heheh...

Hello SP!! *waves*

Thanks for the card! It made me smile. :D And the goodies. I like goodies. :D

Bad lighting.

So. Here's my new project.

And look at the pretty stitch markers from my secrete pal! I love them. I had to use them right away. :D
They're pretty dyed jade. Sort of a warm orange-y color.

Finished...

You want to see my orangina? I bet you do. Well here it is in all it's glory.


Yup. Tossed in a corner. I hate it. HATE IT!! It's about 3 inches too short. (I knit about 5 3/4 inches ribbing) and about 2 inches to big around. I'm pretty sure my gauge is on, I may have to check again. I love the pattern, I loved how it looks on everyone else. It just makes me look fat and frumpy.

To frog and redo? Or frog and swap away the horrid yarn and never speak of this again?

I wasted 2 months of my knitting time working on this beast! Argh!

Like I said, I loved the pattern. From day one this project was cursed.

No yarn this time...

I bought a swift! I got it with the 50% off Joann's code. Yeah! Now all I need is a ball winder and I'm set. :D

I"m almost finished with my Orangina. I've got about 3 inches of ribbing to go, and one side to sew up yet. I was getting antsy, so I sewed up one side last night. I think I bought too much yarn for the project. I've got three full skeins sitting there. I know I'll still be using one for the ribbing, but two extra? Was my math that off? Oh well. Better too many then not enough. I'll just swap it away or something. Maybe make baby hats? Who knows.

I'll post pics later today. I think I may day yarn since it's so nice outside. :D

Holy Cow!

My SP (Knitty.com SP7) rocks! I got goodies in the mail! Lovely goodies!

I'll post some pics this weekend, when the lighting is better.
Yeah me!

Ebay is the Devil.

Really. It is.
I've been bidding on yarn for awhile now. I should just break down and pay the buy it now price. But I won't! I will get it for cheap! I need to finish picking out the colors I want to order with Nic. I should be doing that instead of shopping for more yarn. Bah. But I do love this color. Oh well.

Hey Nic, if I pick the colors off of School House Press, will that work for the order? Or is there somewhere else that would work better? Also, the pattern calls for 50 gram balls. But really, socks? Do you think I need 11 50 gram balls? Could I get the 25 gram instead? Would that be a ton cheaper?

I'm very nearly done with the other half of my top. Maybe only 2 inches left to go. I'm so excited! I should go toss a load of laundry in, and then knit for awhile before I have to go to work. Maybe I should bring it to work with me, that way I can work on it during my lunch.

Knitting. An update.

So I measured my Orangina today, and I just discovered I was half way finished! Yeah! Thank the powers that be. And I've only frogged about 6 rows, because somehow I got off on the very last pattern repeat. Not bad if I do say so myself. *knocks on wood* This is the most exciting news of the week. I knew I was doing good when I added the second ball of yarn last night. I haven't had the urge to throw this across the room yet either, like I did on a daily basis with the other half. *knocks on more wood* I may actually finish this! *shock and amasment!*


I've picked up my SIL diaper bag again. It's nice mindless knitting. Since the little sprout isn't due until October I've got time, but I figured I'd rather finish it sooner than later.

Side view:

Top view:

I really like this shot. I don't know why. I also really like knitting bags, because the yarn have a nice place to live while I'm working on it. :D

Hrumph

Crabby Day at work.

What fixes that? Some Taco Bell, maybe a little cocktail, and knitting in front of the TV, watching my FAVORITE TV show on earth. Due South. Yes yes. Mounties are HOT. They're up to season three! Yeah! My hubby just got it in the mail via blockbuster online. I think I may need to buy them. I'm not sure I want to let on I have a mountie fetish. Think that will scare him away? :D

So. Yeah. Now you know my dirty little secrete.

Please sir, can I have some more?

Yarn that is.

I just got my state taxes back. Wooo hoo! I'm going to pay some bills and buy some yarn. Yes I am. But if my husband asks, the yarn just fell off the back of a truck into my arms. Yes. That is the story we shall tell him.

Now what to buy?

I know I'm getting more Baby Ull. And I really want some more sock yarn. Because Lord knows I don't have enough sock yarn.

Hmmm... Maybe I should buy some books I've been lusting after. That way I have things to make my yarn into? Hmm again.

owie

I think my uterus might fall out. Time to curl up with a heating pad and knit some more.

Stopped at Joann's on the way home for a row counter, and I picked up the most beee-ooo-tiful fabric. I'm going to make a summer dress (oh yes...) out of it. :) Very excited. Except I want to sew and my Hubby is in the craft room working. Poo. I guess I have to knit.

sshhh....

Don't look directly at it.

You might spook it. And it will seize up and I'll have to frog it again. I don't know if you can see, but it's at eight and three quarter inches. Apparently staying in bed all day and watching lifetime is just what this little project needed.


I better get back too it before I lose my momentum. Or the top figures out I've got it beat.

Blast!

I waited all weekend to go to Crafts Direct with my Mom to buy knitting needles. They didn't have the size I need! They only carry down to a 5 in circs, and a 1 in DPN. Blast and damn! So I have to hit the LYS before I go to work. Which means I have to get my butt in gear and get out of my jammies. Bah. I like my jammies.
I think Orangina is going to be the death of me. It really is. Michael will come him to find me dead in the kitchen, legs up in the air like a dead bug. It's plotting my demise as I sit here and type. It's evil I tell you. Evil!

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. :)