HNT: It’s Getting A Little Cold Down Here…

As we head into cooler weather down here on the underside of the planet, I’ve cranked out my knitting again.

I started some arm warmers last year, and a week or so ago, I finally finished them and thought they’d be a perfect subject for this week’s Half-Nekkid Thursday:

I’d just like to note, that these were a complete “make-it-up-as-you-go” job, I didn’t use a pattern, and I’m really stoked with the way they came out

I originally bought the wool with the intention of only doing the arm warmers and a matching scarf, but the arm warmers didn’t take as much wool as I thought they would, and the scarf is getting really long!! So I decided to make myself a beret, using this pattern. Unfortunately, I must have had the gauge off (probably using the wrong size needles), and it finished huge!!

I ended up having to stitch up some of the ribbed band so it would actually fit on my head. I’ve decided I’m going to attempt it again, this time only casting on 110 stitches to start with, instead of 128. I certainly have more than enough wool left, I don’t know what I was thinking when I bought so much.

I’ll post more pics once I finish the second one, along with pics of the scarf once it finally gets finished

It only took me a day and a half to complete, and I certainly learnt things along the way, like how to knit with circular needles and how to make a round, how to increase stitches, how to decrease stitches by knitting two together (K2tog), and what an I-cord is and how to make one. Of course, I also learnt what all the crazy looking abbreviations mean. Yay, learning!!

You really should go have a look at the comic I posted when I first got into knitting last year *nods*

The Lure of the 360

I’m still hanging about, just have had much of my time taken up with Dragon Age II (thanks to J for my birthday), shopping, family gatherings and thinking about doing my set readings for University.

Everything is slowly getting back to normal following the shut down of the university due to the 22 February earthquake, Sociology and History f2f lectures have restarted, and Philosophy has set up lectures via “distance learning”. My Political Science paper doesn’t start back until after the mid-semester break.

And now it’s back to the killing of dragons (and other such evil characters).

It’s My Birthday!!

Now that I’m 26, I still feel a lot closer to 20 than 30.

That is all

On A Side Note…

…look what the nurse did to me yesterday while taking blood:

No wonder it hurt like a bitch!! It was seriously the most painful blood test I’ve ever had.