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my name is loreal. i just graduated from grad school (woot!), i have a cat as a pet, i like to make things, and this is my tumblr.
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New summer (cotton) sweater (Taken with instagram)

Taken with instagram

Homemade napkins / Thank you gift (Taken with instagram)

Layer basting (Taken with instagram)

Preparing for the quilt sandwich (Taken with instagram)

Quilt in progress (Taken with instagram)

Almost finished… (Taken with instagram)

Sweater continued… (Taken with instagram)

Restart (Taken with instagram)

decisions decisions…

There are two things that I’ve learned, quite recently, can help get me out of “the dumps”:

  1. working out - seriously, overcoming some sort of physical challenge (which working out becomes when i’m feeling kind of low) does wonders for my mood. ground breaking, i know.
  2. making something - today, it’s this hat (pictured below). it’s 8:30 pm, and i just finished the cast on (german twist method, thank you very much), but i plan on finishing it in its entirety before i go to bed.

and huzzah: dumps overcome.

[update (1/8/12): finally finished…three days later (i always underestimate how long it takes to knit things…]

Blocking a newly completed knit scarf (Taken with instagram)

definitely, definitely making this, though doing so would probably cost me just as much as an actual woolrich hudson bay blanket…

c/o purl bee

definitely, definitely making this, though doing so would probably cost me just as much as an actual woolrich hudson bay blanket…

c/o purl bee

Fabric selection (Taken with Instagram at Purl Soho)