I’ve been taking the cabled rib hoodie to school lately, on the incredibly wishful thinking that I will actually have some time to knit. Time to knit? Ha! Between the…

• Need to run a pilot study, stat, or my advisor will kill me…
• Need to finish my lit review paper, stat, because it was due at the end of summer…
• Need to finish revising my journal paper, stat, or my advisor will kill me…
• Need to grade 60-odd student papers, after I finally cleared my desk of 70-odd other student papers and 70-odd essay exams…
• Need to prepare 3 hours worth of lecture for next week and accompanying review sheets, homework, and exam questions…

This is why I have a shrine to coffee on my desk. Or at least I did.

So it was silly of me to think I’d have time to knit at work. I’ve had more time to knit in the one preview before The Departed than at work.

You know what else was silly of me? Leaving the knitting in my office.

I can’t decide if it’s the knitting gods or the grad school gods that are trying to tell me something.

Grad school gods: You must go to work on the weeeeeeeekend…

Knitting gods: You must finish seaming Prentice…

Knitting gods: You must do penance on the Ombre Blanket…

Knitting gods: You must cast on for something new…

Hmm, I think I like that last one.

Although I have seen and held other people’s newborns relatively recently, I still have a hard time believing that anybody’s arms could fit into sleeves this size.

Little tiny clothes are amazingly adorable.

All that’s left for me to do is knit the hood and seam this baby together. And mail it off to Dulaan with the Target Wave Mittens. It seems that Debbie Bliss overestimated the amount of yarn needed for this sweater, at least for the smallest size, so I should have enough yarn leftover to make a matching hat and booties.

It makes me kind of sad that I’ll never get to see the kid who winds up with this wearing it, but at least he or she will be toasty warm, wrapped in thick Peruvian wool.

And I do have other people’s babies to knit for around here.

Pattern: Embossed Leaves Socks, Interweave Knits Winter 2005
Yarn: Fortissima Socka, #1004, 2 skeins
Needles: 2 sets 16″ Addi Turbos, US 1 (2.5mm)

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