More Yarn?

Do I really need more yarn?

Yes. Yes I do. On my lunch break on Wed, I ran to the LYS and got some Baby Ull. It's lovely. Then Friday, after I deposited my paycheck, I bought more Baby Ull online. And I want even more! But, I'm going to wait until my color card comes in the mail, so I can pick out lovely colors that will look good in real life, not just on my computer screen.

My Mom is coming for a visit on Monday, so we're going to the craft store. Her for scrapbooking, me for knitting needles. I swear, every time I start a project, I need to buy more needles. You'd think I'd have every size ever made. But no. Of course, it could be because I'm venturing into baby knitting, and I need size 0. I didn't even know there was such a thing. Dear god that's small.

And, I just bid on some yarn on eBay. Argh! My husband is going to kill me. I better start knitting faster. And making him more pretties. I've got a ton of acrylic in the basement, I should make some baby blankets out of that. That would take up yarn. Or a thousand baby booties. Maybe that's like the thousand paper cranes. You knit a thousand baby booties and you.... get a baby? get a wish? go crazy? Who knows.

All I know is that I need to organize my craft room. Because it's a mess, and I can't find anything and my husband took over a corner and I need to keep my yarn and fabric from eating him alive.

Oh Nic, here's that yarn I was talking about, but couldn't remember the name of. Hill Country Yarn

Maybe I should go do something productive today. So far we have gotten one thing done, changed all the drawer pulls in the kitchen. Yeah! That only took us a year. Literally. We closed on our house one year ago today. :D

I shall Endeavor to persevere

So I frogged all of my forward progress from the past couple days. And I'm trying again.

Apparently I can't knit while waiting at the doctors office. I thought I could. I made good headway. I was cruising right along. I must have been so nervous, that I couldn't spot the mistakes. Ah well. You live, you learn. Next time it's something simple, like a sock. Or better yet, a scarf. I can't screw that up. Well, then again, I most likely could.

Mother Trucker!

That's it. I quit.

I was knitting along when I found ANOTHER mistake, way back towards the beginning. I just am not ment to make this top.

Now I either have to swap away the shameful yarn, or find something new to make out of it.

excuse me while I drown my sorrows in a pint of Ben and Jerry's

KAL suckage

So, I'd post a picture of my KAL, but you could just look at the last one. And imagine it a bit smaller.

After getting quite a bit done, I noticed I added some stitches and it was growing bigger. So I ripped back....Oh 4 inches or so. Then last night, I noticed a few rows back I forgot a yarn over. So I ripped it back even more. This pattern is not hard, it just requires me to not talk to watch TV, because when I do, I miss a stitch and don't see that until eleventeen billion stitches later. I almost frogged the whole thing, but I'm going to be stubborn and finish it. If it kills me. And it just might.

In happy news, I got to dye some yarn. And it's pretty. And I will post pictures later this week. Those will be happy photos. :D

Project update

So I started my KAL project on Friday night. I think the yarn is lovely. I may have to change my mind about knitting with cottons. I'm using KnitPicks Shine Sport in Turquoise. I love it! It feels nice to knit with. :)

That's my progress as of last night. Not bad considering I frogged in Sunday morning because the lace was off. If I'd only pay closer attention when I knit.....

Hubbies socks are coming along. I think I'm going to run out of yarn. :( I measured last night and I have 3 1/2 inches to go until the toe decrease! Three and one half! I think I'm going to have to start the black yarn sooner then expected.
So that's the projects I've been working on over the weekend. I've got some cleaning to do, and I have to walk the dog, and then go back to work for an hour, and then grocery shop before I can knit. I better get busy!

OOooooOOO!

Yarn!

It came! It finally came! Yeaaaaa!

I started my Turquoiseigna last night. Only got a few rows before bed time. But, we're heading to my parents, so I'm planning on knitting in the car. Woo!

I hate you row 19!

Hate! I say!

I was knitting along on row 27 when I noticed that I was off. A bit. So I had to frog it back to 22, since the mistake was on row 23. Then, I frogged it more, to row 18. Why? I don't remember. Anyway.. After screwing up and frogging row 19 twice more, I finally fixed it. I think I'm on row 21 now. So much for getting ahead in my knitting.

So after all that mess with my shrug, I picked up my husbands socks and FINALLY turned the heel. Woo! And there was much rejoicing. Much. Let me tell you, that heel took forever.

Forever!

But it's worth it because they're so pretty. The pictures are dark because the minute I went to take the photo, it starting to rain. Bah! Go away rain!

Anyway, that's the knitpicks dye your own yarn that I dyed back in November. I love how it's making little swirls around the leg. I'm using a pattern from Sensational Socks and I really like how it's turning out. I'm bringing it to work so I can work on it during my downtime/lunch break. Hopefully I can hide somewhere and knit. I don't think I have anything on the books today.

Pictures? I got yer pictures.

First, a photo of the puppies.


Aww..... Two little matching puppies. So cute. :)

Then my new project.
It's the Viennese Shrug from IK Spring 05. And I learned TWO new things! Two! Marvel at that with me a moment.... ahhh..... I learned the provisional cast on method (see... Pretty orange yarn) And to read from a chart only. OoOoooo... So amazing!

I think I'm almost ready for my birthday sweater. :)

Still no yarn. :(

But that's okay. Because I have enough projects to keep me busy. :D

I frogged my Shimmer. Again. Then I started something new. I'm completely happy with it. Completely. I shall post some pics of what I'm doing. But first I must clean the house. :D

Hello? Yarn? Where are you?

I get so antsy when I order yarn. I talked to the ladies at KnitPicks yesterday and she said it would be shipped out yesterday. So I know it's on it's way. :)

I got my pattern today. So I think I'm going to go pick up some needles before work, and I should be set.

Go me!

Shh... Don't tell my Husband...

I bought more yarn. :D

I'm going to knit in the KAL. I'll be doing Orangina in a lovely turquoise color. I had to fill up the cart to get free shipping, so I got some more sock yarn. Which will either become some lovely knee high socks, or a Clapotis.
I'm hoping to finish up a scarf today, and decide what I'm going to do with my Shimmer. I've frogged it once, and I'm still not sure if I really like it. I like knitting the lace patter, but I don't think I'll get much wear out of it, being to 'dressy'. So, I think I'm going to frog it again and try something more like the pink shrug in IK summer 2005. But, with longer sleevees. Maybe.

Oh dear....

If you're squeamish, don't look at the following photos. They're not pretty.....





I found this is my living room. I think it's a nose.....or at least... WAS a nose. Off to the distance is the rest of the body.


Here's the full scene... Again, you better have a strong stomach...

Off the the left is the little brown bow the victim was wearing. And you can see the stuffing has been removed and tossed about. There was more stuffing on the other side of the room too.

Here's the close up of the damage. The eyes were not found. Soon after these pictures were taken the murderer returned to the scene of the crime and removed the body. Thankfully, we were able to catch her with the body.


Case Closed.

Meh.

I feel better today. Better. Not well. But better.

Tomorrow is my mostly day off. Mostly because I have to volunteer at a women's event to drum up business. GAO! I hate doing stuff for free. This event is not going to bring people in. That's all I have to say about that. :P

I also get to go drink coffee with Tonia, and I plan on squeezing her baby. Because he's cute.

As far as knitting goes, I cleaned out the stuff that's been sitting around, and I'm working on finishing a couple small things, like my scarves that have been waiting for too long. I also tossed a ugly sweater that I will never finish. Go me. Live lighter and all that.

I'm putting in an order for yarn with Nic. Yeah yarn. I can do my fair isle sweater now. :) Go me. I'm so excited.

I supported my LYS today. Even if they don't have eveything I want. I bought a Dale of Norway pattern book. I want to make many many things out of this book.
I'm thinking of doing a Knit Along with the Sexy Knitters, so I might just order some yarn to make something cute out of this book. We'll see how the paycheck looks on Friday. Must pay bills before one buys yarn.

Ack!

Why am I up so late? Who knows. I'm sick and I feel like poo and I really want to be sleeping. But I can't.

I think something is seriously wrong with me. I have to be at work from 10 am to 8 pm tomorrow. yea. Right. That's going to happen. Now just to decide. Do I skip training? Go in for a little while? Hit part of training and take the facial I know is already on the books?

Ugh. At least I'm not throwing up or coughing up a lung. That kind of sick sucks. At least I got some knitting done. But I'm all out of meds now. I may have to leave the house tomorrow.

Sick sick sick

I'm sick with ick.

But, that means I get to knit. So I finally finished both of those doggie coats I was making. The only things I need are two more buttons. I either lost two or miscounted. Each coat requires three buttons. I can only find four. Oh poo. I need to run and pick up size 1 knitting needles anyway. So it's not a huge deal. But I'm home sick and can't leave the house, so I guess I'll do that tomorrow before my shift. Now I can't decide what to work on. I should keep knitting away on my hubbies socks. Those have been sitting for awhile. I'm still working on turning the heel on the first one. :P But I really want to start knitting with the new genitive's yarn that came in the mail. I want to start Merey's diaper bag soon. The faster I get it done with the better. Then I can use that to hold all the little baby sized things I want to knit. :)

Yeah for new yarn!

As we speak some new yarn is on it's way to my door. Yarn for socks and yarn for Merey's diaper bag. I am very excited.

Hey Nic, I need yarn advice. Have you ever used Jamieson & Smith Shetland wool yarn? I'm think of using it for a fair isle vest I'd like to knit. They have such lovely colors. Any thoughts? Or suggestions? The vest I picked out is from vogue knitting winter, anniversary special... Um... 4 years ago? I don't know for sure. It's just a simple vest. Lets' put it that way. I want to do it in lovely cholocate brown, with pinks, yellows or oranges for the pattern part. It's pretty in my head! Pretty I say.

Now, but to cleaning the house. Hoepfully I'll finish soon so I can knit. Of course if I won't spend all my free time shopping online, I'd have much more knitting done.

So I just found out the Knitpicks dropped some of their prices on yarn. That's right. DROPPED their prices. So, of course I need to buy yarn.. Right now I've got enough yarn to choke...I don't know. A Brontosaurus. So do I really need more yarn? Probaly not. I've picked out eough yarn to make 8 pairs of socks. (that's 16 balls of yarn folks) That really doesn't help the resolution I made to myself awhile back. Buy yarn for projects. Big projects. Like sweaters. Not scarves or socks. See, if I spend 47 dollars, I want to be able to make something BIG! Not 8 pairs of socks. Eight!

Oh well. Maybe I'll get some yarn for socks, and then yarn to make a felted bag for Merey. Because she needs one. Because she got the preggo bug too.

Hmm... Just can't decide. Maybe I should wait until I get my paycheck, since this week has been very slow, and I've only made 7 dollars in tips. :P

Hmm again...

Ho-hum

So I got 7 baby hats done. Not too bad if you ask me. :)

I'm packing for my cruise (I'll be gone the 4th thru the 11th) and so, of course I need to pack yarn. I've been thinking about packing my birthday sweater. (Hello Nic! I love it!) I'm going to have to sit down with the pattern again and see if I dare bring it on my trip. Other wise I've got my hubby's socks, a scarf, (or two) cobweb shawl and crop sweater to finish. Maybe I should pack a couple of them to work on.

Decisions!

Now the baby can come.

Why do I only have 3.75 hats finished? Because I was finishing this bag for my friend Tonia. She's having a baby any day now, and needs a cool diaper bag. Not a ugly plastic Poo on. No. A cute knitted one.
So I finished it last night. As you can tell by the lack of proper lighting. The shower is today, in about 45 minutes. I've wrapped it up and am just going to get socks, then I'm on my way. I can't believe I did it. Now, I must get off my butt and knit more hats! Holy carp! Only 5 days left! (yes. I did mean holy carp. It's funnier that way.)

woo!

One baby hat down. Seven to go.

Small setback with an I-cord, but I'm overcome that hurdle and am pressing on. I don't think I'll have any chance to knit today at work, wich makes me sad, but I do get off at 5pm, with no plans for the evening, so hopefully I can get half a hat done tonight.