Various things have 'bumped into my happy' this week, and for some reason that I can't fully understand my brain has responded by going crazy with knitting ideas. It all started with these:
I had stared these before going home, and it occurred to me that they would make someone (not telling who!) a nice Christmas present, so I started cabling. The pattern is called Arwen fingerless gloves, and as I succumed to the magic of knitting stitches out of order, I began to ponder dwarven cables. Pretty soon I was designing this:
An Erebor hat! I have plans for dwarven fingerless gloves, but I'm making myself wait till this weekend (I'm off) to start playing with those. I liked the Arwen cable so much that I decided to add it to the sleeves of the shrug I'm working on.
Finally, as my 'mindless knitting,' I'm making another Baby Surprise Jacket in some of my favorite discontinued yarn.
Other than knitting there isn't much other news around here. Life continues on--I'm pretty busy with my classroom and students, and the end of term is beginning to loom. I've been trying to get all the music stuff finished up, and I guess I need to start writing the program for the Christmas music assembly. A teacher's work never stops!
Oh--I'm reading Frankenstein right now, and it is not at all what I was expecting. No electrodes, and lots of philosophy. Make me want to study the development of the Frankenstein monster now... Rather like Van Helsing, how did something that unexciting become what we think of today? I did my favorite covert dressing up trick--I wore a white rose and my locket to be a Jacobite. Happy Reformation Day!
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