Overdue update!

Whew! OK well, sorry it's been awhile, but I have a lot of updates!!!!!
First off, I went to columbus last weekend to visit Jessica! I had a great time and got to experience what its like during OSU-MI football weekend (nuts!!!) Now THAT is a football rivalry. (P.s. IU lost to Purdue, ugh... oh well... stupid IU football). But as I was getting ready to leave, Jessica gave me some fun yarn:


Pretty purple chenille and some fun little ribbony-yarn that I might carry along with a nice blue yarn or something. :-) Thanks so much to jessica!!!! I might use the chenille to make a scarf for my friend megan!

OK, next: making another simple scarf from Lion Brand Homespun for a lady at work... she saw the one I made a few weeks ago for a work auction, tried to bid on it but lost.... so I said, hey - I can just make you one anyway! It is already about halfway done, since I am knitting it sideways:


I hope she likes it. :-) OK moving on... still working on my ND baby hat for my cousin's kid... I did two yellow stripes. I think it looks pretty cute. I also got a good start yesterday on a "preemie" blanket. A woman at work asked several of us knitters if we would make small 12-14 inch blankets for preemies at some hospital... so I grabbed a cute stitch out of my Barbara Walker book, and here it is: (using leftover Caron "Simply Soft" from my cousin's baby blanket)


OK, so! Spent a lot of time with the folks for Thanksgiving yesterday (and it was delicious).. but we all talked about knitting... and my dad mentioned he had a knit tie he liked, but it was too short. It is made of silk, and is definitely machine-made, but he asked if I could possibly knit a tie. I was like, .... sure? Haha. So then he got really excited and starting sketching out all these cool tie ideas and talking about colors, etc... it was cute. So today, mom and I hit the yarn store (WOO) and got a ton of yarn!!!!! Here is what we found for the tie (also pictured is the silk knit tie that dad already owned):


It's some "Silky Wool"... 65% Wool 35% Silk. He liked the blue and the gold colors, and we're thinking a mostly blue tie with thin gold stripes. We will see how I do!!!! (but who knows when I will get that started...) Dad even was talking about me knitting many ties, and then selling them... heh... now that would be a nice side job! ;-) (Note: mom paid for this yarn, hooray!)

Then I had to buy yet ANOTHER skein of Cascade 220 for my Harry Potter scarf.... whew! That thing is eating this stuff up! This is skein #4 of the red. BUT: this will be the last one I have to buy. Hooray!


Last but certainly not least, my mom picked out some BEAUTIFUL Manos del Uruguay in a pretty deep crimson color for a scarf I am commisioned to make for her. She even paid for the yarn!!! I am so excited to knit with this... I just need a pretty pattern. She said she wanted a thin scarf, maybe some sort of slightly lacy pattern? I was thinking of just using large needles to give it a "lacy look". We will see what we can come up with...


So much yarn!!!!!!!!! So many projects!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE IT! :-D

Hope everyone had a safe and happy Thanksgiving! :) Hooray for leftovers!

Never too poor for yarn....

OK first off: the ND baby hat for my cousin's little boy. Not going too shabbily now that I am on the nice long stockinette part (and on circulars instead of the dpns). :) I even have one stripe done!


It looks small now, but Cynthia warned me that it gets bigger off the needles... so I am confident it should turn out well! Can't wait to get to the halfway point and start knitting the "other side". (P.s. I like the Baby Ull yarn, but it still feels so tiny to me!)

Today I went to our LYS with Cynthia and Angela... and definitely spent more than I should have, lol. (should have spent NONE) But I got two skeins of Rowan Classic Cashsoft DK to make cute baby hats out of for yet ANOTHER cousin who has little kiddies... can't let any cousin feel left out!!!!


And what is in that brown paper bag behind the yarn????? It's a little present for my good friend Jessica, who I am going to visit this weekend and meet for the first time!!!! I am totally excited. I predict lots of knitting, video games, and drinking all weekend. I hope she likes me! ;-)

OK back to work....

Mood swings

OK so I decided to cast on for the baby hat. I sat down to watch the Office (best show ever!) while i knit. A half-hour later, when the show was over, i FINALLY had one row knit on the stupid hat. The picture below expresses my sentiments towards knitting at the moment of completion of that row:



See, knitting doesn't always relieve stress. Sometimes it causes it! After that, I quit for the night...

So today at lunch I got crackin' for a good hour, knitting away with these teeeny tiny needles.. (ok they feel teeny to me, even though i know there are smaller sizes!)... and I actually made some nice progress! Total 180 on my knitting mood, as you can see below:



I am definitely glad to have the beginning of this darn hat DONE. :-) So we will see how things go from here!

Quick and Dirty

Whatever could my title be referring to??? Nothing like that, all you sick-minded people! I'm talking about this quick scarf I made over the past 48 hours to give to a charity auction thing they are holding at work. (I love knitting scarves 'sideways'.. they go so fast!) Not that this is a particularly awesome scarf, but I wonder how much it will go for.... if someone pays 5 bucks, i would be amazed. (since I didnt exactly use fancy yarn... it's Lion Brand!)



The picture is kind of washed out, but it's a pretty charcoal-y grey/black. Like black yarn with white woven in. Or something. But I went with a plain scarf so it would go with the coat of whoever buys it. :-)

Still probably going to put fringe on it, cuz who doesnt love fringe?

Not much else going on, cept I am planning on starting a cute baby hat soon, from a pattern written by Cynthia. She rocks!

OK well, time to work. Hope everyone has a good wednesday!