moving moving

jose & i heard last week that we got an apartment we applied for in SE. this is exciting but also dreadful. exciting because our friend chelsea will be moving in with us (i imagine we'll be something like this), dreadful because i. hate. packing. this is what i have done so far:

wrapped up a smidgen of wall art to prevent scratches. and rather than move on to wrapping my breakables and stuffing them in boxes, i've decided to catalog our mugs. packing will make you do crazy things.

Bobbled Cowl

I love knitting with big yarn. I was able to whip this little guy out in a day and a half. I've wanted to knit myself a cowl for a while now, but I hate knitting stuff that's just a lot of the same. No measuring, just knit until you're out of yarn and you have yourself a scarf. Knit it in the round and it's a cowl. Booorrriiinnng. So, the day before yesterday, I wandered into my local yarn shop, Knitpurl (whose email list is less like spam and more like a rad knitting blog) to pick up some yarn for my new cowl. I needed something thick so that my attention span would last longer than the project, and I stumbled upon some very reasonably priced merino wool in so many beautiful colors that I could only narrow down to two. I took it home, and in a matter of hours I had this:

It was my first time knitting bobbles, and I have to say, they might be the easiest thing ever. This could be because I skipped all of the hard stuff my knitting books told me to do, but who can really tell, right?