Brief Saturday amusement...

So, on a brief break to reload Cast-On and flex the fingers (lots of knitting today!), I was over visiting Cetta and she had this link to rate your blog, so I did mine. It came up as:

Mingle² - Online Dating

Apparently,

"This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:

• drugs (3x)
• hurt (2x)
• crack (1x)"

I feel like I have so much to live up to, now! Or, live down, depending how you look at it. I may just have to insert that rating block into my sidebar, for ongoing amusement.

So yes, lots of knitting today. I've finally started my back-to-school sweater, which was intended to be done for last September but as I've got the back half-done now stands a good chance of being done for this September. Irony? I'm probably not going back to school this fall. Scheduling and budgeting appear to be against me, along with a big ol' honkin' library fine. Dammit. But I'm loving the sweater so far - pics tomorrow or Monday.

Also restarted the Diagonal Lace Scarf from Midnight Purls, which is a lovely piece and she has graciously allowed me permission to use it in an upcoming class (thank you!). I had about oh, 8" of it done yesterday while watching the bonus features of Clerks II. Yeah - not a good idea, mixing lace and Kevin Smith commentaries. I made at least four major mistakes, sighed heavily and frogged back to zero. Restarted today and have achieved 47 rows in a little over an hour. The suggested length is 43 pattern repeats (of 6 rows each) plus 5 rows garter stitch each end, for 1548 rows. That appears to be 32 hours of knitting. Oh my, it's only a two hour class. But it is perfect, the PERFECT pattern for what I want to teach, which is basically this:

1) There are pattern rows and rest rows in lace.
2) Pay attention to where you are - the row counter is your friend.
3) You think it's pretty now? Wait 'til you block it. Double pretty (I can tell that already, just by stretching it, although it's perfectly lovely unblocked, too).

So I think my plan will be this: Complete one scarf to a wearable length (let's say three feet, unblocked). Three feet is 36", I have 6" done, which means 36" is 6 hours, not 32 hours. That will be the sample scarf. Then I will start another scarf for the actual class time, for the teaching of the technique, etc. That scarf I will knit to the recommended length, in a yarn I like for me, and it will become my new fall coat scarf. Because frankly, the yarn I'm knitting the sample with, I love the yarn and the colour, but I'm really not super keen on for an actual scarf. It's Patons Classic Merino Wool and it's not - scarf-y. To me. I like fluffier, softer yarns for scarves. So I will treat myself to some more scarf-y yarn when I do the "real" scarf for me... I may have some in stash but I wanted to try the pattern first at the recommended gauge from stash and all I could find was this one ball of PCM. You know, that wasn't already earmarked for something else. Nevermind. More later tonight, or maybe tomorrow. OOH! You know what would work for this scarf? Some of that KnitPicks laceweight I've got in stash. It'll take for-freaking-ever, but it'll be beeyootiful! Oh yeah, that'll work.

Ok, back to the knitting. I'm up to Episode 23 of Cast On, wonder how many I'll get through this long weekend?