And now, a finished knit!

Back in November, when my son was in the hospital, and the Sanguine Gryphon was splitting up and selling off their yarn, I bout a skein of Mayhem in Bugga. I had plans to make my mother a gift, as she likes red and black.  After searching Ravelry for something that fit her style, I came across the Brass and Steam pattern.  And it was perfect. (and free!) I was hoping to get it done by mother's day, and for once, I beat the deadline! :)

I hope to get some better pictures after I give it to her. I wasn't feeling like modeling it yesterday.

So the yarn count is as stands
Knitted -1
Sold 0
Bought +2 ( a destash of bugga from ravelry)
Past Total -34
New Total -33

Hey, I'm still doing well. :)  This weekend is YarnOver in the cities, and I'm going. I can't wait! I would like to buy some yarn, but I have no plans.  I can tell you I won't be getting very much if I do, maybe enought for a sweater for my son, or something I can't pass up. :)

Busy Saturday

J had his first preschool birthday party today. It went rather well! You'd think he's be passed out, but he's sitting next to me just talking and talking and talking about how I make him pick up his toys and he doesn't like that.

Kids. They're weird man.

I almost fell off the yarn wagon this week.  Verdant Gryphon had an update that included the colorway Osiris, and well, I had to have it.  And I bought some naked bugga for a project I'm collecting. I did have $$ in paypal from destash so I wasn't feeling too badly, but when I logged into Ravelry after buying the yarn, there was someone wanting to buy a older destash of mine. So, that totally worked out.  Then I picked up some of the special edition yarn from Sharon at 3 Irish Girls, and suddenly, again, there was a request for some of my older destash yarn. I think it's a sign I was meant to buy the yarn. I'm still ahead for the yarn out/yarn in money wise. :)

And! And there's more! I finished my teal sweater I've been knitting, so that's 4 skeins of cascade out. I'm pretty sure I bought that the first summer I worked at CD, so that's over 3 years old!

 I'm hoping it'll be dry by morning, I want to wear it to work tomorrow.  I've got it under the fan, with it on high. *fingers crossed*

I'm only going to count the yarn that has been paid for as of right now.

Yarn Knitted -4
Yarn In- +4
Yarn Out  -10

 Last Total -14

New Total -24!!

Holy cow! I'm rocking the destash! 

I also cast on some new socks today. It's some 3IG. Watermelon Chiffon. Loving it so far, I hope it's not going to be too small. I cast on 60 stitches.  I think the next size up was 72 stitches, and that seems a little big. We'll see.

Wed update

We've got the winter crud here. So not much exciting is happening. A lot of laying on the couch and staring at the TV. While the cold medicine was working yesterday I knit some. And! After 7 yrs of marriage, my husband has a PAIR of hand knit socks. Finally! :)

I knit them in Hazel Knits yarn in the Sassafras colorway. First time using this yarn, and I LOVE it! Very nice stitch definition, and super nice colors. Love. I shall be buying more. :)

 This is the best picture I have on them as of yet. It is one of me modeling them. What is super exciting is that I was able to get a size 13 pair of socks out of 1 skein of yarn! There is 16 grams of sock yarn left. whew!

So! That's a skein out!
Yarn Destash 0
Yarn Knitted 1
Yarn In 0

Total -14

I also joined a Mini skein swap.  I'm cutting up a skin of my bugga into 22 mini skeins. In return I'll get 22 different  bugga colors back.  I've never done of of these before, so I'm kind of excited to see what I get back. I'm thinking I want to make one of those cute ripple blankets, so we'll see. :) 

Blogging More.

Yup. I'm trying to blog more.  I get mad when my favorite bloggers don't have new posts, so I'm totally going to blog more.  Not that I really and truly believe and anyone out there is waiting for me to post more...but. Still.

Look! I made a hat.  It's a hat for a brand new baby. M's coworker and his wife expanded their family, and I love knitting tiny baby hats.So there is a new tiny baby hat. Yeah! I snapped the picture just before I stuffed it in the bag to give to them.

So, that's another skein of yarn out! :)

Yarn Destash 0
Yarn Knitted 1
Yarn bought from destash 1 (yarntin sock)

Yarn total -13

I also wanted to show off my big super spending just for me me ME! Gift to myself. :)
I did some commission work, and I counted these when I bought them in Jan. But here is my Vday Bon Bon set from Verdant Gryphon. And I am in love. :) It wasn't from budget money, and I destashed more out then in. So I can totally be guilt free about it, right? I feel like I don't deserve it. But really, what else would I have spent extra bonus money on?

Quilt Top Done and some Knitting!

So I finished the quilt top for our bedroom. It's Swirly Girls Design pattern called "Equal Rights" There are eleventy billion triangles. Holy crap that was work. But I"m super happy with how it turned out. Now I just have to save up to get it quilted. I know a lady that rents her machine out and teaches you how to quilt. So, that's what I"m going to do. The backing is the light colored one with dots. I love that one. I'm not sure what I'm going to bind it in yet, but that's a ways off. I tried really hard with this one to just 'let go'. I tossed all the printed triangles in a bag, and just pulled them out and stitched them up. I would put one back if it was the same one I had just pulled out, but other than that, I just sewed. When I sewed the rows together, I tried to just do it. I wiggled a couple around, if there were too many pieces that we close, but again, I just tried to go with it.

On the knitting front, Sock Knitters Anonymous is back for a 4th year in a row! This months' challenge is hard for me. Black or white is the color of the month. Which I thought would be easy, but I can't find a patten I want to knit! WTF? So I'm going to do a patten by the chosen designer instead of the color challenge.

I think I'm going to go toss a load of laundry in, do the dishes and then skein up my yarn. I've got a sick kid at home, so it's just been a lazy day. If I have to watch Thomas one more time, I'm going to lose it. :)