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YOP: Week 34

     My beads and yarn have arrived for the Boo Knits Halloween MKAL.  I'm very impressed with how fast the yarn arrived from Dye for Yarn which is in Germany.  It was shipped on the 19th and I received it yesterday.  I've never knit with Tussah Silk before so I'm excited to try something new.

My fancy edited photo of the yarn.

Raw photo with Edi supervising.  I believe she approved of the new yarn acquisition.


    I decided to use my leftover yarn from Killer Queen Cowl to make some "companion" fingerless mitts.  I used the Drops of Spring pattern as my base pattern.  I've used it several times before with Mal Rios, so I knew it worked well.  I designed as I knit, so the mitts don't match each other, but that wasn't my intention anyway.  The cowl pattern is knit flat, and the mitts are in-the-round, so I had to do a little figuring out to make the stitch patterns work out.  Overall, it was fun, so I may experiment a little further to get matching mitts, then jot down a semblance of a pattern.


    My class didn't start on Monday after all.  The professor didn't have the course set up in Brightspace.  I think there may have been a last-minute change to who was teaching the course, I'm not sure of details, but on Wednesday there was information, finally, that she had to set everything up and we would be starting tomorrow instead.  I looked today and I have access to the first few chapters of the textbook, so I've started reading.  This pre-req is my last required coursework for the program.  The other 6 credits I need are electives, so I'm really looking forward to getting this class out of the way.  I think though, Interpersonal Communication will actually help me in my future and the first chapter of the textbook made it sound interesting, so there's that. 

    I think that's about it for me.  I acquired a stationary bicycle a few weeks ago, so I've been trying to do a 30-minute session each day for the last few days.  The down-side of having a job where I don't run my butt off the entire shift is that I need to be active outside of work instead.  I've been slowly gaining weight since I came back home, so I need to do something.  

Until later.  Happy crafting.

-Q  

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  1. MaureenHDAugust 25, 2024 at 9:03 PM

    Your silk yarn is beautiful!! Let me the color too. What a joy it will be to knit with it. Best wishes as class starts up again. Congrats on any exercise you get. I'm terrible at being consistent with exercise.

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  2. AnonymousAugust 26, 2024 at 3:32 AM

    Ooh that yarn is so pretty. Good to hear the class has finally started. There are some good YouTube people who do stationary cycling classes that are short and have good music, of course my stationary bike has become a clothes horse. 😂

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  3. ROOcmcAugust 29, 2024 at 3:25 PM

    Oooh! I knit a shawl with Dye for You Tussagh Silk a couple years ago. Yummy! I love the color!

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