I Bought Yarn

Knitting has not been a big part of my life this year. Shocking, after 28 years. With my husband working from home, I'm not spending the afternoon knitting and watching trash TV. I'm also working a lot, so things I used to do during the day I have to do in the evening, and along with daily yoga and French lessons, I often don't get to the TV. I knit when we go places, and I do have a charity blanket being crocheted on the TV couch, but my output this year has been two small blue newborn caps for donation, totally a whooping 20gr.

I did get a request for another custom Christmas stocking from a previous customer. I finally got out to buy more yarn for it, 3 balls of Patons "Astra" in Cardinal Red, 150gr, $15.22.  

Yarn In: 150gr

Yarn Out:  20gr

Difference:  130gr more brought IN than out

Costs: $15.22/76 days = $0.20 

Hello 2023

 I keep meaning to write. School was to start early this January, but instead we had two weeks of virtual learning again. I only worked 1.5 days in those first two weeks (actually, that happened on the last two days of the two weeks), so I did a lot of sewing. By a lot, I mean, four tops, one woman's Boxerwear and two reversible Little Black Bras (some of this extended past those two weeks but they were all conceived then LOL). The first two days back ended up being total snow days--a rarity in our board, to have schools actually close and not just be "no bus" days. So I even got extra time to sew! 

When I saw Sinclair Patterns' "Azalea" top, I knew I had to have it, even though I'm on a pattern diet. I could see the versatility in the pattern options--fabric choices, sleeves or none, dressy or t-shirt. I was bored of all my work shirts so I decided to end my sewing rut and get to it. First up was intended to be a wearable muslin, using up some snowflake fabric I found one day in my stash. I got started, but the twisty bit was making my head swim, trying to read it. I found a great YouTube video that helped tremendously! Note though, that this video does things a little bit differently because she serges instead of sewing first. 

Then I got to a part where the video didn't make sense to me. I went back to the pattern, and suddenly that part was understood. So don't get frustrated if you don't understand something using one source. Sometimes videos help, sometimes not. The pictures with the pattern are really good, but I found it hard to tell what was the right side or wrong side with the fabrics in the pattern. Sometimes pictures are good, sometimes drawings are better. That's what's so great about the internet now; you can find many different sources of help.

My regret with this top is that the dark blue is not as drapey as the print and so it doesn't hang as nice as it could at the twist. 

I wore it twice to work/school, and no one commented on the snowflakes :( It's a little snug around the bust; I did a size 14 with no FBA. It's hard to decide if it's the fabric, or the bra, or the size. I was just really happy to have a new top, considering there was maybe only 0.5m of the print. The trick was to split the long narrow neck tie on the printed fabric right at the should line (and add 1/2" to each edge for a new seam allowance). This let me cut the end of the neck tie/band from the area of fabric left after cutting the front piece. The seam really doesn't show much in the print. 

Sorry for the crappy picture! You can see, especially on the dark side, the little fold above the bust. Annoying, but not any worse than RTW clothes. 

I have had this soft, squishy print in my stash for a long time. It's cozy and looks like it's thick sweater knit, but it's not any thicker than French terry, but has awesome drape. 

Some close ups of the twist.

This was so incredibly comfortable. I wore it for virtual teaching before finishing the hem because I felt so comfy. Like wearing a sweatshirt, but nice enough for work! Can't beat that!

This red border print is a very slinky fabric. Nothing natural about it, LOL. It clings, it skims, it looks great but is super comfy. Again, you can see (not in this picture LOL) a roll above my bust.  I have just looked at some old xrays of my spine/chest and found out I have mild thoracic scoliosis. My left collarbone is higher it appears. This might be a factor!

This is how I'm fitting these onto one metre cuts of fabric. I folded the left portion of the neckband/tie back at the shoulder mark. Then I cut, adding a seam allowance. Then I cut that small portion of the band out of another area of the fabric. It worked really well!

This one is a bamboo blend I think. It's very drapey, very soft. So comfortable, but suitable for work! How great is that! And really, once you figure out that twist, it's a very fast make. For the hems, I do a blind stitch hem, which does take a few minutes to prep, but I like it better than a double needle hem, for a number of reasons. 
 

It's A New Year, Supposedly

 I see I haven't posted in a long time. What have I been doing? Working. Nearly full time this year as there is a shortage of supply (substitute) teachers. I do very little knitting. In the last post I mentioned the Handicrafter Cotton yarn I bought; I'm still knitting dishcloths with it. Thought I might finish it off before the end of the year, but no. If I sit and watch TV  and knit for the evening, my hands are too sore the next day. I also still have the tiny newborn hats I'm working on. I haven't done any sewing, but I am getting things out today because 1) my mom mentioned she's been using the Boxerwears I had made for Dad as pajamas, so I want to make her some of the woman's version 2) I want to make some for myself 3) I saw some snowflake fabric in my stash 4) I'd love some more Sunset Loungers as one pair seems to be missing (did I leave them when I visited my mom?), and one pair has faded and one pair was not a great fabric choice and 4) Megan asked for another Lovesick Bra. Of course, that's what I'm going to work on first LOL.

I have been doing a lot of digital drawing on Procreate, check out my Instagram for that. I've gotten the Cricut out again. Thought I had shared the card Megan made me make for her gym teacher. Apparently not, so here it is:

It's Print Then Cut, layered onto a few layers; the Thank You is cut from the black, the green is the full card and the black is glued on the front (there was a cut line instead of a score line and I ended up with separate fronts and backs, didn't use the back). I wanted to cut a window in the front and glue the logo to the inside, but Megan said no. Next time, I think I would do the printing on the sticker paper I have, or maybe onto photo paper for a glossy look (I have TONS of 4x6 photo paper; I just got printable vinyl sticker paper and I'm not going to use that for it!). Her classmates thought she bought it from the school office, so that's a compliment!

I made this gorgeous wreath, from Sweet Red Poppy: 

I did not have to buy anything except the wreath frame. 

It lights up with little LED lights from Giant Tiger. They are battery operated and have a built in 6 hour timer. They were already in one of my house plants, so I didn't actually buy them for this project LOL. 

The wreath frame is a chipboard frame from the fake floral section of Dollarama. I had originally bought a gold tinsel wreath from there, but the family actually liked it and wouldn't let me dissect it!

The lights are pinned to the outer edge with T pins, and secured to the inner edge with ZOTS 3D Dots. 

I might have gotten carried away. The instructions tell you to duplicate the 4 snowflakes so you have 5", 4" and 3" snowflakes. The original wreath I was going to use was curved (domed?) so I worried that the snowflakes would be too big to follow the curve. I duplicated and shrunk them down to 2" snowflakes as well. I also was trying to use up paper, and conserve paper, and I moved things around a lot from mat to mat and in the end, there were so many snowflake parts that I had to figure out how they all went together. Luckily, each layer (of each design) is different, so it's not like the inner layer of the 5" snowflake is the same as the outer layer of the 4" snowflake. After matching everything up, I had a few extra layers of each size/design, so I cut some individual layers to make more complete snowflakes. In the end, I used 12 5", 8 4", 7 3" and 5 2". I had about 8-10 left. I cut lengths of yarn, glued it to a ribbon, and made a sort of garland to go across a window that has no curtain. I used the ZOTS to secure it, but alas, it kept falling down. I ended up laying the ribbon on my fireplace mantel, placing the mantel decorations over it to hold it down, and letting the snowflakes hang in front of the fireplace. It looks nice when the ceiling fan is on!

Then I had to make a card for my niece. I had been drawing these characters following Genevieve's Design Studio on YouTube. I made their accessories in Queen's University Tricolours (I found a website that gave the hexidecimal codes for the colours!). My niece goes to a private school. I looked up their colours and found out their mascot is a polar bear, so I used the polar bear I had already done. How awesome! Because you use layers for the different parts, I could easily change the sweater, hat and scarf!

I had only two pieces of white cardstock though. I went ahead and printed the card. 

It printed streaky! And the "white" cardstock didn't look all that white (card on the right). I checked the settings, I cleaned the nozzles, tried again...still streaky. I kept cleaning the nozzles and running the test print. It started to get worse! The cyan eventually completely disappeared! I did one more clean, it came back, I did a test print, it was almost perfect. Tried printing the card, not quite there. One more cleaning...but now I had to go to Wal-Mart, at like, 8:30pm in the drizzly rain, to get more white cardstock. Not a lot of options! Managed to find some though, and printed one more card. 

I managed to get a smudge on the front! I was NOT printing again though. I liked the card, but to me, it was lacking something. The dull cardstock soaks up the ink, and it loses some details. It's not smooth like a commercial card. I did find at Staples later they had "card" paper. I tried to stick my finger in the package, and it did feel smoother. However, it's 8.5"x11" paper, perforated to make two cards. This card I made, I used a free template from Genevieve's Design Studio (and her YouTube tutorial) to make a card closer in size to a "standard" commercial card. 

This also meant I had to make an envelope, and this size card needs a 12x12" piece of cardstock to make the envelope. I used my envelope making tool I bought from a friend that sells Stamping Up! stuff. I love it! I used it to create an envelope for the Gator card too. 

I also made some stickers, but still only had the printable sticker paper. They looked good though. I printed them, then put clear vinyl (Dollarama "book cover" vinyl) on, then cut.

 OMG. I hadn't created a white background behind the first few polar bears, and didn't realize how jagged the edges were. It took about an hour to cut the first one! I paused it a few times to clean the blade, then I just raised the blade up so it wasn't cutting. I wanted to just give up on the bears and have the other items, with white borders, cut out. I had flattened the whole page though. Eventually I did stop it, cancelled the cut, and went back to the canvas. It allowed me to "Unflatten" the page, and I was able to delete the two stickers it had mangled. But then, when I went to make it, set it all up, loaded the mat...it never moved on to the start option! I gave up and hand cut them. 

I used the polar bear to seal the envelope, and the Nya one for the front (I also glued on a gem). I included the other stickers in the card. 

My sticker vinyl came and I got to work. I had made a sticker sheet in Procreate using my artworks, back in the summer...but now that I had the proper stuff, those old artworks just weren't exciting me. I got to work making new stickers. 

It's Koala Printable Vinyl Sticker Paper, Glossy. It's about $20Cdn, for 20 sheets, with free Prime shipping. So about $1 a sheet, not including tax. Seems like a lot, but I got 14 stickers on one page, and if I had some smaller art ready to go, I could have filled in a few spots. 

I LOVE it. The colours are so rich and glossy! It cut so smooth! I didn't flatten this time, but did attach. Some had white borders and I carefully checked them when I imported. I used bleed on, and printed on "premium photo paper, glossy" setting. To cut, I used "Printable Vinyl" as the material, and the default pressure, and it made perfect "kiss cut" stickers!

When I did the alteration to the polar bear, I forgot to do the outline changes on a new layer. And then I forgot to re-adjust the outline back to the red. He's still cute!

I had a bit of space left, so I did this photo I had altered from a cottage vacation, and the cartoon of my SIL, I had made it following an Art with Flo tutorial (I'm pretty sure). I've got some more designs in the works. 

I hadn't really intended to write all this. I was just stopping by to write about the yarn donation I made to a local lady that makes "nests" for a wildlife refuge! 

A great way to get rid of some variegated leftovers, and other small balls that won't play nicely with other yarns when I make the blankets for seniors! I gave away 1053gr! So I have to add that to my totals. Also, in November, I was contacted by a woman who I had made Christmas stockings for. She had another baby and wanted a new stocking. She was really understanding when I said I couldn't do it for this Christmas, so I'll be making it for 2022. I rarely even go to my FB "Business" page, but FB sent me an email of the message, thankfully. I've got to buy yarn for that. Oh, hope I didn't give away any of the small amounts I used for the design! I had kept all that stuff separate, but I kind of forgot about it over the past two years and integrated the yarns back into the stash. New year, new challenges!

Yarn In:  3109gr

Yarn Out:  1053gr + 4586gr =  5369gr

Balance: 2530 gr more OUT than in

Cost:   $44.66, 365 days, $0.12/day

My last post said $0.05/day. Not sure how...that should have been $0.15/day!

A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That

 Work (supply [substitute] teaching) has been crazy busy. I don't get any time to sew, and only bits of time to knit. And not much left over to blog! So I'm combining a few things here today because who knows when I'll get to blog again.

These three bikini bottoms are all I have sewn (other than repairs) since....summer 2020? I don't even remember. 

Top was the first one. I couldn't decide on black or brown for my first pair. Opted for brown because I did have some RTW black bottoms, I just didn't like their fit. I wasn't sure on the waist band but compared to the other two, I think I prefer it. I used the Scrundlewear underwear pattern with my modifications. I didn't add leg bands, just folded back with elastic. They seem cheekier than my underwear! Much cheekier than my one piece suits! The bottom right are a reversible pair. There's no waist band, or any elastic. Theoretically these sew up very quickly, but realistically, nothing in my life is quick, except time. The left pair is hot pink and leopard neon print, reversible. I think I'm going to open them up and add some elastic to the front waist. They kind of puff out in the hot tub. 

More tiny hats for the hospital. I found a third. They are baby blue Bernat Lollipop Sparkle. I used a lot of that yarn (mostly in white) twenty years ago. Very nostalgic. The mitts are not that dark in real life. So, you see, I'm really not knitting a lot. I'm not watching TV much in the evenings anymore.

I did buy some dishcloth cotton when I was visiting my mom in her small town after Canadian Thanksgiving. We didn't go on a trip this summer, so I never made my vacation keepsake dishcloths. My older ones are starting to look pretty grungy. Staying at my mom's for 3 days was my holiday, and I figured it might be easier to get the yarn up there since all the stores down here have stock issues. Not a big colour selection. I'm almost 20 ridges (40 rows) into the first dishcloth. Slow going. 

What does keep me busy is making art on my iPad Mini, using the Procreate app. If you're interested in that, I'm on Instagram, tracykmvetzal and my account is public. 

Yarn In:  340gr + 2769gr = 3109gr

Yarn Out:  60gr + 4526gr = 4586gr

Balance: 1477 gr more OUT than in

Cost:  $14.66 + $30 = $44.66, 304 days, $0.05/day

It Happened!

I haven't been knitting much. Work has been so busy, mothering has been very busy, the TV has been busy by others (so I don't have a place to sit and knit). I finished another pair or two of little mittens. I'm up to 5 pairs since I started this summer. They don't use much wool for each pair, 35-45 grams. It adds up though!  It seems I only posted about the first pair. Pairs 2 and 3 weighed in at 89gr total, and pairs 4 and 5 are 73gr.

Not too exciting to photograph, especially in summer/fall. 

What IS exciting is that I finally bought some yarn! Megan and I went thrifting, and I hid a jackpot at the Salvation Army store. 

All worsted weight yarns, and except for the yellow and blue I can probably use them all together. The balls of pink in the middle are different than the big skeins.  All together this weighed in at 1369gr. This is the first yarn I actually paid for this year! I can make more charity blankets....if I ever get to use the TV again...

Yarn In:  1400gr + 1369gr = 2769gr

Yarn Out:  4364gr + 162gr = 4526gr

Balance:  1757gr more OUT than in

Cost:  $30, 275 days, $0.11/day

Sewing?

 I was working today at a high school. My classroom door was locked but a lady in a beautiful dress approached and was able to unlock it. Turns out she was the sewing teacher in the room next door. Imagine that! We chatted and I passed on my info so she could request me. I thought I’d take a look back at what I’ve seen lately. 

Uh….scrolling…..scrolling….scrolling…..

November 2020 was my last sewing post and it was just a new mask? I know I’ve sewn since then! I’ve just done a couple bikini bottoms, I might photograph those…what about slippers? Some sort of bag? Something for a kid? More underwear for Rob? 

I know this past year has been crazy—surgery, then my LTO (long term occasional teaching job), not being able to sew while Rob’s home for work. I haven’t been browsing Fabricland or Value Village, I delete most emails from fabric stores after a quick scan (okay, I did just succumb to some wovens from Fabcycle). I do look at the emails from pattern designers, though I have been great at not purchasing any new patterns (there was one recently that did grab me because it was nothing like other patterns I have). 

I usually sew a lot during the summer but this summer I seemed to spend all my time driving kids to jobs, or working on an AQ course, or hanging out on my deck because the basement (where I sew) was too cold. I thought once Lucy got off to school and things got into a rhythm here, I would get back to the machines. Instead, I’ve gotten a full week of work LOL. In fact,I have another bikini bottom started on the serger (I started, then second guessed my seam allowance and never got back). Hopefully this weekend allows me to finish those. Then I want to start on the new shirt. I’ve moved all my cutting tools upstairs to the office/guest room/dorm room/Hugh’s room. Here’s hoping!

Memorial Blanket

 In 2019, my Dad died, and then less than 5 months later, my brother's dog was (accidentally) killed and then a week later, his wife died. Nancy had PKD--Polycystic Kidney Disease and had been on dialysis for a long time (7 years?) while waiting for a transplant. Shortly after, I found a bag of purple Bernat Softee Chunky (I think. I can't seem to find any of the labels) at my favourite store in my Mom's small town. I wanted to make a blanket to donate to the dialysis unit where Nancy spent so much time. Purple was her favourite colour. 

I started with corner to corner crochet. I found a graph to make a heart in the corner, where I thought I could somehow add her info. However, I had no yarn that worked well with the purple--too smooth, too thin, wrong colour, etc. Then I tried numerous things on the SK155 knitting machine. Nothing was making a blanket that would be big enough to be useful. 

I finally settled on a simple tuck pattern, making three panels. It's still a little narrow. It could be used as a wrap too.

I decided against the Bickford Seam because I worried that it could lose it's shape. I did a mattress stitch, using half a stitch on each edge. It doesn't show too badly on the wrong side (though no side is really the wrong side with tuck).

I gave it a heavy steaming, to flatten the edges and stretch it out some. It relaxed the texture a bit (no pictures), but I think it's still nice.

I have thought about how to add her name or info. I looked into doing heat transfer with my Cricut. I don't have any experience and I don't know how it'd hold up to be in a hospital facility. I thought about embroidery, but then I'd have to sew some sort of patch on because the blanket can't really be embroidered right on to. Probably expensive. And in the end, no one except maybe some nurses would even know who she was. So I'm leaving it purple; that says enough.

I haven't gotten to donate it yet. I'm not sure if they'll take anything right now. It's ready though, when the time is right. Sign your organ donor card and let your family know. Nancy was in her mid-40s, her daughters were in 16 and 21. An organ donation would have changed their lives.

Yarn In:  1400gr

Yarn Out: 600gr + 3764gr = 4364gr

Balance:  2964gr more OUT than in

Cost:  $0, $0/day

It's Coming...

 A few years ago, I made wool mittens to have spare mittens for the kindergarten classes I supervised at lunch. They were a hit. I had stocked up on wool (I also liked making felted slippers). Then I quit. Now I have a lot of smaller balls of a variety of wools. The gnomes I made used up some (and now there's another mystery gnome knit along! Do I join? Give Gnathan a sibling?), but there's lots left. When a pair of toddler/kindie size mitten only takes 34gr of wool, it's going to take quite a few pairs of mittens to use up the wool. Why not? I have six charity blankets ready to go, but they're not accepting any right now, and I don't really have any acrylic worsted yarn for more (I do have some pastel coned yarn but it speaks more baby than senior). 

I used Ann Budd's pattern from The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns. This is an excellent book if you don't mind not having your hand held every row. I used the second size, and I think 5st/inch. The cast on was 30st. I've started another pair with 32 stitches. I do them two at a time. If I get low on yarn, I'll do the thumbs before the tops, and then I can add stripes in the upper part.

Yarn In:  1400gr

Yarn Out: 34gr + 3730gr = 3764gr

Balance:  2364gr more OUT than in

Cost:  $0, $0/day

Finally

 Last summer I knit some newborn hats on my Singer 327. I cast on for more, got part way into the 4th, and got busy. It was bugging me to see them hanging on the machine, waiting to be finished. I've been thinking about selling my Singer 500, which is on the same table, so I wanted to tidy up to take pictures. I finished up, then sat outside to sew them up.

I don't have details, except that I had jotted down 75 rows, which is too many, I feel. 

The four hats weighed in at 73gr once finished, but I did have a lot of waste because of winding a small bobbin off yarn off the cone at the end of each hat so that I do a couple decreasing rows by hand and sew up. I used a strand of navy and a strand of green. 

Yarn In:  1400gr

Yarn Out: 100gr + 3630gr = 3730gr

Balance:  2330gr more OUT than in

Cost:  $0, $0/day

Blankets

I mentioned a few posts ago that I got a big donation of yarn. I've pretty much used it up! Two more charity blankets off the needles. 

The first one was the bottom one. It has bands of white/cream separating the colours, and I tried to alternate green and brown. Sometimes I don't settle into an idea until I've knit a bit, so it doesn't always look intentional.  It's 558gr. 

The second one was the darker one on top, because I had a lot of dark greens left. It weighs in at about 485gr.  It ended up a bit smaller. I was going to do a border, but I hate doing that.

What's been keeping me busy was an AQ course (Additional Qualification) for music, Primary and Junior. That ended, and I've gotten to finally play with my new camera. I spent a lot of the time working on the course outside, where I got to know a cardinal couple. 

This is after she chased off a starling. It was fun watching her when she collected twigs for her nest. 

I didn't get good pictures of the baby. The first time they came around, it was mostly beige and very fluffy. The next time it was showing more red. Years ago I kept seeing a cardinal that was half beige, half red. So I think it takes time for the boys to get their full colour.

I really really like this photo. Click on it, and zoom in. He has an alder seed in his beak. 

They brought their baby around, and then they started a new family. Apparently they don't use the same nest each time. There was a couple days that when I went out front (I knew the nest had been in a skyrocket evergreen at the front corner of the house), the mom cardinal was chirping like crazy from the pine tree next to the walkway. I decided to investigate, and found a baby bird perched on the edge of a nest! I ran in for the camera, and came back out to see it flutter down to a lower branch.

Oh, was Momma ever ticked! She spent a long time chirping, hopping from branch to branch, encouraging it to return. The baby went the wrong way around the tree, towards the front, rather than the short trip to it's left. I had to leave. Just then Daddy came back and there was a discussion. I can just imagine Momma telling him the headaches his offspring had given her that afternoon while he was out having fun LOL. 

When I came back, I saw Daddy chirping madly. I looked up and saw a large bird, about the size of a mourning dove (which we used to have in that tree). It wasn't a dove though, because it was sitting upright on the branch and it had a hawk bill! Daddy chased it off and I think every cardinal on the street was chirping loudly! We couldn't find baby, and I haven't seen or heard it since. I don't know if he was a snack for the hawk, which was likely a sharp-shinned hawk.  

We've also had two litters of bunnies since June. Most have scattered, one got eaten and this guy is in trouble if he doesn't stop munching my plants. The pictures of the newborn bunnies are really adorable. It was great to see the progression. This was the first time there was a nest in the grass instead of under the deck.

I've been growing a hops vine in the back yard for the past few summers. This is the first summer it produced hops. I think it's cool that they mimic the lights Rob put up on the fence.

Now, I'm spending most of my time driving kids around. Megan got a job, and is back skating, and has physio, as well as Lucy working, so I'm busy, busy, busy! 

 Yarn In:  1400gr

Yarn Out: 1 043gr + 3730gr = 4773gr

Balance:  3333 gr more OUT than in

Cost:  $0

Gnice to Meet You!

 I was scrolling Instagram in May and saw something about a mystery knit-along to knit.... a gnome. I don't think I've ever knit a mystery knit along. And I've never knitted a gnome. It was post-winter accessories season, I was bored of charity blankets. So, of course, I had to knit a gnome! Why not?

It'd been a long time since I've used Ravelry, and even longer since I've actually bought a pattern. And how long since I've done cables? I got my wool (didn't knit a swatch), found a cable needle, and got ready. 

This was the first pattern to put on my new iPad Mini. That taxed my brain a bit. How come under Downloads, ProReader says there's 18 files, but when I open it, there's only 4? Anyway, I got going, not always right on schedule, and I struggled with the written instructions and reinforced my love of graphs, but I did finish and post a picture before the deadline to be entered in the draws. I don't think I won anything, except ownership of Gnathan. 

At first, everyone was like, "Why are you making a gnome?!"

Once done, requests started coming in. I knew though that I had to make a Tricolour Gnome. 

This is Alfie, meeting Jase. Poor Jase. He came to use with one blue eye and one brown eye and over time, lost his hand. But we love him. Alfie is named after the ArtSci nightclub at Queen's University when we were there. The new name is The Underground, but that doesn't work for a gnome.

Lucy wasn't all that impressed with Alfie, and I got the impression she didn't want to adopt him for her new house in Kingston. She showed him to her elder sibling, and they thought he was awesome and wanted one too. So, Clark was born. Clark is named after the Engineering Pub at Queen's. 

I couldn't remember which needles I used for the various parts, so they're not exactly the same size. Clark's tassel shows the hardships of engineering student life, I think something happened at the Greasepole. He's a little bit scrawnier, and his beard is covering up his pocket protector :)

Gnathan used a total of 214gr of the Condon's Yarns, but I don't know how much Tricolour yarns were used. Some was from Topsy Farm, some was some other random wool from my stash. I'm pretty much out of Tricolour now, and Rob thinks I'm going to make him for work too. I'm just going to estimate the same for the Tricolour.

On Instagram, I post pictures of drawings I do in Procreate. The first thing I actually drew was a little gnome. Later, I started adding Nomie to newer pictures I'd draw (cut and paste style). Megan thinks I should knit a real life Nomie and take him on real adventures. Maybe. 

Yarn In:  1400gr

Yarn Out: 642gr + 2988gr = 3630gr

Balance:  2230gr more OUT than in

Cost:  $0, $0/day