I'll Never Win a Blog Award

Man, I've been knitting and stuff, but my camera KILLS batteries like nobody's business. I got some rechargeables and even with those, they die after maybe an hour of using the camera, and then I'm too lazy to recharge them. So I'll just wait until I have another FO, which will be God knows when, to post pictures.

I ran out of the yarn I was using to make my Ruffled Surplice, and I'm almost certain that the yarn I ordered will be of a noticeably different dyelot. I'm thinking that it won't be a big deal, since I finished the body pieces and will only be doing the sleeves and the ruffle in the other dyelot, which might end up looking neat. Worse comes to worse, I wash and dry the thing and the colors will all fade away. I really wish I'd gotten the potpourri color, even though beige looks awful on me (it matches my skin tone! Yaaaay!).

I'm stalling on the Alexandra top because the sleeve instructions do not work for someone with stumpy little arms like me. I've decided to make them long sleeves instead of the 3/4 like the model has in the book because I've already bought enough yarn to do so, and a sweater that warm might as well have long sleeves (this is also how I feel about the Spicy V-Neck, but I'm going to try and find a thicker cotton blend or something. Maybe I'll get a cotton blend yarn and then just recalculate the pattern for a smaller gauge. Yeah, we'll see how that goes).

I've just bought yarn for the Bulky Mini Cardigan as well, which I can't wait to start. If Alexandra was (mostly) a quick knit for me, the Mini Cardi should be even quicker. I love Stefanie Japel's patterns; of the three sweaters I've actually finished, two are hers. I wish I'd bought the wool-ease chunky that was on sale at Hobby Lobby last week, because I've got another of her patterns I really want to make (the bulky cabled sweater or something). However, no more yarn for me. The yarn I bought for the Mini Cardi was basically so I could make ANOTHER skein of yarn in my stash go away.

Oh, by the way, I will be blogging from St. Louis now, as I have returned to the gateway to boredom and allergies (not to mention humidity HOLY SINUS TROUBLE, BATMAN) to finish college. ONE MORE SEMESTER and then I never have to come here ever again. I think I'm getting sick from the location change. Glorious.

Edit: Oh yeah, I finished the Booga Bag, but my camera batteries were dead. Then I gave the bag to my mom. Expect pictures in November if I ever get around to it. I've also got a Kureyon-Chan hanging around somewhere in my house that is 300 miles away from where I currently live. Augh, I hate college.