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Knitting project roll call

1. Socks (three pairs). The sock muse is still AWOL. The Drawer of Languishing Knits holds half a Silja sock, a near-complete Kroy Double Diamond for my dad, and one and a half Scrapbuster Spirals (with an end-of-the-month deadline for the Six Sox Knitalong).

2. MWAH! I started one sleeve and got just a little farther than the first major cable repeat. I love knitting this, but I think I'll keep it as my long-term in-the-background project.



3. The Neck-'n'-Arms. I'm using Cascade 220 and dpns, and the dpns are slowing me down! I couldn't find my bamboo dpns so I had to go and buy a set of Susan Bates, and they're so heavy. I knit on this baby last night on a reality-TV jag (The Amazing Race, and hey, does anyone else watch The Big Break on, ahem, the Golf Channel? We’re hooked). Now I have a 16-inch tube of 3-by-3 ribbing. I have to finish this tube, and then knit another tube, and then knit a bigger tube. The only reason I'm actually going to do this is the Adorability Factor of the finished product.



4. Cherry Garcia. No yarn in the stash for it, but I must must must knit this.

5. Koigu cowl. Also in the DLK (Drawer of Languishing Knits). I have made progress, though; last week I finally ripped the Koigu sock and washed the yarn so I can actually continue knitting the cowl. But geez, it's boring.

I won't even subject you to the lengthy Schoolwork Roll Call. At least in a program like Media Studies, you can write about pretty much anything as long as you can tie it to theory; for my Social Uses of Spectacle class I'm writing a paper on tattooing and Bakhtin's notion of the carnivalesque. Of course, it just makes me want to go under the needle myself...