What? It's the end of December?

I started on the Adirondack sweater for my brother. I got gauge! Yeah! now if I could only read the pattern right the first time. :P I screwed up the increases, so I frogged. It was only 2 rows. Now, having fully read the pattern, without the TV or dogs to distract me, I see where I made me error.

I started a sweater for Siris. It's super cute. I'm using Noro, and the pattern is from the book Stylish Knits for Dogs. It's a simple little turtle neck, but super cute with the Noro yarn. I think I may be spoiling this dog. Hand wash sweaters? Who has time for that? Apparently I do.

Quite day at the shop today. Hopefully knitting will get done. Then after work it's off to hit another Xmas celebration.

Tuesday night there was knitting. Yeah for knitting. Jenna showed up to knit with me. She even finished her socks while she was here.

I started the little dress that goes along with the Conception Sweater. Yes, I could have made the little rompers, but the dress is just too freaking cute. I've got one row to go and I get to start the eyelet pattern. I'd take a photo to share, but my head hurts and the lighting is crap and I'm just too lazy. So there.

I've started swatching for my brothers' sweater. And I'm doing it right, I cast on in the round and I'm knitting more then one inch. I hope I will be rewarded with a sweater that fits like.... well, like it was made for him.

I really want to cast on a little dog sweater, but I haven't yet. I just carry it around in my bag.

And on a side note, I am the QUEEN of Wii bowling. I can't bowl in real life, but I can get 6 pares in a row, followed by a strike. I rock.

Did everyone survive the Holidays?

Know what sucks? Casting on 300 stitches on a size 1 needle and knitting for 7 rows before you finally accept that you've twisted all your stitches.

Yeah. I didn't have a long enough circular needle for 300 stitches, and the only shop that was open only had the same size I had. So I bravely cast on and hoped for the best.

I went and bought a longer circular needle today.

I ordered yarn for my vest. I got the pattern fro that and the one fro my brothers sweater as well. I'm planning on starting that one soon, since I have the yarn at home.
So much for finishing all the other projects I have laying around. :D

How many?

How many Christmas's can one person celebrate? If I remember correctly, the first year my Hubby and I were dating we hit seven. Yes. Seven Christmas's. This year, we have only five to hit. And the fun starts today. Woo! I shall eat until I explode. :)

I have a new fetish. Eunny's Argyle Sweater Vest. I. must. knit. it. I'm thinking in Brown sheep Nature Spun Sport weight. In either a pink/green combo or a pink/brown combo. Or, to throw all caution to the wind, a turquoise/brown mix. Thoughts? Feelings? Nic will you help me steek? :)

On the sewing front, I just picked up the cutest dog sweater patterns. I shall be sewing Siris up some little jackets. Lucky dude.

I FINISHED!

I finished knitting all my presents! All that needs to be done is some weaving in of the ends and I can wrap them up. yeah yeah yeah! So Happy!

Now, I can start on whatever I want to knit. Maybe something for me. A shrug. Or some socks. *happy dance*

Hello? Is this thing on?

So, I may have switched to Beta. But we'll see.

So. Sick. of. Christmas. Knitting.

On a happy note, I got to meet Christy on Tuesday night. She braved the drive and my crazy assed dogs to come to stitch n bitch. Yeah Christy!

Um....

It snowed.

um...

Yeah. I got nothing.

So. Tired.

I am tired of knitting what is currently in my knitting bag. But I must. keep. knitting.

Why? Because it's for a Christmas present. Bah! I should be done within the next couple of days if I keep plugging away. But still. I want to knit somethign for ME! Or more puppy sweaters. :)

I want to make the Hug Shrug but I can't decied what to make it in. I have some lovely Lambs Pride in Lotus pink, or some Rowan Cork in Bug. At least I think it's bug. It's either Bug or Sour.

So... Hot pink or Lime Green?

I was thinking of swapping/selling my cork. But if I could get some use out of it, that would be good. And I'm sure there would be leftovers, and my dog could use a little lime green sweater.... right? But then again, I really like pink. :D

For Nic!

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or

http://www.wearyourart.com/Special_Features.html

You still looking for Silky Wool? They have it on sale here. :)

Siris has a Sweater!

I finished his sweater last night. Well, I have to do the sleeve steeks yet, but his little legs fit just right. I may hold off on those for awhile. It's also sized big enough that he'll grow into it.

PSA

Hey Nic! Do you think this pattern will work for all the WOTA I have? I think I have 21 skeins which would make it 2310 yds. :) Oh yea, your blogger hates me, I can't post comments. :)


So I had my brother steal some wire hangers from my mother, and her Hedra socks are blocking as we speak. I can't wait to see them dry. And to see if blocking really makes that big of difference.

I have an urge to knit mittens. Lativan Mittens. Maybe it has something to do with this article? I dug out my Folk Mittens and my Magnificent Mittens books. We'll see what I come up with. Oh, amd anyone can get me this book. I've been drooling over it for years. :)

Working on a little sweater for Osiris. It's out of some leftover lambs pride I had laying around. I think it's sized for when he's full grown. I hope I don't run out! It's getting to the very last bit of the skein. He may not get sleeves! :D

Other then that, just finishing up some projects before I start any new ones. I'd love to get all my stuff done before the first of the year, Well, all except the shawl. I'll never finish it that quickly.

Happiness is...

A puppy that needs to wear a sweater.

Christmas came early!

Finished!

I finished my Mom's Socks last night.

They're Hedra, in Knitpicks Sock Garden in the color Zinna.

Picture is crap.. the big blue counter doesn't seem to like socks.

I wanted to block these before my Mom gets them. I wanted to use the super easy wire hanger method in Stitch and Bitch nation. But, I have NO WIRE HANGERS! EVER! Weird huh? Not one single wire hanger in my house.

I may have to get some from a family member.

All I want for Xmas is...

A PUPPY!

Please Santa, please send me a bag full of unmarked 20 dollars bills so I can adopt this puppy. I promise I will be good and eat all my green beans and take out the garbage and stuff.

Whatever you have to do to get a puppy, I promise I will do.

Bright Lights. Big City.

I'm Famous!

Okay... well... I look like a total dork. But what the hell!

Random Thoughts

So. It's quite at the gallery, so I'm thinking maybe this would be a good place to work on the Viennese Shrug from way back when. I ended up frogging it because I screwed up. But here, where it's quite... I think it could work.


I have a couple loose skeins of Cascade 220 laying around. I'm thinking of starting Conception Sweater number 2 out of one of them. Do I make a green one (like Maya's) or a burgandy one? Oh, and I totally lied. I only started the conception sweater one back in May. I said I started it in January. I totally lied. I'm sorry.

What I really need to make are some arm warmers. My hands are SO FREAKING COLD! My little space heater is cranked and it's only 61 degrees in here. Which sounds warm when it's cold outside, but my hands...they are like ice.

I turned the heel on my Moms' sock yesterday. Now I'm on the downward spiral! woo!

Um... yeah. I got nothing really I guess.

Two posts? In one day?

So, here's what I knitted for the Knitty Another Knitted Thing Swap

FUZZY FEET! Knit out of ONE SKEIN of Cascade 220. How COOL is that? ONE FREAKING SKEIN!

Also knit out of ONE SKEIN of Cascade 220 is Maya's xmas present.

Since she's only two months old, I think it's safe to say I won't ruin xmas.
I used the Knitting Pure and Simple Babies neck down cardigan in 6 months Size. The pattern called for 400 yards of worseted weight. Now, how the hell did I knit this with only ONE SKEIN?? This is how much I had left from the first one.Three and a half yards.

It's magic I tell you. Well, my theory is that I didn't knit the hood. If I had, I would have needed more yards. I think it's a sound theory.

I think I may knit my next conception sweater out of the leftovers. It worked last time for me, so I hope it will work again. But this time I'm sewing buttons on right away.

Ive been knitting my Mom's second Hedra sock. And let me tell you. I hate HATE hate knitting heels. I like every other part of sock knitting. But the heel flap. It sucks. Sl 1 P1. Knit your way back. Do this one thousand times. ARGH! I think I'm half way done with it, so then I will be on to the fun parts again.

Up next to knit? An Ipod cozy for my brother. Because he claims I've never knit for him. Like eleventybillion mittens for his wedding don't count enough. Or something. ;)

Oh. And to prove we actually work around here....
Here's a picture of Cleo. Hard at work at the Gallery.

I knit!

I finished that pair of mittens I started last week. Finally! I knitted up the first one on Monday, and then the second took me all week to finish. Did I hit some weird quantime worm hole or something? How does that work? I also finished the sweater yesterday I was knitting for Maya for Christmas. It's super cute.

I'm sitting here at work surfing the net, with my dog. I should start knitting. I have to finish my Mom's socks one of these days. :)

Holy Cow!

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