Well, well, well.

Hello there.

A new account on Ravelry (I'm fleurdiabolique, if you're over there) has prompted me to think that maybe I should start trying to update the blog again. Sorry for the long absence. Life has eaten my free time. I am currently in a Master's degree program in English, which means I can have as much as 800 pages of reading in a week, and that's on top of now having to do things like cook and clean for myself (wooo apartment living) and having an increasingly active social/extracurricular life.

That doesn't mean that the knitting hasn't been moving along, however. :)

I've started doing much more knitting in my spare time. Since I wrote last, I've almost completed Tasha. All of the knitting is done; I've sewn a backing on the strap, and have seamed the cabled bits to the sides. So a bit more seaming, another block, adding a lining... and I'll have an official knitted knitting bag! (Pictures hopefully to come, but I make no guarantees; it's one thing to get myself to post regularly and quite another to actually dig out the camera and upload photos.)

I have also, as a side project/break from seaming, knitted Tudora, using the same yarn as I did for the Snakes and Ladders scarf. Right now it's waiting to be blocked and to have the button sewn on. Again, hopefully there will be pictures... but don't hold your breath.

And finally, as yesterday was my birthday and I will soon be in need of a new project, I went down to a LYS I'd never visited before (Commuknitty in San Jose, and it was AWESOME) and picked up a GORGEOUS skein of variegated-purple handpainted laceweight silk with which to make Juno Regina. It'll be my first time working with charts! We'll see if I need to write them out or not...

...aaand I think that's all the news for now. (As though that's not plenty!) Hopefully this won't be a one-time post before a lot more silence...