First of all, thanks to all who have entered my little contest! I’m so excited to see all my readers & some new ones too! You can still enter until Sunday night – it’s the entry below this one!
Even though I had a very busy week, I’ve been working on Cozy during those brief hours at home.
It’s looking pretty nice! I’m 9 inches into the body and going to about 17. It’s not the most exciting knit, but it’s good for those evenings when I don’t want to think. I don’t really have plans this weekend – CoffeeBoy is working on the wall of doom – the wall between our tiny living room & large dining room we decided to take down – and we don’t have a lot of money anyway. We might go on an actual date tonight, something we haven’t done in quite awhile, dinner & a movie. We’ll see.
But back to Cozy. I’m getting a little concerned about how much yarn I’m going through. I have 984 yards of Shamrock & the size I’m making calls for 810 – 945 yards (I’m making between sizes, plus I always have make the sleeves longer for my gorilla arms). Well I’m on the 6th skein of yarn – haflway – and I still have 8 inches to do on the body, plus the sleeves & neckline. Hmmm. I mean, it won’t be the end of the world if I run out – oddly my mom bought the exact same yarn on her first Knit Picks order a month or two ago and I think it’s the same dyelot. But still, I know how frustrated I’ll be if I get near the end and have to wait for my mom to send it to me!
In the non-knitting part of my life, I got some fun work news. I’m a temp at my current job, the company I work for has a big conference every year & my job is organizing all the data & talking to the sponsors to get info from them. A lot of my job is sitting at my desk waiting for people to email me back (which is why I could post from work yesterday, although I hate using Internet Explorer for things like that- I’m a Firefox girl!). In any case, I do love what I’m doing and the people I work for & with are fantastic. And yesterday I found out they really want me to go help at the conference, onsite – which is in Houston TX. So I get to fly to TX next month! This is a first for the company, I technically still work for the temp agency, but they may just keep me on at the company. Squee! Plus I’m excited to travel & see all my work through – I’ve never been to TX either. I won’t have much time to explore but hey I get to go somewhere. I wouldn’t even care where. And it’s warm there! So that’ll be fun, even if it’s during Valentines Day (not that CB & I are really into that) and during the Lowell Winterfest, which I was looking forward to. Sad.
So off to knit on Cozy some more & have a lazy Saturday!
January 19, 2008 at 6:22 am
Awesome! You never hear of temps getting to travel! That’s so cool!
January 19, 2008 at 7:34 am
Good luck with the yarn!
January 19, 2008 at 9:32 am
Great news about the work trip! Congrats, that sounds like fun.
I really like how the yarn is knitting up in the cozy sweater. I was attracted to the yarn when they introduced it, but I wasn’t sure about the color mixes. Yours looks great.
I always stress about yarn quantities when I knit sweaters, too. It usually works out. Good thing your mom has a little extra stash if you need it!
January 19, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Congrats on the job news!! Traveling for free is always a bit nice
The cozy is looking fantastic. Keeping my fingers crossed on the yarn!
January 19, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Cool on going on the trip, you must be doing an awesome job, hope they keep you! I have 2 skeins in dye lot 9058 if you’re desperate! Just LMK!
January 19, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Looking good. I bet the weather in Texas in February is much nicer than it is in Boston! Have fun!
January 20, 2008 at 5:29 am
OOh I always get twitchy when I am getting to the end of my yarn, even when I have enough! I say tell your mom to ahead and send you the yarn for your piece of mind and not to stall any of your progress, and if you don’t need it then send it back! No worries! ;o)
Hope y’all went on that date!
And that is wonderful they want you to go to TX!! Sounds like they want to keep you for perm!!
) I really liked Houston when I was there many moons ago!