Yup, I'm still alive. Barely though. My new job has been going great. Unfortunatly I'm actually good at it so I'm getting more responibility, but the set hours are amazing.
I finished the Clapotis! YIPPY, and working on my first sock. I promice to have pictures, as soon as I visit my parents and borrow my moms camera.
THe personal life has been crazy, all I can say is: BOYS, you don't make sence. but women have been saying that for years, and it will always be true.
This is just a quick update saying I'm alive, and Hello to all, when life gets less crazy, and I get a camera, I'll update for real! Promice.
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Hired!
I got a job! Yes!! Ok, so it's not a job I really wanted, but it will pay the rent, and maybe I'll have some money left over to buy yarn! Of course, I really need to use leftover money to save for moving, if/when I move. The cool thing about the job is it is a set schedule, from 7am to 4pm 5 days a week. I don't know what days but it will be a set schedule, and when I go to my orientation on Wednesday I'll know. It is a bigbox type of retail chain, and my job is just stocking.
I finished the baby blanket. I finished back on April 23rd. I turned out good. For a first larger project it was really good. And when I gave it to her? Talk about a perfect reaction. I was expecting a thank you that's pretty type of reaction. What did I get? She raved, gushed, and cried. Yes, she cried. She told me that no one ever put that much thought, love or time into a gift for her, let alone her baby. She commented about three times how long it much have took, and how much she appreciated it. Then she took it over to her boyfriend (The baby's father) and he even was surprised. He told me it was beautiful and a great gift, and asked if it was really for them. It totally made every stitch worth while. Hell, as soon as I have some cash I'm buying yarn for baby booties for them.
As usual, pictures taken using my camera phone, I know they are bad pictures, but hey, I'm at least attempting to place photos.
I used my BlueMoon Fiber Arts gift certificate I got for Christmas. They got the medium weight back in stalk, so I ordered 2 skeins, and only had to pay about $5 out of pocket, yippy! So I have 4 balls of sock yarn in my stash and I have yet to knit a sock. Oiy.
My plan is to work on my Clapotis for a while, then teach myself to knit socks. My friend bought the same boye interchangeable circular needle set, so I plan on borrowing her size 2 needles and teach myself to knit two socks on two circulars, plus I want to knit from the toe up, this will be interesting. My reason for wanting to do toe up is I only have one skein of each color, so If I do two at a time I can just knit till I'm out of yarn, and not have to worry about how long to make the cuff part, plus I have size 11 feet. Yea.
Hi, my name is Elizabeth and I'm addicted to PodCasts. As I've said before I have a lot of unlistened to podcasts. I will find a podcast that is interesting, download all the episodes then starting from episode 1 listen to all. The problem comes from when I go on Podsprees and download 5 different podcasts all with 5-20 episodes each. I was so excited today when I synced up my iPod and my number of unlistened to podcasts when from 165 to 143. Then I made the mistake of looking at the podcasts in the iTunes store. I went from 142 to 261. Notice a problem? Even though I'm subscribed to 42 podcasts there are only about 10-15 I'm ever excited about, there are even about 15 that I don't like, but just listen to because of the topic. I hope to update my list of podcasts on the side to all the ones I love. Even the non-knitting ones.
*NOTE: I know that unlistened isn't really a word. Deal with it*
That's about all for this update, if anybody reads this, I'd appreciate a hi in the comments section. Just so I have an idea that this is actually being read, in turn, I will make it a point to comment on the blogs that I read, even if it's just a hi.
On the needles: Back to the Clap (Clapoties that is)
New to the stash: Socks that Rock Medium Weight Lunasea and Pink Granite
In the Player: Podcasts, lots of Podcasts.
I finished the baby blanket. I finished back on April 23rd. I turned out good. For a first larger project it was really good. And when I gave it to her? Talk about a perfect reaction. I was expecting a thank you that's pretty type of reaction. What did I get? She raved, gushed, and cried. Yes, she cried. She told me that no one ever put that much thought, love or time into a gift for her, let alone her baby. She commented about three times how long it much have took, and how much she appreciated it. Then she took it over to her boyfriend (The baby's father) and he even was surprised. He told me it was beautiful and a great gift, and asked if it was really for them. It totally made every stitch worth while. Hell, as soon as I have some cash I'm buying yarn for baby booties for them.
As usual, pictures taken using my camera phone, I know they are bad pictures, but hey, I'm at least attempting to place photos.
I used my BlueMoon Fiber Arts gift certificate I got for Christmas. They got the medium weight back in stalk, so I ordered 2 skeins, and only had to pay about $5 out of pocket, yippy! So I have 4 balls of sock yarn in my stash and I have yet to knit a sock. Oiy.
My plan is to work on my Clapotis for a while, then teach myself to knit socks. My friend bought the same boye interchangeable circular needle set, so I plan on borrowing her size 2 needles and teach myself to knit two socks on two circulars, plus I want to knit from the toe up, this will be interesting. My reason for wanting to do toe up is I only have one skein of each color, so If I do two at a time I can just knit till I'm out of yarn, and not have to worry about how long to make the cuff part, plus I have size 11 feet. Yea.
Hi, my name is Elizabeth and I'm addicted to PodCasts. As I've said before I have a lot of unlistened to podcasts. I will find a podcast that is interesting, download all the episodes then starting from episode 1 listen to all. The problem comes from when I go on Podsprees and download 5 different podcasts all with 5-20 episodes each. I was so excited today when I synced up my iPod and my number of unlistened to podcasts when from 165 to 143. Then I made the mistake of looking at the podcasts in the iTunes store. I went from 142 to 261. Notice a problem? Even though I'm subscribed to 42 podcasts there are only about 10-15 I'm ever excited about, there are even about 15 that I don't like, but just listen to because of the topic. I hope to update my list of podcasts on the side to all the ones I love. Even the non-knitting ones.
*NOTE: I know that unlistened isn't really a word. Deal with it*
That's about all for this update, if anybody reads this, I'd appreciate a hi in the comments section. Just so I have an idea that this is actually being read, in turn, I will make it a point to comment on the blogs that I read, even if it's just a hi.
On the needles: Back to the Clap (Clapoties that is)
New to the stash: Socks that Rock Medium Weight Lunasea and Pink Granite
In the Player: Podcasts, lots of Podcasts.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Knit Knit Knit, Interview, Interview, Interview.
Yea for me, I had another interview today. It went mostly well. I know I'd hate working there though, just on the way they talked and how the interview went. It probably is the one that I'd get. They had a major problem with my tounge and nose ring. Now, I completely understand that they might have a problem with them. What makes me mad is that when they asked me how my current job (Lane Bryant, clothing store for ladies) feels about my tounge ring, I told them that Lane has no problem with it, that I do my job and I'm good at it. They didn't beleive me, the lady said "Are you sure, I find that really hard to believe" Ummm, yes i'm sure, i'm so sure, that my district manager loves me and will transfer me to Minneapolis area if I choose to move there. I have under a month to get a job and a paycheck to pay for my rent due on May 1. I only make about $80 a paycheck at my current job. That don't pay for rent.
I'm still knitting away at the baby blanket, it's going good, I haven't been able to knit more then 2 rows so far today. But I recieved good news that the baby was taken off the respirator and is breathing on his own. yea! They still have to run the normal tests on his brain functions, but I'm hopefull. Haven't talked to my friend yet, but she was relieased from the hospital so I think I'm going to try and actually call her tomarrow, make sure she is ok.
I spend about 4 hours drooling over sock yarn on the internet last night, realized that this truly was yarn porn, drooling over what I can't have. hehehe.
On the needles: baby blanket
New to the stash: Should I just take this out?
In the Player: Dark Angel: Season 1
I'm still knitting away at the baby blanket, it's going good, I haven't been able to knit more then 2 rows so far today. But I recieved good news that the baby was taken off the respirator and is breathing on his own. yea! They still have to run the normal tests on his brain functions, but I'm hopefull. Haven't talked to my friend yet, but she was relieased from the hospital so I think I'm going to try and actually call her tomarrow, make sure she is ok.
I spend about 4 hours drooling over sock yarn on the internet last night, realized that this truly was yarn porn, drooling over what I can't have. hehehe.
On the needles: baby blanket
New to the stash: Should I just take this out?
In the Player: Dark Angel: Season 1
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Delay
Heya everyone, sorry for the length of the time between updates, but hey it's nomral for me right?
It's been an interesting week, I had an interview I thought went great, but I didn't get the job, I have one more possibility, and I hope it works out because I still can't pay for May's rent. Sigh, oh the stress.
My friend that I'm knitting the baby blanket for... She was due June 9. Her water broke Wednesday night. She gave birth today (Saturday April 14th) A baby boy, 3 lbs 6 oz 16 inches. I haven't seen her or the baby yet, I'm going to call her tomarrow and try to see her. So as you can all guess I haven't finished the blanket yet, Hey I thought I had till June! I still have 130 rows left, oh the joy of stressfull deadline knitting. And I thought this only happend around Christmas, lol. At least near the end the rows will go quickly because I'm decreasing 1 stitch every row until I get to 4 stitches, so i'm at about 135 stitches now. If only I could knit faster.
On the needles: never ending baby blanket
New to the stash: *tears* nothing
In the player: Fall Out Boy's "Infinity on High"
It's been an interesting week, I had an interview I thought went great, but I didn't get the job, I have one more possibility, and I hope it works out because I still can't pay for May's rent. Sigh, oh the stress.
My friend that I'm knitting the baby blanket for... She was due June 9. Her water broke Wednesday night. She gave birth today (Saturday April 14th) A baby boy, 3 lbs 6 oz 16 inches. I haven't seen her or the baby yet, I'm going to call her tomarrow and try to see her. So as you can all guess I haven't finished the blanket yet, Hey I thought I had till June! I still have 130 rows left, oh the joy of stressfull deadline knitting. And I thought this only happend around Christmas, lol. At least near the end the rows will go quickly because I'm decreasing 1 stitch every row until I get to 4 stitches, so i'm at about 135 stitches now. If only I could knit faster.
On the needles: never ending baby blanket
New to the stash: *tears* nothing
In the player: Fall Out Boy's "Infinity on High"
Monday, April 02, 2007
Happyness
I'm almost at the half way point of the baby blanket, Well, ok I have 20 more rows left, but hey that is an improvement. I was wrong earlier when I thought that I only had to go to 180 rows, I need to get to 190, that is a little disappointing a sudden 10 extra rows. Oh well. Cest la vie. I was toying with the idea of making it an even 200. It's a baby blanket started at a corner and increasing one stitch every row, adding 10 extra rows just makes it a tiny bit bigger, I guess when I get to 190 I'll see if I want it larger. Hey it couldn't hurt, the original pattern calls for 2 balls and I have 3, plus its a no dye lot acrylic, I'm not worried about being short, just haveing way to much left over.
I borrowed The Pursuit of Happyness from a friend, she told me that she was on the verge of tears through the hole movie, this a girl whos favorite movies are ones where everybody dies. I can count on one finger the times she has cried at movies, and I've made her watch some tearjerkers, the movie? Coyote Ugly. So I sit down to watch the movie a whole role of toilet paper beside me (The soft kind, I'm out of Kleenex's) I cry at commercials, so I'm wholly prepared to bawl through the whole movie. My surprise? I didn't cry. That is extremely rare. It's weird though, I can bawl at a hallmark commercial, but a close family member dies, you'll get maybe 3 tears and that's only if I'm extremely close to you. The only funeral I've cried at is my grandma's and that was about 3 tears. I was as close to her as my mother. I cried for my cat Doobie though, she got tears, lots, sometimes 10 years later she might still get one or two. When I'm in those deep depressed moods and it seems like nothing can go right, that's when I cry for Doobie. Thank god those are rare now-a-days, in a few years I can tell Akasha is going to be just like Doobie, she just needs to be spayed and grow up a little, but she's got that sweetness in her.
After Pursuit of Happyness (who else feels weird writing that with a Y?) I needed something more mundane, a movie that I could watch and zone out, with good eye candy. I picked a movie I had bought then promptly forgot I owned. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, now I know it's never as good as the graphic novels, but hey I'm good at differentiating and enjoying one as a completely different medium, and let me tell you a movie that stars Sean Connery, i'm so there. I'll even admit here, that Shane West is quite good-looking in the movie as well, though it could be the Sean Connery protege rub off. Also one of the 2 movies I think Stuart Townsend looks good in, the other being Queen of the Damned, he beats Tom Cruises Lestat all to hell. Jason Flemmin isn't to bad to look at as well, quite nice actually. So now the movie is drawing to a close, it's 3:30 in the morning as I'm writing this (in notepad because my internet is down, and will be posted tomorrow.) I'm heading off to bed, probably to wake up in 3 hours, listen to a few episodes of quirky nomads, knit a couple rows and get ready to go clothes shopping with my friend. I hate clothes shopping, she hates clothes shopping. This is going to be fun.
On the Needles: Do I really need to say? Baby Blanket
New to the Stash: Still waiting for STR to get in medium weights
In The Player: see above.
I borrowed The Pursuit of Happyness from a friend, she told me that she was on the verge of tears through the hole movie, this a girl whos favorite movies are ones where everybody dies. I can count on one finger the times she has cried at movies, and I've made her watch some tearjerkers, the movie? Coyote Ugly. So I sit down to watch the movie a whole role of toilet paper beside me (The soft kind, I'm out of Kleenex's) I cry at commercials, so I'm wholly prepared to bawl through the whole movie. My surprise? I didn't cry. That is extremely rare. It's weird though, I can bawl at a hallmark commercial, but a close family member dies, you'll get maybe 3 tears and that's only if I'm extremely close to you. The only funeral I've cried at is my grandma's and that was about 3 tears. I was as close to her as my mother. I cried for my cat Doobie though, she got tears, lots, sometimes 10 years later she might still get one or two. When I'm in those deep depressed moods and it seems like nothing can go right, that's when I cry for Doobie. Thank god those are rare now-a-days, in a few years I can tell Akasha is going to be just like Doobie, she just needs to be spayed and grow up a little, but she's got that sweetness in her.
After Pursuit of Happyness (who else feels weird writing that with a Y?) I needed something more mundane, a movie that I could watch and zone out, with good eye candy. I picked a movie I had bought then promptly forgot I owned. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, now I know it's never as good as the graphic novels, but hey I'm good at differentiating and enjoying one as a completely different medium, and let me tell you a movie that stars Sean Connery, i'm so there. I'll even admit here, that Shane West is quite good-looking in the movie as well, though it could be the Sean Connery protege rub off. Also one of the 2 movies I think Stuart Townsend looks good in, the other being Queen of the Damned, he beats Tom Cruises Lestat all to hell. Jason Flemmin isn't to bad to look at as well, quite nice actually. So now the movie is drawing to a close, it's 3:30 in the morning as I'm writing this (in notepad because my internet is down, and will be posted tomorrow.) I'm heading off to bed, probably to wake up in 3 hours, listen to a few episodes of quirky nomads, knit a couple rows and get ready to go clothes shopping with my friend. I hate clothes shopping, she hates clothes shopping. This is going to be fun.
On the Needles: Do I really need to say? Baby Blanket
New to the Stash: Still waiting for STR to get in medium weights
In The Player: see above.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
I Lied
Ok, So I lied. I'm a horrible liar and can't stay true to a project.
Whew, got that out of the way. So after I finished my post yesterday I pick up the baby blanket and knit a row, from the side of my bed I see this container, with my Lopi Reynolds yarn. I do need to know how it knits and felts before I use it to make a bag right? Then from my desk I see my new rune stones, and they are telling me they need a homemade bag, since my sewing machine and special silk I use to make my bags for my rune stones and Tarot cards is all packed away, I figure, Hey I'll knit then felt a small bag.... after I get to 180 on this baby blanket.
20 minutes later finds me with my size 15 needles and pink Lopi yarn casting on 30 stitches. I work 3 rows, and think, hey this is going fast. About 10 rows in I figure I'll just do 2 more rows then cast off and sew together and save for felting. 4 rows later I'm thinking one more row then cast off. I finally cast off and start sewing it together.
20 minutes later finds me in my bathroom in front of the sink felting for the first time. Yea, I'm sticking to washing machines. It didn't quite lose all stitch definition but it ended up a bit bigger then I wanted, and at this stage it fits my Ipod quite snuggly. I have the iPod sticking out in the picture, isn't it cute? I'm debating about embroidering something on the front. It's not exactly the best iPod cover out there, but hey I only have $5 in my checking account, it's not like I can buy one, or yarn to make a better one.
My other baby Akasha finally agreed to pose for a picture, with my small penguin. Oops, I mean, HER penguin.
I received an E-mail today from a friend(T for short). He was stationed in Afghanistan, he e-mailed to say that he was arriving home tomorrow at 12:20. That is great, he'll finally be home. The weird part, for me at least, His last e-mail said that he was leaving Afghan and coming back to the US, he also said that he "wants to see ALL! of YOU!" that's a direct quote. He e-mailed to over 20 people. Now we're not really friends, I've known his barely since high school *late 90's* I knew of him then, he was a friend of two guys I knew, then in about '03 I introduced one of my best friends into a guy I knew *and liked* They ended up dating and getting engaged, and T was this guys best friend. So we hung out once in a while with the overly PDA couple, Then the couple got married, and he received leave from Afghan for the wedding. (last August) We hung around awhile during a couple of the events with another girl in the wedding party. After he went back to Afghan the grooms sister e-mailed us all with T's e-mail addy, and we e-mailed a couple times, usually only the mass e-mails with an "I'm alive doing good hope to come home soon" e-mails. Now my problem is did he mean me when he said get together, cuz that might just be uncomfortable, and due to the fact that most of my friends aren't in town anymore I don't go out, so there goes the "a group of us are getting together" thing. I realize I'm probably to old for this worry, but I do have a huge social anxiety problem and fret over these little things. Ahh well, I suppose the fact that I don't know if I'm attracted to him is part of the problem. I suppose since I'm "on the fence" about it, I'm really not attracted to him. Anybody know of any good ways to help with social anxiety? (Drugs don't work on me, so I tend to use natural remedies. When it takes 2-3 800 MG ibuprofen every 2 hours to dull a minor headache, you find that peppermint oil works just as well. Let's not even start on "that time of the month")
On the Needles: Baby Blanket.
New to the Stash: *Sigh*
In The Player: More Podcasts. *I'm down to 380, yea!!*
Whew, got that out of the way. So after I finished my post yesterday I pick up the baby blanket and knit a row, from the side of my bed I see this container, with my Lopi Reynolds yarn. I do need to know how it knits and felts before I use it to make a bag right? Then from my desk I see my new rune stones, and they are telling me they need a homemade bag, since my sewing machine and special silk I use to make my bags for my rune stones and Tarot cards is all packed away, I figure, Hey I'll knit then felt a small bag.... after I get to 180 on this baby blanket.
20 minutes later finds me with my size 15 needles and pink Lopi yarn casting on 30 stitches. I work 3 rows, and think, hey this is going fast. About 10 rows in I figure I'll just do 2 more rows then cast off and sew together and save for felting. 4 rows later I'm thinking one more row then cast off. I finally cast off and start sewing it together.
20 minutes later finds me in my bathroom in front of the sink felting for the first time. Yea, I'm sticking to washing machines. It didn't quite lose all stitch definition but it ended up a bit bigger then I wanted, and at this stage it fits my Ipod quite snuggly. I have the iPod sticking out in the picture, isn't it cute? I'm debating about embroidering something on the front. It's not exactly the best iPod cover out there, but hey I only have $5 in my checking account, it's not like I can buy one, or yarn to make a better one.
My other baby Akasha finally agreed to pose for a picture, with my small penguin. Oops, I mean, HER penguin.
I received an E-mail today from a friend(T for short). He was stationed in Afghanistan, he e-mailed to say that he was arriving home tomorrow at 12:20. That is great, he'll finally be home. The weird part, for me at least, His last e-mail said that he was leaving Afghan and coming back to the US, he also said that he "wants to see ALL! of YOU!" that's a direct quote. He e-mailed to over 20 people. Now we're not really friends, I've known his barely since high school *late 90's* I knew of him then, he was a friend of two guys I knew, then in about '03 I introduced one of my best friends into a guy I knew *and liked* They ended up dating and getting engaged, and T was this guys best friend. So we hung out once in a while with the overly PDA couple, Then the couple got married, and he received leave from Afghan for the wedding. (last August) We hung around awhile during a couple of the events with another girl in the wedding party. After he went back to Afghan the grooms sister e-mailed us all with T's e-mail addy, and we e-mailed a couple times, usually only the mass e-mails with an "I'm alive doing good hope to come home soon" e-mails. Now my problem is did he mean me when he said get together, cuz that might just be uncomfortable, and due to the fact that most of my friends aren't in town anymore I don't go out, so there goes the "a group of us are getting together" thing. I realize I'm probably to old for this worry, but I do have a huge social anxiety problem and fret over these little things. Ahh well, I suppose the fact that I don't know if I'm attracted to him is part of the problem. I suppose since I'm "on the fence" about it, I'm really not attracted to him. Anybody know of any good ways to help with social anxiety? (Drugs don't work on me, so I tend to use natural remedies. When it takes 2-3 800 MG ibuprofen every 2 hours to dull a minor headache, you find that peppermint oil works just as well. Let's not even start on "that time of the month")
On the Needles: Baby Blanket.
New to the Stash: *Sigh*
In The Player: More Podcasts. *I'm down to 380, yea!!*
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Booga Booga
I finished the Booga bag! Yea!!
My first finish object of the year! Yippy!!! I ended up just using the rest of the yarn on the icord straps, so instead of the recommended 6 foot I have a 13 foot. My first thought was that I don't want a small ball of leftover yarn and that I do like long handles, and it will felt smaller. My thought after measuring it? The leftover will make a great cat toy. hehe. I have yet to felt it, reason being I have to use a laundry mat, and me being a new felter *this will be my first felted project* I plan on commendering my parents washer when they arrive back for the summer. Since I'm in an apartment I have no qualms still using my parents washer and dryer occasionally, it's not just for college students.
My first FO for the year. Yippy! I've only done two more rows on the baby blanket and haven't even dug my clapotis out of the travel bag I had it in. Ahh the life of UFO's. As if my insomnia isn't enough, I hear these little muffled sounds coming from the bag at night, apparently it's not happy to just be sitting here, apparently it feels it needs to be finished for my birthday so it can be shown off this summer. I don't know if the little one will gets it wish, though I have till the middle/end of May.
My main goal is to finish the blanket, but boy this is dragging on. I'm only at 145 stitches and need to get to 180 with one yarn over increase every row. Every other stitch is knit. I'm going through the ARGGG! part. I'm trying to fend off the "make something" vibe, or as Stephanie Pearl-Mcphee puts it "startitis." Spring has hit me with the nice weather the past couple days,and the rain today *Yeah rain! My favorite type of weather EVER.*
This book that is sitting on my desk has been whispering to me all week. The book in question is Sensational Knitted Socks. I refuse to bow down to the peer pressure of my books. I rule my books they don't rule me. *This works right? I can win this battle right?* I refuse to cast on a sock until I AT LEAST reach the 180 point on the blanket and start the decreases. I figure by then I'll be able to actually purchase sock yarn. I only have one ball, and I'm also toying with the idea of learning knitting socks on circular needles, I have found out with my two possessive cats (apparently all yarn and needles are their property and I'm only borrowing them when they deem fit) that projects in the round lose less stitches on circulars then DPN's. Though I still love using DPN's I don't have a favorite of the two yet.
I need to add to my sock yarn stash. Unfortunately with only one part-time job that doesn't even pay my rent I don't have cash for yarn. Also the upcoming concert I'm going to is going to take up some cash as well. Luckily the ticket is paid for, and I'm staying at a friends who is only 10 blocks away from the venue. I'm staying there for a week and plan on hitting yarn stores. *I will visit an actually real yarn store GASP* I also plan on trying to convert her to the knitted masses. Since she is recently single and will have a whole free summer of no work *She is currently attending Law School* I feel her time would be best spend knitting, Plus deal with the frustration of being single after 2 years. *If you are reading this D be forewarned just knitting in front of you isn't enough*
I do have my gift certificate from Blue Moon Fiber Arts, but I am planning on buying medium weight and they are out.
That's about all the updates for today, I plan on catching up on some podcasts on my NEW IPOD. Sigh life is great I own an iPod. Why didn't I get one sooner? I have loaded it with my podcats and music, plus my nice collection of eye candy music videos, because hey, we all need a break to watch good videos. I don't recommend for anybody to subscribe to about 20 podcasts when they have this obsessive compulsive need to listen to them from episode one on in order. I have over 400 files to listen to and about 5-6 more podcasts I want to subscribe to. Oiy Vey. Have I mentioned I'm weird? The 5 knitting podcasts I listened to weren't enough, I needed more. Now I have to many. *Ok, so they aren't all knitting.*
Ok, here is the part I'm asking for help, if anybody that reads this is in the Minneapolis-St Paul, MN area and know of yarn stores that I should visit, let me know. I'm not planing to visit them till after the concert, so any cash left afterwards is probably going to yarn. Sigh, I need to find a job.
On the needles: Baby Blanket
New to the stash: I wish
In The Player: various podcasts.
My first finish object of the year! Yippy!!! I ended up just using the rest of the yarn on the icord straps, so instead of the recommended 6 foot I have a 13 foot. My first thought was that I don't want a small ball of leftover yarn and that I do like long handles, and it will felt smaller. My thought after measuring it? The leftover will make a great cat toy. hehe. I have yet to felt it, reason being I have to use a laundry mat, and me being a new felter *this will be my first felted project* I plan on commendering my parents washer when they arrive back for the summer. Since I'm in an apartment I have no qualms still using my parents washer and dryer occasionally, it's not just for college students.
My first FO for the year. Yippy! I've only done two more rows on the baby blanket and haven't even dug my clapotis out of the travel bag I had it in. Ahh the life of UFO's. As if my insomnia isn't enough, I hear these little muffled sounds coming from the bag at night, apparently it's not happy to just be sitting here, apparently it feels it needs to be finished for my birthday so it can be shown off this summer. I don't know if the little one will gets it wish, though I have till the middle/end of May.
My main goal is to finish the blanket, but boy this is dragging on. I'm only at 145 stitches and need to get to 180 with one yarn over increase every row. Every other stitch is knit. I'm going through the ARGGG! part. I'm trying to fend off the "make something" vibe, or as Stephanie Pearl-Mcphee puts it "startitis." Spring has hit me with the nice weather the past couple days,and the rain today *Yeah rain! My favorite type of weather EVER.*
This book that is sitting on my desk has been whispering to me all week. The book in question is Sensational Knitted Socks. I refuse to bow down to the peer pressure of my books. I rule my books they don't rule me. *This works right? I can win this battle right?* I refuse to cast on a sock until I AT LEAST reach the 180 point on the blanket and start the decreases. I figure by then I'll be able to actually purchase sock yarn. I only have one ball, and I'm also toying with the idea of learning knitting socks on circular needles, I have found out with my two possessive cats (apparently all yarn and needles are their property and I'm only borrowing them when they deem fit) that projects in the round lose less stitches on circulars then DPN's. Though I still love using DPN's I don't have a favorite of the two yet.
I need to add to my sock yarn stash. Unfortunately with only one part-time job that doesn't even pay my rent I don't have cash for yarn. Also the upcoming concert I'm going to is going to take up some cash as well. Luckily the ticket is paid for, and I'm staying at a friends who is only 10 blocks away from the venue. I'm staying there for a week and plan on hitting yarn stores. *I will visit an actually real yarn store GASP* I also plan on trying to convert her to the knitted masses. Since she is recently single and will have a whole free summer of no work *She is currently attending Law School* I feel her time would be best spend knitting, Plus deal with the frustration of being single after 2 years. *If you are reading this D be forewarned just knitting in front of you isn't enough*
I do have my gift certificate from Blue Moon Fiber Arts, but I am planning on buying medium weight and they are out.
That's about all the updates for today, I plan on catching up on some podcasts on my NEW IPOD. Sigh life is great I own an iPod. Why didn't I get one sooner? I have loaded it with my podcats and music, plus my nice collection of eye candy music videos, because hey, we all need a break to watch good videos. I don't recommend for anybody to subscribe to about 20 podcasts when they have this obsessive compulsive need to listen to them from episode one on in order. I have over 400 files to listen to and about 5-6 more podcasts I want to subscribe to. Oiy Vey. Have I mentioned I'm weird? The 5 knitting podcasts I listened to weren't enough, I needed more. Now I have to many. *Ok, so they aren't all knitting.*
Ok, here is the part I'm asking for help, if anybody that reads this is in the Minneapolis-St Paul, MN area and know of yarn stores that I should visit, let me know. I'm not planing to visit them till after the concert, so any cash left afterwards is probably going to yarn. Sigh, I need to find a job.
On the needles: Baby Blanket
New to the stash: I wish
In The Player: various podcasts.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Learning to Knit
In the Sticks and Strings Podcast David talked about how he learned to knit, so I figured I'd add my story to here, even though it's not to interesting.
When I was about 8 my grandma tried to teach my how to crochet, I made a Barbie skirt and promptly forgot, age 11/12 brought me to plastic canvas, then at 13/14 I learned cross-stitch, and tried to relearn crochet to no avail. At 18 I wanted to learn to sew, so at age 22(2002) my mother bought me a very nice sewing machine of my own.
In 2003/2004 I started a new job, and met a girl there I got along great with, instant best friend, we shared a lot in common. She knew how to knit, I remember in elementary school watching my then-best friend's mother knit and thinking it weird.*hey I grew up with crochet* She showed me her stitch n bitch books and I was hooked, She then showed me the basic knit and purl stitch, and I bought the SnB books and the Visually Teach yourself to Knit and Crochet book. It took me about a month to figure it out. She only showed me once, and from then on it was me and the books. Once I switched to a different yarn, BAMN I got it. I also taught myself to purl without hearing all the "it's hard" talk, so consequently I have no problem purling and find it as easy as the knit stitch. I started to make a scarf, then life hit and I put away the half finished scarf and forgot about it.
Then the happy hooker book came out, I bought it right away. Because Crochet is a family craft I really wanted to learn it. Also my mother inherited all my grandmothers patterns, and since no one in our family crochets and I'm the crafty one, I will inherit these patterns as well, so It would be nice to use them. So using that book, with minor help from my mother. *she is not a teacher and refused to teach me, but would help if i had a question* I was a little sad I was at my parents house because I had no access to my crochet needles *from when I was about 13* My mother disappeared for a few minutes and came back with a bag for me. She gave me a complete set of needles, all my grandmothers. That meant a lot to me, They were her mothers and the only grandparent I was close to.
My grandfather died 13 years before I was born, and I never was close to my dads parents, his father died when I was 11, and his mother still is alive but like I said, I'm not close to her and with her having 25+ grandkids and 10+ great grandkids, she doesn't know much about me either, those being the parents that raised my dad, his birth father died when he was 8, and the kids taken away from the mother when he was 10, her dying about a year or two after my parents were married, so about 13 years before I was born.
So with these special needles I learned to Crochet. That night when I got home, I drug out my knitting. I loved crochet, but it wasn't the same. So as I sat down and remembered how to knit, I was looking on iTunes for a podcast my brother told me about, on a whim I typed in Knitting.
WOW. There was a knitting podcast, how cool, so I downloaded a couple. I fell in love with Lime & Violet and Cast-on, then on to It's a Purl Man, and Sticks and Stings, and The Knitting Cook... and so on and so on. I can honestly say if It weren't for Lime & Violet, I would not be as hooked as I am. They also gave me the courage to try something other then scarves. Even though I've known how to knit for a couple years, I haven't been serious about it for that long.
Also as an after story I'm no longer friends with that girl who taught me, It's a long drawn out story to reminiscent of stupid high school politics that I really don't want to be a part of, I'm 26 damnit, not 16. I still have to work with her, we play nice and pretend to be friends, but I only see her about once a month. I do thank her for first showing me how to knit and teaching me. I also thank her for showing me what I don't want to be.
And that's how I learned, in probably more detail then any of you wanted to know.
When I was about 8 my grandma tried to teach my how to crochet, I made a Barbie skirt and promptly forgot, age 11/12 brought me to plastic canvas, then at 13/14 I learned cross-stitch, and tried to relearn crochet to no avail. At 18 I wanted to learn to sew, so at age 22(2002) my mother bought me a very nice sewing machine of my own.
In 2003/2004 I started a new job, and met a girl there I got along great with, instant best friend, we shared a lot in common. She knew how to knit, I remember in elementary school watching my then-best friend's mother knit and thinking it weird.*hey I grew up with crochet* She showed me her stitch n bitch books and I was hooked, She then showed me the basic knit and purl stitch, and I bought the SnB books and the Visually Teach yourself to Knit and Crochet book. It took me about a month to figure it out. She only showed me once, and from then on it was me and the books. Once I switched to a different yarn, BAMN I got it. I also taught myself to purl without hearing all the "it's hard" talk, so consequently I have no problem purling and find it as easy as the knit stitch. I started to make a scarf, then life hit and I put away the half finished scarf and forgot about it.
Then the happy hooker book came out, I bought it right away. Because Crochet is a family craft I really wanted to learn it. Also my mother inherited all my grandmothers patterns, and since no one in our family crochets and I'm the crafty one, I will inherit these patterns as well, so It would be nice to use them. So using that book, with minor help from my mother. *she is not a teacher and refused to teach me, but would help if i had a question* I was a little sad I was at my parents house because I had no access to my crochet needles *from when I was about 13* My mother disappeared for a few minutes and came back with a bag for me. She gave me a complete set of needles, all my grandmothers. That meant a lot to me, They were her mothers and the only grandparent I was close to.
My grandfather died 13 years before I was born, and I never was close to my dads parents, his father died when I was 11, and his mother still is alive but like I said, I'm not close to her and with her having 25+ grandkids and 10+ great grandkids, she doesn't know much about me either, those being the parents that raised my dad, his birth father died when he was 8, and the kids taken away from the mother when he was 10, her dying about a year or two after my parents were married, so about 13 years before I was born.
So with these special needles I learned to Crochet. That night when I got home, I drug out my knitting. I loved crochet, but it wasn't the same. So as I sat down and remembered how to knit, I was looking on iTunes for a podcast my brother told me about, on a whim I typed in Knitting.
WOW. There was a knitting podcast, how cool, so I downloaded a couple. I fell in love with Lime & Violet and Cast-on, then on to It's a Purl Man, and Sticks and Stings, and The Knitting Cook... and so on and so on. I can honestly say if It weren't for Lime & Violet, I would not be as hooked as I am. They also gave me the courage to try something other then scarves. Even though I've known how to knit for a couple years, I haven't been serious about it for that long.
Also as an after story I'm no longer friends with that girl who taught me, It's a long drawn out story to reminiscent of stupid high school politics that I really don't want to be a part of, I'm 26 damnit, not 16. I still have to work with her, we play nice and pretend to be friends, but I only see her about once a month. I do thank her for first showing me how to knit and teaching me. I also thank her for showing me what I don't want to be.
And that's how I learned, in probably more detail then any of you wanted to know.
Pictures
I noticed that when I switched over to the new blogger, all my pictures disapeared from my posts. I am going to work on adding them back into the posts, but this did come at a good time, if there is a good time for all the pictures to disappear.
I've decided to switch all my pictures over to a flickr account, that way I will be able to be a bit more organized. *Me organized? huh* So with an internet connection going in and out every 5 minutes, this is no easy deal, but I'm going to switch from my Photobucket account to flickr, then setup and organize then slowly add them back to the posts. gee it's a good thing I'm only working about 2 days a week lately... though you'd think i'd get more stuff done. It's all Sims 2, that game is a time wasting machine! But my loading times are long and I can get one row done on my bag during loads, hehe.
I do have a couple pics for you today though! Just taken with my horrible camera phone. *I decided to buy an iPod before a digital camera.* So here are my current WIPs
My Clapotis I'm working on, has not been touched in about 2 months... I guess that makes it a UFO huh?
This is the baby blanket for a friend of mine, she is due in June, I have 134 stitches on the needles, need to increase 1 every row till 190 stitches, then start the decreasing. I have a LONG way to go.
This is my Booga Bag I'm working on, I know interesting yarn, but beggars can't be choosers. LOL
If you noticed the Black Cat posing for the pictures that is one of my babies. His name is Salem, he is about 3-4 years old. He use to be a friends cat, but she was unable to keep him. I do have another cat Akasha, she is all mine, but she was camera shy today.
Here is a new stitchholder. I don't recommend using these if not in the room. In fact, even if you are in the room I don't recommend them.
In Progress: See Above
New to the Stash: Nothing
In the Player: Sticks & Sting Podcast *Need to catch up, I'm so behind on all my podcasts... hance the iPod, my old mp3 player ain't cutting it.
I've decided to switch all my pictures over to a flickr account, that way I will be able to be a bit more organized. *Me organized? huh* So with an internet connection going in and out every 5 minutes, this is no easy deal, but I'm going to switch from my Photobucket account to flickr, then setup and organize then slowly add them back to the posts. gee it's a good thing I'm only working about 2 days a week lately... though you'd think i'd get more stuff done. It's all Sims 2, that game is a time wasting machine! But my loading times are long and I can get one row done on my bag during loads, hehe.
I do have a couple pics for you today though! Just taken with my horrible camera phone. *I decided to buy an iPod before a digital camera.* So here are my current WIPs
My Clapotis I'm working on, has not been touched in about 2 months... I guess that makes it a UFO huh?
This is the baby blanket for a friend of mine, she is due in June, I have 134 stitches on the needles, need to increase 1 every row till 190 stitches, then start the decreasing. I have a LONG way to go.
This is my Booga Bag I'm working on, I know interesting yarn, but beggars can't be choosers. LOL
If you noticed the Black Cat posing for the pictures that is one of my babies. His name is Salem, he is about 3-4 years old. He use to be a friends cat, but she was unable to keep him. I do have another cat Akasha, she is all mine, but she was camera shy today.
Here is a new stitchholder. I don't recommend using these if not in the room. In fact, even if you are in the room I don't recommend them.
In Progress: See Above
New to the Stash: Nothing
In the Player: Sticks & Sting Podcast *Need to catch up, I'm so behind on all my podcasts... hance the iPod, my old mp3 player ain't cutting it.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Daria
Ok so this knitting blog really doesn't have much knitting content lately, but that is mainly due to slow projects and no money.
The other night in boredom, waiting for something to finish cooking I spotted some rubbermade containers that I have in my living room. I packed these containers about 4-5 years ago and haven't open them since, just moved them from place to place. I went through them. Whoa boy, memory lane.
I spotted some old vhs tapes I had made, two were of 2 tv shows that were on The 'N back in about 2000-01. Yea, I was a bit old for the shows, but hey who cares. 24Seven and Being Eve. The former a British show the latter from New Zealand. So I spend last night and today watching the shows. I did manage to get some knitting done.
The best thing I found, was 3 tapes full of Daria episodes. That show is probably one of my all time favorite tv shows ever. The most interesting part is the episodes are from the original airings on MTV, with commercials and all that. It was interesting watching the movie commercials and remembering how I either wanted to see them or hated them, and thinking back on it now. For instance the commercials for "Titanic" and "Rounders" "54." Commercials for the original Playstation and the MTV VJ's. Remembering that they were not as cool as Bill Bellemy and the ones from the 80's that are completely slipping my mind at the moment. And commercials with actors that have tv shows now.
The has been a week for old tv shows. With my non-existent money *read a gift card from Christmas for walmart* I bought the first two seasons of Forever Knight, at $20 each. I use to LOVE that show. Oh commercial for A Night at the Roxbury. My ex-best friend and I went to that in the theater. Sadly, I enjoyed that way more then Titanic. Of course being drug to Titanic 4 times probably didn't help.
One thing I discovered tonight, watching 4 hours of Daria is not a good idea if you are going to a retail job where you already don't like the customers.
In knitting news, I have done no new work on either the clapotis or the baby blanket. But I am over half way done with a Booga Bag. I also bought some wool yarn from Ben Franklin, the only store in town that carries something other than red heart. I bought 4 balls of Lopi Reynolds. 100% Icelandic wool, hoping to do some type of felt bag. I spent the last of my spending *Read: food* money on yarn. Looks like I'm enjoying some tasty ramen until I can find myself another job, or until April 10 when my parents get back from their summer down south. I have no problems with going over there and raiding their food, and inviting myself to dinner. Their my parents that is what they are for. Besides I fix their computer problems for free, that saves them a lot of money. What with my dad's complete non-understanding of what a computer virus is, I'm usually cleaning one off a week.
On The Needles: Booga Bag
New to the Stash: Lopi Reynolds
In the Player: Daria
The other night in boredom, waiting for something to finish cooking I spotted some rubbermade containers that I have in my living room. I packed these containers about 4-5 years ago and haven't open them since, just moved them from place to place. I went through them. Whoa boy, memory lane.
I spotted some old vhs tapes I had made, two were of 2 tv shows that were on The 'N back in about 2000-01. Yea, I was a bit old for the shows, but hey who cares. 24Seven and Being Eve. The former a British show the latter from New Zealand. So I spend last night and today watching the shows. I did manage to get some knitting done.
The best thing I found, was 3 tapes full of Daria episodes. That show is probably one of my all time favorite tv shows ever. The most interesting part is the episodes are from the original airings on MTV, with commercials and all that. It was interesting watching the movie commercials and remembering how I either wanted to see them or hated them, and thinking back on it now. For instance the commercials for "Titanic" and "Rounders" "54." Commercials for the original Playstation and the MTV VJ's. Remembering that they were not as cool as Bill Bellemy and the ones from the 80's that are completely slipping my mind at the moment. And commercials with actors that have tv shows now.
The has been a week for old tv shows. With my non-existent money *read a gift card from Christmas for walmart* I bought the first two seasons of Forever Knight, at $20 each. I use to LOVE that show. Oh commercial for A Night at the Roxbury. My ex-best friend and I went to that in the theater. Sadly, I enjoyed that way more then Titanic. Of course being drug to Titanic 4 times probably didn't help.
One thing I discovered tonight, watching 4 hours of Daria is not a good idea if you are going to a retail job where you already don't like the customers.
In knitting news, I have done no new work on either the clapotis or the baby blanket. But I am over half way done with a Booga Bag. I also bought some wool yarn from Ben Franklin, the only store in town that carries something other than red heart. I bought 4 balls of Lopi Reynolds. 100% Icelandic wool, hoping to do some type of felt bag. I spent the last of my spending *Read: food* money on yarn. Looks like I'm enjoying some tasty ramen until I can find myself another job, or until April 10 when my parents get back from their summer down south. I have no problems with going over there and raiding their food, and inviting myself to dinner. Their my parents that is what they are for. Besides I fix their computer problems for free, that saves them a lot of money. What with my dad's complete non-understanding of what a computer virus is, I'm usually cleaning one off a week.
On The Needles: Booga Bag
New to the Stash: Lopi Reynolds
In the Player: Daria
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Vacation
I'm on vacation visiting my parents. (stressfull sigh)
It's actually going ok, though I've had an eventlful month. My internet is on and off at my apartment, but that is to be expected. I connected to a wireless intetnet connection of a neighbor, if he isn't smart enough to protect it, not my problem. So hopefully I'll be able to update this more often. Goddess knows I have the time.
I quit my full time job. I will only take so much sh*t before I lose it. I quit before my german temper came out. I worked for a retail store in a local mall. Our store's numbers were decreasing (meaning we were making less money this year then we were making last year) and due to corporate stupidity they tend to blame it on the employees. Now my manager is best friends with the district manager, so she is safe, which means the pressure goes on me. So I kept getting "in trouble" (meaning 15 minute speeches) for stupid things. For example the speech on how I'm not cabable of doing my assistant managment duties, and I need to start acting with the responsibility of my job. Want to know the reason for this speech? I didn't lable 3 boxes and put them in the wrong corner of the store after close. Not once did she mention how I had the highest increase in $$ in the district, the highest avarage doller sale in the district, or that I recieved 3 positive customer comment cards *We recieve on avarage 1 a YEAR* Nope, that didn't matter, I fogot to lable a box, so I'm a bad asst. manager. After putting up with stupid stuff along those lines I had it. The humorus part of this is the decrease has been going on for 3 years, she has been manager for 3 years. Also, I was part of the 2nd brand new staff she hired, still decreasing, the 2 employees she has now are leaving becasue I'm gone, they both started to cry on my last day, and admited the only reason they put up with our manager was becasue of me. Hmmm, Maybe she wants me gone becasue I'm a threat.
At anyrate I now only have a part time job. about 10-15 hours a week, close to minimum wage. I get all the stress of how the hell am I going to pay all of my rent, let alone electrctric bills or food. The down side. I CAN'T BUY NEW YARN. Sigh, that is the hardest part, also due to the fact i'm such a new knitter, I have almost NO stash. I only have 2 skeins of sock yarn. The plus side is I have a $40 gift certificate to Blue Moon Fibers. So that will add another skein.
I have huge amounts of stuff to post, but i'm going to try to keep it to a managable level. As I said earlier I'm on vacation visiting my parents. I live in North Dakota, they live in ND from april to october, then from october to april they live in Arizona. They live in a type of retirement community. It resembles a trailer court or campground. It's a small area with a small general store, a post office, and a community center. Each resident gets a spot with water and electric hook up, It's all 5th wheels and driving campers. I'm the youngest person here by about 30 years. I'm the only one who knits. Yup, I have yet to seek out one knitter. I brought my knitting to the craft fair today, just got weird looks, not one peek. I even said loudly a couple times "I wonder how this would knit on DPN's instead of a circular needle." *Anyone who was even a bit of a knitter would have HAD to speak up and say "Are you crazy?"* *i'm knitting a baby afgan.* but who boy are there crocheters. I crochet myself, being taught from my grandma and proud of keeping up the family tradition, even if it's only about one item every couple years.
Then yesterday my parents have their regular friday night beer and pizza night at a pizza bar in a town about 10 minutes from here. *another small nothing there town* I was in an argument with my mother about taking my knitting in. She said "But this is a bar!" I replied "So?" We would be at a table, I see no problem. She refused to go in with my knitting. So I put it away, then took it out when they were all talking and I *being 36 years younger then the rest of the table* was just staring at the room bored. Then came the end of the night, after 4 beers *and still knitting straight thank you* I needed to use the bathroom. Only a picture can explain the joy one feels walking into the bathroom.
Yes, that is the toilet, yes, that is a shower curtain. No it doesn't reach the end. Yes, you have to hold it shut. Yes, I am standing IN THE DOORWAY. If some idiot opens the door and your not holding the curtain, the whole world can see your buisiness.
So I mentioned a baby blanket i'm working on. Yup, I am going to have knitting conntent. When I arrived here I had my clapotis with me, but I kinda wanted a change, so when we were in Wal-Mart in Phoenix, where I flew in to, 3 hours from here. I bought some Bernat Baby Cordnates Sweet Stripes in Blue and Green. I don't really like working with acrylic but the couple i'm making it for would never be able to care for wool, they need something they can just throw in the wash and not think about, plus this yarn isn't to bad, I don't think I'd never knit baby hats or booties in it, but It's a good blanket. I took a picture a couple days ago and will put it on. I'm a bit further now but you'll get the idea. It is garter stich hell. A very easy pattern though with a yarn over after the first 2 stitches, creating the increase and a border.
Yes it is actually blue and green. but with the bad camera phone and lighting it looks purple. I also have no image editing software here so i can't crop or edit the images either. I miss my computer. And fast internet connection. This is Dial-up. It took 6 hours to download Lime and Violet!!!
On The Needles: Baby Blanket, with Bernat Baby Cordinates. Clapotis, with Violet's Pink Ribbon.
New To The Stash: Nothing yet. *sniff sniff*
In The Player: Fall Out Boys new CD Infinity on High
It's actually going ok, though I've had an eventlful month. My internet is on and off at my apartment, but that is to be expected. I connected to a wireless intetnet connection of a neighbor, if he isn't smart enough to protect it, not my problem. So hopefully I'll be able to update this more often. Goddess knows I have the time.
I quit my full time job. I will only take so much sh*t before I lose it. I quit before my german temper came out. I worked for a retail store in a local mall. Our store's numbers were decreasing (meaning we were making less money this year then we were making last year) and due to corporate stupidity they tend to blame it on the employees. Now my manager is best friends with the district manager, so she is safe, which means the pressure goes on me. So I kept getting "in trouble" (meaning 15 minute speeches) for stupid things. For example the speech on how I'm not cabable of doing my assistant managment duties, and I need to start acting with the responsibility of my job. Want to know the reason for this speech? I didn't lable 3 boxes and put them in the wrong corner of the store after close. Not once did she mention how I had the highest increase in $$ in the district, the highest avarage doller sale in the district, or that I recieved 3 positive customer comment cards *We recieve on avarage 1 a YEAR* Nope, that didn't matter, I fogot to lable a box, so I'm a bad asst. manager. After putting up with stupid stuff along those lines I had it. The humorus part of this is the decrease has been going on for 3 years, she has been manager for 3 years. Also, I was part of the 2nd brand new staff she hired, still decreasing, the 2 employees she has now are leaving becasue I'm gone, they both started to cry on my last day, and admited the only reason they put up with our manager was becasue of me. Hmmm, Maybe she wants me gone becasue I'm a threat.
At anyrate I now only have a part time job. about 10-15 hours a week, close to minimum wage. I get all the stress of how the hell am I going to pay all of my rent, let alone electrctric bills or food. The down side. I CAN'T BUY NEW YARN. Sigh, that is the hardest part, also due to the fact i'm such a new knitter, I have almost NO stash. I only have 2 skeins of sock yarn. The plus side is I have a $40 gift certificate to Blue Moon Fibers. So that will add another skein.
I have huge amounts of stuff to post, but i'm going to try to keep it to a managable level. As I said earlier I'm on vacation visiting my parents. I live in North Dakota, they live in ND from april to october, then from october to april they live in Arizona. They live in a type of retirement community. It resembles a trailer court or campground. It's a small area with a small general store, a post office, and a community center. Each resident gets a spot with water and electric hook up, It's all 5th wheels and driving campers. I'm the youngest person here by about 30 years. I'm the only one who knits. Yup, I have yet to seek out one knitter. I brought my knitting to the craft fair today, just got weird looks, not one peek. I even said loudly a couple times "I wonder how this would knit on DPN's instead of a circular needle." *Anyone who was even a bit of a knitter would have HAD to speak up and say "Are you crazy?"* *i'm knitting a baby afgan.* but who boy are there crocheters. I crochet myself, being taught from my grandma and proud of keeping up the family tradition, even if it's only about one item every couple years.
Then yesterday my parents have their regular friday night beer and pizza night at a pizza bar in a town about 10 minutes from here. *another small nothing there town* I was in an argument with my mother about taking my knitting in. She said "But this is a bar!" I replied "So?" We would be at a table, I see no problem. She refused to go in with my knitting. So I put it away, then took it out when they were all talking and I *being 36 years younger then the rest of the table* was just staring at the room bored. Then came the end of the night, after 4 beers *and still knitting straight thank you* I needed to use the bathroom. Only a picture can explain the joy one feels walking into the bathroom.
Yes, that is the toilet, yes, that is a shower curtain. No it doesn't reach the end. Yes, you have to hold it shut. Yes, I am standing IN THE DOORWAY. If some idiot opens the door and your not holding the curtain, the whole world can see your buisiness.
So I mentioned a baby blanket i'm working on. Yup, I am going to have knitting conntent. When I arrived here I had my clapotis with me, but I kinda wanted a change, so when we were in Wal-Mart in Phoenix, where I flew in to, 3 hours from here. I bought some Bernat Baby Cordnates Sweet Stripes in Blue and Green. I don't really like working with acrylic but the couple i'm making it for would never be able to care for wool, they need something they can just throw in the wash and not think about, plus this yarn isn't to bad, I don't think I'd never knit baby hats or booties in it, but It's a good blanket. I took a picture a couple days ago and will put it on. I'm a bit further now but you'll get the idea. It is garter stich hell. A very easy pattern though with a yarn over after the first 2 stitches, creating the increase and a border.
Yes it is actually blue and green. but with the bad camera phone and lighting it looks purple. I also have no image editing software here so i can't crop or edit the images either. I miss my computer. And fast internet connection. This is Dial-up. It took 6 hours to download Lime and Violet!!!
On The Needles: Baby Blanket, with Bernat Baby Cordinates. Clapotis, with Violet's Pink Ribbon.
New To The Stash: Nothing yet. *sniff sniff*
In The Player: Fall Out Boys new CD Infinity on High
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Please Miss Me
My internet isn't working *Since I don't pay, I don't complain to much*. I'm quickly posting this from a friends. Hopefully I'll have a internet connection again soon. Geez, I never thought I'd miss the internet so much, but I miss everyone! Going into blog/podcast withdrawel.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
EEEEP!!
I open my e-mail and I am greeted with a e-mail from Borders. My Waldenbooks is closing, as in the place I just decided to order sensational knitted socks from. There goes that idea, Sigh, that is the only bookstore in the mall. Now I'll only have Barnes and Noble to shop at, this isn't cool. I'm really not liking our mall. The owners are sitting there letting it crumble. First the good music store, then the video store, then my favorite clothing, now the book store. oiy vey, not cool.
Books, Books, Books.
I got my books today, squeee, happy dance, happy dance!!! lo and behold, I'm sitting on my bed all comfy watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer *Since I own the complete series, I've decided to do a watch through and remember what I loved about the show* and I hear "Knock Knock" on my door. That can only mean one thing, MAILMAN!! *It's winter, I only have 1 friend in town and she doesn't visit me*
My brother gave a gift card to Borders/Waldenbooks. Since We don't have Borders here, and Waldenbooks only carries 3 knitting books *SnB and Yarn Harlot* which I own, I went online and bought Domiknitrix and Naughty Needles. Of course they messed up and didn't take the money off the gift card, and billed my bank account, but hey, more cash for more books right? I think I'm going to purchase Sensational Knitted Socks next, but I'll order it through the bookstore so I actually use the gift card.
I love the straight jacket pattern in Naughty Needles and they yarn they use. I can't wait till I'm confident enough in my knitting to knit a sweater, though I also really love the Topsecret sweater in Knitty. Though neither are probably great first sweater patterns, but alas I'm not at the level yet, I still have to learn how to knit socks.
Needless to say I frogged the 2 rows I had done with the socks, my yarn really wanted to be made into Clapotis instead, and who am I to argue with my yarn? Yea, I know, if I keep frogging I'll never finish a pair, but I have yet to find a pattern that works. Hence me wanting to buy Sensational Knitted Socks. Well I'm off to knit, hopefully finishing more then the whole 2 rows I got done yesterday.
On The Needles: Clapotis, with Violet's Pink Ribbon.
New To The Stash: Nothing yet.
In The Player: Buffy Season 2: Episode School Hard, Go Spike!, in my buffy marathon
My brother gave a gift card to Borders/Waldenbooks. Since We don't have Borders here, and Waldenbooks only carries 3 knitting books *SnB and Yarn Harlot* which I own, I went online and bought Domiknitrix and Naughty Needles. Of course they messed up and didn't take the money off the gift card, and billed my bank account, but hey, more cash for more books right? I think I'm going to purchase Sensational Knitted Socks next, but I'll order it through the bookstore so I actually use the gift card.
I love the straight jacket pattern in Naughty Needles and they yarn they use. I can't wait till I'm confident enough in my knitting to knit a sweater, though I also really love the Topsecret sweater in Knitty. Though neither are probably great first sweater patterns, but alas I'm not at the level yet, I still have to learn how to knit socks.
Needless to say I frogged the 2 rows I had done with the socks, my yarn really wanted to be made into Clapotis instead, and who am I to argue with my yarn? Yea, I know, if I keep frogging I'll never finish a pair, but I have yet to find a pattern that works. Hence me wanting to buy Sensational Knitted Socks. Well I'm off to knit, hopefully finishing more then the whole 2 rows I got done yesterday.
On The Needles: Clapotis, with Violet's Pink Ribbon.
New To The Stash: Nothing yet.
In The Player: Buffy Season 2: Episode School Hard, Go Spike!, in my buffy marathon
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
High Priestess
Update comming soon, as soon as I get some sleep from my 10 day straight work week.
You are The High Priestess
Science, Wisdom, Knowledge, Education.
The High Priestess is the card of knowledge, instinctual, supernatural, secret knowledge. She holds scrolls of arcane information that she might, or might not reveal to you. The moon crown on her head as well as the crescent by her foot indicates her willingness to illuminate what you otherwise might not see, reveal the secrets you need to know. The High Priestess is also associated with the moon however and can also indicate change or fluxuation, particularily when it comes to your moods.
What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
