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April 23, 2008

Now where have I been?

Do you ever get that feeling of "Wow, I have so much stuff to post, I don't feel like doing it now?" Then you put it off. THEN more stuff to post about occurs? Yeah, that's what's been happening. It's a vicious cycle.

I've been working the late shift for almost 2 months now, so I haven't been able to knit with the Quills ladies. That's not to say I haven't been knitting though. I've been knitting with Ally (Knittin' Baby) on Wednesdays at Eureka Joe's. We started knitting together after she posted on Ravelry. This past Sunday, I went out and knit with two more Ravelers and a third knitter. I'd met Debbie once at the Rav meet up at Grinny Possum, but just met Sharri for the first time. They are both on the River City Knitters group, but we all came to each others attention from other boards we are all members of.

We ended up knitting at Starbase Q, this really cool gay bar on Main St. Sundays are movie night, so were were able to knit, then watch Juno. There were other wacky antics, but I try to keep my blog fairly inoffensive, so you'll have to ask for the story.

In some knerdy-knitter knews, I'm going to DragonCon this Labor Day weekend. Kirstie goes every year, and I've want to go but haven't. I found the one thing that sold me on it though for this year - my favorite actor on Torchwood, Gareth David-Lloyd is going to be there. I'm going to bled up some fiber, spin it, and knit him a hat. I'm such a nerd.

I went to the Fiber Event in Greencastle with Nicole where we played co-enablers. Then next day, was the alpaca show with Nicole, Sonya, Becka, and Cheryl. Since I'd come in under budget at the Fiber Event, it was justification to buy at the show.

Now to the knitting and fiber-y portion... I'm not going to go into too much detail, because I'm lazy and there's LOTS to post.

First, I'm done with the body of the damn shawl, and I'm on the border! I have one side done so far!

Close up!

I finished the body of the baby sweater and the sleeves. I cut the steeks as well, not I just have to seem everything up and knit the edging and button band.

Some before steeking images...