May Madness

In the past, May has always been the month I feel I lose control of everything and just hang on until the last day of school.  This year, it's been crazy, but in a much better way.  First of all, I'm not freaking out trying to finish a million reports and get tons of signatures on paperwork.  

So, here's a little of how the past week shaped up.

I found this awesome series on netflix called "Longmire."  Man is he a hunk.

I taught Imari and Danejah how to knit today.

I watched my student who is on house arrest completely freak out over rubber band bracelets.

I've continued to knit socks

I am doing cabled socks that are a pain in the butt.

And I'm getting ready to enter the Stash Dash 5K.  5468 yards of yarn knit in 10 weeks.  These socks will be my first entry at 207 yards when I sew the toe closed in the morning.  Technically, not cheating, but still cheating.  Stash Dash runs from May 23rd to some day in August.  You knit entirely from your stash.  If I wanted to just knit socks, I will have to make 22 pairs of socks.  Crazy, right?  I'm still going to give it a go.  I failed last year when that damn Color Affection ruined my life.  (LOL)

And luckily, these four beauties arrived on Tuesday so they count for Stash Dash!!

11 Days

11 school days left.  Eleven. 11. E-LEVEN.  I'm pretty happy.😜

So on May 31, I'll be free to do whatever I want--within reason.

As for now, I'm working on 2 more pairs of socks.  The ones below are another pair of Paton's Kroy Socks in Mean Green Stripes.  Compared to the last pair I did, this yarn is so soft.  I'm loving working on them.

This pair is out of Madelinetosh Sock in Kelp.  The pattern is Firefly in the Knitter's Book of Socks.  Some cable action going on in these.  I'm wondering if I should have picked a lighter color yarn so the cables would show more.  Perhaps the farther I get, the better they'll look.

And most importantly it was 91 degrees today and I had no air conditioning in my classroom.  And no windows to open.  And kids with coats on complaining about how hot they were. (Eye roll) And I have a painful rash under each eye 😳 from the heat and humidity that I can't get any relief from for the 8 hours I'm working. Let's just say I'm glad to be home with the air on and my clothes off (not completely, but I sure couldn't wear this outfit to work).  

And I turn 42 Friday.  (Sigh)

Solutions

So, I can't find my 9" circular needle I use to cast on my socks.  I've looked everywhere (except work).  I'm a little bit upset because that sucker wasn't cheap.  Anyway, I wanted to cast on another sock today and tried a stretchy cast on.  Well, it wasn't stretchy enough, so I tried something I heard one of the YouTube people say and I cast on using two needles.  Oh yes!  It works great!  Once all the stitches are cast on, pull out the extra needle and off you go!

I was able to get started on my Mean Green Stripes socks today and now I have 2 pairs going at the same time which seems to be good for me.

Here's the Opal socks I started last week.  The kids say this yarn is ugly.  What. Ever. Haters. 

And for the record, I'm not all that hip with knitting with beads.  I cast on the Twilight necklace 3 times today and messed it up each time.  Even when I thought it was looking great, it wasn't. So, I frogged it leaving the beads on the thread for a summer day when I have nothing to do but concentrate on bead placement and tension and and that mess....  And I probably needed a smaller needle. 🌷