Here's a real quick update before I go to bed...

I haven't been doing much knitting. I am getting swamped with homework and I'm not even finding enough time to do that nevermind sit down and knit... hopefully within the next week or two things will calm down... hopefully anyway.

Junior year is the most important, and I am just hoping that the whole school year isn't going to be like this.

Hope everyone else is doing well, and

Happy Knitting (if you have time :-] )

Central Park Hoodie!

Tonight at my work (Jo-Ann's) they had sort of an open house type thing. Tomorrow is the official date that we open too the public (!) Employees could bring family members and at the end they opened it up to shopping!

I had seen the Central Park Hoodie [pics here and here] a while ago, and I wanted to make it, seeing as how the other sweater I started is too small. Anyway, I decided to spend some of my paychecks since I have been so good with putting all of my paychecks into my bank account. I bought yarn for the hooddie! Nothing fancy, it is just Lion Brand wool ease, but in this color:

I like it. In person it is more of a white-ish with pink, not so much pink... it's not a girly pink, its sort of a subdued pinkish purple. Anyhoo I like it.

I am going to finish off my mom's pedicure socks, which is only an inch or two, and then I am going to start it up.

I can't write too more, I want to relax before school tomorrow. Have a lovely day everyone!

P.S. It's official! I am now a proper member of Secret Pal 9!

I am a sock knitting MANIAC!

The pedi socks are coming out really good. This is my first actual pair of 'socks' [though I'm not sure if they count because they don't have a toe]. But I am making them all on my own, I haven't asked for help once!

Last night was the teen knitting group at the library. It was only Becky and i who showed up, but that was ok. I had fun nonetheless. When I started the knitting sesson at 5:30 I was still working on the upper ankle part, and when I finished at a little past 7 I was working on turning the heel. I think that is good progress, looking at the fact that I think about 40 minutes of that time was spent talking and not knitting.

After knitting I continued to work on the sock while watching Dawson's Creek [which is my new favorite show, seeing as how none of the new seasons for the shows I watch have started yet]. When I went to bed I had finished turning the heel, pickign up the stitches for the gussets, and now I am just doing regular knitting until I have to do the k2p2 rib and bind off. I think I should finish the first sock tonight! [hopefully]

That's all the knitting news that I have so....

Happy Knitting Everyone!

pedi socks

Well, I finished a second cable square for my afghan, and now I realize why I put them down and just picked them up from last summer/fall. Because doing about 15 repeats of the same pattern gets borring...so to break it up a little bit I...

Casted on for Knitty's Pedicure Socks. My mom is big into getting them every other week right now. She has some nerve damage in her foot, and the guy that gives her the pedicures apparently does some reflexology massage or something and its really helping it. I got her a gift certificate for a pedicure for her birthday [which is tomorrow!], but I figured that in the winter time these would be perfect for her. With just my luck I just bought that sock yarn she likes too [the brown/blue pattern magic stripes]! These will not be done for tomorrow, although they are a fast knit, but I figured it gives me a head start on her Christmas present.

I also casted on those because it didn't involve me doing a figure 8 cast on, which for the life of me I cannot figure out. i tried like 20 different times before I gave up and decided I would wait on my socks a little bit. I'm going to go to the knitting group at my library on Thursday, hopefully someone can help me there.

That's all the news so...

Happy Knitting!

Madam Stash Enhancer

I just did this Stitcher's Name Generator and mine came up as Madam Stash Enhancer. I sure do love to enhance my stash!!

Onto actual knitting news...

In spirit of August Project Spectrum, I picked up the cable squares for my afghan. I figured since they needed to be finished anyway and they fit into the colors for this month, why not? I had to do some frogging though, in one of the squares I left off in the middle of a cable section, and of course I didn't remember what row I left off on. But all is well, I just re-knit it.

Because of said cable squares I have put asside the pinwheel blanket, which is alright though because I'm not sure if I'm going to contiue with it. See, I casted on with acrylic yarn, just to test it out before I casted on with the boucle, so I wouldn't mess up. Then I figured, hey I have enough acrylic and I need to bust some stash, but then I started thinking... What am I going to do with two pinwheel blankets? I might finish the one I started in the Harry Potter colors and give it to a friend for Christmas, but I'm not sure yet.

Now enough about stash busting.. lets talk about some stash enhancing!

Yesterday after work I bought myself some sock yarn!! It's nothing too fancy, but it works for me. It's Lion Brand's Magic Stripes. Here are the colors I bought:

Bright Spring Pattern

Brown/Blue Pattern

I bought the Brown/Blue Pattern for my mom. When I was looking at them, my mom was like 'Oh, this one is nice. I like it.' and then above the yarn was a sock knitted up, with that yarn and she really liked it. I bought it with her there, but she doesn't know that the yarn is for her yet. I might do a Christmas present, but I know I gave her a coupon for Mother's day of one free handknit item, so I'm not sure yet.

In non-knitting news, the heat has finally broke! It is in the high fifties/low sixties right now. Which isn't bothering me one bit! I love the fall weather, it's my favorite time of the year! And speaking of fall, I go back to school on the 5th of September. I'm waiting for my schedule to arrive in the mail, it should be coming either sometime next week, or the week after.

That's all the news I have, so....

Happy Knitting Everyone!