Knits

 

In approximately 3.5 months, this will be the view I take in as I eat my lunch and knit. I got the job.

I just need to await the official offer letter before giving my notice (3 months), then await a new working permit which may mean a trip back to the US to be issued with a new visa. I’m not sure about all of those details yet, but will investigate in the New Year. I’ll be living up Durham way. I’ve got a lot of planning to do in terms of finishing up my current job (catching up on 3.5 years of not documenting hahaha) and planning my move. In terms of where I’ll actually live, again it’s early days and I’ve not got that sorted. Annoyingly my current tenancy agreement comes to an end in early-March and the soonest I’d leave, if everything goes smoothly, is end of March and starting my new job in mid-April. I’ve already had a couple offers of places to stay over those weeks here in Oxford if my landlord won’t extend my agreement by a few weeks.

Anyway, it’s a great opportunity and I’m really looking forward to living up north. It is really far north. I didn’t really realise how far north it was until I looked up the latitude (54.7674 if you’re interested). Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is pretty close to about how far north Durham is for a North American reference. Damn, that’s far. And yet I still want to live somewhere in Scotland. It’s beautiful up there though and I can’t wait!

Just to keep things knitting related, I mostly finished My So-Called Scarf (that’s the old in-progress pic, but since it’s all the same and I can’t get a good pic, you get that one again). Need to give it a wash which I’ll do today. I’m trying to decide what my next large-ish project is going to be. I’d like to make a simple, boat neck sweater a la Breton Girl from the Fall 2007 Knitscene. I just like the shape, not the stripey-ness and would like to use the Malabrigo I got to make it. However, I don’t have that magazine and while I’m sure the pattern is actually really simple, I’m not capable enough to make it up myself. Anyone know of a similar pattern or can point me to a resource that will allow me to put together something like this? What I really like about that sweater is the neckline.

I also participated in a not-so Secret Santa Swap that was UK-based. It was a “trade from your stash” swap so the only required costs were postage. I got some really nice Fyberspates Alpaca sock yarn from Nic. I am definitely going to have to trim down my stash and not add to it with the move in the very near future.

I don’t think I’ll have anything else to post in the next couple of days so have a Happy Christmas to those of you that celebrate the season of Santa.

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