unknitting is my spec-i-ality

I do believe I have contracted a severe and debilitating case of knitardation. This only seems to be occurring when working on a well-written and charted pattern at the point of 200+ stitch rows. Ahem, at the BEGINNING of these never ending, mind you, easy to knit rows. Have you ever tinked a ssk? How about two of them, every 8 stitches eighteen times?

So the well-written pattern I speak of is Terra by Jared Flood. It truly is an excellent, fun, pattern. It is allll me people. Good thing, though, since now I can offer gads of advice to my students who sign up for the knit along in March. The shawl is knit in ultra alpaca. The green in super lovely! Of course the camera screwed it up, but just think: soft pinemint.

SC 5, MB, SC 5, rippppppp....

oi. edgings are ever so important. They Reallllly can make or break something. I could have been finished with the lovely diagonal scarf were it not for the tricky questions a knitter (in the case crocheter) must ask oneself: Begin on right (ooh, look at the pretty chain!) or wrong side (it does seem to lay flat better)? Large bobbles with double crochet or smaller bobble with single crochet? Have it hug the knitting or chain one before and after?

These are the little quirks that distinguish a pattern! Also, is it lovely to work as well as behold? And now that I've decided, how the junk do I write this in English without taking up half of a page?

Nice little break, now back to the eleventeen different edgings on this scarf......

Hello two years later....

*lets ignore the silence*
Had a stove full of wool and cake coloring paste on Sat.
Here are the results:

Played artsy-fartsy with friends on Sunday:

Just looked over the class schedule for Stitches South. Meh. I don't see a whole lot I am interested in. I was hoping to find SOMETHING knitting just to be able to survey teaching styles, but I have settled on one spinning class: spinning for knitting on Sat. 8:30-11:30. I'll have to remember to bring my french press and coffee and chicory for the early start.

Wishing AGAIN today that I had the beatnik sweater here with me. Every time I put it on at McNeedles, I don't want to take it off.

apologies for the delay. I swallowed too much paint.

Hehe. didn't really, just been knitting. AND SPINNING on my new drop spindle. I don't want to write more about le residence before I can post pictures. Just sayin' i'm here is all. i''m here.

Shitfire

Just remembered that I was going to finish my mother's print o' the wave stole FINALLY this christmas. Since it wasn't finished for her birthday, or christmas, or her next birthday. Wooopss. Don't think it'll happen for the 24th.

Hack...Sniff...

Argh. Sick. I've avoided this for a while using the old standbys- zinc and licorice capsules. Mostly I feel like doing a whole lot of nothing. BUT I have an eye app. to get contacts (praise the mom), an app. with the bank, needs to wrap presents, and go pick up a !!FREE!! bike!! Yesh.. There WILL BE A PICK. this is me committing. Enjoy your holiday!

Grumble grumble grumble

holiday knitting continues......and I am grumpy. I have been waking up lately feeling like the living dead. Me no likey. Anyhoo, right this second I am working on a crochet bath puff in Mission Falls 1824 cotton (yumyumyuym) in the most marvelous cool, dark grey. The first one of these I made is still in limbo. I held together some novelty yarn I wouldn't normally knit with the sexiest organic cotton ever made. My MIL is awesome about randomly giving me yarn she finds from her brief knitting career, but the yarns are hard for me to like. I LOVE fibers. Cotton and bamboo and silk and wool and even some polys and acryls and what not, but I do not love fuzzy yarns. I don't really even like mohair. (YET, I never say never) Soooo, I have this poof almost finished, knit with the yarn she gave me, sort of as a thank you. I don't hate knitting with the yarnheldtogetherwithsexycotton, I just don't like what it looks like. Feels ok. not so pretty.

WHAT DOES I DO? RIP OR FINISH? I'll try to post a pic later today when I rescue my camera which I leave at work. Why's it at work, interesting question. I need it to take before and afters when I do eyelash extensions. yurp. you got it. I do eyelash extensions in my momma's shop. oh, it's fun. it is a LOT of fun. I am about to convert to a different product and take some training for the new PLATINUM BOND ADHESIVEooooooooh. One thing I don't like about the world of eyelash extensions: everyone who trains is so freakin stuck up. I almost didn't sign up for training because the trainer, the one who I will pay, was rude to me. ugh. come on now people, come on.

My dad's side of the fam does a name draw for christmas. My mom actually convinced me to knit for the aunt and uncle I drew. Carazy. Let ya know how that turns out.....