Quick Update

My trip to visit grad schools has been good. I got to go home and check out Boulder and be home for Easter (first time in 10 years), and visit schools in SoCal where the weather is, of course, beautiful. I'll make my decision over the weekend and it will be San Diego or Boulder. It's now an issue of advisor personality and research instruments with different capabilities. I'm getting excited to go back to school!

While I was at home, I also got to go to my mom's knitting group. I met a few new people and got to see other people I knew and we had a good time. We also went to a Chinese buffet and some of us went to Hobby Lobby, which was fun with Rebecca's well-behaved little boy. All of our Easter gifts for my nieces were hits, but how can you go wrong with plush bunny purses?

On the knitting front for this trip, I feel like I've made slow progress. I brought my koigu hat with me and got through all of the increase section, but now I need a circular needle because the stitches seem to fall off the end of the dpns. It's still looking good, but it's hard to set up for a picture.

Mist was my other project for this trip, and I've completed the armhole decreases on the second front. I'm close to needing to make the buttonhole, so I'm back to my usual button-hole problem. I'd rather have a button and fit the hole than constrain my choices in buttons. I guess I'm going to put the front on hold at that point, then, and start the sleeves. When I'm home I can check out buttons and decide what I want to do.

I know before I left that I was going to put in the sleeves on the baby clothes, but it didn't happen. I tried to do the dress at the Borders group on Saturday, but it didn't work twice and I got tired of it and quit. I guess I'll try to do it again next week and hope it goes better.

Staying with my friend in SoCal I'm not getting a lot of knitting done, but I should be able to do some catching up at home next week. Maybe Mist will be done soon. Since it doesn't look like Boston will get warm any time soon, I should be able to wear it!