Quick Update

Wow, its been ages since I wrote here. Well ages for me at least.
Well Denise has finally finished her exams, and assignments, and University. Yay. She graduates mid-December, and there will be lots of pictures posted to the blog of her in the graduation gown.
But since she's finished her exams, it means she's now over in Melbourne doing her legal placement. It's four weeks of working in a law firm to see how it all runs, what they do, and basically work experience, but it sounds fancier. She's having a great time (well except for being apart from me for the past 6 days and 6 sleepless nights), they've put her in the property law section, so she's loving it.
She's coming back for this weekend, where we get to celebrate Picnic in the Park together, as well as my work Christmas BBQ. Then back for another week of work, then I go over for a visit and some great shopping. I've got plans and an itinery. Bridge Rd, St Kilda Markets, and Queen Victoria markets (if we have time). And there's a party that Denise has been invited to.
So that's our life in a nutshell.
The rest of our life is in those little green bars on the side of the blog. You can see how many words we've written for the nanowrimo. I know I won't make it to the 50,000, but I'm aiming to get to 25,000. Next year when I have a good plot and my own characters to play with, I'll have a better crack at it.

Multi-Directional Scarf

Here's a dodgy paint-brush altered picture to show the knitting direction of my scarf. I know, there are thousands of better picture editing programs out there, I have plenty of copies of such software, however they all tend to eat into my precious hard drive space I use for music. Which is more important? Hmm?
Anyway, I put some further details in the comments to the last post in response to Tallguy. As you can see I'm not knitting with two colours at once, but more in rows of green then purple. When I start a new colour I have two stitches of that colour, and I increase one stitch on the outer edge, and pic up another on the inside. Two get the two colour effect, I've changed colour when I change direction. If you click on the picture you can see a bit more of the stitch detail.

Nanowrimo

There's a new icon that's popped up on our side bar. It's for Nanowrimo, or National Novel Writing Month which is running in November. The goal of the month is to write a 50,000 word novel. And that doesn't have to be 50,000 Pulitzer Prize winning words, but whatever drivel you can pull out of... well wherever you can pull it from. I'm a little behind my daily allowance of about 1600 words, but I'm slowly gaining momentum, up to 1400 in total. And its guaranteed not to be an award winning novel of any type. Denise persuaded me to try and get back into writing again after not having written for fun since the beginning of uni. Denise is also writing something and she's written about 3000 words. Not bad as she's studying for her exams too. Makes me feel soooo slack!
So the posts may be a little brief for this month, because I'm trying to focus my words towards my novel.
I'll make up with pictures though. This is the diagonal scarf I'm knitting at the moment. It's a multi-directional diagonal short row scarf. I've modified it for two colours, the original colour suggestion was to use a plain yarn or a yarn with a large verigation. This was some yarn I saw at Lincraft that just screamed out 'KNIT ME' and it's not often that Lincraft yarn does that.
Denise is knitting a wave pattern scarf out of two colours of alpaca wool. This is from an Alpaca farm we visited a few weeks ago.
And normally Frankie doesn't look this evil, but she was sitting on the bed, and I had the camera out, and this is the pose that turned up on the camera. Or maybe she's still annoyed at me for taking away her bug she was trying to eat. I don't mind her catching all the moths she can find. They are hatching from the pantry at the moment, and I still haven't found the source. And I prefer the moths to enjoy the taste of flour or lentils or popcorn, than all my yummy wool.