Hey! Remember Me?!

It's been like 8 months since I've posted, and that sucks. I never thought that anyone besides April actually read my blog, so I just gave up. Recently, a couple of my knitty and notsoknitty friends mentioned to me that they were disappointed I hadn't updated in ages. Who knew? So, to keep everyone entertained, and to once again glorify my uber-knerdiness, I'm back with a vengeance.

Here's an update of the last 8 mos or so...Since I last posted, I've moved to Concord to become the RA of a transitional living program for homeless girls. I'm the Mrs. Garrett to their Tutti, so to speak:

I wonder where you find a record store like that?
My hair is alot better than Mrs. Garrett's though:

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That's my sweet Leia wig I knit for my Halloween costume.

My knitting skills have improved quite a bit over the last few months. I've been looking back at my early projects, and I'm surprised at how much I've developed. Heres a little slideshow of some of my favorite FO's (and some as yet UFOs...)

Create a Free Slideshow

What else can I say about the past few months? Hmmm.. K+J are expecting a baby soon, that was exciting news. I've been furiously knitting a stash of cuteness for them, but I can't post pics until after the shower! Jeff and I are still together (hoorah) and we're very happy. I'm on the lookout for a sweater to make for him that won't curse our happiness. I'm thinking EZ all the way.

I'm out of things to say. THATS how exciting my life is.

I'm going to do my best to try and post weekly, or at least as often as I finish a project! Check for updates soon!

WTF?

In the category of wtf (or whiskey tango foxtrot, as Texas Shawn says) today is a Lion Brand Pattern that came up when I was searching for "golf club covers" to start a project for Father's Day.

Here it is:



Seriously? Wtf? It's a lamp shade cover. It looks like someone starting knitting... I don't even know- a shawl? An ugly sweater? And then they were like "umm, bored of this project... guess I'll tie it around my lampshade." It's not even fastened together neatly. I don't get it. Way to hock your crappy patterns, Lion.

And to give credit where credit is due, if you just luuurve this cover, here is the pattern.

Attack of the WIPs

I hate this baby blanket. Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate it. It is taking FOREVER to finish. Done on size 8's with fingering weight baby yarn, entirely in garter stitch. UGH! What was I thinking? Obviously I wasn't. At least it's not bad looking, I've actually gotten a bunch of compliments on it at my night job, so hopefully Clay and Kristin love it as much as everyone else does, ha! I hope to have it done by Friday, so I can send to Kristin in time for Mother's Day.


It isn't blocked yet, so it's hard to see the edging/border that is created with the YO in the pattern stitch. The blanket was done by casting on only 4 stitches, and then increasing one with a YO every row, until there were 200 stitches on the needle. Then, start decreasing one with a K2Tog and YO combo on the edges. I hate it, but it looks nice. Will be much nicer once blocked.



Posting these because my friend April mentioned Moda Dea yarn in her comment the other day, and just last weekend Jeff and I were down in RI, at the Job Lot, and they had a shit-ton of Moda Dea Cache and Lion Brand Boucle on sale- for $1 a ball! My roommate was less than happy to see me coming home with two more shopping bags full of yarn, hehehe.

I made the hat with about 1 1/2 balls of the Moda Dea, on size 10.5 circs. I cannot use DPNs to save my life, so I used my newly learned sock technique- 2 circs!- to do the teeny rounds at the end. I really like how it came out, and quick! I did the entire thing while Jeff took a nap and a shower- maybe 2 hrs total? Next time I would use a smaller needle on the hat, for a tighter stitch. Maybe 8s.



Sock! Not quite done, because I'm not totally in love with the ribbing at the top, and I wanted to start another pair for my Mom for mother's day. This is my very very first attempt at sock making, and I'm very very proud of it. I turned a heel, picked up a gusset, now all I have to do is graft a toe!

This is a detail of the heel, I think it's cool how the self-patterning yarn made a perfect pink triangle when I turned it. The yarn is Plymouth Sockotta. Pretty fun to work with, because it's neat to see how it knits up!

Knitty Blog

Just like everyone else, it's time for me to start my very own knitting blog.

Look for updates on all my ADD WIPs; details of my adventures to the LYS, both here and in RI; and other random stuff as I see fit.