Made it to the meeting!

All my classes are done. All! No more!!!! Yippee! I also finally made it to a Mid-Michigan Knitting Guild meeting. Good timing on my part. It was their holiday party. MMKG is very serious about their eats! At 6:59 the command was given to start eating. Very rarely have I been to a meeting involving food or not that started early. I had a lot of fun.

You will see that I was able to get a few more hats done for their charity hat knitting. (If I get the urge to knit before the end of the year, we have a library that is filling a mitten tree by Dec. 30th.)

The MMKG had wonderful door prizes. I was lucky to have my hat drawn from a bag. I won a cute felted purse kit from Rae's Yarn Boutique. (thank you!) Meanwhile - no knitting until I get the 4 little somethings sewn for 4 little girls.

Meanwhile - could someone send a group over to wrap a bazillion presents????? I may just put them in large gift bags. I was joking with Ram-niss that I should just get colorful totes for each of the kids and just load them up. Honestly it sounds like a good idea, but don't like thinking how the Christmas morning pictures would look. Son frowned at the idea. He wants to rip open presents.

When life imitates an ASTR 201 exam question

Funny moment during my FINAL, last, never again, 'hallelujah the strife is over' astronomy exam. As I was spilling out answers on the pages before it I completely forgot everything. One of the questions hit close to home.

Background - I used knitting as my reward for studying and keeping up. I would allow myself to knit once I completed what I needed to get done. There were times I had to put my knitting down and tell myself to do my work. Honestly, class really cut into my knitting time.

Any whoooo - While figuring out RA, degrees, stars in transit, what constellation a waxing gibbous is in while Sirius is in transit... yeah, I had it figured out until I ran across this question. It involved a knitter who had a telescope. She traveled to Nevada, and set up her telescope to view some event in the heavens. The question stated that she was into her knitting project and didn't want to waste time looking through the telescope when she could be knitting. Yet she really wanted to view this event. We then had to figure out what angle she needed to set the telescope, what time this event would happen, the exact time (+/- 15 minutes), and the color of her socks. (OK, I added that.) Too bad for the knitter, I couldn't help her. BUT this tells me that my instructor is well acquainted with the obsessive cult of knitters. He just had to make her an obsessive knitting astronomer. Who knew?

I didn't let my secret handshake out in case he is a survivor and not a supporter. I have a grade riding on his discretion.

Charity wrap up - Christmas ramp up

Early this morning T wouldn't let me turn on the lights in the kitchen while she ate her breakfast. She wanted to dine by the tree lights. Yes, we have a small Christmas tree in the kitchen - and a few in the dining room, and a couple in the living rooms. (There is only one large official tree in the house.)



I have stopped the charity knitting. They are due on Friday, but I have 3 finals in the next 4 days. I don't see me with any extra minutes to squeeze in one more pair of mittens. In the past couple of weeks I have completed 9 hats and 8 pairs of mittens. If you look at the top you will see 'Center Square' hat that is a new pattern from Knitty.com. I was anxious to try a different style hat. You probably notice that a majority of my hats are cable. I just needed a little something to keep it fun.




I had this little quirky 'must do' for my nieces (and T) for Christmas. I knew that I didn't have time to knit, but I wanted to make them something. So for some reason I figured that I had time to sew their Christmas gifts. I reasoned that Mo would be able to help. I think I'll end up being too anal and end up doing it all myself. I am making 4 items each slightly different from the other - yet they are all the same item. See my supplies above, any guesses? The cream color you see is more fabric. Fabric is all cut and ready to sew. I have a little embroidery on a portion of it before I can sew it together.

But first - I have to study. My final finals! Then done, done, done. I will have completed all my classes needed for the BA. WHOOO HOOO!

Tiger has a good idea, maybe in January. Have a great week!

weffriddles

weffriddles - This is fun, reminiscent of old computer games before graphics. Stupidly addictive - though at the moment I am stuck on level 5.

Knitting continues. T is learning to knit. Which means when I am knitting she comes over with her needles so that she can knit with me. Translation: I am now not knitting and am sitting with T and her big #13 short needles wrapping the yarn around the needle while she moves the needles. She can operate the needles or wrap the yarn. She can't do both yet. But she seems to be enjoying herself, and I mildly surprised that she isn't frustrated.

Photos after the weekend of all the hats and mittens completed so far. Meg has 2 scarves done. Still no family knitting started...