Today, we drove around for a bit, hitting up some yard sales. I did see some yarn, but since I have no use for 20 skeins of mint green dishcloth cotton, I passed it up.
I did pick up some purple and green sweetly scalloped trim, and some swirly glass beads. I love them! A headband from the trim is definitely in the works, and the beads will be stitch markers. My camera will be fixed soon, so I will put pictures up then.
Knitting wise, I am working impulsively. My dear friend gave me some merino/bamboo/cotton/alpaca/mohair the other day that just begged to become a neckwarmer. It's almost done. It has garter stitch edges, and buttons up the side. It will go in the holiday gift pile when it's finished.
Blogger tells me that I have one follower! It amazes me that someone is reading so soon, as I'm still ironing out the kinks. Thank you!
IG
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Actual knitting content :O
The month of August is not one of my favorites.
Reason numero uno? It has been TOO HOT TO KNIT.
Seriously, y'all. I have watched more CSI in the past week than in the last 6 months. Do you know how often they have those marathons on Spike? Watching TV is one thing that I somewhat enjoy that doesn't involve moving.
It's that bad.
Therefore, my Fountain Pen Shawl has been progressing slowly, if at all. I started the border chart last night, but I thought of those long rows and all I wanted to do was sleep. It may be back in timeout again. Even though I had intended to finish it for an event in may.
Although I haven't been doing any actual knitting, I have been filling up my Ravelry queue like mad. Normally, I'm not a big user of the queue. I don't understand having one that's 100 pages long, full of stuff that you might knit someday. I like to keep mine at about 2 projects or less.
But, the holidays are approaching. So in go the items I plan to make for gifts, that's fine. But it has been filling up with sweaters! I don't know where this came from. I fell in mad crazy love with Luminen, from the new Twist Collective.
It makes me want to drop everything and cast on right away.
Which is saying something, seeing as I'm nearly melted.
Ah, the power of a good sweater.
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Sorry about the picture-less posts. My new camera already has a lense error! Hopfully it will be fixed soon.
:D IG
Reason numero uno? It has been TOO HOT TO KNIT.
Seriously, y'all. I have watched more CSI in the past week than in the last 6 months. Do you know how often they have those marathons on Spike? Watching TV is one thing that I somewhat enjoy that doesn't involve moving.
It's that bad.
Therefore, my Fountain Pen Shawl has been progressing slowly, if at all. I started the border chart last night, but I thought of those long rows and all I wanted to do was sleep. It may be back in timeout again. Even though I had intended to finish it for an event in may.
Although I haven't been doing any actual knitting, I have been filling up my Ravelry queue like mad. Normally, I'm not a big user of the queue. I don't understand having one that's 100 pages long, full of stuff that you might knit someday. I like to keep mine at about 2 projects or less.
But, the holidays are approaching. So in go the items I plan to make for gifts, that's fine. But it has been filling up with sweaters! I don't know where this came from. I fell in mad crazy love with Luminen, from the new Twist Collective.
It makes me want to drop everything and cast on right away.
Which is saying something, seeing as I'm nearly melted.
Ah, the power of a good sweater.
****************
Sorry about the picture-less posts. My new camera already has a lense error! Hopfully it will be fixed soon.
:D IG
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Testing the waters
Hey, everyone.
I've been thinking about starting this blog for awhile now, and with the new laptop on the way I figured now was the time.
As you can see from my profile, I'm a knitter, a spinner, and a dancer. I dabble in sewing, and I love to cook.
My hopes for this are a way of documenting my projects, and getting opinions. I want to share my knitting!
More later.
:) IG
I've been thinking about starting this blog for awhile now, and with the new laptop on the way I figured now was the time.
As you can see from my profile, I'm a knitter, a spinner, and a dancer. I dabble in sewing, and I love to cook.
My hopes for this are a way of documenting my projects, and getting opinions. I want to share my knitting!
More later.
:) IG
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