Finished Object!!!!

Guess what I finished!





Unfortunately, I didnt get to make them from just one skein, I had to buy a second one friday. But they are done, and they dont look half bad! The bind off around the knuckes is curling a little, so I will probably try to block them lightly eventually. I am planning on giving these to my mom for Christmas. Whats that? I have one Christmas knitting object DONE IN SEPTEMBER???? Yeah, i rule. ;-)

SO anyway, last night was KICK ASS! I dont know if any of you faithful readers listen to a morning radio show called Bob & Tom, but they are hilarious and have many talented and hilarious comedians on their show. Last night I went to the "Friends of Bob & Tom" Comedy Show, and it was great! It was at the embassy downtown, very nice, and then afterwards I went to the bar (Buckets) where the comedians were planning on heading after the show, and we got to HANG OUT with them!!!! It was SO awesome, I mean, these guys are pretty famous. I was there with my friend Alicia and her friend Kelly, and I had made us all Tshirts that said "BIRBIGS" on the front with iron on letters. Birbigs is a nickname for one of the comedians, Mike Birbiglia. Anyway, all the guys (like 5 of them) were VERY nice and funny and totally sat at our table and talked to us, gave us drinks, etc. It was AWESOME! :-) Kelly had a digital camera, so I will post her good quality pictures she took when she emails them to me.


Kelly and Mike Birbiglia, haha.


OK, gonna go grab some dinner and watch the ND game, bye!

Remember this?

OK! The long promised "Adventure of Scarfy!" Remember the IHS I made? and gave to my father for his birthday? Well, he liked it so much, he decided to take pictures of the scarf during one of it's "typical days"....hahaha. My dad is hilarious. :-) Enjoy!


First: the scarf relaxes in the backyard, enjoying the nice weather:



Then the scarf relaxes in the living room for a bit:


On to the daily piano lesson! (Probably playing chopsticks)


A delicious snack of cheese-its while reading a good book:


Rocking out on the drums:


Better get a quick work out in!


And finally, watching a little tv to unwind.....


Hahaha... Thanks dad!

Tailgating at ND!

Look how close we were to the stadium! It was a really fun day, too bad ND lost so bad to Michigan, ugh.

OK this is the only pic that blogger is letting me upload, more later!

The porche has crashed into a wall.

OK yeah, so NO progress has happened on the "fetching" gloves since that last picture of the second cuff. I have a good excuse though! (kind of)... Well, I got a crazy idea that since I will be seeing my three young teenage female cousins (like ages 10, 13, 15 or something) this weekend, and since i might not see them again before christmas (they live in Seattle)... why not try and knit them all something by Saturday?

(OK, everyone see the insane-ness of this plan? THREE things by saturday? Hello, time????)

So I decided, Hey! Scarves are quick. Let me go find some fun and crazy yarn, and some size 13 needles, and see what i can do. So i went to Hobby Lobby (fun and crazy yarn capital of Fort Wayne) and found these:



Hah! The pink swatch is two yarns held together, the multicolored one is a ribbon yarn that is just fun on its own. I also have a skein of an "antique" white chenille yarn that I might make a more plain scarf out of for the eldest cousin. OK so! Now the time comes.... can I make three scarves and FAST???

Scarf #1!!!!!!:



Barely got it cast off and gave it mini-fringe with the LAST of the skein, but hey! Not too bad of a width for just one ball of the stuff. Besides, a scarf like this isn't for coverage, its just for fun. :-)

1 down, 2 to go.... but can I make it?

If knitters were cars....I'd be a porche.

Cuz I am SO FAST! hah.... but yeah, look I have the second glove started already!!!!!!!!! (took the picture wearing the first glove so you know I'm not trying to cheat)

OK back to work!

squeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Look what I made!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Halfway there....



One down, one to go!


This is a beautiful fingerless glove called fetching, from knitty.com. I love it, and I love the yarn (cashsoft, or something... extrafine merino and CASHMERE)! It's soooo soft. I really hope the rest of the ball is enough for the second glove. (the website said it is, we will see!)

Anyhoo, this is my first project on DPNS, and it really isn't that bad! Once i got started (after several frustrating tries in Megan's car when she was driving us to a wedding in Lafayette over labor day weekend)... i got it going and it went smoothly. Except for the thumb hole, that ended up being a little wonky, but no matter. These will be a gift for my mom, and you know moms... they love whatever you make them, no matter how crappy. I think she will like these though. :-)

OK, time to work. Booo! Zzzzzzzzzzzzz gnight! haha