I hate school.

OK...that's a lie. I actually love everything to do with school. However, I haven't had much knitting time at all because of this little thing called a senior honors thesis. It's due Monday. Which is why I am writing this instead of my thesis!

Things I've been doing instead of knitting:

1. Working on my senior thesis.
2. Eating French Fries.
3. Writing a stupid paper about how a stupid poem about a stupid forest represents the German soul. Sometimes, a forest is just a forest.
4. Playing Sporcle quizzes.
5. Nursing my aching wrists back to health.
6. Finding out what kind of cheese I am on BuzzFeed. (Easy Cheese, thank you very much.)
7. Reading all of the Yarn Harlot's books...she's coming to STL in March!!
8. Looking at my mostly finished sock in my purse...
9. Discovering bent DPNs in the pit that is my purse.
10. Discovering that said bent DPNs fell out of my sock :(
11. Sleeping. 

A bent needle found in the abyss of my purse.

Now, about that doggie sweater for Baylee. I hit a roadblock when I realized I was supposed to make a leash hole as I was decreasing on the back. The instructions say to make the leash hole near the top of the back. Now, if you are a good small dog owner, like Baylee's mom is, you use a harness to make it more comfortable for your dog to be on a leash. And you don't attach the leash to the collar. Therefore, I knew I had to put the leash hole more in the center of the back. Sadly, I do not get to see Baylee every day, so I had to wait until I could measure where the leash hole needs to be in relation to where her harness falls on her back.

I finally got see the little princess and measured her for the leash hole. And I found out I had to rip back 2.5 inches to make the leash hole :( Oh well. I did that this afternoon instead of writing about my linear regression results in my thesis...I was hesitant to put the leash hole in the middle of a cable, but I just couldn't stand to not have the leash hole perfectly centered. Sometimes all you can do is hope...

Here's something that makes me feel dumb. So each end of the back I am knitting is in stockinette stitch. As in, one row starts with a knit stitch, the next starts with a purl, and so on. I've been doing the first purl stitch wrong every. single. time. I thought that it was curling at the edges more than it should,. Turns out it's because I'm twisting every purl stitch at the beginning of a row. Wrapping the yarn around the needle the wrong way. I've been able to do a simple purl stitch since I was roughly 8 years old. That's 13 years! And I'm still doing it wrong! Thing is, I'm too lazy to rip it out and fix all those stupid purls. So I'm not going to. Muahahahahaha. Such a rebel. 

That, and since I'll be adding a ribbed edging and the underpiece to it, I think the curling will disappear...

I hope. 

I'll be a hermit for the next 48 hours finishing my thesis.

Happy knitting!

Ruth(ie)

Bonus photo of Baylee giving me her best bitch face side eye.