slacking

I've been a bad blogger, and a bad knitter. I haven't been working on knitting much. Mainly because school has started to pick up with more work than it seems like I've ever gotten. Also I was picked with 19 other kids in the junior class by teaches to do a pilot test run of our Senior Project. It's an honor because we were reccomended and then had to fill out an application of sorts and then were chosen by the principle and vice principle, but it means an whole lot more of extra work. The good part? Because I want to go to school for fashion design, my project is to illustrate, design, and produce a five piece clothing collection. I never limited myself to simply fabric clothing, so I might try and knit up a coulple swatches of just stiches thrown together in my own pattern to see if I can some up with something that I could use in my project.

I was out of school for the past two days with a horrific cold though: double ear infection, fluid build up in the ears and nose, a sore throat, and a fever, but wait there's more, top that off with pink eye in my right eye to point where it was swolen almost completely shut and womenly cramps. Oh did I have fun or what!? I was basically sleeping or on the couch watching all the craft shows I miss because of school. I did however manage to get some knitting in between my sleeping and sneezing.

I did quite a bit on my second sock. I finished the heel flap, turned the heel, did the gusset, and am now moving along nicely on the foot part.

I want to say that it will be finished by the end of the weekened but I am not too sure about that. It depends what my work schedule is and how much time I have left over after completing all the work I missed on Thursday and Friday. I am still a little sick too so it will all depend.

I did do something else than just my sock though. I wanted some mindless knitting that I wouldnt need to worry about messing up if my medicine had me a little foggy. I did some searing on Lion Brand's website and found this easy pattern. I casted on last night and switched off between working on the stole and the sock.

This picture is more for the fact of looking at the lace pattern. Its very simple - just a k2tog, yo across the row followed by a straight knit on the next row.

You can see the colors really good in this picture. There's a little bit of gray mixed into the verigation which I wasn't sure how much I was going to like at first, but it looks okay.

I also think I've found a new knitting bag. I went to NYC back in Novemeber and was caught up in the moment when i bought this bag;

I realized when I got home that ti is actually a luggage carry on. I wasn't sure what I was going to do since I felt kind of funny about carrying it about as an actual purse so I just stored it up in my closet until my mom's friend suggested using it as a knitting bag. It works wonderfully. Theres a little zipper thing in the middle two keep two projects seperate, theres compartments for needles and measuring tapes and all that jazz. Plus it's quite roomy which is always good.

See? It hold the large ball of yarn for my stole, plus my sock project. It's very nice because it sits in the crock at the fold of your arm near your elbow so it makes standing somewhere and knitting quite easy. Although I am going to have to work on someway to keep it open - even when unzippered it kind of stays shut and you have to tug a bit on yarn.

That is all my knitting news for now. The only other thing left is that I switched to the new blogger. I like the old version better I think. I lost my WIP percent bars. I can't figure out how to tweak the HTML and get it to work. I should probably work on it when IM not sick, so I'm just going to leave it for now so I don't mess anything up worse. :-] That's all my news for now.

Happy Knitting!

WOOOOO

Ok, I finished the sock tonight - only one but it is my first finished sock, with a toe and everything!! Want to see pictures? I know you do... here they are!

excuse my cat Bailey, he was being nosey

and then I started the second sock today as well:

Excuse the school agenda in the pictures, I'm doing this before I head off to bed and I just finished watching Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and some homework.

I am very pleased with myself because I know for a fact that I will not have one sock syndrom. You see, before I started knitting the first sock I took both yarns and lined some of the verigation up and cut them at both the same spot so that I would cast on in the same exact spot. Smart huh? I thought so.

Well I am off to bed, but I just wanted to share my first ever finished sock [with a toe and everything!] with you all. Have a wonderful week and as always....

Happy Knitting!

year end wrap-up

so my camera wasn't charged last night for me to take pictures and post - i forgot to plug in the dock ... woops :-]

but here is what i have:

as far as knitting goes I haven't done too much on anything I haven't really had the time but I did finish one of my Crusoe Socks! [well almost]

the only thing I have left to do is cast off the toe. It gives me the option of knitting the stiches on needles one and two and then doing the kitchener stitch of the first and second needles together, or of pulling the yarn through all stitches. This is the first sock I've ever made so I'm not sure which is best. Any suggestions??

on the non knitting front I made some curtains for my room yesterday!

First of all my room is all black and white pictures of New York, and Audrey Hepburn like this:

This is only the wall that my bed is on but you get the idea of it. Now before I made the curtains that I did, I had these maroonish deep red curtains up that well, did just not go. Here is what I made:

Cute aren't they? They're black with white polka dots, which I think goes very well with my room.

I also had a martini glass on my dresser that was just overflowwing with chapsticks and perfume samples so I did something that isn't very crafty but it used craft supplies so I suppose you could count it - I filled the martini glass with 'pearl' beads. It looks adorable on my dresser with all my perfumes set up. I would post a picture but blogger isn't allowing me to add anymore, I'm not sure why though.

Well, my goals as far as craftyness goes are that I would like to finish everything I started this year, if not everything than at least half. I would also like to try dying some yarn of my own. Other than that I'm not really sure.

I wish everyone a Happy New Year, and as always ...

Happy Knitting!

I am a slacker,

and a large one at that!

I have two days left of my school vacation and last night was the first time I knit - and even then I only did maybe 4 rows of my socks.

It is horrible.

Granted, I got myself a new digitalized sewing machine for Christmas so I have been sort of fooling around with that a bit, I had a friend sleep over for about three nights in a row, and basically I have just simply been enjoying the fact that I do not have to wake up before it is light outside to go somewhere. As well as the fact that I get to watch all those craft shows on HGTV and DIY Network that I miss while I'm in school.

Right now my camera is charging, but later on tonight I will post some pictures [and a list of things I need to finish next year!]

Until then, happy knitting!

Christmas Traffic

I know I havent posted in a while, and sadly it looks like I wont be posting again anytime soon. Every year the two weeks before Winter Break are crammed with last minute projects, tests for the half-quarter mark, loads of homework, etc. I have been extremely busy with school - so much so that I've called out of work a couple of times to just try and catch up and relax. I honestly do not think I've gone to bed before 11:30 in the past week and a half, and I have had no time at all to knit, I go once a week to my library knitting group but we always do more talking than knitting, or I end up bringing homework.

So until everything with school calms down and when I have a spare minute I will post, but incase I don't talk to everyone before the holidays come around: Happy Holidays, enjoy time with the family, etc.


and don't forget...

Happy Knitting! [if you have the time :-D ]