3:47 AM

It is 3:47 am. I started dyeing at around midnight with a plan to get through 44 skeins: 14 for the September club shipment, 16 of a new superwash BFL base, 8 Elementary, 2 Elementary DK, and 4 skeins of laceweight-just a fraction of the 24 lbs I started with at the beginning of the summer. Now, 38 skeins in and three days away from leaving for college, I sit here typing away at something I may very well not remember when I wake up in just a few hours to continue packing my entire life into boxes and spacebags. So, should I wake up in the morning wondering why I'm so tired and my entire house smells of vinegar, here's a little "note to self": Congratulations, Molly. You have conquered the 24 lb yarn pile.

Alright, I'm off to go finish up the last 6 skeins. Let's just hope I can get these all photographed and sold before I run out of food money. I haven't heard good things about the meal plan.

Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaavorite Thing!

I am not Meghan from Stitch It, but there are times when I wish I was. Those times are usually when I'm spinning and realize I don't know something, but right now, I wish I were Meghan because I have a faaaaaaaaaavorite thing to share, and it sounds so much cooler when she says "faaaaaaaaavorite things" than when I do.

Anyway, my favorite thing this week is (drumroll): Greek Yogurt!



This stuff just showed up in my fridge yesterday (which means my mom bought it), and I decided to give it a try. I'm not a huge yogurt person in general, but it's yuuuuummy. It's a lot thicker and creamier than regular yogurt, and it seems a little sweeter, too (note: I'm eating the fruit kinds, which are unflavored except for the fruit). It's also non-fat and has only 140 calories in a pretty satisfyingly-sized container.

Now, not being Meghan, I don't know how to conclude this sort of thing, so I guess what I'm really trying to say is: Go eat yogurt.

Also...

I've been thinking of branching out into food. How do you all feel about food?

Holy skeins, Batman!

I dyed 30+ skeins of yarn today, and I am dead tired and not finished. Need to either get more efficient or start considering slave labor.

I did all of the new sport weight bamboo blend (still haven't decided on a name) and some Elementary and Elementary DK (which may be renamed...if I feel like it).

I'll take pictures of the drying yarn when the sun comes out and start doing shop photos as soon as I get a chance. Keep an eye out for the upcoming moving sale ;)

25 Days

So I'm leaving in 25 days. I started packing up some sweaters, some handknit hats and scarves, and other things I won't need for the rest of the summer, but as of now, there isn't much else I can pack. One would think, with all my supplies (yarn, beads, paints, etc.) just waiting to be used, I'd be busy all the time, and I have been. I've been knitting like crazy, spending time with friends, shopping for dorm stuff, and (finally) shopping for some new and much-needed clothes that, get this, aren't covered in paint...yet. That said, I can't seem to figure out what to do with myself. Sure, this week I helped throw a birthday party for my grandma, went to see Funny People, threw a quasi-spontaneous dinner party, and invited some friends over for pizza and movies, but when I look at the New Student Orientation website or talk to my new college friends, I feel like I'm just sitting around waiting to get in the car and go. I feel like I won't truly be productive until all of my clothes, books, and yarn have been packed away into boxes, my new, polka-dotted laptop has arrived and been outfitted with the latest version of photoshop, and my wheel has been safely tucked into the seat next to me.

On that note, here's the shawl I'm working on:



Fountain Pen Shawl - Interweave Knits Spring 2009 out of Knit Picks Gloss Lace

Here's where it gets deep.

The day I realized there'd be 52 days left before I left for college, I started counting down with a deck of playing cards, arranged from 2s to aces: spades, diamonds, clubs, hearts. When I first clipped the two of spades to a hanging magnetic basket next to my monitor, I was about as gung-ho about leaving as anyone could be. I was going to Philly, my already-adopted new home, and away from everything I considered a "problem". In Philly, my mom couldn't get mad at me for not putting away the laundry, my art teacher couldn't tell me I was devoting too much time to academics (even if I take an art class, I'm going to an Ivy League school...), and I wouldn't have to watch my grandparents suffer and die. In Philly, I'll have a great gelato place within walking distance, classes that interest me, opportunities to date some of the brightest young gentlemen in existence, and a roommate who has agreed to put up with my yarn stash.

I'm up to the five of hearts now, and I'm not so sure. I don't know what it is that prompted such a change. Maybe it's noticing how sick my grandma is or how much I miss my friends, even when I've only not seen them in a few weeks. Hell, maybe it's the idea that my entire stash just can't come with me. I can just envision it: My parents show up after a 3-hour car ride, bag of yarn in hand. "Nooooooo, mom! It's not THAT purple merino. It's the superwash! Now I won't be able to start my sweater for another month!" Perhaps, though, it's the idea that I'm going to have to start over again. Everything I've established during the last 18 years just won't mean much. It's time to start over, make new friends, develop new interests, and prove myself to a whole new set of people.

This should be interesting.

Tassel Malfunctions

Yep, there's me fourth from the right in the front not throwing my cap because I couldn't get the tassel off. Sometimes I question the Ivy League acceptance. But hey, I GRADUATED!

And now I shall knit.

I'M BACK!...and I have a shameless plug.

I've out-nerded myself once again. I'm doing a Shakespeare-themed yarn club as a last hoorah before I go off to college. The club will last three months and will include sock yarn and some stitch markers, and it should be a ton of fun! More info can be found here.

Aside from that, I don't have much to talk about. I finished school last Friday, but graduation isn't until the 28th, so mostly I've been trying to relax and start getting ready for college. I already met my pre-major adviser, peer adviser, and RA via email, and I got my roommate assignment a few weeks back. She's really cool, and she wants to learn how to knit!

I've decided to set a knitting goal for this summer, since my knitting goal last summer was, well...just a little unattainable (Ravelympics, first sweater/really big project, giant summer assignment...yeah, that didn't work out). This summer I am F-ing Os. That's finishing objects. Get your minds out of the gutter. I'm also going to try to blog more, especially since I hope to get into writing more in college, and I figure writing little bits about knitting isn't a terrible place to start.

Pithy

I've always loved those pithy little blog posts people do on the fly just because they feel like sharing. So here it is. This is my pithy blog post. Um...

Yarnal Desires

RogueNineteen (2:12:13 AM): my carnal desire for yarn
Pythagoras116061 (2:12:19 AM): oooh, carnal
RogueNineteen (2:12:20 AM): would eliminate all other emotions
RogueNineteen (2:12:24 AM): yarnal?

My grandpa died this morning. After about three years of terrible sickness that transformed him from the 78-year-old man who beat 35-year-olds at tennis into someone who could not walk, could not swallow, and could not leave his bed, he is finally not suffering any more. I love him with all my heart, and right now I'm just too sad to be thinking about Project 365, which will return as soon as everything has settled down.

I intended to write more, but I don't know if I really have much to say right now. Thanks, everyone, for reading, and I'll be back with more pictures soon.

I had a bad day.

Family stuff.

Project 365 will return tomorrow (today, actually) with a backdated entry that includes a photo I took on the 5th and/or a photo of an art project I finished on the 5th that used a photo I took that day.

Project 365 1/5/09

A little late, but here it is. This is just a part of a mixed media piece that I did (perhaps I'll share a picture of that later!). I'm not crazy. I know there's no yarn there.

Project 365 1/4/09

Photo of the bread my mom and I made today that I'm painting for AP art. Proooobably not going to be done on time. *snoooore*



P.S. I'm totally cheating. It's actually 2:41 AM on the 5th, but I forgot to post earlier. I did take the photo on the 4th though!

Project 365 1/3/09

This picture is kind of a cop-out. All it is is a slightly blurred (lighting was bad, and I don't have a tripod) photo of my physics homework and some of the knitting I've done today. On the left is my basic sock with a short row heel using Yarn Zombie DK weight yarn in the colorway Highway 9, which I looooooooooooooooove, and a teeny tiny sweater called Cheers made in a random sample of yarn from a dyer, but I don't recall which one. Technically it's supposed to be a Christmas ornament, but I don't celebrate Christmas, so it's just a tiny sweater. It'd be neat if I could find a way to use them as swatches. It'd be wayyyy more fun than knitting rectangles every time I wanted to figure out gauge...not that I ever knit a whole swatch (except when I'm making an actual sweater).

Project 365 1/2/09

Here's a picture of the drawing I did today instead of going to the Penn meetup like I had planned (long story). It needs some finishing up, and the photo isn't great because I mostly took it to ask a friend for input, but it is what it is.

Project 365 1/1/09

A photo a day keeps the...

never mind.

This year I will be taking at least one photograph every single day and posting it to the blog. It may be artsy, or it may be a snapshot, but at the end of the year I want to have a set of 365 photos that will essentially cover all of 2009. I think this will be a bit of a challenge, seeing as this year will be very busy, but I also think it'll be really fun and worth while, and it might even provide inspiration for my artwork.

I'll come back to this entry later in the day once I have my photo.

(Later) Here it is! I meant for this to be a simple photo of some of the yarn I dyed today, but I wasn't paying attention to my camera settings and it came out all...uh, interesting!