The road goes ever on and on...

Maybe I'll manage to post more than once every 18 months.

I have finished the degree I went back to school for- graduated in May. I had two classes to finish the program but will have the last of the paperwork finished in the next week and a half. About two months after that I will be eligible to sit for the credentialing exam! 

The first thing on my to do list is to find a job in the field, I had to leave the bakery a few months back-it became more important to be awake between 9am-3pm than 11pm-7am. 

As soon as I have employment in place, I plan to find space in my schedule to craft regularly. I haven't had the time to sew at all, and knitting has been limited to simple, portable projects. I have a cardigan that is half done and yarn ready for another. 

Salto Socks

These are the Salto socks I was knitting in my previous post. It took a year to knit them because I did not keep track of where I was in the pattern and had to rip back several times. I finally found a row counter in the Stash to Go app the linked specifically to this project. That helped tremendously when I only got to knit for the duration of travel time to and from campus. 

So, this blogging thing...

It's been almost two years since my last post. I've been doing a lot of knitting, some sewing, but have not been spending much time on the internet. OK, not much time on the internet outside of Ravelry, but how else does a knitter keep projects organized?

I've been working overnights at an awesome bakery for the past 9 months, and as of January, I'm a full time student as well. After dealing with ill family, and my own chronic illness, I found a nutrition program at a local higher education institution. This semester I'm finishing up the pre-requisites that my bachelors degree didn't cover, and after I've completed the term, I'll be able to apply to the program. 

Carrying a full time hours as work plus full time credit load, plus care-taking responsibilities means I don't have much time for sewing, but I almost always have knitting in my purse or backpack. Socks are my go-to project nowadays. My current pattern is Salto, in the now discontinued color of Cranberry of Stroll Glimmer, though it looks like they have new colors. It's got more twist than the regular stroll I've worked with, but the Stellina just seems to make the sock look linty more than sparkly.