As it happens, this quarter I go to lecture for 2 hours MWF mornings. I sit in the back, take notes, and knit. I'm not taking the class; the notes are for research. That's WAY more time to knit than I'm used to, but it's a special kind of knitting.
I can do easy projects. Cables, yes. Worsted weight, yes. Stockinette, yes. Anything requiring a chart, no. Sock yarn, no. Large projects that take up more space than my lap, no.
Because of last year's stash diet, my stash is tiny. We're talking could-fit-in-one-gallon-ziploc tiny. I've run out of worsted weight yarn. I've run out of small projects. I have some Noro socks on the needles, but size 0 is just too small to bring to class (bad lighting). I have a mitered square tunic vest on the needles, but it's too large to fit in my lap. I have a felted laptop bag, but I ran out of yarn and had to special order more. I finished my Clapotis.
What to make! I'm frogging some of a Peace Fleece sweater for reknitting in lecture. I think I'll make some gloves out of some gorgeous purple Wool Bam Boo. Gloves are a great gauge swatch, and I might want to make a Picovoli out of the same yarn. Then... then I'm out of yarn. Perhaps the laptop yarn will have come in?
za*po*sa: 1. slang, noun. one who zaposes or is currently zaposing. 2. noun. a distractor, particularly one of no use. (ex: I skipped work and instead looked at a zaposa.) See also zaposa.com
