I've been a verah busy girl

I love Knit Picks' Andean Silk. I want to marry it. Here's what I've been up to. Plus I finished the first panel of my baby blanket. Weeeeeeee! One down, six to go. If someone were to get pregnant right now, I'd have the perfect first birthday present for their baby at the rate I'm going. LOL








That one is the Silk Twist in Prairie. Drool.






Oh, and I finally got out my bead board after months of neglecting it. Knitting is so much more fun than making jewelry, but making jewelry nets faster results. And pretty too!

Yyyyyyyyeah, about that bag

Frogged. Wugh.

Well, see, I was thinking about frogging it anyway, because it's just mammoth. I mean really. I was sitting there looking at it yesterday after I took pictures of it, and I realized that it covered the entire chair cushion. Okay? That's too big. So while I was thinking about frogging it, my darling sweet brat -- er, son got ahold of it and took the needle out. An act of God, wouldn't you say? Question answered. Bag frogged. Here it is today.




I'm going to have a go at it again with about 20 less stitches cast on. Hopefully that'll be enough to make it not so Godzilla-ish. Plus I realized as I was frogging it and looking at the pattern again that I decreased instead of increasing at the very top of it. Duh. So all in all, a good move, but I was sad to see all those stitches ripping out. That was a butt-ton of stitches.

Here's the bag I'm knitting, which because I wanted a fairly large bag, and because this will be felted, is hereforth known as the Ginormousass Bag.




The color of the pink in that picture is not at all accurate. This is closer, and it's also a demonstration of what a cat can do to a nice ball of yarn in about 10 seconds.

Don't tell my husband

I ordered MORE yarn today. Yes, more! What the hell is wrong with me? I got some of the KnitPicks Andean Silk in Pitch, Olive and Sangria, and then some Silk Twist in Prairie. *drool* I'm going to make some more kerchiefs for some gals on my twins board with that. I can't wait to dig my fingers in it. It's going to be sooooooooooo soft and yummy. Just so ya know, "SOCKS" is a code for free shipping. ;) I had to order some to make sure it works. Yeah, that's it.

Part of the point of having a blog...

... is updating it. Yes, I actually do realize this. LOL

I'm working on a felted bag with the KnitPicks Wool of the Andes. It's coming out pretty cool. It's my first knitting-in-the-round project, which I LOVE. How cool is it that I can sit there and knit stitch after stitch after stitch after stitch. No turning. No brainpower. No nothing. And then LOOK! Pretty stockinette stitch! I love that. Last night I watched a movie (Weird Australian movie called Visitors. Very strange) and knitted the whole time. I didn't even pay attention to what my hands were doing most of the time. Man, that's a great way to get a lot done. When I would look down, I'd go, "Wow! Look at that!" Maybe I'm just too easily excitable. My camera battery is (guess) CHARGING. Ugh. So I'll take some pics of my works in progress when it's done.


Oh, yes, did I mention then cute little tank top I was making for Harmony? Yes, well, it met an untimely end. See, I found this one knitted tank top of hers (Benetton -- I don't have much bling, so when I find something, I have to flaunt it), and I thought I'd just measure that one, figure out the stitches per inch, and then it would be pretty easy to make a replica. Yeah, you'd think, huh? Here's a little tip for all you knitters out there. If you're going to do that, do not measure the tank top when the two-year-old is wearing it. If you do that, your replica will be WAY small. So I frogged it. I'll do it again when I'm not so into my bag.

R.I.P. little tank top. :(

Wow, I finished something?

*Faint*


The bad thing about starting fifty bazeeeeeeeeeeellion things at once is that you don't finish things very quickly. The good thing about it is that you finish lots of things at once. :)

Here we go. I'm going to be a huge picture whore here, so if you're on dialup, you bettah just go get a cup of coffee or something. Better yet, get on the phone and order cable while you wait for the page to load.

First my scarf. Oooooh. Ahhhhh.




Details of it. Yes, I'm proud.



And I can even wear it!




Next. I made two kerchiefs from the Stitch N Bitch pattern. This one was in the hateful fuzzy blue yarn I've had forever on size 11 needles, a.k.a. baseball bats.




And lastly, I made a kerchief in the same yarn as the scarf. I'm a bit sick of that yarn now.




But I'm a happy knitter in my new kerchief! Front view:




Back view:



So yay! I accomplished something. Now I can focus on my blanket. Well, I can until my Knitpicks yarn gets here, and then I'm doing a felted bag. And I know I won't be able to wait to start that. Felted bags are the whole reason I started knitting.

In which I redeem myself ... almost

Here are the pics of my progress. Actually I've even done more on the scarf since this morning when I took the picture. Weeeeeee!








The color is way off on the scarf. It's more of a cranberry, or "Autumn Red" as the yarn manufacturer calls it. Oh well. Such is digital photography.