It's amazing how fast September blew by. After the engagement party, things kind of took off.
I started back at the dance studio, which is 3 nights a week (before I schedule my solos/duos/trios). I'm loving being back, though it's a hard thought to know that I have half a dozen or so seniors graduating this year. I'm firmly ignoring that thought until at least May, though I have to start planning senior gifts now (lotta knitting this year- uffda!).
One of my old college friends got married a week after the engagement party. My house that weekend became a gathering place for old college roommates, and it was amazing!
I haven't seen a lot of those awesome folks in awhile, and it was a ton of dancing, movies, talking, laughing, and late nights. I loved every minute of it!
I spent the following weekend at the Sandstone Climber's Festival, hanging out with old friends and meeting new ones! It felt really good to stretch my muscles, sleep in a tent under the stars, and find some new projects to thrash myself on!
(Pic is of my friend Katie working Sigma, a 5.12 line that I haven't touched in 3 years, but I'm going to jump on it first thing next week!)
I'm going to be heading to Sandstone next week a few times to hopefully project some routes, and I couldn't be more excited to actually work hard and push myself!
I also was appointed to be the faculty adviser for my school's honor society, which is great- more face-time with students! I'm also now going to start teaching 4 credits at my old University in October, so my schedule is about to get super crazy!
Throughout all of this, I've been trying to keep up my knitting, and been mildly successful.
Case in point- a long-standing project that's been idling at the bottom of my knitting drawer finally got finished a week ago- my Late Night Grading handwarmers for my chilly office!
Pattern: Carrie Handwarmers by Doris Chang
Yarn: Malabrigo Rios in Archangel
Needles: Size 6 DPN's, bamboo
Timeframe: March 3-Sept 23
Mods: I knit in the round instead of flat, and to get a thumb, I added a 12-stitch thumb gusset. I kept the gusset in the moss-stitch that the rest of the pattern asked for.
Worst Part: This took way too long to make. I shouldn't have let them languish. Also, when I finished, because I was eyeballing the entire thing, I knit one slightly shorter than the other. It's only visible when you lay the handwarmers side by side, but it'll still both me just a little.
Best Part: I love that I finished these in time to wear with fall colors, and I love the way they look when stretched out on my hands!
I'm actually really excited about the next post- I finally have some underwater pictures to share from my recent diving adventures! :)
Until then... more knitting, lots of grading, lots of choreographing, and lots of snuggling with these guys... :)
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