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!

What American accent do you have? Your Result: North Central "North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.
The West
The Midland
Boston
The Inland North
The South
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The Northeast
What American accent do you have? Take More Quizzes

Well.... Could they be any more right? :D

Hey you guys!

Nothing to do on a Friday night?

Then come and visit me!

Rogues Gallery Fine Art is having our Grand Opening Event!

FREE FOOD! FREE WINE!
Live Music! Art! What more could you want?

Well that was fun while it lasted......

Actual Knitting!

So, I realized it's been forever sine I posted any pictures. So. I am posting pictures today of what I've been really working on steady the last few days.

First up, the conception sweater. I've been working on this since..Oh... January. It's been a long haul, mostly because with this one, if it wasn't done right, I'd frog back and fix it. Trying to do this project right.
For example, last night I was almost ready to cast off, when I noticed I did the neck wrong. So I frogged back and I'm fixing it. Would anybody have noticed? Most likely not. But I would know.
Here's a close up.
I'm happy with the way it's turning out. I really am.

Next up is my doggie sweater.
It's hard color to photograph. It' that Fiber trends pattern, and I think it's called a Broken Rib.

Next up is the pattern I bought when I was shopping with Nic. I love this! Love it! It's super neat construction. You cast on the neck, and then increase, and then cast off the sleeves, and knit the body, which is where I am now.

So. There you go. Actual knitting content.

Dear Kate Gilbert,

I love your patterns. They are super cute and spiffy. But I am sorry, I cannot knit the baby pea pod sweater. I do not know why I have a brain fart and cannot follow a simple chart. But I can't. I'm a failure. I hope you can forgive me.

Yours,
Valkryie

Oh sweet jesus!

I don't know how I missed this....but thanks to Crazy Aunt Purl for pointing it out.
If they can't make it, with all the money in the world to buy them happiness...how can the normal folk make it?? why? Why cruel world??

Hehee!

Okay. Knitting content....somewhere...um...no.

Not today I guess.

What? Doogie is gay? Damn... how did I miss that one as well?
Okay... and how does Flavor Flav have SEVEN FREAKING KIDS??


Alrgiht.... I better go do something.... before all my brain cells die.

I need help.

I need a sweater pattern for a man. A tall man. I also need it to not be to crazy difficult, as I'd like to get this done by christmas.
Can I get someone to knit this for me as well? I have all the yarn...really I do.

Well. I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask.


Also, why am I the only one at Stitch and Bitch? I made a pot of coffee, and damn it, I shouldn't drink 10 cups, but I don't want to waste it. So. 10 cups of coffee + knitting = what? I'm not sure, and I'm afraid to find out.

Bah. Humbug.

I love Halloween. I really do. It's my most favorite Holiday ever. Even better that Christmas.

Why then am I not dressed up this year?

Because I've been so freaking busy I forogt it was Halloween. Yesterday I remembered, but at that point, I was not going to just toss a costume together, just to hand out candy to trick and treaters.

How lame am I?

Next year will be different. This I promise. I also promise to actually make those damn Day of the Dead sugar skulls that I've always wanted to make.

Oh yes. Next Year Will Be Different.

So excited!

Scout posted a little peak of the yarn she's sending me for the gallery. So pretty!
I should get the stuff sometime this week. Yeah!
I'm sure it will all be gone on Tuesday Nov 7th. The first Stitch and Bitch night.
I better squirrel some away for myself. :D

The Sweater that never was.

I frogged that damn thing. I think I shall burn the yarn and never speak of it again.
I just could not get it to work. I kept messing up the pattern. Now, I need to find another sweater pattern that I can use WOTA. grrr! I think I found one in the summer 06 interweave knits, I just have to work up a swatch to see if the yarn will work. I was too frustrated to do that last night. So I started up a little baby bonnet. Because that should be easy. I hope.

You know when something works out well... The skies part and the heavenly angels sing.... Yeah. That happened. I finished my Sizzle and holy hell it fits. It FITS! It really really FITS!! I love it. It's the first thing that has ever worked out for me.

So. Pictures to follow.

I started that xmas project the other night. It was going well, then I screwed up royally. I was knitted along and then added another ball of yarn and I started knitting the pattern on the WRONG SIDE! argh! So. After spending quit awhile frogging and re-knitting, I am finally back to the point I was on Friday, when I realized I had messed up. Two days to fix my mistake. TWO DAYS!! No angels singing on this project.

I pulled out my pink muppet sweater and started working on that again. I've got another 1/2 of a sleeve, and the cowl neck to go. If I keep up with it, I should have it finished this week. Yeah! I'm trying really hard to finish things, instead of starting things. But. I shall have to cast on something for my niece soon. The baby shower is on November 4th,and I have to have some knitted goodies done.

I got this free pattern at a yarn shop when I bought some cascade fixation, and I"m not really sure if the pattern in any good. I think it's completely screwed up. I've frogged it 4 times. It just doesn't seem to be working. You're supposed to cast on 27 stitches. And then *K1 inc 1 K10 inc1 *repeat to end, where you K1. Well, if you do that you end up with 4 stitches left over. I've tried it FOUR times. FOUR! The math just doesn't work.