Blogstalkers!

So it looks like Blogstalkers has started up again over on the Knittyboard. I've decided to join; hopefully this will force me to do regular updates and in that way I'll be able to improve my blogging skills. Our first assignment is Ode to My Knitting.
Come again?
Grad school has taken over the majority of my brain, so I need some help figuring out how to write an ode.
Um, I don't think I can do this. What I can give you, however, is a few hurried lines about knitting, scratched out on my legal pad amongst notes about a Christian Fiction book I just finished reading for my Readers' Advisory Class.
Surrounded by yarn, I am content
The colors make me happy
I knit a hat, and people seem to like it!
They marvel at what I can make, but really, it's no big thing.
Have a seat, and I'll show you how.
Then you too, can be content with yarn.
Sucks, I know, I was never good at writing poetry. But I can knit a mean hat...

1000 Words!

I finally finished my part of a group project for my reference class. I don't know why, but I was just so unmotivated to do it. Perhaps it was because I was overthinking it, or because it's hard to start writing just the middle of a paper. Whatever, it's all done now and it's all good.
I've been doing some baby knitting!

This cute little set is for a lady who volunteers at the library I work at. She's taken a leave of absence for a while, but still comes in about twice a week with her 3-year-old daughter, who is getting a little sister! This is the Baby Bolero pattern from One Skein, and the hat is from Last Minute Knitted Gifts. Both were knit using Blue Sky Alpacas Organic/Dyed Cotton. That stuff is fun to work with, and I think I might just have enough of the pink to make a matching hat for big sister-to-be.

I have a friend who's expecting her third child early next year. I waited very patiently to find out if they were having a boy or girl; I had two sets of colors picked out for a Pinwheel Blanket. Then the Fall Knitty came out, and I fell in love with OpArt. I've only got a few rounds done but I think it's coming along nicely. I'm thinking of adding a red round in there somewhere, and binding off in red.

Finally, I must show you the beginnings of my Traveling Scarf. I joined this group through the Bravo Whores on Ravelry, and all I can say is that I hope I don't end up with one Hot Tranny Mess. Although I would wear it proudly if that happened, and attempt to lasso Nina Garcia with it should I ever encounter her in public.