dashing through the slow

It's the end of the first full week of classes, back from Christmas break. That's accurate but not real. Classes started last Tuesday and, even though Monday was officially a holiday, I had to come into work. Still, this week has seemed a bit long. I'm not sure why that is. I stayed up way too late last night reading. Sleep deprivation may have something to do with it.

I've been working on a cabled sweater. I should probably rip it out but I can't quite bring myself to do that. This yarn has already been half a sweater and gotten ripped back. Right now the problem is that the sleeves will be fairly narrow, not uncomfortable by any means but narrow, while the body will be fairly loose and boxy. It's not too late to narrow but body a little bit but better design would have been a better solution.

I've also been working on a pair of mohair socks but I think I'm going to give that up. The mohair has no elasticity at all. I think I should buy some appropriate yarn in a coordinating color and use the mohair as a lining or an accent or both. Too bad because it was knitting up pretty quickly.

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I think I like MovableType. It has some very nice features. We'll see how I feel about the archiving style although the categories and keywords will make the style of archiving much less important. Not to mention searchability.

I've created several additional categories, including nested ones. So now I'll write something about another topic, just so I can see how the multiple categories feature works.

So, there's knitting.
I don't have much time to knit so things take me forever. I learned to knit as a child and have gone through periods of knitting and periods of not knitting. I started again two or three years ago and I vowed that I'd take my time and really make things that fit and are wearable. Mostly I've done that. The current WIP (work in progress), a cabled raglan sweater based on the Hamefarin Raglan, doesn't fit perfectly but I'm tired of messing with it and just want to get it done. There are so many things I want to knit and so little time.

I'm also working on a pair of mohair socks. Well, the yarn is actually a mohair blend. These are either going to be brilliant or a complete disaster.

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