Holy Moley

Well quite unexpectedly Washington, DC has received a whole lot more snow than it can handle. We got killed over the weekend, then Tuesday night dumped even more snow, Wednesday was all wind, and today, well, it’s rather nice out. But because of DC’s, and Virginia’s and Maryland’s, small budgets for any sort of snow recovery, they’re still digging us out. The federal government has been closed all week, and each night, as they announce it, GWU sends out an email saying that we’re closed too. It’s been pretty nice to just sit around and be lazy all week, but it would have been much better if they had just closed the school for a certain amount of time instead of just closing one day at a time. I’ve been a bit burnt out recently from school, and I’m hoping that this week is going to help that, although I have a test tomorrow that I don’t really want to study for.

No one on the roads

So pretty!!!

Look how deep the snow is, Ty’s not short…

I have been using some of my extra time wisely, I’ve started making PDFs of all of my patterns. Hopefully a much more printer friendly version for people to use. It’s been a bit of a journey, Ravelry has a nice list of websites that can convert documents to PDFs and I found a nice one that just copies what I have in my word document. I’m definitely learning a bit more of what Word can do now that I’m trying to use it for different purposes. It’s fun to make my patterns all pretty with pictures and graphics, I doubt that having more readable patterns will end in more people using them, but I guess it’s nice to know that the people who do will now be able to do it a little more easily.

I sold a hat on Etsy, and hopefully it will clear up outside so I can actually send it. No sales on the coffee cozies yet, which is kind of a bummer, but maybe soon. I keep hoping  that sales will increase to at least one per month, but it doesn’t happen. I’d like to figure out what to do to get more sales, more things in the shop? spend money on ad? beg? But I guess that would require a little more time/effort/money than I’m willing to put in right now. Oh well, all I can do right now is just keep knitting. Just keep knitting, just keep knitting, just keep knitting, knitting, knitting. My mom always says that, well, ‘just keep swimming’ from Finding Nemo.

Cold Weather Blues

So it may or may not have been almost a month since I last posted, but I’ve been pretty busy. School’s been good, but I’ve had so much weekly work that it’s been hard to do much else, I guess I should be thankful that it’s not weekly tests though. Work is great, I’m actually doing small projects that are a bit more exciting than what I did last semester, and the first time point of my year-long project is coming up in a few weeks. It will definitely be good to be focusing on one thing over the summer, just work, no classes. I might actually get the chance to do some fun things that I’ve been meaning to do.
Stitch ‘n Bitch is going pretty well. We’ve had a few more people join, although I have no idea where they came from because we’ve done absolutely no recruiting this semester. I finally taught my friend Ashley to knit, and Ty’s doing pretty well with his little project. And I finally decided to put the coffee cozies on Etsy, for five dollars each and cheaper when you buy more. Hopefully I’ll get a few sales soon, but I’m not going to make anymore until I get rid of a few. I’m making a replacement pair of fingerless gloves for Ty with sock yarn because his old ones are a bit thicker than he’d like. And I’m about to start fingerless gloves/mittens for my brother that I was supposed to make him last year for christmas. Although I kinda forget what he wants them to look like exactly, so maybe I’ll call him before I start them… And I have an idea for a sweater, kinda kimono-ish and purple and cable-y, of course. But I still haven’t gotten the cables quite right, but that’s what trial and error is for I guess.

Christmas!!

I only have one paper to write and then I’m done with the semester. It feels so good to be this close to finishing. We had our little christmas celebration tonight, with Alex and Will. We bought a bookcase for them, for their ever expanding book collection. They got us a night in, in a bag: a bottle of wine, lots of chocolates and some candles. Hopefully we’ll have a chance to slow down and use them, but probably not till after the break.

I’m also making Alex a pair of socks for christmas, and she’s buying some sock yarn for me to make more socks for her. I’ve had one more etsy sale, but not as much as I was expecting for the few weeks before christmas. Oh well.

We’re leaving for Boston on Friday, then we have a few days there, a few days skiing in Killington, christmas back in Boston. Then we have a week in Pittsburgh. I’m so excited for break, I really hope that I get a few things done that I’ve been meaning to do, especially rest. This semester has just about worn me out. I have to make sure to bring lots of yarn with me though, just something to keep me busy. Maybe a few more coffee cozies, still not sure what I’m going to do with them…

Happy Holidays!

Take 2

So I’ve gotten a bit bored with the coffee cozies right now… So I’ve decided that I’m going to try a second draft of some of the patterns I have up on here, just to make sure that they read well and don’t need some editing. And I might do some different sizes too, so that I don’t get too bored. Then I can just put the finished projects up on etsy. I haven’t bought yarn since the little extra I needed for my sweater, and it was a while before that when I bought yarn for anything. Which is sad, but probably good. I have a decent amount of leftover yarn from finished and forgotten projects.
I should probably figure out what I’m gonna do with all my coffee cozies. I was originally thinking I could sell them on campus, but the girl who owns the sidewalk coffee cart kinda scares me. And I could always sell them on etsy, but I’m sure that will be a lot less efficient. Oh well, I’m sure I’ll make more over Christmas break, so I’ll just wait and figure out in January. Laziness prevails yet again!

Etsy

Well I decided that since it was rapidly nearing Christmas, I better get up my odds and ends onto Etsy so that people can start shopping! I added six items to my store and I’m hoping that I’ll get a few sales between now and Christmas. I actually got one a few weeks ago, which was rather nice. I’ve been thinking that I might want to put up some of my coffee cozies, which I’ve been churning out recently, for lack of a better project, or patience.
Thanksgiving was great, we stuffed ourselves silly, and it’s always nice to spend time with Ty’s family, even if they stress him out. We ended up with half of the leftovers, including half a turkey still on the carcass, and nearly half of her pantry. But we never complain when it comes to free food. I didn’t get any work done really, but I was able to relax a bit. Unfortunately now that I’m back it’s surprisingly close to finals, and all that other crap I have to do before that. Oh well, that’s what denial and hugs are for.