Here is the scarf that eventually got made from yesterday's yarn.  My daughter likes pink, what can I say.

Yesterday I listened to old episodes of "Knitting Pipeline." I when I listen to a "new to me" podcast I start from the beginning.  I'm in the 30's somewhere and she has over a 140 episodes so that is what I'm listening to if my regular shows aren't updated.  It's an audio only podcast but I like her soothing voice.  I like that she has kind of "been there, done that" with knitting.  She lives only about two hours (at the most) from me so if I ever go to a fiber event (I haven't been to any in a wile) I might actually run into her.  It's fun (for me) to listen to her talk about nature.  Living in Illinois all my life I can relate to some of the birds and weather she talks about. 

As far as crafts I finished plying the yarn I was making, it took longer than I hoped it would.  Many people finish their yarn but soaking and waking (hitting it against something hard to felt it a bit to set the twist).  I don't do this because I let time set the twist.  I don't think I have ever used my yarn less than a month after it's made.  Usually it's at least 6 months to a year.  I'm not sure if this is what I'm "supposed" to do but it seems ok so far.  One thing I didn't say about NerWars is that October is just one round and there are three rounds.  You can enter a project that is called a "dissertation" that at your skill level you think will take you all three months.  I plan on making my first knit sweater.  To make a dissertation you first have to submit a proposal with a swatch so I made some swatches for that.  The sweater I plan to make doesn't have my size listed so I made two swatches, one with the needles called for and one on needles the next size up.  Since the swatches are acrylic I'm going to throw them in with the next load of laundry I do.  I'm also going to talk to my team mates (who are more experienced knitters than I am) about the results of the swatch to see what the easiest way to size up the sweater.

Today is Kdrama day.  I'm actually not watching and dramas right not, I'm watching what is called a "variety show" called Running Man.  It is similar to what in the U.S. might be called a "reality show."  There are regulars and every week they have a celebrity guest (or guests).   They go to a land mark and play different games like trying to sing right lyrics to a song (if they fail they get a blast of air in the face), or quiz games (have to act out the word to get the others to guess it).  Some of the games are rigged and some are not (the audience knows what games are rigged but not always the contestants).  It usually ends with a hide and seek game where the hiding team has a mission to accomplish and the seeking team wears bells on their shoes.  There are some "in jokes" and some things are a little lost in translation but some things they do are so funny I almost fall off my chair laughing.  It's not the kind of show that everyone will enjoy and trying to explain to my husband or children why I'm laughing so hard is difficult.  Right now I don't recognize most of the celebrities but I think that will change as I get to more recent episodes.  (Yes I started from episode 1 and there are 160)

For crafting I am making spider bookmarks.  I made them for my daughter a few years ago to give to her class instead of candy for Halloween now it's my son's turn.  His birthday is the week before Halloween so they may go to school for that and give out pencils for Halloween but we will see.  I need to ask the teacher how many students she has but I figure if I plan on making 24 that should be about right.  I waited till today so that I could fit it in a NerdWars challenge and there is a perfect one.  One of the challenges is to be inspired by the zoo.  I went to the zoo in St. Paul (Minnesota) this summer and they had a whole tropical rain forest set up (it didn't have many fences) and they had one display with a big tarantula in it.  The other thing I want to do is work with some yarn I got from a club.  It's going to take lots of swatching.  It is variegated with very short color repeats.  Someone showed me a computer program that you can input how many stitches of each color so you can make it pool on purpose. I want to try this but I need to make some decisions on needle size and things like that first.  When I started getting into crochet and knitting I didn't realize there would be so much math. :)

Ah exercise. Eventually Tuesday and Thursday will be my strength days (push ups, sit ups etc.) but for now  I'm trying to concentrate on my walking.  The boxer type dog was very well behaved but I really would not like to meet any more dogs when walking alone.  There is a little field behind the apartment complex I live in and one of my sisters suggested, as boring as it may be, to just walk around and around it.  Not thrilling but it would solve my dog problem till I can figure out something else.  That's it for today, it was much longer than I thought it would be I hope that's ok.