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| Monday, June 21st, 2010 | | 1:58 pm |
And while I'm at it: I've been doing plain sockses; they're easy, mindless, give me something portable to work on, and I end up with NOO SOCKS at the end of it. I have discovered: I lurve Flusi (Regia). THe colors are awesome, and the socks feel nice. I hate Fixation. THe socks are comfy enough, but I deliberately wasn't knitting because I didn't want to work with the yarn. Once i finished those, I started on the Roundabout socks, using Happiest Girl dyeworks yarn in Nebula. LOVE the colors. The yarn is not plied as tightly as I'd like though. Pattern is in my project list on ravelry, if you care to find it. Jeanie: Actually been working on this when I'm not feeling like working on socks. The pattern's easy enough so I just have to pay attention to the makes and drops. Rogue: It's summer. Yeah. Not really working on this. :/ Also, I need to put several parts on stitch holders and I just haven't gotten around to finding them. | | Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 | | 10:36 am |
Carmen Bananas progress
Carmen is done; I haven't stitched the face embellisments, but I'm not sure that I *want* to do that either. I probably will at some point, but C tends to pick at stuff like that, so... I'm not sure. Her undies and shirt are done also. C: Mommy! What are you DOING? Me: *putting shirt on Carmen* I finished your monkey's shirt. C: You finished her shirt! Now she's not naked anymore! Me: You're right, she's not naked anymore. C: *tilts head, gives giant smile* Did you knit that for me? Me: *dies of cute* Yes, I did. C: *holds out hands* Mommy, can I play with it please? WIN. If I can finish the cardigan (minus buttons) and the poodle skirt, I will consider myself a finisher. | | Saturday, February 13th, 2010 | | 10:02 am |
Knitting Olympics/Ravelympics
Carmen Bananas. https://www.knitpicks.com/cfkits/kit_display.cfm?ID=40114It's for the little one. My commute and job take me out of the house about 12 hours a day. I get to see her two or three hours a day, and I miss her horribly all the time. My commute also just doesn't give me much time to knit, so I picked up the kit because it's on sale and it's something small. It's also a more complex toy (with accessories) than I've done, so the real challenge is, I think, actually getting it finished. And hoping that the small DPNs don't totally tear up my hands while I'm making her. That's about it. I finished one leg last night, and cast on the second leg. With any luck, I'll get through that today, and be able to start the body | | Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 | | 11:24 pm |
Progress?
Made a Druplicon hat for my brother in black & white and gave it to him (early) for his birthday. Knit a couple of rows on Jeanie tonight while watching Sanctuary and Next Iron Chef. Have this idea to make fingerless gloves for Signing Time Rachel. Have less of a giant cramp in my side because thanks to the Purlescence ladies, I no longer sit stupidly while I spin. Spun up some Lisa Souza superwash that is JUST GORGEOUS and I'm totally thrilled with how it came out. Shit, I need to do pictures sometime here! | | Sunday, August 9th, 2009 | | 7:29 pm |
Progressy stuff
Jeanie - almost through the first skein. I wound the other two today with the intent of keeping it all together so I can have it for the Paris trip. Socks - Finished the monkey socks, cast on the Hedera-esque socks. I'm going to modify that just a touch even, because Hedera is lace all the way around. Hedera-esque is only one repeat of the lace pattern, and 60 stitches isn't enough to fit around my fat calf, much less the rest of my food, so I added a dozen stitches. We'll see how that goes. Xmas gifts - one hat, one pair of mittens done. I have another hat done, but it's not going to match the coat, so that hat will go elsewhere for xmas. I'll have to do another hat and come up with some sort of trim yarn that'll match it. The pair of mittens that's done has most of the i-cord that'll attach to them done, I need to knit another 4 inches of that which won't take too long. It's dull 'right before bedtime' knitting. Yeah, that's about it. | | Saturday, June 27th, 2009 | | 10:25 pm |
Stole is DONE DONE DONE. Well, except for weaving in ends and blocking. Huzzah. My nieces are moving to Colorado. My brother wants a Drupal-ish hat. The girls will need warm hats and probably scarves and mittens. Yeah. It's like that. | | Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 | | 10:38 pm |
Dear Etsy idiot: When I'm already horrifying myself by checking out some of the Fug on Etsy, and I wander over to the category "Knitted Accessories: Shawl", you are selling STITCH MARKERS. Stitch markers are not shawls, jackass. I understand that someone else out there is selling shawl pins in the same category but at least they are PINS FOR SHAWLS and therefore at least partially related. I sure as hell will never buy anything from you, because you're too stupid to even categorize something properly. I even stated to say "granted, maybe it's too hard to do that since I don't actually know how etsy categorizes things" but I scroll down and what do I see? KNITTING SUPPLIES. Let's see. Stitch markers, hmm Shawl? Knitting supplies? I KNOW. I KNOW. Even BETTER. Knitting supplies has a sub category of STITCH MARKERS. Who knew?? Moron. | | Friday, May 29th, 2009 | | 11:18 pm |
HUM
Found Jeanie. Heh. Had gotten shoved in a closet or something. Finished the Iolite socks. No picture, too much of a hurry to take a picture, then I didn't want to take a pic of my worn socks. Picked up the bambu stole. Did not set on fire, though I was tempted. Cast on a pair of gloves for a gift. Knit the first cuff while watching B5 tonight. Gloves are easy, gloves are quick. Rar. Yeah. 1 pair of socks in 2 months. Sigh. Also, my brother wants one of my Druplicon hats. He was going to steal it. I was going to cut off his privates. So. | | Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 | | 11:10 am |
Lesse: Hat and gloves: done. Two more awesome hats of awesomeness of which there will be pictures at some point: done Attempted scarf to match the awesome hats of awesomeness: Fail. The illusion chart I came up with is way too wide to actually look good. I'm going to have to compress it one direction or the other and that's going to require some consideration. And, I just don't have time to complete it right now, so it'll probably wait until later in the year when I'm ready to try tackling the chart and making eleventy test swatches. My (second) chart worked... it just wasn't coming out the way I wanted it to. Jeanie: did a few rows, yay! Bambuuzled stole: Did another repeat. This is likely to be the project that goes on the plane with me to DC, cuz it's mindless, except for the damn cable. I have the urge to start some socks, but I have that other pair I should work on. BUt I want some for meeeeeeeeeeee. Spinning: I dug out my wheel last night YAY. I plied some stuff that's been on the bobbin for oh a year now. There's a little of one single left, so I want to look up how to do one of the different plying methods that you use for singles (andean or chain or whatever) and see if maybe I can do something useful with that. Then I dug out 4 oz of a 'pixie batt' I got from  and spun 2/3 of that up into singles. I am going to try a 3 ply yarn with it, so I need the other two bobbins empty for that. Problem being that the other stuff is still on it, waiting for me to figure out how to ply the single, and waiting for me to skein up the plied yarn that's been resting overnight. I think that's it! | | Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 | | 3:00 pm |
Knitpicks and broken needles
 adbear got me a set of Harmony dpns for my birthday from  . I started the gloves and realized one of the needles was defective. No biggie, they come in sixes ‘so you can still knit even if you break one!’. So, no problem. I write them and say ‘hey, one of my needles was broken and the set is 6 months old.’ Grant that it was the holidays and we had email problems, so it was a couple of weeks before I got a response from a real person; though their autoresponder got back to me in a day or two (hard to tell - see: email problems). The real person who responded said “toss the broken one, I’ll send you a new set”, and today, a new set of 2.5 mm needles arrived on my doorstep. Woo, 6 new dpns for having a broken one. Yay =) Current Mood:  pleased | | Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 | | 12:29 am |
Project status: 2009 inaugural post
Jeanie: haven’t touched in a couple of weeks. Because: Gloves are 3/4 done. I made big progress on the second one today, from the end of the thumb gusset through to the start of the ring finger. Hat to go with gloves: Yarn acquired. Bambuzled stole: HAH HAH HAH. Yeah. I’m feeling the urge for some socks. But I really gotta get the gloves and hat done, and try to do one for wee one as well - she’ll be happier with warm items in March, I suspect. Happily, child-sized items are much quicker than adult male sized items, so with ANY luck, those will zip together much more quickly. Now, again, it is bedtime. With any luck, I will be up in time to watch the inauguration! Current Mood: happy | | Friday, December 26th, 2008 | | 11:38 pm |
for xmas, my lovely friend rosecolette sent me alpaca yarns. SO SQUISHY. My crack enabler, tersa got me a gift cert to purlescence (there is STR WITH MY NAME ON IT RAR). And my mom! She got me a set of blocking wires. The nice set, that includes the flexible wires. SWEET. Finishes: AHAHAH. Ahem. I stuck the eyes on a hat. On-needles: Jeanie hasn't gotten any love this week. After I wound the other bambuzled, I decided I should work on that more, and did some rows. It's pretty boring though and my brain shut down and said 'DO NOT WANTS' after a while and I put it down again. Then I had to clean up all my knitting because my nieces are here and uh yeah. Toddlers and knitting are not for mixing. I started some basic gloves, and I need to figure out what kinda yarn the husband will want for his hat. That'll whip up faster than the gloves are going. I feel like I've lost all my knitting speed. I've put in something like 3 hours on the glove and I'm not even done with the cuff yet :( I guess that'll speed up when it's just stockinette. Wow, with this post, it'll be a whopping FOUR posts to my craft journal ALL YEAR. that's just pathetic. Current Mood:  cold | | Saturday, December 20th, 2008 | | 11:26 am |
Yowza
I can't even remember the last time I posted here. On needles: Knitty's Jeanie - Purlescence's Pajama Jammy jam had everything at 35% off if you were there between 6 and 7 am. I actually managed to get up and acquired myself some Smooshy in Nightwatch. I'm about one repeat through. Bambuzled stole - I picked this back up again because of Jeanie. I told myself I couldn't cast on Jeanie until I'd finished this. Which half worked. I wasn't able to wind the second ball of bambuzled yarn at home (it didn't fit on the swift), but the smooshy did. So I wound one smooshy and took it with me to New Orleans. I finished the first ball of the bambuzled and then started on Jeanie. I wound the second ball last night, so I'm going to try to keep the momentum going on this one. It's actually good for mindless knitting, except for that cable on the non-pattern row. socks - A pair of socks for a friend that i promised and uh. They're just not going as fast as they should be. merlinofchaos actually asked me for a new hat and maybe some gloves for our trip back east in March. I bought yarn that I think he'll like, and I'll have to see if there's a color of worsted weight that he likes that I have. If not, I'll watch the Purlescence sales and come up with something he does like. He wants a thicker hat than a basic hat so I'm going to have to either look at chunkier weight yarns OR do a doublethick hat. I'll have to ponder. That means sprout also needs a new hat and mittens so she can stay warmer. She loves hats. HAT ON. HAT OOOOOOOOOOOON. Current Mood:  busy | | Friday, August 29th, 2008 | | 9:14 pm |
FO: Rainbow Shawl
Pattern: Rainbow Stole or ShawlDesigner: Dorothy Siemens for Fiddlesticks Knitting Yarn: Zephyr Laceweight Wool-silk, ~ 9 oz Needle: Addi Natura #6 My ravelry project linkFinal size: 8 feet wide, 4 feet deep. It's supposed to be 6 feet by 36 inches, but I just don't bother doing gauge swatches for shawls. Thoughts/notes: This came as a kit, from my lovely friend tersa, when I'd been pining for it for several months. It's actually a fairly simple feather and fan type pattern so it's good mindless knitting. It's knit two strands, a base color and a secondary color that changes every 8 rows. ( More thoughts, notes, and picturesCollapse ) Current Mood:  accomplished | | Monday, January 14th, 2008 | | 10:15 pm |
I have achieved...
blocking of the Water Turtles shawl. Need to take pictures, but am compelled to note that it's finally blocked, some two and more months since completion of the shawl. Sock. I grafted the toe together of the solstice slip sock. And I just finished casting on for the other. woohoo. | | Sunday, December 30th, 2007 | | 10:27 pm |
oh yeah, and
watch out chilluns, my mom has a ravelry account. She is adbear. :) | | 10:16 pm |
One craft good, other craft bad
So the cross stitch turned out to be ok. My sweater... I noticed a couple of weeks ago that there was an odd hole in one of the sleeves of my kimono style sweater. I thought little of it other than 'I should really fix that'. It looked like I'd just slipped a stitch instead of knitting it. No big, right? Especially since it's stockinette stitch and that's easily blocked and stuff, and this was just my brainless knitting (sleeve island, donchaknow), and all that. I don't get to knit much, so.. Wrong. I decided tonight that really, it needs to be fixed before I go any farther. I'm at 11 of 17 inches for the sleeve, so I should fix it before I go any more. Srsly. So I pulled up the ottlite, and dutifully dropped the stitch down to the hole. I looked for the stitch to pick up correctly and ladder it back up. No problem, right? BZZZT. THERE IS NO STITCH, ONLY ZUUL. Right. No stitch. NONE. The stitches on each side of the 'slip' were straight up and then joined to be next to each other below the mistake. I did a make one. So now, there's this giant gap of an inch or so in the sleeve between stitches. That sort of thing doesn't block out, no sirree. So I frogged half the sleeve. :( 28 rows of work, bah. But damnit, it will look RIGHT and not have a HOLE. I feel like a Knitter. Current Mood:  annoyed | | Thursday, December 27th, 2007 | | 6:22 pm |
HAH false alarm about the cross stitch. Oh thank god. I'm just dumb today. Dumber than usual. NO, seriously. You can ask my husband. | | 9:53 am |
Nothing like taking your giant cross stitch project off the frame (since I haven't worked on it in months, what with the Sprout and all).... and realizing that you've had the thing rotated 90 degrees. there's 50ish hours down the drain. Sigh. Current Mood: depressed | | Thursday, December 6th, 2007 | | 4:39 pm |
I'm still doing stuff
Only, I am hardly getting enough done to call it work. I finished the Water Turtles shawl, but I haven't blocked it (a month and a half later), so I still haven't posted a picture. I hit a major roadblock with the Soltice Slip socks from the STR club this year, only to realize several weeks later that it was because I was misreading the pattern after all. so I got through the heel of that and eventually I will finish the sock. And then maybe the other one. I'm sometimes adding stuff to Ravelry (today, Jeanie, as so many others did). If people added me on Ravelry, but I did not add them back, it is because I managed to turn off the notification settings, so I never got emails when people added me. And I didn't know it for two months :( And there's no way to see who has added YOU, which is lame. So if I didn't add you, please don't think it's because I am a jerk. Even if I am. I have picked up the Kimono Style sweater, and I am halfway done with the sleeves. I have decided I Will Finish It this winter. So it is my 'work on at lunch' project. I've added 4 inches to it in the last week or something. Not tons of progress, but it's better than no progress, and I would like to have it done, so I could say I've finished a sweater. That's about it. |
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