So after starting my serious crafting blog www.madchessqueen.blogspot.com (check it if you want to keep track of my serious crafting endeavours, but it's always a bit too daunting to update so I haven't done that in a while - yep, I know, fickle), I decided that my knitting and crochet projects do not belong there since they are usually performed as space fillers (such as the lectures of the classes I am TAing). Also, I wanted to have a link to my blog on ravelry.com. I suppose my ultimate hope is that this blog will encourage me to actually finish my projects and comment on the stuff I am working on at present. Yay - exciting. I can't say I promise lots of excitement, my complicated knitting is rarely original, I only learned to use complicated patterns and knit lace last fall when I decided I was too poor to buy Christmas presents (all the money was spent on a ticket to England to spend the holidays with my now fiancé's family) and my yarn stash was reaching ridiculous proportions... to the extent to which I am storing it in many IKEA wicker baskets that conveniently fit into a bookshelf and two wire fishing baskets that I bought at the central market in Chisinau. So there. The yarn had to go, I had no money (well I still have no money since we're saving for the wedding so I'm still trying to 'make' the presents I give away), how do they say it in English, necessity is the best teacher, something like that "nevoia invata pe om", for those who read Romanian (NO we do not speak MOLDOVAN in Moldova, we speak Romanian, a ROMANCE language, not a Slavic one and NO, I am not Russian, although I speak it, and no I never spoke it at home). So when I heard about knittinghelp.com and discovered that they have instructions for continental knitting as well, I rejoiced and ventured to more complicated patterns. This resulted in two scarves for my fiancé's grandparents and a shawl for my mother-in-law to be. Well, I suppose I should return to my graduate adventures in Adobe Illustrator and work on my paper figures/ prepare for the review session I am having with my students tonight.
