I have been busy planning lessons and trying to get all of my assignments for school done ahead of time. There are at least 2 assignments due each week from now until the end of February. Last weekend I took the RICA, which is a test about teaching and assessing student reading. They give you 4 hours to take the test. I am usually a pretty fast test taker, but this one took me 3 HOURS!!! And I was only the third person to leave my testing room. Super long! I felt so burnt out after that.
I finally finished my STR last night. I finished the first sock on 2/2, but took a little longer to finish the second sock (SSS much?). Here they are:
After I finished the first sock, I only had this much yarn left:
So I need to explain. Since I don't own a swift (see previous post) my yarn ended up getting into a big knot halfway through winding it. I ended up make one ball that was a little smaller than the second ball of yarn. I used the smaller ball to make the first sock. When I finished the sock, the above picture is how much yarn I had left of that ball. So, if it hadn't worked out, I still would have had more yarn, BUT who wants to join a new ball of yarn at the very tip of the toe??? The yarn gods were smiling on me that day.
I paid for it on the second sock though. I finished knitting the foot and realized that somehow I had an extra three stitches. This wouldn't be a huge deal, but the color pattern on the socks didn't match and the second sock was a little wider, so I had to frog about 1.5-2 hours worth of knitting. Oh well. At least they match now.
Next weekend, the family is going to Tahoe to play in the snow. I am now working on a beanie for myself that will look like this:
With this yarn:
