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[bedlamsbard]

Oh, gods, I suddenly want to drop the classics stuff and embrace Norse mythology. I could switch one class out, but I already bought the books! But Norse mythology! Which is apparently all over the Chronicles (as well as the Greek mythology!)! And I am really intrigued by some things! Like the Norse influence on British mythology and folklore! OH DEAR.*

Also I now really want to knit this blanket (Ravelry link).

*On the bright side, maybe that could be my senior thesis? Only I wanted more classics in my senior thesis!

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[bedlamsbard]

Oh, yes! And lace is fabulous; now, if only I had yarn in, like, worsted or DK weight so I could do baby things beside teetiny booties. Alas, it is all fingering weight: socks and shawls it is! I have not yet geared myself up to try knitting lace weight, because that stuff is tiny omg. (Also, I really want to knit this shawl, but I seldom buy more than one skein of a single colorway at a time, so that will require planning. And beads. And more needles than I actually have. Also this one! SHAWLS ARE SO PRETTY.)

I would take pictures, but, uh, I still haven't put new batteries in my camera.

Heh! I used to make earrings (actually, I still can, I'm just out of earwires), but despite having pierced ears, I almost never wear them! Although I should do so more often, I like hoops. Also my awesome "well-behaved women rarely make history" earrings! (Also, for the first time in seven years, I'm not wearing any rings.)

[aella_irene]

Your US weights are strange to me! We have things in plys. (2-ply, 4-ply, 6-ply, etc.) I am going to alternate baby blankets with socks and Lace and Hemlock, before going onto the World Tree afghan.

I wear studs for work, and dangly ones otherwise, but I have dangly ones I never wear because I don't have the right outfit, alas.

[bedlamsbard]

Most of the time yarn is also listed with plies as well as by weight, which appears to be a little subjective based on the seller.

Right now I am knitting this in Malabrigo Sock "Persia, which is a green and bronze-ish colorway. It's pretty! I hope I don't run out of yarn!

My well-behaved women earrings are dangly -- they're slightly curved strips of silver, and one has "well-behaved women" etched onto it, and the other one has "rarely make history." I LOVE THEM.

[aella_irene]

Oooh, pretty. (Oooh! I have found you on Ravelry!)

Oh, those sound gorgeous!

[bedlamsbard]

It's lots of fun! I like lace, I have found. (And yes, I bought more yarn! Two skeins, one of Gaia and one of a sport-weight gray-purple called Whisper.)

I will try and take pictures! As I have been meaning to since I got them. Last December.

[aella_irene]

I would like to try lace. *deep breaths* Less than a fortnight until payday, and then I will go shopping! Actually, I might buy the pattern before that. If I buy it soon enough, I can get my parents to print it out and bring it up for me...

Please do! Last December caulkhead and I went to the South Bank Christmas Market, and I bought earrings, and a watch on a chain that I need to get fixed. (I dropped it, and now it won't shut.)

[bedlamsbard]

Traveling Woman is a good beginning lace project, if you happen to be into shawls. And free! (Note to self: put batteries in camera. Photograph Traveling Woman. And earrings.)

[aella_irene]

I have added it to my queue!