I had a great day yesterday. I started doing research for my thesis proposal, searching for sources that will help me put together a proposal about tabloid newspapers (i.e., the "gutter press") published in Canada during the postwar period. After spending nearly the last year (!) chafing against my comps, spending just one day doing library searches related to crime and deviance, media, and the 1940s and '50s felt like settling into a comfortable favourite sweater -- maybe a merino/alpaca blend, a little too big, and, um, with lots of traditional cables. (I'm just trying to help you with a visual. So the sweater is ecru, too. And it looks really good on me. :) I still have to defend my comps, so there's still a small cloud over my head, but I can mostly move on now, and I'm very happy about it. Finally, my own work.
Before getting back to work yesterday, I spent a few days sewing! I set up my machine and retrieved all those little triangles I'd cut out before Christmas (from this fabric), and I sewed them together. I now have the 14 strips done, and once I sew the strips together I'll have a finished Flock of Triangles quilt top! I also went out and bought solid yellow for the binding and a medium grey solid for the back -- but I forgot to buy the batting (duh). I'm planning to quilt this one by hand, so once I put the quilt sandwich together it will probably be a while before it's actually a quilt. Once I get the top together, I'll take some pictures -- I really like how it looks.
It's a beautiful day today, and a friend is coming over later so I can show her how to turn a heel. Another sock knitter is born! How many points do I get?