The Georgia Knitter’s Blog

Hello, Readers.
Well, I just spent over $20 on yarn yesterday. Woohoo! I got some more yarn for my current prayer shawl. I just started my 2nd of the 3 skeins I bought in the beginning and I’m nearly done the first ½ of the shawl, so I bought 2 more skeins just to be on the safe side. And I also bought 6 skeins of Vanna’s Choice for my next shawl.
My next shawl is going to be of my own design probably. It’s going to have 2 colours. I bought 3 skeins of Vanna’s Choice in each colour. Those colours are Antique Rose and Dusty Purple. I’m going to come up with a lace pattern that I’ve never used and I’ll prolly use a provisional cast-on and make 2 triangles and seam them together as well. I’ll have a unique border as well.
So, one of my mom’s co-workers saw my finished Mock Cable Baby Cardigan the other day and she started bragging to everybody about how “cute the baby cardigan Ms Lowe’s daughter made” is and last week one of my mom’s other co-workers came up to her and offered to pay me for a baby boy’s cardigan. I didn’t want to work a pattern I’ve already done, so I started thinking and decided to use some of the techniques I’ve recently learned and some new stuff I’ve never done and came up with a brand-new pattern. I’ve got some cool techniques in it. Including the knit the sleeves first until halfway done them, put them on stitch holders until you’ve knit to the armholes of the body and then, knit the live sleeve stitches into the work and decrease as you go along. And carrying colour changes, which I’ve never done before. The body is worked in one piece and I stripe between mint green and baby blue. 4 rows of green and 2 rows of blue. It looks awesome so far. ^-^
I’m currently doing about a dozen things at this moment. I’m blogging, searching for shawl patterns and lace patterns, knitting the baby cardigan, winding Vanna’s Choice into balls, and roaming ravelry. Can you tell that I’m trying to distract myself from the drip-drip-dripping of the hole in my bedroom’s ceiling? It’s also not working. I’ve torn my arm apart this afternoon when I woke up and I’m trying not to right now. Well, I’m done winding the skeins into balls. Now what?
I just feel like going to sleep for the next 50 years.
One of my best friends, Britty, called me up. We were talking and she said she didn’t want to go to classes tomorrow (college), and I’m sitting here thinking, “well, gee when I was 5 years old, I had it all planned out that I’d be in my 4th year at Harvard’s Law Program. Now, I’m nothing.” Yeah, and I was smart enough too. But my Pre-Algebra teacher in 8th grade messed that up for me by harrassing me bc I was a tomboy and she wasn’t a Y Chromosone friend. So I gave in and told myself that I can’t do math. I mean, sure, I’ve always had issues with math thanks to discalculia and all, but at least I was trying. But after that I pretended I was dumb and eventually threw away my math knowledge and then High School came along and well, it’s all over.
Harvard doesn’t take GEDs. I was going to be someone. And now, I’m nobody. I mean, really, does anybody even read this blog?
If I don’t blog again anytime soon, I may have killed myself. Or I’ve been locked away for trying to. Or I’ve just quit.
Au revior. Bon nuit.