I’m not going to write about why I don’t write more today. I’ll save that for when I get my camera back.
Instead I’ll present you my newest obsessions.

First of all, school. Sometimes I love it, sometimes I want to chew off my own fingers in boredom.
We finally started dealing with the Dewey system. I’ve been looking forward to that for some weeks now. Things are getting a bit more serious. Unfortunately this means I have to start handing in papers as well, in almost all of my classes. Including those I don’t want to do

Second is the tv-show Heroes.
It’s awesome (!!!) and season two just launched!

Third, I’m trying to be social, trying hard. It’s not that I don’t like it, but years with depression have made this a bit hard. Realising that I’m probably not going to get completely well and dealing with stuff now is hard. But I have to do it.
Or move to a small farm in the mountains with some sheep (I’m still considering it).

Fourth, the newest Terry Pratchett book “Making money” got to the Norwegian stores today… ooops.

The new knitty is up!
And, it has the sollution to my problem of finding a hoodie pattern with Roam.

Let me say it like mutts does: Yesh!

(Neiman got my attention as well)

Before I even start the post, go here to be in the same mindset as I am right now.

I think knitting is one of the healthiest things I’ve ever started doing.
Why?
Because of, after years and years of trying to make my body fit my clothing. After spending a large part of my teens as a very hungry person I now find that I don’t have to.
I can make my own and be happy with them. The confidence of knowing this is one of the things that enabled me to go shopping for some new pants the other day.

For most people, shopping for pants is a big nothing of an event. But for me, personally, it’s something I just don’t do anymore. Not after I started getting better. After I started eating again. Knowing that I no longer can fit into the smallest size has felt like failure for too long.

But this time I tried on a sweater in the store first. It looked terrible on, but that’s not the point. The point is in fact that I knew why the sweater didn’t look good on me, and that it wasn’t my fault. The store messed up enough to make a hip length cabled sweater in heavy cotton. Of course it looks like crap.
If they messes up like that when it comes to sweaters, they must do it with pants as well, they must mess up the shape completly sometimes there, not just in the sweaters.

The fact is that clothing companies mess up all the time. They make clothing for the kind of person I was when I was starved out of my mind. Stuff actually fit in that time.
The problem with mass production is that the human body isn’t mass prodused in a standard formula. The hip-waist ratio is different, freakishly so.
In the same way that handknitters discover how poorly store bought socks fit, they will eventually discover it in other clothes as well.

I’ve seen this around before, but took it now from Damnknit’s blog

Mark with bold the things you have ever knit, with italics the ones you plan to do sometime, and leave the rest.

• Afghan
• I-cord
• Garter stitch
• Knitting with metal wire
• Shawl
• Stockinette stitch
• Socks: top-down
• Socks: toe-up
• Knitting with camel yarn
• Mittens: Cuff-up
• Mittens: Tip-down
• Hat
• Knitting with silk
• Moebius band knitting
• Participating in a KAL
• Sweater
• Drop stitch patterns
• Knitting with recycled/secondhand yarn
• Slip stitch patterns
• Knitting with banana fiber yarn
• Domino knitting
• Twisted stitch patterns
• Knitting with bamboo yarn
• Two end knitting
• Charity knitting
• Knitting with soy yarn
• Cardigan
• Toy/doll clothing
• Knitting with circular needles
• Baby items
• Knitting with your own handspun
• Slippers
• Graffiti knitting (knitting items on, or to be left on the street)
• Continental knitting
• Designing knitted garments
• Cable stitch patterns
• Lace patterns
• Publishing a knitting book
• Scarf
• Teaching a child to knit
• American/English knitting
• Knitting to make money
• Buttonholes
• Knitting with alpaca
• Fair Isle knitting
• Norwegian knitting
• Dying with plant colors
• Knitting items for a wedding
• Household items
• Knitting socks (or other small tubular items)on two circulars
• Olympic knitting
• Knitting with someone else’s handspun yarn
• Knitting with dpns
• Holiday-related knitting
• Teaching a male how to knit
• Bobbles
• Knitting for a living
• Knitting with cotton
• Knitting smocking
• Dying yarn
• Steeks
• Knitting art
• Knitting two socks on two circulars simultaneously
• Fulling/felting
• Knitting with wool
• Textured knitting
• Kitchener BO
• Purses/bags
• Knitting with beads
• Swatching
• Long Tail CO
• Entrelac
• Knitting and purling backwards
• Machine knitting
• Knitting with self patterning/self striping/variegating yarn
• Stuffed toys
• Knitting with cashmere
• Darning
• Jewelry
• Knitting with synthetic yarn
• Writing a pattern
• Gloves
• Intarsia
• Knitting with linen
• Knitting for preemies
• Tubular CO
• Freeform knitting
• Short rows
• Cuffs/fingerless mits/armwarmers
• Pillows
• Knitting a pattern from an online knitting magazine
• Rug
• Knitting on a loom
• Thrummed knitting
• Knitting a gift
• Knitting for pets
• Shrug/bolero/poncho
• Knitting with dog/cat hair
• Hair accessories
• Knitting in public
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And then I’m off to bed (I hate getting up 7 in the morning for school, it’s half past midnight and it feels like it’s way to early).

Oh, and I joined Secret of the Stole.

Tags: knit, knitting in public, lace, meme, shawl, socks, toe-up sock, wool, yarn

I’m a total n00b when it comes to spinning. I swear.

It’s funny, kind of, not knowing what to do, but just looking at pictures and videos and trying (or failing more often it feels like).
But I expected it, I know how it is to learn something. One day you pick up a drop spindle, the next you want a wheel even though you’re not able to “talk” spinning yet.

Hm… but I like it, I bought some wool, crap wool, and tried first. A miserable thing, not quite yarn at first. Then I had used that up and needed some more.
So I got some merino for cheap, and tried again. Pink and yellow merino. So the small ball of yarn in the picture is the first “yarn” I ever made.
Hideous, but I love it.

Before I finished that I got some roving via the Lime & Violet shop and has already starting converting it from it’s pristine shape and into overspunn spindle made yarn