My room has become a lot more pleasant now that I've found some pretty organizey boxes, bought my heather plant, and discovered an excellent yarn store just off the Herengracht. It's important that my room be a nice place, because it's where my computer is, and therefore where I do my few hours of Newser work and 0-3 hours of school work every day. Also because of Skype, which is a lovely invention that makes me look, but not feel, like a telemarketer.
Knitting makes things a lot cozier, especially with the cooler weather threatening to unpack and stay a while, and so far I've finished a hat and a pair of gloves, which have just embarked on a journey toward mittenhood, so a picture of them in their finished-finished state should be coming up in about a week.
I started on the gloves at a meeting of the Amsterdam chapter of Stitch 'n' Bitch, which is composed of several nice Dutch ladies and a few American and British expats/students. I'm sure I could have found a similar group in Boston, but I never bothered; there's something about having lived for a while in a city that makes it harder, I think, to decide to meet up with a group of strangers and really make an effort to get to know them all. Since my friends from school here don't knit, and the only other people I know are my roommates and Dusty, who is in Utrecht, the idea of joining up with other knitters seems like a brilliant one.
Also, the bar at which the group meets makes very, very good hot chocolate.
2 comments:
Glad to see you're using your Target "recycle" bag. American companies are really jumping on the "green" environment bandwagon. Too bad they're 80 years too late.
i really like that tote...
K.
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