House Arrest

Miscellaneous Progress

I know I still owe everyone the transfer story. I started writing it yesterday and realized that it's pretty long so I'll write it up over the weekend. There are a few funny moments in it and I laugh every time I think about the absurdity of the process we've been going through. The end result, though... Well, we all know this will all be worth it if everything goes right.

My co-worker (the one of the two that know) keeps asking me if I feel pregnant. Well... I kinda did and now I don't. A lot of pre-menstrual symptoms are similar to pregnancy ones, but all the symptoms I was having -- and that were reassuring me in thinking that everything took -- seem to have completely disappeared over the last day or two. Let's just say that I'm very discouraged right now.

The only two things that seem to be lingering are the fatigue, sensitivity to smells and hunger/faintness. But these can be explained by normal, non-pregnancy related things. My fatigue could be caused by the crazy hours I work, I've always been a little sensitive to smells and I notice things more in the fall, and I always get dizzy if I wait too long before eating.

I can only hope and trust that the Sea Monkeys have settled in to their little 9 month sublet studio. Next Tuesday afternoon seems a decade away.

Anyway, without further ado, here are the progress pictures from this weekend's marathon knitting sessions that I've been promising:

Candle Flame Shawl:

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Gorgonian Shawl

Finished Over the Knee Sock:

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Finished Portland Pullover:

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Square the Circle Afghan:

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Grow little Sea Monkeys... I have so much to share with you...

Anticipation

Have I mentioned that the waiting is killing me? Or that I have googled "early pregnancy symptoms" a few more times than is good for me? That I'm seriously overthinking it? And, that I'm obsessed with looking at pregnant bellies? (They're everywhere.) Or that all I want to do is start casting on for baby sweaters and booties and bibs and... (I even found a knit along for expectant moms to be...)

I know I have to stop since I might be setting myself up for a huge bout of depression. But I can't help but hope and be hopeful... Here's to the power of positive thinking... and prayer.

Last night was night 3 of our office knit club. It was a MUCH smaller group (thankfully; I didn't have the energy for the usual 16 odd that show up) and we basically went over purling and started learning basic patterns. I taught seed, showed how cables were formed and briefly discussed ribbing. I was a bit all over the place with my teaching, but it worked out well. These ladies are sponges -- they want to know EVERYTHING about knitting, especially the advanced stuff.

I brought in all my weekend projects for a bit of "show and tell" and inspiration: the completed Portland Pullover, Fetching fingerless gloves and Over the Knee Sock, along with my Candle Flame and Gorgonian shawls and the finished first half of the Cabled Pocket shawl:

Much oohing and "I want to make that" ensued.

Tonight I have our regular Knit Club with my friends Kelly and Michelle. Kelly is working on her first lace project -- Silvia Harding's Faroese Peaks Shawl. Michelle is making pop-top fingerless gloves (the convert to mittens) from a Paton's pattern. I expect to work on one of my three shawls or to continue with the second of the Over the Knee Socks.

But what I would really like to do... is go out an buy the nicest organic cotton I can find... and cast on for a teeny weeny little jacket... But I won't...

Not yet. Not until I know for sure.