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Month in review: February

Here we are, the end of another month, and it’s time to assess the old goals. I have to say, February is proving to be a somewhat tempestuous month for me, given the last few years. Extreme highs and lows, great days and abysmal days… Even with the happy events that happen in February, I’m just really quite glad that it’s a couple days shorter than the rest.

As you might have seen over the weekend, I finished my second of a hopeful twelve pairs of socks for the year. These socks should not have taken as long as they did, but life and other knitting got in the way a smidge. I’m optimistic that March’s socks will zip right along, as there’s a couple of non-sock projects I want to knit soon. I also knit a small shawlette for a swap partner. And I even almost finished a Destroyed Cowl (Rav link), but February is determined to end on a lower-than-middle-C note and that turned into a debacle. It’s a really fast knit, though, so I anticipate I’ll be showing it off soon.

secret swap projectThelonious Socks

My other big goal for the year is not to buy yarn. I did so very well this month. There was an opportunity to snag a couple of skeins in a new colorway series by an indie-dyer friend of mine, but I resisted (she’s promised me they’re not going to be retired any time soon, hence the willpower). I did enter my name to a lottery for a skein of yarn—those chosen were asked to donate $50, which would go to Doctor’s Without Borders, following the disastrous Christchurch earthquake. However, my name did not come out of the hat, so I did not buy any yarn.

There was some transmutation happening at Chez Panda this month. Over the last couple of years, I’d stockpiled a small fiber stash, intending to spin it myself on my drop spindle. Well, time and knitting and frustration with spindle-spinning have interfered with those planes, so I asked a friend spin some for me. She spun up this lovely superwash merino fiber from Gherkin’s Bucket into a fantastically squishy yarn. Now I just have to figure out what to do with it.

Gherkin's Bucket FiberIMG_1257

I don’t want to be entirely down on February. It can’t help that planets align strangely or the weather is insane this time of year, nor can it take credit for any of the awesome things that happen, but I do have to say that I will not be missing this month. Oh well, February, there’s always next year.

8 Comments

  1. You made it through! That’s what matters!

    I like having a short month because it usually means I have leftover money. A shiny new external hard drive is winging its way toward me because of that. Hooray!

    • threadpanda threadpanda

      Yes, yes I did make it through (not that there was much doubt on it from this end, just with lots of discussion of drinking). 🙂 i had a little extra money, hence my purchase of a Geek necklace. i still need to get a new cable for my XHD; I’ve only had the MacBook for over a year. :p

      • *ahem* Are you not backing up your computer? Do I need to get on your case, too? *raised eyebrows* What kind of cable do you need?

        • threadpanda threadpanda

          I would like to be backing up my computer, but I can’t afford a new XHD and haven’t had time to go looking for a new cable. My current cable works with the Firewire port for an iBook; my MacBook has a different Firewire port. So I need to find a cable that works with my XHD and my current Firewire configuration.

          • Can you take it into Best Buy and have them find the right cable for you?

          • threadpanda threadpanda

            Probably, I just have to actually do that.

  2. naelany naelany

    I think from this, you’ve done well with February *hugs*

    • threadpanda threadpanda

      Thank you! I was a little more prolific this month. 🙂

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