I haven't been knitting lately. I can't blame that on anyone but me though. Instead i've been job hunting, making art, and reading about art. Right now I think I need to focus on that but I'll have periodic updates in general soon.
So I haven't really made any progress on my throw. I blame the fact that I've been using the television and movies as a way to make noise while I job search instead of using them for while I knit (what I usually do).
However last week I ended up finding some wonderful knitting books while killing time at barnes & noble and I was so surprised that I hadn't been up to par on them lately. I got totally excited. I also am motivated enough to start attempting things like sweaters and socks even though I'm frightened I will try!!
So I adore my ipod, I really do. I need it all the time and I love it and it does all the fun stuff except two things. I can't listen to NPR on it and I can't download these digital audiobooks from the library which are free as opposed to audible where i used to download stuff but it costs $$ which i have little of right now. So I bought myself a little mp3 player (a sansa clip) so I can listen to them and i realized now it also has a FM tuner which means I can also listen to NPR.
The best part about all this? It's all stuff i can also do while I knit! Which excites me to no end. hooray.
i got a knitpicks catalog in the mail today. I have no idea how they found me but it excites me so! I've been going back and forth on whether or not I should renew my interweave knits subscription. I figure I'm better off looking at it in the store to see if i want to knit anything from the issues before I buy them. But I don't know if that turns out to be more or less expensive then the subscription. It works for now though so...
do you subscribe to any knitting magazines? if so which?
I've recently realized I stopped updating this. I'm going to start again. I recently gave away almost all my needles and yarn stash (but i can reclaim it at any point) to my mom. See my mom is cheap, she loves to knit but would never buy all the stuff for it herself (she thinks it's too expensive). I figured it was worth the sacrifice to get her to knit and I would slowly buy my stuff over again. At least I kept the jordana paige knitting bag, and almost all of the books. That's really what matters because my yarn stash was nothing too impressive just massive amounts.
So I decided to start knitting again while watching reruns of tv (Stupid writers strike). I wanted to learn cables so i decided to knit the cable comfort throw from lion brand with some wool-ease thick and quick. It's a pattern that consists of 5 panels (they look like long cabled scarves) which you sew together to make a throw. It's at least gotten me to get the hang of cabling which I've wanted to learn for the longest. Now I realize it's really easy but I need to finish the throw. That, and I'm always cold so it would be nice to have a throw for my lap.
I'm currently on the 2nd panel, almost done. I'll show you all what it looks like when I finish.
I meant to post about this sooner but I had this killer course last semester and have to work on a paper all through break, it sucks.
BUT my secret pal sent me this amazing package of goodies. First of all, 3 skeins of handspun and one in PINK (cause you know me + pink = love) and blues and greens! She also sent me a bunch of knit picks wool in different colors which I think I may make a bag out of, I'm not sure yet but they're really pretty. I'll post a picture soon I just can't seem to find my cord. She also sent me all these cool patterns and a Handbag note card set (ahh a gal after my own heart heh) and chocolate YUM! So thank you very much secret pal, you rock.
In other knitting news, umm oh yeah there is none. ALTHOUGH, I'm about to cast on a calorimetry because I almost always wear my hair in a ponytail and I'm sick and tired of my ears getting cold. January apparently has remembered to be cold. Go figure.
so i knit this itty bitty wittle baby bootie as a sample for my mom (she's on this knitting kick because all her friends are having grandkids) and it was so itty bitty and cute and easy (2 needles very EASY, i used this pattern.) and it makes me wonder why i never did it before.
so even though i only made one as a sample i couldn't help myself and started making the second last night. lately i haven't been knitting as finals season is upon us.
also i'm angry at the holiday season. so much so that i bought 2 boxes of cards and now i don't think i'll even send any.
so i think i'm hot shit right? oh yeah me, intermediate knitter, a simple pattern like my so called scarf will be totally easy. i finish with the first skein, start onto the second, somewhere about in the third row of it, i screwed up, lost 2 stitches, NEVER NOTICED. knitted like another foot worth into the scarf, think i'm done and look at it, realize i'm 2 stitches short.
WHY DID I NOT COUNT MY STITCHES BEFORE THEN?! WHY!
i need to learn to do stuff like that. so i ripped out about a foot of my scarf and started to reknit it. i'm frustrated now and it's really the scarf o doom.
Today was an awesome mail day! First, I got my satchel!! it's huge and lovely and I'm saving my time to totally organize it and make it all perfect. You know what else it's good for? bpal imps and roller bottles! there's so many little compartments for everything I love love love it. Thanks to yarnharpy i'm so glad i got one too! I wish they did make it in black though, I would love it in a more neutral color then gray, or even a dark coffee brown. oh well.
Then, I got a whole slew of yarn I knew I could never use from my secret pal. Secret Pal I hope you don't mind but I donated some to a knitting club who's been doing charity knitting for the holidays. I'm hoping they'll be able to use it because they were asking for yarn donations.
Today I also got together some of my own stash to donate to their cause. Let's be honest, I'm never going to use all this red heart acrylic stuff. Even if I made a ton of non-sensical items. So I'm passing it on, but I don't know what they'd use it for either. What is that non-soft acrylic yarn used for generally anyway? It's not knitting. it can't be knitting!! and if it is for knitting, then well, KNITTING WHAT? Anyone want to tell me? See, when I was a beginning knitter I thought that was "the" yarn to have so I would buy tons of it on sale and now I realize, I would never use it all. So if anyone has suggestions feel free to pass them on.
Then I sent my own spoilee her next goodies and I tried to get together another package I owe a special someone but it didn't happen so maybe next time.
Project progress, well my mom gave away that one baby blanket before I got a pic of it, but she just finished another in all white and a little cream on the ends, I'm gonna try to get a pic of that next. She's knitting a scarf for her oncologist next.
Me? I'm knitting my damn so-called scarf still. Or as I call it the scarf o' doom, See malbrigo does not like to be ripped out. it's too fuzzy and it's not easy and well yes, it's o' doom. But I'm on my second skein and getting it to the point of being long enough the way I like to wear my scarves.
so i have like the most horrid nasal drip/cold ever. well not ever but it sucks pretty bad, this stupid leaky faucet called my nose. my family doesn't really celebrate thanksgiving at all so for dinner i'm making enchiladas and right now my sister is playing animal crossing while my parents went to a baby shower.
DRIP DRIP DRIP BLOW!
I'm excited, my jordana paige satchel is supposed to arrive on monday! i'm hoping for once in my life i can keep my knitting organized without having to carry ANOTHER bag or try to carry my knitting my current bag and getting the yarn all tangled up in EVERYTHING on a daily basis.
it's already thanksgiving week! how does that even HAPPEN!? I'm behind in school and trying last minute to play catch up (it's a tough job but someone has to do it right?) My so called scarf is still so called not finished. My mom's been knitting a baby blanket with my help (and mostly my design) for my cousin's upcoming baby shower. I'll post pics of that when she's done before she gifts it away.
Good thing I don't have a whole lot of christmas knitting to do, it's nice not to really celebrate a holiday once in a while.
so remember that killer earache of the 21th century? It might've been totally linked to the fact that I had a cavity in my wisdom tooth on the same side.
I'm currently finishing up my one skein pal's 2nd project so I can finish off that exchange for once and all because her first gift BLEW UP! fun huh? someone blew up my knitting gift (mailbox bomb jerks). I'm also trying to figure out what to get my own secret pal next. It's difficult this time around, I want everything to be so perfect!
My so called scarf is coming along. I might even finish it within the week. everyone keeps telling me how great the color is, I'm not sure I love it yet. Maybe when it's done. The biggest question now is, fringe or no fringe.
so today i had an earache and so i started knitting a scarf (my so called scarf with malbrigo yarn). my ear still hurts and my scarf looks nice though but ouch ouch ear :( ( here's the scarf )
I got my first package from my secret pal! It's a gorgeous scarf made of her own handspun yarn and it's really perfect for autumn. Thanks so much Secret Pal I love it! I like my secret pal too she responds to my emails and stuff I like that :)
In other news, I have my own gallery show at school next semester, I'm so excited and nervous all at the same time!
My secret pal also got her first package she loved it as well Yay this round of secret pal is going great!
I'm patiently waiting for my yarn so i can start on the lost in translation scarf. I'm also totally interested in still incorporating my knittig into my artwork. The part that didn't work last time was the height the knitting would've added to my print, I didn't feel much like dealing with it.
I ordered the game cooking mama and it's supposed to arrive today. I know that has nothing to do with knitting but I'm just so psyched about it.
It's getting chilly and I'm dying for a new hat, scarf, mittens to knit for myself. I just have no time to knit so it's getting frustrating!
I sent my Secret Pal her first package and I'm trying to find the time in between all of this to finish up my second one skien present for the one that got lost. (if i bribe my mom to knit it is that cheating? i bet it is).
My secret pal sends me emails and they always cheer me up. I like her already.
So school work is killing me. But I've decided in order to knit I need to start incorporating knitting into my work. so I did this monoprint that I'm going to incorporate bits of knitting into due this thursday. pictures when I finish I promise. It's a diptych in a variable edition of 3 and I'm totally excited for it to be finished, I spent most of my weekend on it too.
Til November 4th my artist book I made about my mom when she first had cancer is up on display at Gallery 3.5 at my school. That's kind of neat, but the reception is when I have class. So i emailed my friends and maybe we can have our own little reception.
I'll post pics of the artwork as soon as it's done! Toodles.
OH YEAH and my one skein package got lost :( as well as other packages I sent out that day and dvds to netflix :( :(. I called the post office and apparently someone bombed that mailbox or something and there's really nothing they can do about it.
I have to knit up her another gift. and Thank my own one skein pal (whom i didn't yet) for sending me such a pretty scarf and wonderful gifts for this exchange!
I'll reveal them all when I'm not rushing to class!!
ALSO i'm so excited for SP9 my secret pal is so sweet and my match up seems amazing too!
So, I'm not knitting again, school is killing me with time constraints and I wanna stab time with my pointy sticks so i can sit down and finish my clapotis! IT WOULD BE THE PERFECT TIME FOR IT RIGHT NOW.
but because i'm crazy I've been internalizing what it would be like to mix my knitting with my artwork.
My spoilee for secret pal is away away and hasn't posted her survey yet (I know she's really busy and am so happy for her) but I'm DYING to spoil her but have nothing really to go on. So I'll wait, patiently and stuff.
Halloween is coming! I Love Halloween, I really wish I could crochet so I could make cute little pumpkins and things, I'm going to try though, as soon as midterms are over.
Okay back to studying for midterms.
Oh and I stepped on an imp of BPAL jack, and my entire room now reeks of pumpkin but it doesn't bother me so much. I think I like pumpkiny smelly goodness.
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