I'm still alive . . .

but covered up with graduate work! This latest class is taking up a lot of my needleworking time. Grrrr!

However, I am pursuing my knitting -- that is, whenever I get some free time during the day at the various schools where I've been subbing. It's difficult, though. I tend to lose my place very easily if the pattern is any more difficult that K or P the entire row. I really need to get cracking with the camera so I can post pictures of the various scarves and hats I've completed this fall.

I've even started one of those knitted Prayer Shawls in Homespun. It's taking me forever (over a week) just to get through the first skein of yarn even though I'm knitting it on size 17 needles. I'm not accustomed to taking this long to somplete a project -- the crocheted Prayer Shawl pattern takes me just 8 hours. Of course, I've been crocheting a heck of lot longer than I've been knitting.