In knitting:
Smash! It's been slow going, mostly because haven't been knitting but also because of the tiresome increases and decreases of the two rows. On row 1 you have two decreases and one increase and on row 2 you have three increases and one decrease. You repeat those two rows until you get to 100 sts. Just to make it a bit clearer, lets say you start with 5 stitches on the first row. On the second row you would have 7sts on the needles. The next row, you would have 6 sts. The row after that 8sts, and so on. You can see how that would take long, yes?
Currently, I am at 96 sts. There's light, light at the end of the tunnel. I'm so so close to 100 sts and then I can change to bigger needles.
No pictures, because it looks exactly the same as it did the last time I posted a picture. I will post new progress pics when I change yarns.
I've been craving hat knitting, which of course, led me to Ravelry, where I purchased Plum Tree Slouch by Alana Dakos. It's a vry cute hat-minus the rolled brim, which does not look good on me, so I did a 1x1 ribbing instead. I cast on using some Black Malabrigo Rios (<3) Which is hella staining my hands.
All the black, just like my cold, withered heart!
Except knitting only with black yarn, when there are so many lovely colours, would be super boring. And possibly hard on the eyes.
Some pictures of the Coldest Summer shawl:
In videogames:
I used to be a gamer. We had an Atari for a little while when I was 5ish, but I didn't play all that much. A few years later, we got a second hand Coleco vision and I played that whenever I could get it to work. Finally, we got a Sega,and a little game called Wonder Boy and I was hooked! Even more hooked when one of my brother's friends brought over a Nintendo and Super Mario Bros-oh man I loved me some Yoshi. I would stay home some weekends and play Sonic the Hedgehog or Shining Force (which is still in my top 5 favourite games of all time) instead of hanging with my friends-none of them played video games. Throughout my 20's, I played a lot of Playstation, and then xbox. Games like Silent Hill, Rock Band, GTA (in the top 5) Assasin's Creed and Fable. While also playing pc games like Summoner and The Sims (also top 5)
And then I hit my 30's, I got pregnant with my 4th child and learned to knit. Then, I had a high needs baby, who didn't sleep much and a new hobby. Plus three other kids. I didn't get addicted right away, but I started knitting more and more. Now I go through periods of just knitting. If I'm not knitting then I'm reading (my first love) or doing yoga. But every once in a while, I still hanker for some virtual killing. Which led to me installing Steam on my laptop. This is probably a huge mistake, because gaming has seriously cut into my knitting time (that was already seriously cut because of March Break) but Age of Empires (another top 5 game!) is just too good! I've been playing Age of Empires off and on since '99, and it is just as much fun now as it was then.
In Soapmaking:
I don't know if what I do is technically soap making, it's more like soap crafting, as I buy the melt&pour bases and add colours, essential oils, herbals/flowers etc.
For the second batch I used a goats milk m&p base (which is my favourite base) and used Tea Tree, Patchouli and Grapefruit essential oils and for the scrubby I used some bladderwrack-which, huge downside, has a slightly fishy smell. Or maybe I'm imagining it, I'll have to ask my people if they smell fishiness. I also added in some green mica, hoping to get a slight tint. It's a vry, vry slight tint. Like, barely noticeable tint.
And with that, March Break is over-back to school tomorrow for my boys, back to routine for everyone.
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