Flashing my stash.

Well, since everyone is doing it... why not? :D

This is most of my stash. The rest is still in the craft room. There is some random yarn in my craft room. And 2 totes of charity knitting yarn. That's a cloths basket full of acrylic. It's for babies, and toys and hopefully one day, blankets for homeless puppies and kitties. And this is a tub of cotton yarn. Cheap stuff. For dish clothes and charity knitting. Again.



Random bag of yarn. Bought to make my Niece a blanket. Other stuff tossed in to keep away from the dog.
On the left, that's a bag of wool ease. It's going to be dog sweaters someday. The cone is sock yarn I got on ebay.
Wool odds and ends. There's some lambs pride, and hand dyed. And SP yarn in there.




Bag of Mohair from a swap.


Box of leftovers. This is stuff that's stashed in my bed stairs.
More cotton for a baby blanket. And Wool for some mittens I never got to. And more baby acrylic. Here's the bottom stair. It's a blurry picture, but it's Knit Picks WOTA for a shrug that I've frogged 4 times.


So. That's all the yarn from my hiding places. Now I'll break down the tubs and bags of yarn.



From left to right. Lambs pride Bulky. I just got that last week, and I'm working on a sweater. The next is Knit Pick WOTA. It's going to be a shrug. Then KP Merino and Serra. Going to be baby sweaters.

The Blue on the left is Baby Ull. It's for that set I've been working on. I have the booties and hat to make. The purple is from a swap. Knit picks Shine. I think I want to make a little baby shrug from One skein. The Lambs pride is for Eunny's Vest. I'm working on swatching it.

Box of cascade 220. I got 15 skeins for felted xmas stockings. that just came in the mail last week.


Box of lace weight. I think it's all Knitpicks.

The blue is going to be a sweater for me. The pink is for a baby sweater for my niece and the green is left over from a sweater for here. Also in that box.

Cotton fleece. For a sweater I'm working on right now.

Next box, from bottom up is...
Jameson & Smith for vest for me.
Cascade 220 heather for a sweater for me.


And shine sport for a Hush-hush. For me.

Next box...
20 skeins of WOTA for a sweater for my brother. Firecracker Heater.

And more WOTA for a sweater I'm working on for Cleo.

Next box....
10 skeins of Jaeger. Bought off ebay for a steal. I hove no idea what to do with it.

And finally, my sock yarn box.


Knitpicks, Lorna Laces, Vesper, My hand dyed, Bernat hot socks, Patons, Yarntinit, Yarn Pirate, Scout's Swag,
And bought yesterday, some Toofutsies.


Whew!

I'm not dead yet....

But I do feel mostly dead.

After an evening not well spent, which is too icky to post about and after making my husband promise that if I died he'd A) take care of the Dogs and B) not re-marry for one year, I got an appointment for noon today. Turns out, I'm a special kind of lucky. I have the flu ON TOP of a kidney infection. Super keen.

So after a massive shot in the ass of antibiotics, some Tylenol-3 (with codin), anti-nausea meds, and more antibiotics, I am finally able to eat something, just now, pain free.

Now, I think I'm going back to bed.

Dude.

I totally got myself super sick this time. :P

Tue I discovered I had a bladder infection. So after work I went to urgent care, got my pills, and thought all was to be well. Thursday morning, it STILL hurts to pee. And, now, my lower back is killing me. And, I'm starting o get chills/sweats. So I go to the doctor again. She switches my pills, and tells me if I get a fever of 1oo degrees, I need to come back. That I should be feeling better by today.

Today I am home sick for work. For it feels like someone punched my in the kidneys. Ow. I'm even too sick to knit. (horror!) All day, home. No knitting.

This sucks.

Dogs in Sunbeams!

Spring=Mud

Mud = Boots.

My new boots?

How freaking sweet is that? I'm totally going to wear them everywhere. EVERYWHERE!! You hear me?

I started a new sock the other night. It's pink and yellow. Lorna's Laces I got from a super swap pal. :)



Remember this?
Well I finished it Thursday Night.


But I don't think it's going to work out quite as well as last time. So. On to the matching socks? Or a hat?

Oh how I hate you, Daylight Saving Time

And other such Nonsense.

Also, this could be titled "things my dog ate"

And by "ate" I mean that he has shredded them, or torn them apart, or unravelled them. Hopefully Not consumed too much of them.

18 rolls of toilet paper.
2 slices of pizza (those were actually eaten)
a kneadable eraser
a makeup sponge
Yarn. sweet sweet yarn. at least 4 skeins
8 buns. (again, eaten)
Kleenexes
A couple lame magazines
Some hen and chicks (plant...not fowl)
Wooden knitting needles
my knitting
the garbage

you know... I think I'm forgetting something...


Anyway. Knitting has happened. I made a puppy pi over the weekend. Its' super cute and I can't wait to toss Siris in it. I fear he may eat it.

I also am very close to finishing the little dress that goes with the conception sweater. Hopefully I will finish that tonight. I just have to knit the arm and neck edging, and sew 2 buttons on it.

Dogs in Sweaters

Well, this is the best pic I could get of Siris' sweater, which totally doesn't show the cables. But try to tel him that. :)

Also, a teaser for Cpurl.

As I was taking a picture, he had to stick his head in, and try to take the socks.

Well, that's all I got. I'm feeling icky today, so I'm off to get a heating pad and the TV remote. I thin it's a pizza for supper type of night. :)

Hubby's Uncle just came and plowed us out. Hooray! I think.... I guess that means I have to go to work on Monday. ;)

And today, I finished another dog sweater.

I'll post pictures tomorrow.

Snow Update

Today, the dog won't even go outside. there's too much snow. It's almost 10 am and she won't go out to go potty. Crazy Dog.

I get to stay home, on account on the fact that it woud take me 3 years to shovel out my driveway. So, I'm going to get a bunch of housework done, and the watch bad day time television.

Ahh... I love snow days.

Snow! More Snow!

That's the view off of my deck. Lots of snowy goodness. And more to come.

And I'm totally prepared. Last night I picked up two bottles of wine. :D

They let me go home early from work, so I've changed into my jammies, and I"m going to go sit in front of the tv and veg out one bad day time tv. I can't wait. :)

WoOt!

This is what I did when I got my Package from the Lovely Cpurl17

Well, maybe I didn't jump THAT high... but still.

And you would too, if you got the socks I did.

Seriously. It's like she climbed into my head, and pulled out all the fluff, and made the most perfect socks for me.

And, there was chocolate scent body wash (which I used last night... love it!) and Candy! And pink and brown yarn! Soooo soft.

Thank you so much! I love them. Seriously. I really do.

Woo hoo!

I just got the best package ever. EVER!

Socks, candy, yarn Oh my!

But the batteries are dead. So I will show you tomorrow. I promise.

Thank you Cpurl17. I love them. You are too good to me!

I'm totally all about cables suddenly. It's like.. all these years of being scared of them, I've secretly been wishing I was knitting them. And now... boom! Cables. All the time. On the brain.

I want to make this sweater so badly. I just need a baby to fill it, since it appears that my brother is turning down my offer to knit for his baby. Freak. I told him to pick a color, I'm ordering yarn. Today. That was at 9 am. Did he get back to me? NOOOooooO! So, Should I pick out my own color, or say screw it, and knit one as a conception sweater part 2? I'm leaning to the second option. Crap! It appears that knitpicks has lost my account. Bastards. I hate hate hate filling in order cart info. They said they have no record of my email address. And this stupid fucking keyboard won't work! It loses like... every third letter. Hate it!

I'm filled with anger tonight. Anger and cables.

Ha. I ordered some for me. ME! I got some lovely purple yarn. You can't go wrong with purple.

Off to knit more on my Zen Socks. ;)

yes! Snow!

Snow means I can sit inside and knit. That I don't have to feel guilty about it. Guilty that I should be vacuuming because hey, it's snowing out!

I finished a sweater for Siris. It's cabled even! (go me!)

Yeah, well, You can't see the sweater too well. But aren't they too freaking cute?

Yes. Yes they are.

I am going to finish my sock pal sock this weekend if it kills me. I finally finished turning the heel, and I"m on to decreasing gusset for the foot. Very Nice. CPURL17 you WILL have a pair of socks! I promise. :) I got dumped on once in a swap, and I totally would never do that to anyone. Guilt knitting! Well, it's really not that bad. I just hate knitting the hell flap. Once I turn it, I'm good to go.

I just wish I could be watching a nice movie on TV, instead of the nephews playing video games. Oh sweet Jesus! It's repetitive.

Pics for CPurl17

So, here's proof that I've been knitting.
And here is my Buddha hanging out with the sock. Here's the toe. And, a hair. My hair, not a dog hair. Really... it is. I promise! :D

The second picture shows the color closest to the real on. At least on my screen it is.

Catching up!

So I got tagged with that 6 weird things meme. So here goes.

6. I'm left handed. While that's not WEIRD weird. It is weird. Esp. when you're sitting in class, discussing how they think lefties are twin that absorbed their twin in the womb, and you're the only lefty in a class of 25 students, and they all stare at you horrified. Good times.

5. I married my husband twice.

4. I tend to leave my toe nails longer than most people. Not tree climbing long, but longer then most. I like to polish them dark colors, and they look better if they're not stubby short.

3. Ever see the show Bullshit? (It's good) After watching that show, I totally have the hots for Penn. Freak? you bet. But then again, I like tall, intellectual men. :D

2. I'm always cold. Always.

1. I think my left ovary is the only one that works. I always get ovulation pain on that side. Like, since July of 06 I've only gotten the pain on the right side once. ONCE! Hello, ovary, would you , maybe... I don't know..... work?

There. If you made it thru this, and haven't done this thing yet, consider yourself tagged.

But I'm not dead yet!

really. I'm not.

Just been super busy with the insurance company, and temp at a place.

Here's the highlights:
Finished one sock on Sunday. Cast on for another. (cpurl17!)
Siris went in for his neuter today.
I finished then back of his new sweater. Holy crap I finally got cables.

um...

Yeah. That's it I guess.

Blast Again!

Well poop.

I had the money for The Rocking Socks club, but then they returned it, and now... I'm close. But not quite.

Oh well. I'll live. I'll just live vicariously thru Nic. ;)

Blast!

Some knucklehead broke into the gallery last night.

No art was hurt, but they stole some cash, 2 digital cameras, a cell phone and smashed up our register.

Bah.

I'm going to go take a hot bath.

Crazy Funtime.

My husbands' birthday is tomorrow. So I decided to make him a cake. Not any cake, a VOLCANO CAKE!! I'll be making it tonight, then freezing it, as everything I read about cake decorating says frozen cakes hold up better. Then I'll be decorating it for Sunday, when we're going out with the family. Now I can't decide if I should bring it to the restaurant where we're going to eat, (and possibly embarrass the hell out of my husband) Or, bring the family over for cake afterwards. I even found little dinosaurs to put around the cake. I think I may place as many dinosaurs on the cake as he is old, but that might be too many dinosaurs! :D I guess I'll just have to see how it works out. I'm super excited to make it. Seriously, I've been looking forward to this all freaking week!

Tomorrow, I think we'll be going to a gallery opening, and having super at a restaurant near the gallery. Never been to either place, so this should be fun. I hope.

CPurl17 This one's for you!

Because I am LAME and forgot my camera at home, I must show you links. I am sorry for that. :)

If you love any of these, great! If not, don't feel bad, I will keep searching. :)

Artyarns? It's like this one, with a little more purple, but not as much as this one.

Scouts' Swag? appletini? Bluetini? Storm Surge?

Yarn Pirate? Tangle? Rosie? String Theory? Earth and Ocean? Inferno? Sweetheart?

Any colorways you see there that you love? I've got quite a store of Scouts Swag and Yarn Pirate. So let me know if you see anything that makes you drool. :D

Dog sweater status

I finished a doggie sweater, and I"ll be sending it off to the GPA arts and craft fair. Because it is too big for Siris, and I'm a sucker for helping out animals. We looking at getting a retire racer, and this way I can still help.

Siris has some new jammies. A matching pair will also be sent. Hopefully I can turn out one more set before I have to mail the stuff off on Friday.

Felted Dog Bone

Currently, all I have is a picture of it pre-felted. When I get a post-felting picture I'll up load that.

Knit and Felted Dog Bone Pattern
Worked in garter stitch (knit every row)

Model knit using 4 strands of Knit Picks Palette in Petal. 2 skeins used.
Gauge is oh…about 4 stitches to the inch using size 11 needles. Bone is 15 inches long pre-felting.

Loosely cast on 3 stitches.
KFB, K KFB 5 stitches.
KFB knit to last stitch KFB 7 stitches.
Knit 5 rows
KFB knit to last stitch KFB 9 stitches

Place this part on a stitch holder, or just slide it to the back end of one needle.
Repeat for other side of bone.

Knit across one completed half, cast on 2 stitches, knit across second half. 20 stitches total
KFB knit to last stitch KFB 22 stitches
Knit 2 rows
K2tog knit to last 2 stitches K2tog 20 stitches
Knit 3 rows
K2tog knit to last 2 stitches K2tog 18 stitches
K2tog knit to last 2 stitches K2tog 16 stitches
Knit 1 row
K2tog knit to last 2 stitches K2tog 14 stitches

Knit 30 rows

KFB knit to last stitch KFB 16 stitches
Knit 1 row
KFB knit to last stitch KFB 18 stitches
KFB knit to last stitch KFB 20 stitches
Knit 3 rows
KFB knit to last stitch KFB 22 stitches
Knit 2 rows
K2tog knit to last 2 stitches K2tog 20 stitches.

Knit 9 stitches, bind off 2 stitches Knit to End. 18 stitches
Working on one side, K2tog knit to last 2 stitches, K2tog 7 stitches
Knit 5 rows
K2 tog knit to last 2 stitches K2tog 5 stitches
K2tog K K2tog 3 stitches

Bind off loosely.
Repeat for other side

Make 2 bones, sew them together before felting. Leave a small opening on the side so after felting you can stuff it.

Felt, Stuff, sew closed and enjoy!

Copyright KellyNelsenDesign 2007. For personal use only. Don’t sell this or pass it off as your own. It’s not nice. Karma elves will get you! If you really, really love it, you can show the love by hitting that paypal button. If not, that’s cool too.

How I spent my Sunday Afternoon

Well, I've gone and done it.

I made up my own pattern. And as soon as I'm done test knitting to make sure it's correct, I'll post it here. 'Cuz I love to share. :D

Oh, It's not a sweater or anything. It's a felted dog toy. Yup. That confirms it my Crazy Dog Lady status.

*faints*

I just scored some Vesper Sock yarn!!

YESSSS!!!

Fine.

You WIN blogger.

There. You hear me? YOU WIN!!

I give up. New templates all around. At least I can see the writing on this now.

I. Hate. You. Blogger.

I hate you with a passion. Why did you screw up my header, causing me to accidentaly load up a fresh new template? Thus causing me to lose everything? I blame you as well for Ringsurf saying I don't exist.

Hate. You.

Work damn it!

Knitting? Here? Me?

Well, I have been knitting. All my knitting is int he car, and It's cold and I'm lazy so I will take pictures later. in the Dog sweater KAL, I dusted off Cleo's sweater, and, well, that's about it. Though I did cast on another little sweater. Not sure if I'm making it for Siris or to donate. I guess we'll see how it goes.

I've been knitting like mad on the Morale Builder stockings. They will take me forever! size1 needles! ack! I think I've got about 8 inches done.

So, instead of knitting pictures, I shall post dog photos.

Mom,

I totally look silly in these jammies.











And this is how Siris likes to sleep. Curled up ON Cleo. Notice she is not amused. :)

So cold!

I am freezing today! I'm actually wearing long johns (tops and bottoms) under my clothes today. Bah! Too cold!


And speaking of cold, I got the sweetest pattern for little fleece jammies for Siris. I went to Joann Fabrics, and they were on sale, but STILL out of the one I wanted. Pissed, I ran over to Hancock Fabrics, only to discover they were on sale there too! Yes! So. I think I shall be sewing jammies this weekend. I already have a buttload of fleece. :)

Starting on the Morale Builder Stockings. I shall be knitting these things forever! Size one needles! Yikes! Oh well, they will be worth it right? I just hope that my legs aren't too chubby for them.

Not much else going on. Pretty dull here today actually. But it could just be the cold. :)

Proof Positive

Because I am a lemming.

I love dogs. I love sweaters. I love knitting. What could be more perfect?

Not much to report today.

I haven't checked to see if my muppet sweater is dry yet. It should be by now.

I bought yarn when I went to visit Nic yesterday. I have yarn to make those lovely Morale Builder stockings. Love them!

Dogs are crazy.

That is all.

Guess what's blocking!

The conception sweater! I finally blocked it. Since I was blocking my pink Muppet sweater, I figured I might as well block that one too. Yeah for blocking!


I have to keep the door closed to the spare bedroom, as the dogs think it's really, really super fun to jump on the bed and lay down on wet sweaters. Whatever. Weird dogs!

I can't wait to wear the Muppet sweater. I think I may have to were it tomorrow when I go to visit Nic. :) Yeah for fuzzy pink goodness. yeah for finishing something on January 5th this year! My last finished project of the year was on February 7th, so I totally rocked it this year.

lap cold?

You need a puppy to keep it warm!

Puppies are good for keeping laps warm.

Except when they fart.

Pink Muppet Sweater!

Remember the pink Muppet sweater? I have 1 row to finish, then bind off. Then block and weave and I'm done. DONE! The pattern is from Interweave Knits and the Yarn is Cherry Tree Hill in Cyclamen. I didn't bring it with today, Ill finish it when I get home and hopefully get it blocked right away. I want to wear it soon! So Fuzzy.

Best. Youtube. Ever.

Seriously. I don't normally do this. But watch it.

I should change my blog name

to dogs in sweaters. Because that's all I post lately. :)


I started this on the 29th and finished it on the 30th. So that's my last completed knit for 2006. And that brings my count of finished things to.... *drum roll please* 29 things.

Here's the break down
mittens: 2 pair
felted diaper bags : 2
baby hats: 9 (I think... I may be missing a couple)
dog sweaters: 6 2 for Siris, 4 for other dogs. None yet for Cleo. :(
baby sweaters: 3
Socks: 3 pair
Scarf: 1
Vest: 1
Random other things: 2 (wings and a bear sweater)

Things I knitted for myself... 1. Sizzle. How fair is that?

2007? Really?

Holy Hell, where did the year go?

I can't believe it's January already! ack!

No much happening as of late. Went to Space Aliens last night to celebrate my nephew's 8th birthday. Played some games and got super sick off the food. Fun Fun fun.

I finished the little sweater I started. Go me! I've just got to wake Siris up to take a photo of him in it. I'm kind of curious to see how many projects I finished this year. I've got them all written down, and most have photos in my knitting journal. But to sit down and count them up?

Hmm.... That could be interesting. Any bets?

Hershey's with brownies tastes like ass. Don't eat them. They sound good, but they are not.

I woke up with a migraine today. I feel like ass. It sucks. I really wanted to stay in bed all day today. I probably would have if my Hubby hadn't moved the TV out of the bedroom. I would have just stayed in bed and watched Buffy all day.

Crap! Now I think my digital camera just died. Just want I needed! It's got weird lines running across the screen, and they show up when I bring the image on to my computer. crap crap crap.
I've still got Xmas money, but I wanted to spend it on the Socks that Rock club. New camera or more yarn? I made a goal of not buying yarn for a month, and the socks that rock club doesn't count....but I really need a camera. The one I have I got... oh... for Xmas 97? I think. So I know it's time for a new one....