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I’m going to spend a long weekend in D.C. next month to catch up with my best friends (who live in Florida and Virginia). I’ve never been, and I have no idea what I want to do while I’m there.
I’m am certain about one thing, though. I want to take at least one incredible photograph. Maybe two.
I have a sweater that has been lacking sleeves for over two months and an afghan that hasn’t been touched in weeks. I do intend to finish them as I have two future knitting projects in mind that I won’t start until I finish the u-necked sweater. (The blanket can wait as it will be part of a gift for a wedding that won’t take place until next year.)
I find myself clipping knits from advertisements and magazines in the hopes of duplicating the item. The two I want to tackle next are:
Alloy Trapeze Cardigan and Adam Shawl-Collar Sweater.
I’m not much of a designer, but I’ve found some patterns in magazines that I can easily modify. I’m deciding between a few cable patterns for a red trapeze cardigan, and I’m thinking of using Vogue’s flirtation cable for the sweater. I already have some beautiful copper buttons that I want to use, but I haven’t decided on the sweater color yet – probably a blue or green.
I guess I could say that, even when I’m not knitting, I’m thinking about knitting.
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sketch by Mike Thomas“The sketch is a short literary composition resembling the short story and the essay – similar to a preliminary study a painter makes. It needn’t have a beginning, middle, and end. For me, this tool was a way to inject emotion into my writing and to create more believable stories and characters.”
“Going back through your own life experiences and writing them down helps you (painfully, sometimes) to recall your emotions.”
“Sketch Your Way to Character Emotion” by Barbara Krasner
The Writer March 2008
**I will begin incorporating this idea as a weekly writing exercise (and therapy session) on my blog- Wednesday Sketch. Feel free to play along and include your own sketch through a comment. There will be no specific themes. Choose any emotionally charged moment of your life, and write. **
Jossip’s interview with Sean Lindsay, author of “101 Reasons to Stop Writing”
“The biggest problem facing the publishing industry today is that the people who should be buying the books are instead trying to write them.”
With graduation (finally) looming ahead, I’ve begun requesting information from several RN-to-MSN programs. I know that I want to be a nurse practitioner, but I don’t yet know how I want to practice.
In her article “In Search of NP Independent Practice” , Carolyn Buppert, CRNP, JD discusses NP independent practice and covers the kind of questions I need to ask myself when considering such a practice.
It’s worth at least a quick skim if this is something you might see in your future.
All this time I’ve noted and coveted the progress bars on the knitting blogs I peruse, but I felt silly even thinking about putting one up since:
1. I rarely work on more than one project at a time.
2. I’ve been in a knitting dry spell between work, school, and lack of yarn funds.
One bar is boring, and no bars is boring and pathetic. So I didn’t bother trying to find the right code. That is until MLE posted a handy link to Lickety Knit’s instructions, and suddenly…. ta da!
I have my own progress bar charting the progress of the cowl-neck sweater I started in the end of December/early January. That sweater has languished in a basket for two months without sleeves while I played with infant hoodies and cardigans. It was inevitable that I would run out of yarn. While counting down to the day when my paychecks actually belong to me again (why don’t I just endorse the checks over to the school?), I figured I’ll finish the sweater that is now useless for the next eight months.
“Next time you are in a major airport, look around and you may see nurses preparing to travel with patients aboard the same commercial airliner.”
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