This week has been super busy, now that I have classes sorted out, and the Uni has all their stuff sorted out too. I have at least 2 linguistic talks to go to every week, and every second week it's 3. Plus I have lots of reading to do, and questions to answer for readings I do. Everything right now is really go go go. But I've done all my reading for Tuesday, and I hope I can actually go to the wool store tomorrow, as I really want some new wool. I started working on a scarf last Monday at KnitSoc.
It's just an 8ply, Alpaca wool (of some type, I bought it in Germany), and I'm just doing rows of treble (double for Americans) stitch. I've got through an entire ball now and it's looking quite good. It might be a bit short, but I don't really feel there's much I can do about it. I'm hoping to actually do some knitting as well soon, because there's something quite infectious about being surrounded by knitters. Knitting is like a hidden passion - quite hidden - because every now and again, I just really feel the need to knit. I don't really understand why, as crochet is easier (for me) and far far quicker.
Still, the ability to make something is always nice.
But my nails! I still only have 3 colours to play with, so I have to be a bit creative if I want to avoid just 10 nails the same colour. Not that there's anything wrong with that, and I'm sure at some point they will all be painted the same colour, but right now I'm still trying to mix it up a bit. So I did a bit of eeny meeny miny mo this morning, and put the colours together to see which I liked best. I had already decided on a bit of a classic 'split' design. One nail, 2 different colours. I considered polka dots, but they can get messy and look awful. So I went with this instead - and I think I chose the right colours...
And now for the final test I do, to see if ut reakkt worked. Sorry the lighting is so bad, by the way, I don't get much natural here - at least, not when the sun isn't shining.
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