Nothing New

You might want to check the weather forecast guys. Hell might just be freezing over. Yes, I'm updating 2 days in a row, I heard all the gasps. So I counted my Lady E tiers, 36, and pinned it out for a rough size, about 60 in, so I'm thinking I'm definatly adding 5 more tiers and probably more like 10. I really really want it super long so I probably do even more. Thanks to our recent Netflix subscription I've been getting a lot of knitting time in. Wednesday it was Transformers, last night it was License to Wed, pretty cute, and right now its Finding Nemo, not a Netflix though this one is one of mine along with most of the other disney cartoons. I'm bound and determined to have this thing off my needles by the time my Mother gets in town for the holidays (Nov. 17th) but would really really rather it be finished by the middle of next week. Then I have to finish the hubster's Eesti socks so I can get started on all the new stuff. I have several things in mind for the near future. I'm planning on knitting my BIL a pair of socks, my niece and nephew a hat and last but not least the hubster a pair of gloves. I have to say my husband is finally getting it. When he saw the sock that I finished he was sooo impressed and actually put in a request. I honestly can't say how excited I was when he asked for a pair of gloves. Then after the excitement faded the fear sank in, I've never made gloves before, this is going to be fun. Also he wants the tip of his pointer finger to to be able to fold back so he can use his finger on a trigger, yes that's right for hunting. Hunting has became very present in this household this year and as I tell everyone my Dad was a golfer I'm not used to the hunting. Oh well I'll survive. No pics today but there will be some up next week when I finish Lady E and start on all the new project. Happy knitting...

Any ideas, I'm kinda drawing a blank...

Wow I come on and read my last blog and get looking around. Oh those sidebar projects are sooo old. Ha, I say that but they are still pretty accurate. Well sorta, I have made big progress on my Lady E but every time I stop I seem to think I need to still add 10 more tiers and well so while at the time I thought I was about 65% done, I'm still thinking I'm only 65% done. Oh and Baby Tart, oh how I wish that yumminess were done. It's not and probably won't be anytime soon, I seriously put it down with no hopes of picking it up again. Well first off I wasn't at all happy with my cast on, I don't know exactly right now why b/c I'm not looking at it but I'm thinking maybe it got turned the wrong way. And while when I began I wasn't knitting it for anyone in particular now I have a little niece that would look great in it but problem is it would need to be a bit bigger for her. Soooo, I'm guessing that would give me the inspiration needed to rip the thing back out and start over.

The hubster and I watched Transformers last night. I must say I never was a big transformer fan when I was little, Thundercats? Hell yeah, but not Transformers. It was actually pretty good though, and quite funny too. I will say it was a bit difficult keeping up with which robot was which but I think that was largely due to the fact that was working on Lady E. Oh yes I do still knit on it occasionally contrary to popular belief. My b-day is just around the corner so I put in an order for KnitPicks sock needles for a present. And along with that I threw in a bit of yarn, hey it was on sale, and some extra option tips one of which was a 10.5 harmony wood. I was lovin' the looks but not so sure about the wood. I generally dislike wood and bamboo and all that, now of course I generally don't work with yarn that too slippery either. But anyway I figured I'd try them out and I'm oh so glad I did. I really like them, when the box first got here I opened it immediately even though my b-day isn't til this coming Saturday, and went directly for the harmonies. I was surprised how slick they were I just kept running my fingers up and down them like some weirdo perv. So last night I thought it would be a good time to pull out the old Lady and knit some, of course it was purely coincidental that they are knit with 10.5 the same size as my harmonies. I wasn't purely convinced when I first started I have to say I liked my metal tips a bit better for the project and yarn but the wood were so much better than what I was expecting and by the time I had a couple squares done I had gotten used to the wood and was digging them too. I finished 3 tiers last night. Something is telling me that I really should stop and block this thing but it just doesn't seem long enough yet. Yes I know I could probably go do a trial run to see how big it will be but I'd rather just keep going til I reach the point that it will completely mummimize (yes I know I make up a lot of words) my Mother, who will be getting it since I think it will get more use with her than sitting in my closet. Oh how I'll miss her.

Back again....

Hello all, how's you're knitting been going? I've actually been doing quite a bit of knitting lately, despite the lack of pics. I haven't actually completed anything yet so that explains the missing photos. I've been working on a baby blanket and so desperately want to get this finished and off my needles. Ok wait wait wait strangeness going on on the TV that I must comment about. I just turned on the tube to have a bit of noise going. It's on Dr. Phil, they're discussing Britney apparently. Anyway so the commercials come on and it shows some of the upcoming Dr. Phil shows, a lady attacked I believe it was her sister with a blender. I swear I must have heard it wrong, how do you attack someone with a blender? Ok so now that I'm thinking about it it's really quite simple, you just throw it, but for a minute I was like WHAT?

Ok back to knitting....blah blah blah, oh yeah the blanket, I believe I've posted about it previously. Its red and lacy, hmm sounds a bit risque doesn't it, but its not it's actually turning out super nice. Let's see what else do I have going on, oh yeah so I found Cast On a while back and I'm so one of those people who can't just jump in I have to catch up and that's exactly what I'm doing. So she mentions the Fiber Trend clogs and I'm immediately intrigued. I so want to knit them, and knit them now. However I can't knit them now, I don't have a pattern so I go in search of something kinda like them. What do I find you ask? I find Knitty's Fuzzy Feet, so that's what I knit. I knit them up in just whatever I have lying around and that happens to be some Lion Brand's Wool (which I'm so not in love with) but I had some orange from when I had high hopes of knit pumpkins. This orange was becoming a bit boring though so what else do I find, navy. Not a good color combination for a Crimson Tide household. My husband immediately flipped and asked where the Alabama socks were. Oh how I love the bitter rivalries.

Here's one of them, the only one finished at this time, in all its glory, a bit dark but still full of glory.Please ignore the ratty dog in the photos. She isn't normally this unkempt looking. Oh well, until next time happy knitting.

Owl Hat

I'm back again. Who knows for how long though, at least I can admit my faults... Well I broke out the yarn I had dyed a while back and found a hat pattern to try it out on. More specifically the cute little number that can be here.
I first started looking for a simple basic hat pattern then became intrigued by the ear flap hats, then I realised I don't have a lot of dpns so I was limited by the size needed. The only pattern that I was liking at the time that also required my needle size was the owl hat. I'm very pleased with how it came out and am very happy that everything turned out the way it did. And yes that is the tail that is hangin out there but you will be happy to know when this picture was taken that is the only end that needed to be woven in and just as soon as the pictures were finished and the model (aka the hubby) had taken the hat off I was busy weaving in that end. So it is indeed complete. The yarn as I said earlier was dyed by yours truly. I'm not going on the record here or anything but I believe it was Paton's classic wool in Natural Mix before it was hit with kool-aid. I finished it in about 2 or 3 days so it wasn't too bad at all. It really did turn out great. I would definately recommend this hat.

Oh wow, I'm a horrible blogger. Well at least I can admit it. Actually I'm a horrible knitter too. I had put down my knitting for some time until my trip to the hospital to wait on the aforementioned new youngest niece. I grabbed out Ole trusty Lady E, who by the way is probably never going to get done, to work on while I awaited the grand arrival. I really do love knitting this one in public though, you get so many comments. Ok I can also admit that I'm a tad vain. So anyway I finished one tier, yes you read that correctly 1 tier. I then started talking, playing cards with my older nieces, and watching family feud. Oh and there was also that trip to Starbucks as well.

So lately I have started another lacey baby blanket. It’s out of the same pamphlet my last one was from. I’m doing this one in a nice deep red. It’s really turning out nicely, hopefully I will be able to let go of it and not be selfish and keep it for myself. Here she is…

It has a real nice sheen to it. You can get a better look at the pattern here. Its the one right there on the cover.

Well hopefully I will get back to you guys sooner next time. Happy knitting.

I love days like today....

Today was a great day for knitting. You know those days where its drizzling outside and cloudy. The kind where you don't want to go outside, even to get the mail. The kind that you don't want to do anything but curl up under the covers or in that special nook with a cup of tea or hot chocolate or whatever your fancy with a bit of music playing in the background and knit. Yeah today was one of those glorious days, too bad I didn't do any knitting. I don't know what happened to me. I really can't say what exactly I did in place of knitting today. I did get all three meals in but other than that nothing much is coming to mind.

I finished knitting my mother's sock monkey hat, two down, two to go. I still have to weave the ends in but I've really been putting that off, guess I'll try to get that done tonight before the hubby gets home. Yesterday my aunt, the one that's trying her hand at lace with me, called asking how I hold my needles. So I had to grab out something, anything to play with while I was on the phone with her. Well what did I pull out? It was a scarf I started a while back, just a simple garter stitch scarf. I was watching a Knitty Gritty episode last whenever and they were knitting with two different yarns together and I so badly wanted to try it. The outcome my something, anything pink scarf, which by the way has somehow gotten holes in it. Yep I missed a stitch and now there's a hole staring at me quite a few inches back. I should really frog it shouldn't I? Oh but I don't want to, I just don't see myself wearing it. It was really just an experiment. I don't know, I do know I really want it finished. It's been sitting in my yarn drawer for oh so long, it's time it moved on to my never wear it drawer.

I know you all are just dying to know what's my next on the needles project. Well since my sister really needs some great hats to show off her sister's knitting skills, however not so great they may be, I've seen those oh so cute dinosaur hats that those oh so cute little boys are wearing. Yep that's it, I'm going to attempt to make a green hat with those pointy things(what are those pointy things called, not scales) going down the middle of the back. I'm sure she's gonna love it. Well until next time happy knitting....

Monkeys and Blankies

Ok so I’m about 2/3’s of the way through my mother’s sock monkey hat (from knitty.com). I’m generally not a fan of the, as I like to call it, fuzzy yarns. You know the ones. They all have that this extra fringe sticking out everywhere but this yarn isn’t quite as bad as some. Actually the pics make it look worse than it is and besides it really makes this hat look funny. Not quite as sock monkeyish as the original but funny none the less. I also grabbed some more yarn to get two more done for my aunts. One of theirs will have a blue top and pom pom the other a green. I know, I know, so not sock monkey but hey I didn’t want them all exactly alike and besides I think I lost the sock monkey look, as mentioned before, with the glittery, fuzzy yarn.

And again with the not so knitting news… Here’s part of the neighbor’s baby shower gift, all completed and ready to go. It’s 2 by 2 block in a checkered pattern, just like the last one I posted. I actually wanted to do a 3 by 3 (like a tic-tac-toe board) but I had the material cut for this so this is how it was done. It’s backed in a white flannel instead of the chenille that the other was done in. I like the chenille, ok I love the look of the chenille, but I really like how much thinner this blanket is. It has the same batting and such to it so I’m sure it’ll be just as warm it just isn’t as poofy as the other. I am definitely liking this one too.

So until next knit on knitters….

An update, just for the sake of updating...

Well I didn’t get too much done over the holidays in terms of knitting at least. In terms of Wii, I got a lot done. I beat Rayman’s Raving Rabbids but never even started Zelda. Yes I know I hear the gasps from anyone who happens to have ever played Nintendo in their lives. I don’t know I just haven’t felt in the mood to seriously concentrate on Zelda so I haven’t even picked it up. My sister did come over and get me started though, I mean while fell asleep.

So here’s where I am in terms of knitting, about 1/3 of the way through Liesel. See it right over there…. It's a quite hard to see the pattern, I didn't realize the green would be quite so dark oh well...

I'm still at the same point on my Lady E, so no pics of that. I’ve been recruited to make another sock monkey hat for my mom (have I already mentioned that, sorry if I have). I would really love to make one for each of my aunts as well. I can see them already, the three of them all walking around town in their matching hats.

Not quite knitting, but crafting…I am almost finished with a blanket for my soon to be youngest niece, due to arrive at the beginning of May. I just love the red polka dots. Its backed in off-white chenille. This is one of my favorite blankets I’ve made. I just have the two sides to stitch up real quick then it’ll be ready to go, well actually it will be ready to wait, for the shower that is. Tomorrow, hopefully, I’ll be starting one for my neighbor, who’s also having a little girl. I still have to get everything for that one though.