Sloooow days

Hasn't been much to blog about this week. Finished Erin's scarf, and I'm well on my way to a finished tanktop (pictures will come soon!). Finally working today, haven't been much at all this week - so frustraiting. And that's about all!
Blog ya later!

Weekend on wheels

Sooo, Friday morning I got to take the long car ride to Toronto (and I've already learned I can't make good use of that time by knitting, I get kinda carsick). Spent the afternoon with a friend from school, went to a screening that was part of the Toronto short film festival - not bad. Had dinner with said friend and my boyfriend at East! (yum!), a restaurant right across from.. City TV I believe it was? Down by Much Music. Good times.

Now the main draw to Toronto was the event on saturday, the Rolling Rampage. Last year it was the most fun ever, me on my rollarblades, the boyfriend in his racing chair, and one of his friends also on rollarblades. We got to raise money and do laps around Queens park. Then watch all the professional wheelchair racers - I got hooked on the sport.
This year, the professional races were awsome. Toronto's own Jeff Adams was sooo close to winning! He came in second. (He's the fellow who wiped out during a demo of wheelchair racing at the olympics). Chantel Petticlerc won her race of course. Great fun.
Unfortunately, the Roll for Pledges was sad, sad, sad. Instead of getting to race around Queens Park like the pros, we had to do laps of a little tiny piloned off section - hardly enough room at the ends for the boyfriend in the racing chair to turn around. It didn't do much to help the stereo type of wheelchair users not being able to keep up with the able-bodied. I guess last year they had complaints of it being too long.
The boyfriend and I complained (I was heartbroken at the sad state of affairs), and most the organizers seemed to agree that this year was a bit off the mark. Admittedly there was much less turnout as well. We might try joining the committee to help organize next year's. So hopefully it will get better - it's only in it's third year afterall - and will do a better job at intergrating both the able-bodied and wheelchair-users into one event that everyone can feel proud of!

And that's my rant. I think I'll go work on cousin Erin's scarf now.

Who can't afford a library card?!

Me! That's who! To get a temporary library card (since I'm only in this area for the summer) costs $60! The whole point of me getting a library card was because I'm a cheap, poor student who doesn't want to be spending all my money at the bookstore (wonderful one though it is in town here). Yes, the $60 is returned at the end of my stay... but it... oh I don't know. I'm cheap and can't part with it.
The reason, I claim, to get a library card, is so I can read the necessary books to write essays required for certain scholarships (which really is important, and definitly a real part of the reason). Secretly though... I wonder what their selection is on knitting books...

Lazy Days

The restaurant where I'm working hasn't been giving me enough shifts lately, so I've been pretty bored. I'm trying to make progress on my list of Things To Do This Summer... but it's slow going. I'm worried about money; I've been applying for scholarships, and hoping my original plan of 'work this summer to cover rent for the school year' will still work out.

I frogged a scarf the other day that wasn't working (sorry Jim, I'll try again soon). Today I started cousin Erin's scarf - it's pretty cool, with a wavey pattern of increases and decreases that's fun and been knitting up fairly quicky (ahhh garter stich). After badgering her to let me know what style and colours she wanted, I promptly disreguarded her requests... at least my choice of yarn has her requested colours in it...


Erin's scarf in the works & baby sweater for Breena's almost-ready baby!

Thinking of knitting another cat toy today. I have pet store connections and might be able to sell the toys there if I can make a batch of them. I've found websites selling them for $5, so that's going to be my price too I suppose. Get this hobby paying for itself maybe (or at least making a contribution to itself!)

Because the world needs another knit blog...

Hi! I'm Laurie and this is my first blog, "Scared Sheep", because somewhere out there is a very, very scared sheep - this being a reference to my insatiable desire to knit project upon project!

I'm a film student (going into 3rd year) and can't wait to move back to Toronto in the fall. I first learned to knit about a year ago when I knit a scarf of my own design, which I now affectionately call "The Pinapple Scarf".

This past christmas I went insane and knit eight different scarves which I gifted to seven different friends and family mambers (the eighth being a little gift to myself).
Since then I've knit a small purse, another scarf, a baby sweater (Baby's First Tattoo from SnB Nation - I'll picture it shortly), cat toys, a bath mitt (I started & finished that one last night, and when attempting to use it this morning had an Incident with the dye running like crazy), and two cellphone cozies.


cell cozies - "mac sock" for the boyfriend, pretty yellow for me

Projects currently on the needles include: A tank top (weather's waaaay to hot to worry about finishing a knit tanktop anytime soon), another scarf for a friend who missed the chirstmas spree (I think I'll need to frog this and start over), a tea cozy (ran out of wool... I bet another 3 feet or so would do me...).

Projects on the waiting list are: socks for me, socks for cousin Erin, scarf for cousin Erin.... and possibly chirstmas scarves for cousins? (shhhh!) and gator mitts! Yay!