Back again

I'm back from a long absence (again), to tell you that I've been very busy with school. Haven't knit a thing, except a bit of the SWIII socks which I ended up having to frog because I messed up the pattern and then couldn't get gauge. I didn't get to kill anyone in this war, which is a shame but I got a pair of lovely socks from my assasin (in tofutsies!). Don't ask me who won or who gets the 60 skeins of Tofutsies, because I have no idea. Our fearless leader called for an early end to the war, but some people are still continuing... so who knows?

I am going back to Finland in about a day, which freaks me out a bit because I've gotten used to living in the Netherlands! But it'll be fun to go back home, I haven't been back even once. I've had fun but all good things must come to and end, I guess. There is a vest in the fall issue of Knitscene called 'Nederland vest', which is really pretty and that I might just have to knit to commemorate my time in A'dam!

I've found a new obsession btw: plurk! There are a lot of knitters there chattering away at the moment, why don't you join us?

Sock Wars III

I have signed up to do Sock Wars III, I liked doing SWII and I think this time will be even better! SWIII has it's own site, having to wade through the Yahoo-group to find out what was going on was not particularly fun. I didn't mind paying the 2$ membership fee, because if someone is jilted then the sock Valkyries can knit a pair for them.

I was thinking of using Tofutsies since SWTC is the official sponsor, but I couldn't find any local vendors. For all I know there's one down the street, but since I don't speak Dutch... I found some skeins on Ebay, but since none of them called out to me I ended up buying two skeins of Lorna's Laces Shepard Sock from a1lorraine. I love the purple and the socks should not be too girly if I should happen to be assigned a male target. The colours are a little bit darker in real life.

My newest knitting project is an adaption of Sesame from Magknits. I'm knitting it as a bottom up raglan and I'll add a hood, because I have a new found love of hoodies. I'm using a very cheap acrylic yarn, in silver and petrol. I've knit 1.5 sleeves so far, not so much because I love knitting sleeves but because I'm avoiding schoolwork. The next two weeks of school will be very busy though, so I probably won't get around to knitting the body of the sweater in a while.