It has been so long since I've posted that I just couldn't face trying to explain why... so I won't. Suffice to say that I've been busy and relatively happy while madly scrambling to find permanent work. That hasn't happened yet, but I've filled my time by being creative.
Immediately after not getting that job, I began a campaign of rebellion. For the previous eight months, I had dressed carefully every day, making sure that I made a seamless professional appearance. My rebellion took the form of my wearing jeans every day, and of my bringing out my funkier wardrobe pieces. I decided that I needed to knit something as a kind of statement of dissatisfaction, so I got my hands on some "Tibet" recycled sari silk yarn and made the Hippie Scarf , a pattern I'd found at Patternworks. I normally wouldn't order something out of a catalog, but desperate times call for desperate measures and I really wanted this finished product. I made the scarf in one day, and started wearing it to work. You leave a trail of tiny brightly colored silk threads wherever you go when you wear this stuff. My favorite part about this scarf is that the pure silk yarn makes it heavy, so it has great drape. Each end has a big tassel, too, so that adds to its quirky-ness. I couldn't get a good picture of the whole scarf, so follow the link above to see what it looks like on a model. I wear it with jewel-colored turtlenecks. Even though it's fuzzy and a little funky, it's lovely and I received a lot of complements on it.
Since summer has started, I've finished a bunch of other projects. I'll have to save writing about them until I can find my stash of photos. Even while I wasn't blogging, I was thinking about blogging and made visual records of what I was doing. I'm teaching online so I have a good reason to find a fast internet connection every day... now that I've broken the ice again, I can resume blogging about my knits and keep moving forward with my life adrift on the sea of unemployment.
I'll get over it.
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