WIP Party!

Maybe you're the perfect knitter who finishes everything they starts and even weaves in the ends as soon as you're done knitting.

Maybe you don't have any works-in-progress (WIP) that have been "in progress" (read: sitting in your knitting basket for at least three months without being touched) for ages with little to no actual progress being made.

If you are, then bully for you.

I am NOT one of those knitters. I try to be. It's cost-effective -- if you've ever bought new needles for a new project because the size you needed was holding a WIP, then you know what I'm talking about, space-efficient, and you actually get stuff done. I just get too excited about new projects or something comes up. Is anyone else panicking about Christmas knitting?

So I've decided. Enough is enough. I am going to complete or frog* every WIP currently on my needles before starting something new. At the start of this WIP Party, I had 7 projects on my needles. From oldest to newest:

The Sweater Vest for Grandpa Jack:

Cast on July, 2010. Frogged November 18, 2011.

Cast on August, 2012.

The Blanket for Curtis/Living Room:

Cast on March 23, 2011.

The Bird Mittens for My Grandma:

Cast on November 11, 2012

My Haleakala Socks:

Cast on January, 2013.

These have actually been lost (found just today!) since about April, 2013.

My Ernie Socks:

Cast on March 12, 2013.

Cast on March 12, 2013.

My Pirouette Socks:

Cast on April 14, 2013. I think these are heading for the frogger...

My Pretty Sweater in Purple:

Cast on September, 2013.

Cast on September, 2013.

So, here I go! Anyone care to join me in my WIP Party? Feel free to post links to your WIPs (and their completion!) in the comments below.

*What's frogging? Frogging is when you take a project off your needles, unravel it, and either start over or use the yarn for something else. You rip all that hard work out (and sometimes your heart goes right along with it). It's called "frogging" because you "rip it, rip it, rip it" and that sounds like "ribbit, ribbit, ribbit". And because "frogging" is cuter than "tearing out your soul one row at a time".

New Apartment! (And Some Graduation Photos)

Here I am in Bellevue, huddled at my desk while the sounds of battle rage around me. Swords clash, guns explode, and everyone is shouting, grunting, groaning.

Curtis, supposedly trying to get some work done on his
accounting class.

Or it's Sunday and Curtis is playing some role-playing monster-defeating game on the PlayStation.

Either way, I'm mostly moved into the new apartment in Bellevue! I officially moved out of Walla Walla last Monday (May 23, 2011) and have been moving into the apartment since then. It's been a very, very long week. My mom came and helped me on Tuesday and we plowed through almost all of the boxes, but now I'm stuck with all of the things that I don't quite know what to do with. And the closet. It's sort of a disaster area, but it's obvious (to me) that a lot of progress has been made.

Also, as I'm sure you guessed, the blanket for the apartment that I hoped to have done so I could move in with it... not done. I'm hoping by July 4.

Once everything is set up, I'm going to try to make a little video of the apartment and I'll upload it to YouTube. For now, you'll have to be satisfied with these pictures of the mess.

Kitchen. The sink is in the middle of this island. Can you see it? Me neither.

Living/Dining area.

Living/Dining Area.

Front Door and Kitchen.

Bedroom. We now have a bed frame, bedside tables, and the nice bedding. New pictures later.

Bathroom. We desperately need some shelves.

I suppose I should also put some graduation photos up here, though I think my dad has most of them on his camera. But here I am, in all my graduation glory:

Whitman! Here's to You!

I'm the hat second from the right.

I'm the hat second from the right. Again.

Aaaaaand.... Diploma!

So that's all my news for the past two weeks. I've been packing and cleaning in Walla Walla (I get my whole deposit back!), graduating, and unpacking and cleaning in Bellevue. I'm sure there will be more graduation and apartment pictures soon.