A few pictures

I should preface this with a note: I don't, in any way, consider myself a photographer or even a possessor of knowledge about photography, digital or otherwise. Any nice picture I manage to get is pure, blind, luck. I mean, I'm familiar with some concepts about composition, but mainly I go by my aesthetic sense, which may be lacking and undertrained. So by posting photos here, I'm not saying "Wow! These photos r awesum guys, I am going to go do a black and white self-portrait at an interesting angle." They're just pictures that I took and happen to like. Let me put it this way - I know a lot more about knitting than I do about photography, and considering that my greatest woollen achievements so far have been a few scarves and a giant orange square, that's not saying much.

Anyway, these are from the cottage last weekend. The sky was a little overcast, but mostly sunny, so I have no idea how the colouring in these came to be. Maybe I had it accidentally set on sepia or something. I'd like to print these and frame them to hang up, to remind me of the lake even when I have to be in the city.







I particularly like the last one. It's kind of creepy.

Back in action (blanket action, anyway)

I haven't updated in, oh, a few months, but it's been really busy, what with final projects and exams and graduation and all that.

Anyway, I finally finished the orange blanket for the SPCA:



Cat is included once again for scale, and to demonstrate that it's apparently already feline-approved. I guess this means I'll need to wash it before I bring it in so that it doesn't look gently used, what with the cat hairs and all.

So that's one down, ? to go. The next one will probably be white, and I'll probably be knitting on slightly larger needles. This one was done on 4.5mm, I think. I don't want it to be too loose, in case it falls apart more easily or isn't as warm, but I'd like it to go a little faster than the first one did. Once I use up the white stuff, I might have to do some stripes or some patchwork-style, since I won't have enough balls of the same colour to make a whole blanket. There might be one in neon yellow, pink, green, and orange stripes - I'm looking forward to it.

Anyway, that's pretty much all that I've done in the last couple of months. Next on the docket, aside from the blanket, is a pair of socks, assuming I can manage to get them started without losing an eye or throwing the whole thing down in a rage (which has already happened once or twice).