...

Though I have exam period as an excuse (for a change): during exams my brains are so fried that erratic behaviour and a short attention span are pretty much expected, so I don't beat myself up too much about it.

I've very nearly finished the teal raglan jumper I've been working on (as in, just have to knit about an inch more on the sleeves, and then do the finishing). It's worked out quite well, although I couldn't make it quite as long as I wanted, because I didn't buy quite enough yarn.

Still, can't really complain on the yarn front. This jumper is a marvellous example of the few times when it actually works out cheaper to knit your own jumper, as opposed to buying one in the shops. The yarn for this cost about $6.50 (50c a ball, and I think I used 13 balls). Fibre content is 75% wool, 25% acrylic, so it's toasty warm. It was Big W brand yarn, and I happened in there just when they were trying to get rid of it all (from memory, I had been trying to buy wedding makeup, but all of the shiny counter and lots of little-bottles-of-things-in-exactly-the same-colour-but-with-different-cheesy-names had me spooked, so I went to hide in the knitting section and was happily surprised). So I can't really complain about not buying enough when it was all such a good bargain (and this explains why I can't go back and just buy more).

I have discovered the Bendigo Woollen Mills website (http://www.bendigowoollenmills.com.au/), courtesy of my future mother in law. She was knitting with one of their cotton yarns, and it felt pretty shiny and nice so I figured I'd check it out. I've ordered some of their yarn, so I suppose I'll soon find out if they're any good or not. Reveiws on Ravelry seem pretty positive, and they are damn cheap, so fingers crossed.

Oh, and I disgracefully haven't finished either my halter top or my leaf cardi. All I need to do is sew a couple of seams, but no, they're languishing underneath the coffee table, abandoned and lonely... I blame the wedding. And exams. That is a combination pretty much guaranteed to eat your brain...

Speaking of exam period, better be a good girl and go and write my essay...