Been a few days...

Saturday, March 31, 2007

I usually post once a day lately but I've been kinda busy lately. So many things goin on. Here is a pic of my sock, which I think will be frogged. I can barely get my foot in it, and the soysilk doesn't have any give or stretch. I think they would ruin too quickly if I continued. Just trying this one on stretched it badly.

This is the classic elite premiere I bought to use in the Create Along. It's a really pretty color. I'm still working on the design though. This yarn is soooo soft too. I'm still waiting on some Rowan Calmer that I ordered for another design or two.

These are the two skeins of yarn I just put up in my etsy store. I've got eight more to dye. I still have to set up my store all nice. I remember someone asking me how I soak the silk to make it softer. When I first dyed the silk and let it dry (the first time I dyed silk in Jan) I found that it was soft but still kinda crunchy feeling in spots. So after it's rinsed really really good, I took a tiny bit of fabric softener to a big bowl of warm water and stuck the yarn in it for an hour or so. Make sure the colors stay separate though, I noticed a tendency for the yarn to bleed, something in the softener maybe?
This pink one is also a little bit pinker. I had weird light today, the sun kept going behind the clouds and stuff. I'm gonna take another pic to replace this one tomorrow I think (or rather today since I'm up so late) so long as the light is good.

Not much else on the knitting front. I got my partners for the stitch marker swap, so now I can do those and get them out. Still waiting on my partner for the one at get stitchy. Sunday is the first day for the April Showers Along, and the Sexy Knitters Knit Along and I'm very excited. It's gonna be fun fun fun!

Oh yeah! And here is a pic of the two skeins of sock yarn I got from the lovely Christine off of her etsy shop. She does a great job. I think Josephine was helping too, I found a kitty fur on one skein. ;D I miss my kitty...
Ok so I guess that's it for now. Night!

Keep on truckin...

Monday, March 26, 2007

Here's another progress pic of the sock. I am past the heel! This was right after I finished that so I'm further but I don't feel like going and taking a newer pic lol. I've done another pink, blue and am on the second pink row of blocks now. I need to get to five pink rows of blocks and then I increase. Amazingly these socks are knitting up much quicker than I ever thought.

I joined the Create A Long. Which is pretty much like a knit along but you all design your own thing. I think it's fun and is helping me take the time out to actually do some designing instead of just knitting everything else from other people. There are so many great designs out there, but I've also got some ideas I also think are great. So soon as I get everything together I'm gonna get to knitting.

I finished one of my brother's knucks, so I did something good I guess. I am really wishing I had more time to knit! But right now it's bedtime and I'm sleepy so as my son would say: "Night night! Bye! Muah muah muah muah!

LOL

Lily of the Valley!

Friday, March 23, 2007

I'm so bored tonight. I've been doing schoolwork so I finally took a break. Cruising ebay and amazon and stuff. There are these two books I found that I must have. One is Lace Style and it has this gorgeous Lily of the Valley stole/shawl. I LOVE lily of the valley flowers, my absolute favorite. And there are some other pretty things too, a dress, and a cute tank. I had looked at it briefly before but as soon as I saw that shawl, I fell in love. The other one is by Stephanie Japel who is a fabulously talented designer. She just put out a book called Fitted Knits. Gorgeous tops. My favorite one in the book is by far the one used for the cover. Of course you can't see all of it on the cover. But it's totally cute. Either way I loooove those books. I keep looking around to try and find them cheap but we're broke right now anyway lol. I shouldn't even look.

Anywho, in the attempts to stashbust and satisfy the need to start yet another new project, I cast on for a shawl. It's totally cute though. Some yarn I got off ebay at least a year ago. I've got about 400 yards and I thought a cute little triangle shawl would do it. The pattern (Diamond Knit Shawl) is from lion brand's site but their version is totally ugly. One of the gals over at getstitchy tried it out on smaller needles and hers turned out so nice I thought I'd do one too. Anyway this is how it's going. I like it.
I'm also happy that over at the Sexy Knitters blog of which I am a member, the next pattern for the knit-along they are hosting is the Sahara sweater from Stitchdiva. I already have yarn for that as well, so at least I won't need to buy the yarn to do it!

I want an Isabella knit-along. I love that shirt and I've got the yarn for that too. I've got yarn for a lot of things. I just wish I could knit them all at once. Hehe.

I should be finishing my brother's knucks right now...I'm so bold. Instead I'm thinking of ways to procrastinate more. So bad so bad. Or paying the bills darn it. Or seaming my year old sweaters that are hanging around. Ok well I'm gonna get going and do something productive...

@$&#!

Thursday, March 22, 2007

So as you can see, I changed my template, and it got rid of alllll my stuff. I can't seem to figure out the twisted version of html that they have in there to edit stuff. I like the new style, but this is bull. I'm tempted to go back to the old...

Today I did half my reading for classes, and half of my assignments. So far so good...

In between that I worked on my sock and my brothers knucks. Or rather knuck since there is only one yet. I had hubby try it on when he got home to make sure it would be a relatively right size. Their hands should be similar in size. Either way, the first one is pretty much done. I could knock the second one out in a day or two I think. I have to send my sister a box, so I'd like to send those with her stuff, and my mom's bag.

I'm also thinking (as if I need more projects...) that I might make my cousin some gloves too, or a hat, although he probably won't need it in Georgia. He just went for basic training a few weeks ago, and I want to send him something. I'll have to find out...

Ok well that's it, nothing big, later.

Relief

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

So I logged into classes today to find that they had replaced my advanced class with the one that I failed last term. I was sooo relieved. And this time I have a different instructor, so I'm hoping he'll be a little less picky with the grading. The first guy I had said that by following the assignment and doing what it said, that would only get you a C. He expected you to go way above and beyond. To me that's ridiculous. I mean obviously you should do your best, but what if you've met all the requirements? That should deserve an A, they told you what they wanted and you did it.

Either way, I'm glad and feeling much better about it. I spent a couple of hours last night job hunting as well. Even if it's just a few evenings or the weekend. I have to. It's hard to find anything that is decent and nights or weekends. Most people want you to work more than that. So I'll just keep looking.

Here's another progress pic on my socks. For being knit on toothpick sized needles, they are actually going pretty quick. I'm so making more after this pair. I have to say, I love entrelac and I don't know why. It's just so fun for me. I've already got a design in my head that uses entrelac... I just gotta work it out in my brain.
Here is a pic of Alexis I took today because she's just so darned cute. I love how big her eyes are.
It was nice and sunny out today. Cold though, but the sun was nice to have coming in the window. This is the pic from our downstairs slider, usually Alexis is sitting there looking out and banging her head on the glass. Goofy thing.
I am so freezing today. I have like little itty bitty fingers. My wedding ring finger is a 4.5 and when they get cold, they like shrink so much that the rings want to slide off. It's the most frustrating thing ever. I just want to curl up in bed with something warm. Like the baby lol, she's a little heater.

So I won some yarn off ebay a while back and I should have gotten it by now. I finally emailed the seller, since they don't always contact you when you ship, and she wrote back today. She refunded my payment because somehow, even though she said that there were like 7 or 8 balls, she only had 4 and I bought 5. How do you not know that? And furthermore, how do you not notice that you got paid for a winning auction? I wonder if she was hoping I didn't notice...either way I'm annoyed b/c I got it at a great price and now I'm not getting it at all. Darned ebay sellers.

I also got my software and books today. Maya 8 looks complicated! My textbook is all based on the movie Open Season which is really cool. I'm excited about this class. And I'm not so worried about my Flash class because this time I know what's coming.

Ok well I'm off for now. My freezing fingers don't want to type anymore.