Of computer bits and shawls

Several things have conspired against me in this past week. For starters, my computer decided to start making funny noises. It sounded like something was stuck on one of the fans, but when I peaked at it, I couldn't see anything, so I decided to leave any investigation for the weekend, when I wasn't tired and there was plenty of daylight.
Then I got a bad tooth. One of my wisdom teeth has decided to start hurting (and I mean really hurting, triggering migraines and all that jazz), so until I got my diet of painkillers sorted, nothing besides curling up in a dark room with a hot-water bottle on my cheek was appealing.

The good news are that I have a dentist appointment for tomorrow, and I have fixed my computer. Alex and I spent a while playing with it, unplugging different fans until we established that the problem was on the graphics fan. Conveniently, we had a spare graphics card lying around (as one does), and now my computer is quiet again, so I can be here more than the bare minimum.

Alex also decided to get the cleaning on, so we've spent part of the day taking the sink appart and resealing. Yep, it's as exciting as it sounds, and even worse. Thankfully we are done now (it's not actually that long a job), and I got some pictures taken of Ishbel. I wore it to work on Friday a loved it! It's an amazing shawl. I'm planning to make a bigger one, because it's just beautiful.
   

Also, I can use it for my next career as a highway robber!



My shawl was made using the Ishbel pattern, with 3 balls of Rowan Cotton Glace and 4.5 needles. It's a wonderful and very easy shawl, and I will recommended to everybody

Blocking Ishbel

Back in the life of the slightly less stressed and tired, mostly recovered from a week of family visit. I didn't have much free time at all, and what little I had was spent knitting some sanity, and enjoying the feeling of hearing myself think (in only one language!). And now I can present what I got back from that week (asides from plenty of arguments and irrationality, but those are less pretty).

Ishbel is now blocking, and I look forward to wearing it tomorrow. There might even be action pictures!

I think my blocking skills still have a long way to go. Maybe I should actually invest on some kind of blocking board, mainly for the guide lines, rather than just use my sofa.

Be squared!

Bottoms up continues at good pace. I might have it finished before Easter.

I picked up Sizzle after a long hibernation. It only had 2 cm left of knitting, which is already done, and the top is now blocking.


I got Whimsical Little Knits on the mail, and love it. I can't wait to start Ishbel. In fact, I did start Ishbel, and then discovered that my needles (4mm) made the fabric too lose, so I have to wait until I got to my LYS to start it again.