Soooo um...

Yeah, I fail at blog postings. To make it up for you, you're going to get a photoessay: what Jax does when she's NOT at school! It'll be awesome.

Wild Developments!

So my computer went *kerbreak* which meant that I eventually shelled out for a new one. This one, unlike the old one, has a built-in camera and Photo Booth. So, I will be taking a few pictures.

First, Bayerische Socken.



Only a little into the third leg repeat on the first sock. They're still freaking GORGEGOUS.

Second. Remember the Shapeless White Thing?



Now it is a Shapeless White Thing with a Hood:



AND has two friends:



This is a sweater. It just needs to have the ends woven in and be washed and blocked. Sooooooo yeah. That should be happening soon... exciting!

Back from the dead!

I'm back from the dead- a.k.a, writing my SIP, a.k.a. researching and writing 30 pages of original photonics work, a.k.a. having my brains smashed out with a gold brick wrapped in a slice of lemon.



If I haven't linked her here before... this is the fantastic Holly, a.k.a. knitwithsnot. I was trying to give her big hair like the streetwalker lovely, beautiful high school student two tables down from us at Applebee's.

Holly is a professional zombie hunter. I, if you did not know, am a professional vampire slayer. This was a friendship that was simply meant to be.

We'd heard rumors of undead lurking in West Branch, MI, at the Northerm Michigan Lamb and Wool Festival. Since we have collectively cleared Kalamazoo of undead, we figured we would go lend a hand to anyone further up in the mitten.

After lopping off a few heads and staking a few vampires, we settled in to enjoy the fiber. We contributed our mad crochet skills to assembling a blanket for Hope Lodge:



I also checked out this little gal for Shannon :



Nope, not a vampire bunny. This little "broken chocolate" angora bun's going home with her :D

Shannon also had a surprise for me...



... the RAMMSPINDLE :D :D :D I am soooooo happy to have this. It's one of her awesome Spinsanity Spindles, and the fiber is from Fibers by Em. I learned to spin by firelight (so no pictures of that awkwardness), and here is the product:



Mah first yarn! I dunno what I'm going to make with it, but it will be awesome and I know it. I also got some other goodies from the fiberfest-



Big, floofy, denimy batt of merino.



My sweater. Yes, right now it is yarn, but it is my sweater. Briar Rose Fibers, lovely stuff... and that's 1200 yds.



Two precious ounces of black alpaca. I'm going to get better at spinning before I try this one, it's going to be a cravat so I want a thinner yarn than I'm spinning on the Rammspindle now.

Also, since it's been a while, I owe everyone some project pictures. Since I'm lazy, I'm not digging up all my projects right now, so you just get my works in progress.



I took these socks with me on the drive to West Branch and I have about 15 more minutes of work on them. This translates to, "Jax, just finish your Japanese homework and GRAFT THE TOE!!"



A shapeless thing. This is actually the majority of the body of Rogue. It's made from recycled yarn so it is very eco-friendly and cost-effective.



Bayerische socks. These actually take concentration, hence they go slow.

I'm fatigued now... more entertaining later :D

The Return of the Yarn Dragon!

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The yarn dragon is returning from his lair with a new acquisition... Breeze, from Knitty. The socks are Regia Silk in the leftover 0.9 of a skein from D.A.V.'s socks, knit on size 1s. They took me about 5 days to knit, and I'm quite enamored with them. Now I need to knit some proper, by which I mean over the ankle, socks!

I'm a bad Jaxy.

Note my extreme lack of posts.

But, now I have my camera cable (it was in my sock box?) and I'm ready to show off a little of what I've been doing!

For example, two out of Three Tams.

This one is for the College Knitters swap. Very classy, in maroon and white Cascade 220.



I made this one for me out of some Kureyon and the leftover white.



I also have most of what I've dubbed the Design Feature Cami done. This is not representative of its finished size- it is in fact finished except for the straps. I just need to break down and go to the bead store and get some beads for the strappyness.



Also, 70's-tastic Noro Legwarmers. These are finished, I'll get a proper pic up soon.



And this is a Mouse.



And this is my hair! It's finally a color I'm happy with :D



As for what I'm working on now...?

Homework. And midterms. And poems for class. And homework.

I have one project on the needles atm- some fantastic red Moseys- but I haven't knit a stitch in a week. Which is sad because I also have some really gorgeous sock yarns- ArtYarns Super Merino in a blue/grey colorway and Jitterbug in Sahara that I still need to wind off. Well, I'll bother Mouse about that when I can breathe.

A Picture-less update. SAD.

So I need new camera batteries before I can take pictures. This is really annoying because A. my camera flat-out refuses to work on any set of batteries that costs <$10 and B. I am flat broke. Seriously. I have $30 in my wallet, $30 in my checking account, and god-knows-how-much damage to my credit card. The roadtrip that caused most of the damage was totally worth it though.

I'm moving in to my new apartment in Kalamazoo on Monday. I'm very excited! I also have no flippin' idea what I'll do with myself for a week, but I hazard that it will be much like what I do here- knit, go online, organize, and try starting to run (still haven't been successful with that one, but whatev). I will also be attending an MC2 talk about the mathematics of baseball and hopefully checking out Zombie Prom Date Knitters.

Despite the inadvisability of it I'm going on two yarn runs in the immediate future. One to Ann Arbor (which is mostly for the 'hey, let's hang out in Ann Arbor' value), and one to Stitching Memories. Why? Well, I need some yarn for my idea for the College Knitters Swap. Also, I'm in the Sock Knitters Pentathlon, and I am so vastly dissatisfied with how the yarn I was using for Jacobean looks that I am going to buy some solid yarn now. The yarn is an interesting cotton fingering weight made of three shades of pink plied together. Sadly, it looks like crap in the pattern!

Well crap! I was tagged unawares!

So, I've been off traveling with my family. They came to visit me in BP, then we went to Paris, city of lights and really unfavorable exchange rates. Now, I am reluctantly home. Although I saw Cait which makes everything better!

I was tagged by knittchick and Rachel (a.k.a. fiberfiend6891)

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

1. I've been in 19 different countries over the past 6 months.

2. I have a bit of a talent for languages. English is the only one I speak fluently, but I can get by at a semi-native level in French, I have an intermediate proficiency in Japanese, I can sort of hack Hungarian, and I can read and understand (but not speak) survival German and Spanish. Add my ability to relate stuff to those, and this means I can get by in every European country that doesn't use a Slavic language, and some that do.

3. My first knitaversary is in March! My first project was a pair of Malabrigo ankle socks. My second was the Malabrigo knee socks (a.k.a. Spiked Socks of Battle).

4. I get repeated compliments on my Robert Frost Knucks, which makes me think I need to write up a post on how I did them so everyone else can try making awesome fingerless gloves.

5. I gravitate towards things that are knit in pairs: socks, gloves, mittens, handwarmers, etc. Second ____ Syndrome normally only happens when I'm vastly dissatisfied with the first.

6. I'm a long-time gamer. The Fam and I are Nintendo loyalists to an extent. My favorites are RPGs and rhythm games- DDR, Donkey Konga, Karaoke Revolution, and Guitar Hero! I'm just learning how to play Hard on GH3, I play Standard on DDR, Advanced on Konga and Karaoke Revolution.

7. I fence! My former coach, Akos, was an Olympic pentathlete and he is FREAKING SWEET.

So, TAG!
Mouse
Cait
Kelsey
Kaya and Nabby
Holly
Anne Kaelber
Amanda