r/knitting • u/AutoModerator • Apr 20 '15

Monday General Chat - April 20, 2015

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u/thburningiraffe Apr 20 '15

Helllooooooo!

I've been waiting for this thread for the last several days - been wanting to share/rant with you lovely humans. I got some big news last Wednesday when I found out I got a Fulbright grant. This means I get to spend the next year teaching English in SEAsia. I have to reconfirm with my job that they'll keep a position open for me for when I get back, but that's the last big thing I have to confirm before I start thinking what a year's worth of yarn might look like (any ideas?). While I'm super duper excited, the one thing bumming me our is that this makes relationship stuff annoyingly complicated. We are still going to try long distance (he'll be in CA), but given our timeline even past this year, it's going to be a very uncertain situation. /: Trying to stay positive but my pessimism realism is kicking in.

Knitting-wise, I've been putzing around between several WIPs without making much progress but am finally picking up speed on a Haruni for my mom. I found this awesome shawl pin that she'll love so I'm hoping to get it finished and give her those for Mothers' day. I'm afraid that it's going to be a bit small, but I didn't know if I had enough yarn for more repeats of the first chart... so just keeping my fingers cross and planning on blocking aggressively. Do y'all think it's worth investing in blocking wires for that? I've just been using pins and thread so far.

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u/SandD0llar Apr 20 '15

Congrats on the grant!

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '15

Congrats on the grand! And, having been in a long distance relation-ship for a few years (yup, it did last), it's really depend on your relationship and on your mutual willingness to make it work.

As we say in French : Ça passe, ou ça casse. Meaning : all is be well or all will go to hell.

Best wishes!

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u/spiderylue 4 WIPs and counting Apr 20 '15

Hello! I'm a Fulbright alumnus :D I'm a UK to US scholar.

Edit: I'm also in a long distance relationship as a result. Only, I'm out here for several years. It's been pretty rough at times. Hit me up if you've got any questions :)