Who knew? Who ever knows, actually. Our hotel doesn't have free wifi -- it has wifi, yes, but you must pay $10 a day for it. One of the high schools where the tournament is being held at (which was the one everyone's elimination rounds were being held at and also policy pre-elimination rounds were held at) has free guest wifi. Nowhere else does. I did pay for one day of wifi, so here I am, blogging. Today I'm just bumming around the hotel because I don't have to do anything! So nice. I've bought more books (thanks to my disease), but more importantly, last night I bought yarn.
My first impulse to buy yarn was centered around the desire to do something nice for my boyfriend, who recently has bought me a lot of gifts. I figured I'd knit him a proper sweater, seeing as the EPS raglan, on forethought, was icky. Not to mention, due to my lapses in attention, it had a few mistakes in it that were very noticeable. It's frogged officially now on Ravelry. I think my next sweater for him will be the Seamless Hybrid, which seems to look nice on a man. I ordered eleven 50g balls of KnitPicks Wool of the Andes in Thyme, which I think is a nice muted color and pretty classy for someone who can't wear anything with blue dye.
Also! I bought yarn to make a hat and fingerless mittens for myself to go with the Heroine coat I plan on knitting. I'll get to knitting that coat someday... if I really apply myself, I could knit it in a week or two. It's knit in pieces and then seamed up and felted (shitshitshit)... I had better knit this before I go away to college, actually, because I can't imagine where I'd get the resources needed to felt anything in college. I refuse to do washing machine felting on my first try. I'd like my piece of knitting right where I can see it at all times, thank you!
And I also bought the best sock yarn ever. Wonderful stripes and colors and hues. I love knitting socks. The Blackrose socks are on hold right about now because I left the pattern for them at home and I'm working on the Falling Water scarf right now, and it's just positively lovely.
So yep. That's what I've been doing.
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