For Gina

This is the first uterus that also has ovaries.. so feel very special. Really this is why you don't give medical students yarn at random hours of the night.... I started the uterus at 1 am finished at about 4 am. Now it's back to squares.

Addiction to squares

My new book

Tulip Lace in progress

Completed squares from this week... the psych patients stress me out a little, ok. I need to knit.

Birthday money

My sister sent me a Barnes and Noble gift card for my birthday. Well seeing as I own literally every book in the medical section, and I really don't think I am exaggerating with that statement, I decided to buy a new knitting book. Really you can never have too many books and you can never have too many books about knitting. I looked at the Vogue knitting stitch dictionary thing for a while but decided against it. There was a really nice pattern book based off lingerie type things, but I doubt I'd wear half the things, even if they were pretty. I finally chose the regular Vogue knitting book. It states on the front it is the ultimate knitting book... you can't go wrong with that. I really need to stop looking at the book and do some real work.....

More Sqaures.....

Check Pattern

Purled VT.. it comes out better in person than in picture.

Eyelet rib

Hunter's Stitch

Houndstooth Tweed

So far I've made 10 squares. I think I will work on the black Alpaca one.

Here are some pictures from Mosaic... look at all the squares coming in.

That is all for now.

Silliness

Yes I changed my profile picture to the knitted gallbladder... it makes me laugh. So now when I comment.. you too can have a knitted gallbladder on your page.

Squares!!

Two more squares done. Both are in two color brioche stitch, black and white, and maroon and orangy/yellow respectively. I have another square on the way -- two color houndstooth or something like that. I'll take pictures when it's done. Hopefully the squares will dry soon so I can un-pin them from the floor. (the color on the black and white one is off a little, but the flash kept the stitches from coming out in the picture)

Does this tree remind you of knitting? The leaves look like little I cords to me... maybe I knit too much. Oh well.

Oh and I hopefully should be recovering from the death (sinusitis/ear infection/upper respiratory infection) soon, I started antibiotic today. So my snotty nose, painful ear, sore throat hacking cough might be gone soon. :-)

Frogging

So the sporty little numbers vest fit horribly in the back. I took it to Mosaic so the knitting geniuses could rescue it. Well due to it's construction it could not be saved as is. Frogging is really no fun, all that time and hard work ripped out in just a few minutes. I had to take out everything but the front. The entire back was frogged to the ribbing. I think I am just going to rib the entire back so there doesn't have to be an entire reworking of the pattern. I am not sure if the vest will actually ever get done now. My schedule is not going to be real nice for the next year for massive amounts of knitting. I won't be living in the same place for longer than a month starting in August. This is my schedule as of right now. August - Norfolk, September - Farmington Connecticut, October -- Danville PA, November -- Blacksburg, December -- Hershey PA, January -- Florida, February -- Honduras, March -- Florida, April -- Blacksburg, May -- OFF (hopefully moving to my new residency), and then June -- GRADUATION!!! I really hope I actually finish it, i will be super cute when it's done.

I made 3 Hokie squares. One was a maroon and orange stripped square. Here is a picture of the fake cable one. It's really soft alpaca (Blue Sky). It's amazing all the varieties of the squares coming in. I hope we get all the squares we need. I know I'll me making more, especially this month.

Here's a picture of pretty yarn. It's Be Sweet yarn. I think I wrote about it already. I am not sure what I am making with it... but it's just nice to look at. I think I have a yarn obsession.

I will leave you with a Panda picture from the National Zoo... because who doesn't love Pandas?