The best-laid plans...

This summer, I set up some lofty goals for myself in the knitting and reading realms. As the semester dwindled, I bought myself a nice shiny new book each pay-period as motivation to get through to summer. It's exciting to have a lot of time to read, as I love to do it and have very little time during actual school months. I even went to the big beautiful built-in-2007 library on Friday and picked up five more that I want to read (mostly short stories this time, while the others were mostly novels). So I really need to get cracking....it's just that Ravelry is such a magical invention, it sucks away all my time!

Finishing that baby sweater also took a bit, though not too much. I knew baby sweaters were small, but I never realized how fast the whole thing would go! I recently finished the first Pomatomus sock, and now I just have to make the second (SSS, me? Nah...). But I also got some KP Essential in gray from a fellow Raveler (five bucks! super-cool) for some birthday present socks, with a planned giving date of September. So those should get started soon too, as I am a rather slow knitter. And I have to make something for Starbucks & Yarn soon, when I get the details of my partner. And I have some Ultra Alpaca (rav) that I sweaterified last summer and de-sweaterified pretty recently, waiting for inspiration and super-fast fingers to strike.

So I have a lot to get done, and not a ton of time in which to do it. New pics next post, I promise.

Some things just aren't for me...

I gave the baby sweater to its intended recipient on Thursday, and she liked it a lot. I'm glad that she decided to keep working so close up to her due date, as it enabled me to finish the sweater in a comfortable amount of time--and of course this way she doesn't get too bored before the baby comes.

Having babies is a crazy thing. Two years out of high school, I know a lot of girls who graduated with me have already had kids--some intentionally. I know I could certainly not handle a child at this age, and I'm pretty sure it's not that I'm immature. I know, decades ago, it was common for an 18-year-old woman to have a kid or two already. However, now the average marriage age is 27, which sounds like a much more reasonable time for me to be having kids. For now I'll just make a nice quick easy sweater for those who want a more permanent cute thing in their lives.

Then again, I really want a puppy.

Starting up again

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Today I finished off a baby sweater I had been making for my co-worker Amanda (Rav link). She and her hubby want to be surprised on July 8, in terms of the baby's gender, so I tried to make sure it was pretty neutral. I wrapped it up and brought it down to the softball field to give to her, because her husband was playing with his local team very close to the building where I'm living. It was cute, and I felt distinctly like a suburban soccer-mom type. Working in a real eye doctor's office for the summer has done a lot for making this 19-year-old feel a bit more like an adult.

Of all the projects I mentioned in the most recent real post (nearly a year ago), I finished zero of them. School is not amenable to getting knitting done. I'm currently working on some Pomatomus socks (Rav link) but I'm concerned about the gauge, they might end up a bit small for me. I'm conflicted, since I love the pattern and the yarn--I don't want to ruin the allure of either. But I also don't want to rip out a nearly-whole sock. Any suggestions???

I have gotten so into Ravelry and knitting this summer, including the Starbucks and Yarn swap (hello fellow *buxers!) so I wanted to really get into the blogging thing too. I read so many blogs that I feel I should give back to the 'sphere.