*flexes fingers*

The projects are decided upon (almost), (some of) the needles are on order, and the yarn is sitting my basket just waiting to be turned into pretty things (that's right--no ordering-- I'm de-stashing!). I'm ready to represent for Team TARDIS. :)

I'm participating in three events: Sweater Sprint, Sock Put, and Mitten Medley. For Sweater Sprint, I've decided to do the Flutter Sleeve Cardigan from the spring issue of Interweave Knits. The yarn has been sitting in my basket for months now -- this was the exact motivation I needed to get started. My swatching is done; I'm using Knitpicks CotLin in Lantana. I just need to go out and get some buttons.

I'm torn between two different patterns for the Sock Put. I'm either going to go for a new technique and try toe-up socks in the form of Cookie A's Baudelaire (from Knitty) or do the twisty lace of Linda Welch's Spring Forward (also from Knitty). I have yarn I could use for both. I think my Lorna's Laces Lily Pad (limited edition color from Jimmy Beans Wool) would be perfect for Spring Forward. I've been looking for a pattern to do it justice for awhile now. On the other hand, toe-up would be a new technique for me. Hmmm...decisions, decisions.

And finally, Mitten Medley. I'm doing Evangeline by Michelle Szeghalmi. These mitts have been in my queue since January 1; the yarn has been sitting in my basket since mid-January. I'm doing the elbow length version and I'm going to be trying the Magic Loop technique (a first for me).

So now I'm just waiting for my needles to arrive. I used this as an excuse (really self? I needed an excuse?) to finally buy the Knitpicks Options Interchangeable needle set. Woo! I've had my eye on it for a loooong time.

I don’t think I’ve actually ever posted before, merely left comments. Hello! *waves*

Because I find it a pain the behind, I'm not going to post pics of my current things on needles.  Instead, I am going to provide you with a lovely link to my flickr photostream. That way you can browse at your own leisure.

Works In Progress


I picked up some yarn two days ago for the Lucy In the Sky cardigan (light green) , and I ordered some  yarn for this Thermal (in violet).   I want to make my mom something for her birthday.  She doesn't really know what she wants, and since we're in separate states right now, it's difficult for me to help her look around at patterns and yarns. Her birthday is in July, so I guess I'll have about a month after I return Home to find a pattern, find yarn and make it. I'd like to do a sweater or cardigan, but it is her birthday, so if she wants something like socks or a rug, no problem.   I'm also trying to plan ahead for my great-grandmother's birthday (Thanksgiving)- I want to find a lace shawl or scarf pattern and I know that lace will take me a really long time because I can't do other things while counting stitches (no tv, no audiobooks, no people...)

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Sock Wars III sign ups are one now and run until May 3 - check it out if you want to participate!! 

I haven't posted in a while, but life..  yeah..  So, here are some of the things I have been up to.  More to come. 

The other week I started making wrist warmers, just real simple ones.  I would knit them up on a loom flat, and once they were knitted up I would set them aside and start another, so I had about 7 pairs of unfinished wrist warmers. =) The other day I finally sewed them up and put them on my website.  I am totally in love w/ Patons Carmen yarn!  It is so super soft and fuzzy.  I need to find more. (In case you haven't guessed I used some for a pair.)  For the most part I used doubled up Kiss yarn I got on sale for a buck each. =)  Now I just need to find those one patterns I saw on here for more difficult wrist warmers.  I also got a new toy to knit up stuff w/ (or weave actually) called a straw weaver and it's quite fun and quick!

For the first time in my live I knitted more than socks after a pattern, and it already looks quite good :D

See it here

this was just awesome.
i met so many great people,just from standing in line or sitting next to people; a woman who learned to knit from her mom, 4 girls who started a fiber club at their university, a woman who owns an angora goat and spins her own yarn, the mother of two yarn store workers who teaches crochet professionally... people came from all over the country. california, ohio, florida, wisconsin, colorado.....it was great.
x-posted to my journal

usually i'm the one standing in the yarn store helping my best friend to be 'unenabled' in her yarn purchasing, i tease her that the yarn shoppers anon group is on the phone or at the door for her etc...however this weekend i found beautiful hand dyed yarn and got some new sock yarn to add to what i already got for christmas...so here are some pics for your viewing pleasure...mind the drool on the keyboards!!



enjoy!

This is a new WIP of mine. I'm making a shawl for a friend for her birthday. She specifically wanted a thick shawl that would keep her warm so I decided to use homespun yarn (which I actually like working with; I know some people hate it) and asked her to choose a color. She choose two; edwardian and chili so I decided to use both colors and make something a little funky. I am aided, I suppose, by the fact that I have not really been taught to knit and so when I want to do something i just make it up as I go :D I do a lot of odd things with my knitting. In this case I am doing color knitting with a technique which I have named "mostly kinda fair isle but sometimes it's kinda like intarsia" which is to say that most of the time I am carrying both colors, but sometimes when there's a section of one color that's just too big, I cut and weave in the end. It's a triangular shawl in stockinette with yarn over increases at the beginning of each row. I started with 5 stitches and I'll end with around 180 or 200. The pattern is sort of like leopard or cheetah spots which is why I call it the ( wildcat shawl )

knit your own shopping bags, out of OLD shopping bags.

This is a cute idea.

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=450744&in_page_id=1879

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I can't believe it! Sock Wars made the Wall Street Journal!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119766934184930123.html?mod=todays_us_nonsub_page_one

ETA: They also have a video and a link to the pattern used for the competition. I may have to join next time!

 So I haven't posted anything in awhile so I'd thought I show the start of my dk scarf...and this is for me darnit!!! I'm done with my x-mas knitting so this is my present to myself!!!
Pattern is from here:http://craftychickonline.com/Knit%20Star%20Scarf.htm

So. I have bronchitis, and have been out of work for the past week. Between playing City of Heroes/Albatross18/Peggle, working on classwork, and watching Avatar: The Last Airbender/Gurren Lagann/D.Gray-Man/Naruto, I've been knitting and crocheting.

( here's a few of the things I've been working on )