Ok, So Maybe I do Procrastinate...

Since Saturday I have gotten very little school work done! ( I am going to finish today sometime, I swear! )  I did take down my winter bunting and decorated the fireplace for Valentines Day...

I did finish this WIP yesterday...  I started this piece this Fall and never got very far.  It was supposed to be a large infinity scarf. It has been re-born as a medium sized very tall cowl. It came out really cute! ( sorry, no finished pic, my daughter instantly adopted it and is wearing it at school today)  I have more of the yarn and I may have to make another for myself...

So in my procrastination on Saturday I decided to give this pattern a go! If you go to the site through my pin there is a link to the pattern, on the right, in the comments on the page. 

At first when I saw the pattern I thought, " What? "  The pattern is a graph. I have become pretty good at reading graphs, but usually they are accompanied by directions, in English...

The directions are written in what looks like Russian or something like it...  I thought what the heck and gave it a go after looking it over and translating the stitch symbols in my head...

 I really LOVE how its turning out! The picture doesn't do the colors justice, they are pretty shades of steely, blue-gray. ( it's really cloudy and dark here today so the light was not good for photos ) If you give it a go it is definitely more than the 14 rows it shows in the graph, I have kinda deciphered that you are to repeat rows 6-13, 9 times... I think,  it says 9x rz 6-13 amongst the Russian. I'm going with that...  I just found the 4 row repeat in the pattern and keep repeating it! I'll keep going until it's a size I like. 

I only had two balls of the color so I went off armed with my 40% off coupons and my Teacher Discount and went to Joann's Fabric to get more...  mind you it takes about a half-hour to get to this store, it's about 4 towns over from me...

I get there to find the yarn isles ( which are normally very well stocked ) greatly depleted! Just about all of the Amazing yarn colors were gone! Of course, the color I needed was gone! I found myself saying out loud," Really! I just drove all the way over here! "  The woman in the isle with me said, " I feel your pain, the colors I need are gone also."  There must have been some huge yarn sale this weekend I didn't know about... :(

Three stores and an hour and a half later I found what I needed 15 minutes from my house!  Seriously?!?! I paid more ( no 40% off coupons for this store ) but I grabbed them so I could finish up the shawl.  

I'm trying to stay warm... it's a bit chilly here in NJ right now and we are supposed to get more snow Tuesday night into Wednesday ( I have already jumped off the snow train, I'm done with snow, hit my quota for the Winter and would like Spring to come, NOW! )  I'm loving my tie-dye leggings! Found them at the mall while my daughter was shopping for jeans Sunday.  They're a knit and really cozy, Oh, and they only cost $5 bucks! Marked down from $20.00, only one pair and in my size! Pays to look around while your teenage daughter takes forever in the dressing room! :)

Well, I'm done sharing what I have been doing this weekend ( instead of the work I'm supposed to be doing...) I'm off to heat up a bowl of soup and see how much more of the shawl I can get in before I need to stop and finish loading my SGO data onto spread sheets ( Oh, joy...)

                                                       Mrs."C"  :)

UPDATE: as of 3:52 p.m. I have finally finished my paper work for school ( Yeah! )  I'm back to crocheting my shawl!  :)  Now they are saying the snow will start tomorrow morning now... oh,yeah...