Grown-Up Accomplishments Thus Far

I'm now two weeks into break, and I have thus far:

1. Obtained business cards.
2. Gotten a background check done for my internship.
3. Figured out how to operate a curling iron (at 27. I'm not good at that sort of thing). 
4. Finished the second Juneberry (though I still need to block it).
5. Started my sister's scarf, which is knit at a tiny gauge and is consequently taking forever.
6. Ran 4-ish miles at a time.
7. Re-started Only Revolutions.
8. Worked on my Taffy socks.
9. Knitted a few hexapuffs.
10. Plodded away at cleaning out the e-mail inbox. I have about three year's worth of facebook notifications archived, sigh. 

It's really too bad knitting is a zero-sum game. If I'm working on one thing, I can't work on something else, and my sister's scarf has turned out to be way more time-consuming than I originally anticipated. 

Camp Out Hat

I like to have matching knitted accessories. I don't usually make something without something else to go with it, so when I was picking out Kureyon for my Camp Out Mittens (designed by Tante Ehm), I decided to grab a second skein so I'd have a hat to go with it.

Here's how I did it:

CO 10 stitches, leaving a 4-inch tail.
K 116 rows in garter stitch (or as many as you need to make the band long enough to snugly fit around your head)
BO 9 stitches, turn work.

Pick up 99 stitches along side edge of garter stitch band.
Place marker and join to knit in the round.
Knit until you have about 5-10 yards left.

Decrease round #1: K2tog around (50 st)
Decrease round #2: K
Decrease round #3: K2tog around (25 st)
Decrease round #4: K
Decrease round #5: K2tog to last stitch, K1 (13 st.)

Fasten off.
Use tail from cast-on to sew garter band together.
Block, etc.

FO Friday: Campout Gear

Pattern: Camp Out Fingerless Mitts by Tante Ehm
Yarn: Noro Kureyon in #242
Needle: US #8

Finished Size:  Almost to my elbow!

I made a hat to go with the mittens. Pattern here!

WiP Wednesday: 14,552 Stitches Edition

That, by the way, is the number of stitches I ripped out the other night when I frogged this scarf. I love the yarn (malabrigo sock in "eggplant") and the pattern ("Carlina" by Kitman Figueroa), but my gauge was off and it was looking to be about two feet wide post-blocking. That wouldn't have been a problem by itself except for the fact that I would have run out of yarn after about five and a half feet and I bought the yarn a really long time ago so I couldn't get another skein. Alas.

Sadly, it's probably going to be a few weeks before I can start over on this. I still have to knit my sister's scarf for her, and I have barely started it.

One day, I will learn to make gauge swatches.

Things I'd Like to Accomplish Over My Break:

Goals! With varying degrees of reasonableness!

Knitting

• This year's scarf for Lindsay
• Finish grey crocheted hat.
• Teal crocheted hat
• Finish second robot mitten
• Finish semele scarf
• Finish second Juneberry
• Get caught up on hexapuffs and hexaflats
• Finish taffy socks
• Make some blue socks
• Finish French Market Bag
• Black-n-purple Commuter Mitts

Reading

• Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski. 
• Stuff from my nook. I have a gajillion unread books on there. 
• Suggestions? I'm open to just about everything except books about aliens, unicorns, sparkly vampires, and dragons. 

Other Stuff

• Work my way up to running five miles.
• Double duty on the elliptical every day. 
• Get caught up on book reviews on here and do some re-vamping for the new year.
• Write out some resolutions (gulp) and review my progress for this year (double gulp).
• Finish cleaning out my gmail inbox and get my student e-mail routed to it.
• Acquire business cards.