September is almost finished and I can't believe I haven't talked since the middle of August, so I will update you all on my life.
I've taken my first seminar for the
PMA program. The seminar is called Highlights in Luke and was
originally suppose to be finished in two 2.5 hour sessions. However, after 5 hours of class time we'd only made it through the first 8 books of Luke. We now have two more classes which the professor has kindly agreed to do for us, so we can hopefully make it farther through Luke. He's taught me so much so far about the time frame in which Luke is writing and how to read Luke more as you would a historical fiction than as a history book. This was a totally new perspective for me and I'm loving the seminary because so much is becoming clearer for me as I reread Luke.
I've been knitting for the past 6 weeks as well. I knit two pairs of socks as a test knitter for the
SassySheep podcast. The first pair was huge through the leg when knit according to her instructions. I decreased the number of stitches when I got to the foot or they would have slide right off my foot. I ended giving those socks away to someone who loved them more than I did.
After giving my ideas back to the designer, I tested knit another pair using her rewritten pattern for those of us who have narrower feet and legs. I like them better, but I think the pattern needs some more work.
Added to this I started on (and nearly finished a
girasole shawl). I thought I'd have enough yarn for the pattern since it called for 1050
yds and I had 1400
yds. However, I ran out a foot shy of finishing the lace border. The shawl is now sitting and waiting on me to decide how I want to redo it. I'll probably take out the entire lace border and one row of the last pattern and then
re-knit it using a size smaller circular needle.
I've also knit the shawl from the most recent
spinoff, making it narrower to be a scarf using two strands of two different colors of lace yarn. I found as I knit this, that it was
DS1's colors, so now I'm trying to find yarn in this colorway, so I can knit him socks.
At the beginning of September I joined a mystery sock
kal and finally finished and posted those socks on that blog. I'd started the socks and then volunteered to do the test knitting for the sassy sheep. Hence, the socks were off the needles for awhile as I test knitted. For these socks I redesigned the toe pattern. I'm not completely happy with them, but I like them better this way then how they were originally designed.
Now I'm starting my lemon yellow mystery socks, that need to be done in 4 days for another
kal I joined.
Well, I best be off. I need to go and watch two soccer games.
-Myrtle
