Sock blockers and socks

I have no excuse for being so lazy this week but I have been. I am almost done with the "ugliest sock in the world" for Sytze. This is the first sock. I've also started unraveling a scarf that I made ages ago to salvage some of the amazingly soft and expensive wool that a giant month attached last year.

I feel so bad that I have left this to the very last minute. There is no deadline on the scard BUT because it's been out so long and has holes in it from the giant moth, I am starting to see smaller holes where I think that other month may have been feasting as well. :-( Very sad but possibly salvigable. I'm thinking that I am going to make it into a sead-stitch scarf. Just keeping it simple and I want to use the yarn that is left to the maximum. It would be super sad if nothing would come out of this.

So other than knitting, many other fun things have been happening. Of course Sytze came over and spend the weekend at my place (I don't live in a student-house, so we have more space and alone time when he's here. While I was getting ready for dinner, he was sitting on the balcony when he saw a tiny little bird in a nest right in front of our balcony.

I'm still trying to find the time to finally go to my local s'nB on Tuesdays or Thursdays but next to university and work I find that I have just enough time to get in a little knitting and about 7 hours of sleep. I wish I could go but I'm just not sure.

My baby brother is coming to visit me in a few days (ok. like Saturday). With him here I am probably going to have to not blog for a week but because the child sleeps so much anyways (I should add that he's 17), I may just find the time next to school and work to sit down for 30 minutes next week. But I am excited that he is visiting. He's another man in my life that does not enjoy anything that is knitted. But the rest of my family likes it. Since my parents are all alone at home now, they have decided to take up golfing so I have been asked to make golf-club covers. A zoo for my father (looking forward to that) and something girly for my mother. I have yet to look at wool for it but I will once I get the time and I go to amsterdam to have a look at some new Yarn-shops!

The stash is going insane. It's tiny, since I have cut down on spending for a whole year! I am extremely proud of myself but at the same time, I am wondering why on earch I didn't by a little each month, because now when I want to knit something that I really enjoy, I actually have to go shopping and hunting for. Also it's just a big mess, because it's in plastic bags and in between little bags of dried lavender. I would love to put it some where nice but with the little room that I have in my room and in the rest of the house I fear that there is little room else to put it. So my student dilema grows. I keep thinking that I need to get rid of some things, so maybe I can expand my stash into where the other things were ;-)

I found an awesome site for sock-blockers! I am so excited, because I have pleanty of these wire hangers that I can't use because they damage the clothes, so why not take one and a pair of plires from the garage and make a perfect fitting sock-blocker?

http://theknittingzone.com/blockers.htm

I found them at the knitting zone but I suggest that you use plastic covered metal hangers, because they are less likely to stain your damp socks. It is still an awesome idea, expecially if you are a student with no money for fun things :-(

Sometimes I wonder: would a really addicted knitter be willing to spend less on money instead of giving up buying yarn on a regular basis or would you start knitting with nasty acrylic? I would definatly eat less or just Ramen. Then again I have just not bought any new wool in a LONG time!