Binary Scarf and more unfinished Socktopia socks.

Pattern: Binary Scarf from Winter Knitty ‘06

Yarn: TLC.  It had to buy 2 skeins of white and 1 black.

Well at least I finished his scarf.  It was actually finished yesterday, and I decided I was going to make a major push to try to finish my socktopia socks.  I’m just going to have to face the music, they’re flying along, but they will not get done in the next 4 hours… it’s just not happening.

This is why I really shouldn’t sign up for KALs.  Screwed up two in one shot!  I’m going to be anti-KAL and just knit what I want. 

Socktopia SOCKS! not finished.

Yup… I’ve been working away on my Socktopia socks and my boyfriends birthday present.  Both items need finished by the end of the month.

 Good news:

• Boyfriends scarf only has 24 more rows!

Bad news:

• half way done with the socktopia socks… meaning I have to finish a whole sock by Wednesday.  Don’t think that’s happening.

Here is a close up!  I chose the snowflakes and starry skies theme….  I made little knit/purl snowflakes and added beads for the stars. Of course I used dark yarn (I wanted it to look somewhat like the night sky, and I was using stash.) so of course the snowflakes don’t show up unless you really look for them.  But I don’t care because I made them up myself and it’s mine! muahaha!

Cross your fingers and they’ll be finished!  The first one took about a week and a half so if I really rush… it might happen.

Yarn Containers

While waiting to get some photos developed from last February I bought a bin.  A BIG bin.  It has wheels, and since my bed is really high, there was no doubt in my mind that it would roll easily under my bed.  I was wrong.  It is approximately 2 inches too tall. So I thought long and hard about what to put in it… and then it occured to me.  I have a computer box under my bed and a laundry hamper packed full of acrylic.  I bet I could fit all of my acrylic in the bin and have tons of room left for my knifty knitters and my spindles!  OH! That would work!

Nope.  I had far more acrylic that I thought I did.  In fact I couldn’t fit the 6lbs of acrylic that I bought for the afgahn into my bin.  So it’s official… I have probably about 50 gallons of yarn.  I have a 44 gallon bin, and another 6lbs that didn’t fit.  Oh dear.

This really made me think about the stash.  I’ve decided I want a stash, but not a huge one because I really don’t want all my nice yarn sitting around in the stash until I get a chance to knit it.  There’s no reason for that.  I want to be able to buy yarn and use it right away, with enough for a few projects hanging around in case I get the urge to start something else.

This is my dream stash.  Enough yarn for:

• 1 sweater

• 2 shawls

• 5 pairs of socks (cause I love sock yarn)

• 2 scarves

• 2 hats

• 2 or 3 skeins of acrylic for charity stuff

• plus all those odds and ends left over from projects. (can also be used for the charity stuff)

• no more than 3 lbs of fiber.

That’s not too much… and I’ve decided that I will not run out and buy yarn until I finish something something.  Aka… finish socks, buy more sock yarn! Of course when fiber festivals are concerned this can be broken seeing as how those don’t come around very often.  Gift yarn doesn’t count either.  If I buy yarn to make everyone socks, that doesn’t count as my stash yarn.  Let’s see how long this goal lasts.. heehe.  I’ve got a few years before I ever move out, this stash should hopefully be much smaller by the time that coems around.

Hopefully now that I’ve written it down somewhere…I’ll be responsible and stick to it.

Quick little post

Went to the knitting group up at the Cuyahoga Falls Panera… fun group that is.  Hopefully I’ll be able to make it when school isn’t getting in the way and destroying my life.

 Speaking of Destroying my LIFE!  WHERE DID ALL MY PICTURES GO! AH!

I knew my blog aniversary was coming up so I went and clicked on an older post to check the date (it was last friday)… see… school’s kicking my butt…. and all my pictures from before I switched to wordpress… GONE.  This makes me very mad because I know, that when I switched from blogger… they were all there.  Now.. I don’t know.  Hopefully they’ll all magically reappear by themselves, and if not I might go back to my old blog, save all the pictures and re-upload them.  A whole YEAR of photos…….ugh.. Hopefully they’ll be back by the weekend.

I’ve made sock progress.  I’m just starting the heel.  I’m going to bed now… I really need sleep.

 ETA: Literally one second after I uploaded this post… they all reappeared……..My day is made I can sleep peacefully now.

ETA: Cleared the cookies went to try it again (just to ensure it wasn’t a fluke).  It’s a fluke!  I’ve known before that blogger pictures usually don’t work when things are hyperlinked… but I’ve always seen them working okay on here before, but if I clicked from my old blog over to here… i wouldn’t have noticed the problem cause the pictures and what not were stored somewhere in computer land.  BUT it isn’t working so it’ll be fixed when I find the time to go to my blogger, save all the old pictures, and upload them here.  This could prove quite interesting and won’t happen till I have a little free time… or perhaps I’ll do a few each day.  We will see.

More Yarn

Because I have no knitting that I can show you, I’ll show you some Sock Yarn!  Knitpicks.  :-D  They messed up my needle order, or at least I think they did, I’ve got no proof though, so I sent back a set of needles and I’m waiting for them to be exchanged.  The yarn in the back is going to be made into a hat, the yarn in the front is going into the stash until I get rid of the yucky acrylic sock yarn… maybe I should make the acrylic sock yarn into something that isn’t socks.  :-D  That would be a good idea.

It’s going to be a looooong week.

If you’re expecting some knitting content.  I’ve got none for you as of now.  I plyed some more singles today and I’ll set the twist after work tonight.

School went okay.  It’s life that’s killing me right now.

We don’t see my mom’s side of the family very often unless there’s a wedding, funeral or graduation.  Unfortunately it looks like it’s going to be a funeral this week.  I’ve been sitting around thinking about this all day, and it looks like work is going to be a great distraction.  I’ll let the media tell you, no one says it better.

Cross your fingers and I may have something to show tomorrow… not likely, but possible.

 Tomorrow is Tuesday annd usually I’ve got my knitting guild meetings or SnB.  BUT!  I’ve got night classes on Tuesdays this semester so those are done until summer.  However I’m going to join the spinning guild on Wednesday, that is unless there’s a funeral.  We will see.

Back to school…

School starts back up tomorrow… This means my knitting is going to suffer.  Hopefully I will manage to finish my socks for Socktopia.  I’m also hoping I can still get some test knits done.  I don’t have to do them, but I would like to help out if I can.

 MY GOAL:  I WILL NOT PROCRASTINATE!

I’m horrible at putting things off… then they all end up due the same day, so I won’t sleep for a week because I’m up all night doing projects.  Not fun.  Hopefully if I’m managing my time well I’ll have time for everything.

 It’s amazing how much knitting I can get done when I’m not sitting in front of the computer refreshing blogs and message boards all day.  Last night I did over 2 inches of a cuff in less than 4 hours.  Today I did the heel flap, turned the heel, and started in on the gussets in 3 hours IN THE DARK!  But all last week… I only knitted about 4 inches on the socks… It’s the internet I tell you!  This brings me to the other goal of mine…

LIMITED INTERNET USE.  Hopefully I will be successful.

 I would show pictures of this major sock progress… but it’s a test knit, and I don’t want to show EVERYTHING.  That’s not nice. 

Dishcloths, socks and HANDSPUN! OH MY!

Finished up the Monthly Dishcloth January KAL this morning, wove ends in and everything!  Click on the pictures if you want bigger ones.  I had to turn the flash off so you guys could actually see the pattern.  It’s one of those hard to photograph type things.

It’s cool.  I really enjoy the KAL.

I’ve been doing a lot with socks lately too.  I joined the Lime and Violet sock marathon and Socktopia so it’s been all about socks this January… that is at least until I got bored which happened the other night.  So far I’ve got a toe done on my Socktopia sock (the blue one.)  The purple one is a test knit and I’ll give you more details when that pattern is released.

Oh, and remember when I said I got bored the other night?  I ended up with 200 yds of handspun.  I bought 8oz of that Cherry Tree Hill roving last summer and so far I’ve got one finished skein.  It took almost 2 hours to ply just the one skein.  The good news?  I’ve got a ton of yardage in that little skein and I usually end up with around 4.5 skeins when I’ve got 8 oz of roving.  Cross my fingers, if I stay consistent and don’t rush I could end up with approximately 900yds!  If that happens, I’m making a shawl. YAY!  Of course because it’s so thin it takes a loooong time to spin.  It’s so pretty though, I just love the colors.  It’s not the softest wool, but the colors make it worth it.

Some Handspun

Finished some Alpaca.  It took FOREVER do dry.  I finished spinning it on New Year’s Eve and it’s been drying ever since.  I got 4 1/2 skeins out of the 8oz of alpaca, some of it is worsted some is on the bulky side.  About 410 yards total.  So I should be able to get a decent project or two out of it.

 I’ve been doing a lot with socks lately.  I’m still working on what I’m going to do for Socktopia.  I had a great idea, but it just didn’t work when I tried to swatch so it’s back to the drawing board.

First Things First…

First Things First..

What is the first thing you did in the new year?

Helped mom clean the house.  I killed some massive dust bunnies. 

What is the first thing you ate in the new year?

Chicken wings left over from last night.  (I didn’t get up till lunch time.)

What is the first thing you knit in the new year?

Some socks I started at 1:30am this morening when I couldn’t sleep.  I had a lot of caffine at the new years party.

What is your first ‘blessing’ of the new year?

Dunno.

What is the first thing you will do to make the world a better place in the new year?

 Try to do some more knitting for charity.

Post the first photo you took in the new year!

It’s knitting stuff!  Of course!  What else would I take pictures of?

 Tag five people:  I don’t like tagging people.  HA!  No one gets tagged.  If you want to do this meme, by all means, steal it and let me know if you complete it!

 Speaking of the knitting stuff.  I’m doing good so far with the KALs part of my resolution.  I’ve got a sock that I’ve casted on for LnV’s Sock knitting marathon 2007, and I’ve got a dishcloth for the Monthly Dishcloth KAL.  I need to get started on the Socktopia KAL while I’m at it.  I’ve got some ideas but I need to swatch.