Blogiversary

I almost forgot! Happy Blogiversary to me!!!!!!!!! Since Dec 2nd, it's been ONE YEAR since I started this blog. WOW. I can't believe it's been a year already. What the hell have I been doing all this time? Heh heh. I just want to say thanks to all you faithful readers out there (all 5 of you)... you guys are the best. ;-)

Fringe time!!!!! Look, mom's scarf was done blocking so I fringed it up and now its REALLY DONE! I even went ahead and put it in a box ready to be wrapped. Woot!




(Sorry for crappy photo quality, I need to get a digital camera. Also: sorry for crappy model quality, I need to take a shower. lol)

OK time to go knit more. :)

Almost forgot:

I made this ballband dishcloth real quick the other week for my friend Alicia. She picked out the colors from my cotton stash, and it knit up pretty darn fast. Just forgot to post it. I did give it to her as an xmas present, so I guess it counts as Christmas knitting that's done. Woot!


Not bad, eh? I also cast on for another dishcloth last night. I hope to have it done by Saturday so I can give it to my Aunt as a xmas gift, especially since she's my godmother and gets ME a present every Christmas.

I checked on my blocking items this morning, the scarf feels dry already, the gloves a bit damp still. Ill leave the gloves sit until this weekend, but I might unpin the scarf tonight so I can add fringe. Mom requested some!!!! I mentioned maybe making a hat out of the other skein, but she didn't seem too interested. She said I could save it to make something else. Now there's a Christmas present! haha.

I was over at my parents' last night to help bake cookies for the party this weekend. It was tiring! Got a bunch done though. (Also ATE a bunch... ugh too much sugar...) I haven't eaten any candy or anything yet today, so yay for me.

Oh, and I have the first green stripe done on the yellow side of my baby hat! I totally am going to get it done in time. What a relief! :-)

OK, back to work (hah)... good luck everyone with your own Christmas knitting. :)

In your FACE, christmas knitting!!!!!

Look!!!!! What's that??? Mark one item off the christmas knitting list!!!! WOOO! Got my mom's scarf DONE.... look at that baby. Awesome. It only used one skein of Manos! So the other skein could maybe become a hat???? We will see.
Check out that sweet progress on my baby hat! Done with the green, and halfway with the yellow! I totally am going to have it done by Saturday. (yeah... I hope!)


Surprise! Remember these? Fetching! I had them done months ago... Its nice to have had one christmas thing done, but next year I need to do that with MORE... heh heh. Anyhoo, giving them a block so the top ends don't curl. I also stuck some highlighters in the thumb holes to try and help shape them.... weird, probably, but I thought it would work.




While I am on my blocking frenzy, I got mom's scarf blocking too!


I considerately pointed out my tools of the trade for blocking. ;-) It looks pretty good! Finished blocking dimensions are 4 1/2 inches by 58 1/2 inches. Perfect! Love that Manos del Uruguay yarn. If anyone else wants to make one, I just cast on 20 stitches and did k1, p1 ribbing. Thats it! Easy as... a scarf. Heh.

SO! Now to finish the baby hat, and if I am really crazy, do some more dishcloths or another pair of fetching. (But that's just nuts! :-))

Im alive!

Look! It's me! Knitting.... at lunch!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing. Thanks to Cynthia for the pic (she even posted it on her blog!). I am shown working on the manos scarf for dear ol' mom. It is going pretty fast. I just need to finish that... and oh RIGHT i have a baby hat im supposed to be working on... whoops! With only 8 days till the christmas party, I dont know if my cousin will be getting a handmade baby gift... but I haven't told anyone about it, so if I don't have it done, no big deal!

Christmas is coming... eek!

Christmas 06 Knitting Update

Well! The preemie blanket was a bust... somehow I had been mysteriously decreasing without knowing it, so I had to rip it... (because it was more of a trapezoid than a rectangle... heh). BUT: I got the scarf done for my coworker and gave it to her, she was very pleased! :) Woot.

On to more knitting - baby hat: still chugging along, abeit slowly.
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And!!! Started the commissioned scarf for mom out of the beautiful Manos yarn:


It knits up so quickly, I LOVE IT! Look at that progress, just from yesterday!

OK kids, back to work, more later!