i am a knitting machine

Gryffindor Scarf?

or... Kleenex box cozy???????????????



I am moving along nicely, just to the point where I am ready to start stripe #8. Woo!

pathetic progress and field trip(s)

OK so, the ol' Harry Potter scarf. I searched back in my blog, and found a picture i had taken of the scarf in May (2006). In that picture I had 5 sets of yellow stripes on that scarf. That was 5 months ago.

Here is the scarf as of noon today:



6 MEASLY STRIPES!!!!!! Wow, talk about lack of progress, eh? I just have to remind myself that during that time i made several other projects (blanket, scarf, etc)... so I can't feel too bad, but still! Wow. But I did have to get another ball of the cascade 220 in the reddish color, so off to the yarn store with cynthia and girls from work!!!!!!


oops, whats that other yarn? It was on sale! I HAD to get it (ha)... it is an alpaca/merino/acrylic blend... its very subtle and pretty. I am thinking I might make a lacy scarf with it. (ooh, yeah lace! haven't done that yet...)

Oh! and Cynthia and I took a field trip to the post office too... what for you ask? To mail off our squares for grandmother purl! Here I am filling out my postcard, with both of our squares sitting in front of me:


I wonder what all the other people at the post office thought of us crazy chicks taking pictures and running around with handknitted blanket squares. Oh well ;-)

OK i have been sickly all week (I heart nyquil/dayquil) so I am going to relax! Have a good weekend everyone. :)

WOW!!!!!

OMG so I found out that I have not ONE, but TWO extremely kind knitterly friends who both got me awesome birthday presents!

Number A, my knitting mentor Cynthia. She pulled a reversal on me, like one I did for her in the past.... she ordered me a present on Amazon and then had it delivered straight from them to me. When I did this to HER, and she found a package waiting at home, she thought, "Oh, I must have ordered this for myself and forgot that I did!" Later on it finally came out that I was the one who had ordered it, and she finally realized it was a gift ;-). With the present cynthia just gave me, it was delivered to my old address (my parents' house). My mom called me and was like, "You have a package here!". I didnt get around to picking it up from them for a day or so. During that day, I spent a lot of time trying to remember what the hell I ordered from amazon, and why it was sent to my parents house! LOL! So hey Cynthia, you got me back ;-). But without further ado, here is the present:

Woohoo!!! The yarn harlot's first book! You will have to excuse me for not stopping from reading it while taking the picture. This is so perfect, because I just bought myself her second book, and was thinking, man I really should have the first one too!!!!!!!!! so THANK YOU CYNTHIA so much! :-D You rock!

Number B: My newbie knitter friend Shawn. I had taught her to knit a few months ago, and she enjoyed it, but isnt quite as obsessed as I am becoming. :-) So last night when she showed up at my birthday party, she pulls out the most amazing present any knitter could ever ever wish to have:


YES - that is an ORIGINAL COPY of BARBARA WALKER's Treasury of Knitting Patterns.
Look at the date!!!!!!!!!!!


OMGOMGOMG! I knew she had this book, she had gotten it as a gift from her boyfriend's grandmother, and had shown it to me ( i was so jealous) and then she GIVES IT TO ME for a present, saying "you will get more use out of it than I will"...... WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I fondle the book lovingly:



WHAT A GREAT BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Also: I realized that I have a stash. For real. It totally snuck up on me. IM A REAL KNITTER NOW!!!!! Embarrasing picture of sneaky stash pile crammed into corner of bedroom to hide from my friends: (in plastic bags in a poor attempt at organization)

Knit - a- longs

OK so I have made ballband dishcloths, so i gotta add the Mason-Dixon Knitalong! And of course, the one for Grandmother Purl's blanket!

Just posting them here so i can use them for my sidebar. ;-)

Update on a blustery October evening

Yes folks, it is time to throw some more pictures out there of stuff I finished and havent shown you yet!

First, the blanket square for Grandmother Purl (unblocked):


And who can forget? The baby blanket that took 500 million months to finish! ta da:


It makes a decent shawl. Hmm maybe i should make another one.. NO! AHH!


To show off the two different sides of the blanket:


So yay! Not much else going on right now. Working on the Gryffindor scarf intermittently. Oh, a friend of mine from work started to teach me how to crochet... it was her birthday present to me! She bought me a skein of yarn and some crochet hooks. So far I can make a chain and do single and double crochet. Not too bad for one lesson! Now, if I can remember how to do it on my own... I figure it is good to learn for all those knitting patterns where they say "crochet on a border" or something like that. So far I still think knitting is cooler, as far as the look of the stitches when done. :-)

Oh, and I might have accidentally bought myself a little present on amazon.....


Can't wait to read this!!!!!!!!

Have a good wednesday evening, everyone dont forget to watch the Office on NBC tomorrow night (8:30), I am so mad I forgot last week! Best show ever!!!!!

Time flies.

Cast off the baby blanket. Finally! Ok it probably could stand to be longer, but I was really tired of knitting it. Plus I didnt want it to be too rectangular. ill get some pictures up later.

Also finished a basketweave square for Grandmother Purl's knit-a-long. Gotta get that sent off in the mail!

Now I am down to one WiP: the Gryffindor scarf. Kind of odd to only have one project going.... eek! Quick, better start something else. My first sweater? Another pair of fetching? Baby hat? Decisions Decisions.