Suddenly illiterate

I picked up a couple knitting/crochet books in Japan while I was there, although I can't read Japanese. I figured if I could do origami based off pictures, I could do some easy projects based off of visual schematics (nice logic, k). Besides... the books were so pretty and not-expensive that I couldn't resist :) [later I went to Kinokuniya here and looked at the same books... they were $5-10 more expensive!]

I started one of the patterns today. I have this thing for slouchy hats. I don't know if I will be able to do it, but I like trying to figure things out trial-and-error style, so we'll see :)

This is the cover of the book I'm using. It's called Apwoa;soj Knit Item :) Actually the first character looks familiar but I forgot what it is.

This is where I am so far! Looks like a woolly doily. Haha.

I'm so bad at finishing projects I'm almost finished with. I'm almost done with the lace shrug, but have to weave in ends. I need to finish installing the zipper on my fanny pack, then knit on the D rings. Then I'm done!

My winter break is now more over than it is begun ;.; I only have one and a half weeks before school starts again... It's hard to believe I started out with four weeks to do whatever I wanted with. I don't know what's happening to the time! I lost it all to snow.