Snow and Socks

This is what it looks like outside my house, and it's been like this for the last 3 days since temperatures can barely get above 28 degrees. Yes, and it is currently snowing (the weather people are calling them "flurries" but my dad just called from work and said it was snowing snowing and that the roads were turning white) I think the weather people are lying to us.

Above are some knitting projects that are currently being rescued. The top left picture is of this sock that has been on my "toothpick" needles since the summer time. That's why they are red and green- strawberries, get it? The other three pictures are my improvements overnight with the "Bazaar Socks". In the bottom right picture, I amalmost done with the first set of zigzags. Last night I was able to finish that huge diamond pattern section. That panel pattern was intense. That was probably the hardest color knitting thing I've ever done because I had to really pay attention to what I was knitting, several time I had to go back a couple of stitches because I had used the wrong color. Now I am not saying that the rest of this sock is going to be easy peasy macaroni cheesy, but you know what I mean. It's hopefully not going to get much harder. I hope. Wait, nevermind. I just looked at the leg part of the sock. Oh god, that looks so hard! There's like this weird diamond pattern diagnal thing then this candy wrapper looking thing. Oh well. I'll try.

HOLY CRAP! IT'S SNOWING EVEN MORE! THIS IS LIKE SNOW SNOW, NOT FLURRY SNOW!!!!!

IT SNOWED!

IT SNOWED!!! Well, more like it snowed two days ago, then yesterday was a snow day and then today was a 2-hour delay. I love snow days, besides the make it up in the summer part. But I heard that the superintendant might just erase all of the make-up snow days. It's bad enough that semester finals are pushed back a week. They were January 24, 25, and 26. Now they are January 31, February 1 and 2. It'll give me an extra week to study and do extra credit and finish my Spanish Project which I am already done with. Yep, so I heard that it's suppose to snow here by next Thursday! :) I love snow so much. I hope our 4-day week will be shortened to 3 or 2 days caused by the lovely snow. Here's what it looked (and still does for the last 3 days, since temps are barely above 28 degrees here) like. Yes, my cat was meowing sooo loudly yesterday when she saw that bird (in the first and middle picture) on my deck. It was weird, the bird was just sitting there. I think the poor thing couldn't move. :( I hope it's okay.

Okay, so I have decided on a projects that I started before Christmas that I am going to knit. They are these socks called "Bazaar Socks" but I think that they are the coolest socks ever. So again, instead of useing the yarn and needles they suggest, I am going to use size 6 US needles and some simply soft and some icky scratchy redheart, but these skeins are surprizingly not all that icky and scratchy. Yay! So, yep here are some pictures with my cat in them and OF COURSE, she looks away right as I snap the picture then after she hears the click, she pauses and then continues to sniff at them.

So here is what I caught of my kitty and my knitting. (The socks are in the picture) I'll get a better picture of her sometime when she isn't trying to lick herself for hours on end. The Sock Pattern is a toe up type sock. I decided that I am going to make it for my dad since the socks are way too huge for me unless I wore them as slippers.

Hope it snows!

Oh, the weather outside is frightful...

OH MY GODDNESS!!!

I'm so excited for tonight and tomorrow! At about 10:30 or so, it's suppose to SNOW!!! I LOVE SNOW!!! Anywho, SOME people in my math class decided to tell me to stop saying that because I would jynx it. I doubt you can jynx science. I've been watching the news and so has everyone else. Since I live in the convergent zone, it's suppose to snow 5-8" OVERNIGHT. There will still be some snow showers tomorrow though. Then it is suppose to get super cold over the rest of the week which means.... ICE. Yay and nay on that one. One, it's super dangerous, but TWO, Heck, it means (hopefully) no school!!! Yeah, we're looking at getting out around July 2nd or so. Yipee. :( But, hey the snow is a ton of fun to play in. This time I am going to persuade my sister into actually playing in the backyard with me and we are going to have a snowball fight whether she likes it or not. She just doesn't know it yet... :)

On the needles, I am trying to knit socks but are boring me and I don't really know if I want to continue. They're kinda ugly in my opinion. But hey, that's just me. Besides the fact that I'm using worsted weight yarn and size 10 needles. Again, hey, it's just me. I think I might put some random good pattern names on a piece of paper and put it into a bowl and draw the names. And then knit whatever one I pick randomly. Or something like that. I think...

I'll post pictures of the snow, which it will snow... better be 8 stinkin' inches! :)

YAY! FIRST PROJECT STARTED AND FINISHED IN 2007!

Omgoodness! I am so glad I finally just started something! (Yes, I used my stash since I joined 'Knit Your Stash 2007') So, let me just start this and say that the pattern was hardly 20 minutes, it was more like 2 hours, but hey, that was fine with me. 2 hours is a lot shorter than a lot of other projects out there.

Anywhooooooooo, THE SLIPPERS:

So I held two strands of RedHeart in Spruce and I made the first bootie/shoe. (In the top right picture it's the one on the right, see how perfect it is? Then look at the one on the left...) Using size P it went pretty fast. It was a fun, quick project.

Well, that's it for now.

I NOW HAVE PROJECTS IN MIND!!! INSPIRATION HAS FOUND ME!

Finally, for the first time this year, so far, I have new inspiration! Projects to knit and crochet! I have decided to join the Knit From Your Stash 2007 KAL !!! It sounds like so much fun. In addition I have some patterns for a hexagon afghan (crochet), Rectangular Granny Square Afghan (crochet), Mary Jane Slippers (crochet, but only take 20 stinkin' minutes!!) and more! Plus I've found even more interesting blogs that I will now look at frequently for inspiration when my own inspiration meter is dead.

I've added them so I hope you enjoy too. YAY! This is exciting. I think I will make the slippers first and post them on here tomorrow after I've finished them. Goodness, I am so flippin' inspired! I can feel myself in this dazed telling myself to knit knit knit knit knit! But I do plan to buy a ball winder sometime soon. Plus I still want to Super Clean-maybe next week. But yes! I will soon enough (at least before February starts, that's my goal).

Well, I'm off! Starting 2007 a little late, but starting it anyway!

Not much here...

Okay, so it's finally Saturday! Yay! Even though my school week was only 3 days, it was still very long. THere was this one girl in my mathe class who is being a snob towards me and I was like, WHATEVER. If she wants to act that way then fine by me. I really don't care for her.

On the happy trail, I was playing this extremely kiddy game that I haven't played in a long time. I ended up getting 15000 dollars in the game (fake money, not real) the links here:

Hot Shot Bussiness

It's incredibly fun. If you play the game, I suggest playing a candy store and finace with your own money. Plus, when you get the research and development option, take it. Instead of barely getting past rent, I would be making 5000 extra in addition to rent when using the research and develpoment object. So, yeah. Have fun with it.

In knitting, I havn't been doing much. Yes, I am still trying to find that project that pops out at me. Have I found it? No. I've been thinking I might knit a cozy type thing for my bowling ball bag since, frankly, it's ugly. But no motivation yet. I'm going to check out Craftster.org and see if there is anything there.

Still Knitting

Yes, this week has so far been an odd one.

I'm still trying to find the official 'frst project of the new year' project. So, if anyone wants to suggest a project or fun thing to knit, LET ME KNOW ASAP. I am almost willing to do almost anything.

Well, I am going to play Saints and Sinners Bowling-best game on earth besides the Sims 2... :)

Is it inspiration?

Okay, after somehow ending up at http://www.kessaknits.blogspot.com/ I felt somehow inspired by the pile of knitted garmets piled on her chair. And I now really want to knit appearal items like sweaters, t-shirts, cardigans, tanks, etc. GAH! I want to just knit and knit and knit. There just aren't enough hours in the day and then when I find time, I'm sleepy. Of course. Oh well. All I know is that I need to update my template design format thing because I need to add stuff.

FELIZ ANO NUEVO! (imagine the squiggle above the n)

HAPPY NEW YEAR! WELCOME 2007!

Okay, back to knitty land... I decided last night to stay up late and continue knitting the cardigan since I am trying to uphold my New Year's resolution to try to minimize the number of projects on th needles. I was so freaked out last night when I couldn't find my size 6 needles for the ribbing of the cardigan. I was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! But then the needles ended up in the bottom of my yarn basket. Do do do... :)

I have about 20 more rows to go. Then I can start on the front right, front left, and the sleeves and then before you know it, my first handknit cardigan sweater will be fini! If it fits me then that would be awesome. If it's too big then I'll probably see if it fits my mom or sister. I bet it will fit one of them. I'll just have to knit and see.


Oh my goodness! I heard the funniest knitting joke in the entire world. (from http://plcdesigns.blogspot.com/2006/12/pricing-your-work.html )
It goes: 'A woman is knitting as she drives and her speed goes up to 95 mph when she passes a parked police car. The officer turns on the siren and gives her chase but the woman, oblivious, doesn't notice him. Finally, he pulls up alongside her car and yells, "Pull over! PULL OVER!" to which she replies. “NO! It's a CARDIGAN” '

The same page has an awesome tutorial of how to price your knitted items. Very informational. A definate read.

Anywho, hope your New Year is bright.

New Year Knitting

I have no idea on what my first project of the new year should be. I want it to be something spactacular and different that I've never tried before but at the same time I love the pattern. (I find it unappealing to knit something that I hat since when I am forced to do so, it takes me forever to do)

I am going to start my SUPER SEARCH. First I will go to the knitting pattern central, then crochet pattern central, look at the links in my 'really good knitting pattern' folder in my favorites and then end in craftster.org. If I can't find anything in any of those, then well, I'm screwed. I'll just make up some makeshift pattern of some sorts. idunno. Well, I'm off. If anyone who reads this wants to make a comment and reccomend a really really really good pattern that would be awesome.

Okay, I'm feeling better

If you read the post from my other blog (loveyarn.blogspot.com) then you would have seen that I was really really really mad. I was typing in fury. :) Anywho.

Here are the pictures of the cardigan that I am still working on. :) (I am a lot farther than what these pictures show because I have been working on it a lot since last September/August)

This is Mr.Snowy. He was created in the last big snow storm in the Pacific Northwest area. Yep, that was November. I loved that month. I also love snow, wind, rain, and pretty much extreme weather except tornadoes or hurricanes or tropical storms. But yeah. Isn't he cute?

My plan for the rest of today is to play Nancy Drew: Haunted Carousel and possibly Nancy Drew: Danger at Deception Island.

A Very Quick and Short Note:

OH MY GOODNESS! I AM SO PROUD OF MYSELF! BECUASE TODAY, YES, FRIDAY, I GOT:


161 IN BOWLING!!!

I AM SO PROUD OF MYSELF! I ALSO GOT 128, 161, 112, 95, AND 112.

I NEED YOUR HELP!

Okay, so I have a job for you! Yes you!

I am dying here havig no idea on what to knit. I am desperate and willing to knit anything (okay, not anything, but you catch my drift). I would like all entrys by Thursday (sometime) or Friday.

P.S. When I'm done with the selected project, then I will show tons of pictures.

Christmas Holidays!

Oh! I just love the winter holidays!

First of all, for Christmas my favorite thing I got would probably be the sewing machine that I got from my parents! I LOVE IT! It's definately my favorite thing that I got this year. My mom's going to show me how to use it tomorrow! I'm so excited. I spent most of today cleaning my room. But the I had bowling practice and I got new bowling shoes! Hehe...


I love this time on year!

Merry Christmas Eve Eve

Isn't he just the cutest little thing?

Here is the lovely dinosaur I was talking about yestery in my long post. Thank goodness I finished and wrapped it yesterday! I also finished the husky scarf, I show pictures after Christmas because I already wrapped it.

So currently, I have no more knitting for any Christmas presents. YAY! The only other possible thing I could do is felt this knitted bowl for my dad. Hopefully it will dry in time. I'll have to felt it after my mom finishes the thousand upon thousands of presents she claims that she got. Trying to make me suspicious, huh? Well it's not working-okay it's working, I'm just so excited for Christmas. It's, by far, my favorite holiday of the year. Yes, some of it is the presents. But I also look forward to my family hanging out together and church. Since my family only goes on Christmas Eve. But that makes it special.

Not much else to talk about. I'm forced to stay in the office until my mom's done wrapping. So I'm going to guess that it's going to be a couple of hours. So I've equipped myself with the computer and the Sims 2 game in hand, which I won't get bored (hopefully) for a couple of more hours.


Here's a picture of how far I am on my mittens I started this morning:



That's my mitten! 1st one of the pair and I have this cool pattern going on. But you can't really see it yet...

Merry Christmas Eve Eve! And happy holidays to everyone!

Stressed Out

Oh my goodness! There is so much knitting to do and so little time. Sorry for not having pictures yet. I will hopefully be able to do that soon.

Current things to do today:

1. Felt a mini felted bowl that I knitted last night.

2. Knit the legs and sew them to the body of a toy dinosaur.

3. Finish knitting the world's longest scarf (sure feels like it).

4. Wrap the felted bowl, dinosaur, scarf, and this other box thing.

Besides that, I have pretty much nothing else to do.

Yesterday was a very long day. I spend 2 hours in the morning (10:00 to noon) knitting the cape and head and arms for the dinosaur PLUS embroidering the cape and sewing on felted triangles for the dino's back. Don't forget the stuffing too.

Then, after those long two hours, I started cleaning. Yes me, only me. Since my parents were at work and so was my sister. I first started with the mountain of wrapping paper trimmings that were scattered among the dining room table. Included with the wrapping paper was also misc. bow adhesive tags and sticker pages. Then I tackled the growing pile of mail and newspaper that my mom had'nt read yet. Goodness, three days worth of newspaper not read. What does she do everyday? Anywho, then I swept the floor, which had more dirt and dust than I've EVER seen in my life. My family really needs to take housecleaning classes. Especially my sister who thinks that cleaning the bathroom is lightly scrubbing the inside of the toilet with toilet brush and toilet washing gunk and wiping down the sink. When really, cleaning the bathroom consists of swiffering the floor, vacuuming the rug and extra hair on the floor, spraying Kaboom on the counter and wiping it down, windexing the mirror, empty the garbage, wiping down the outside of the toilet, scrubbing the inside of the toilet, and splashing water in the tub to get the dirt out. The second list is what I do. Now if someone was cleaning your bathroom, would you want the skimpy job? Or the intense super clean version? I would go with the super intense clean version.

Continueing on my cleaning spree, I also vacuumed all of the carpet, cleaned TWO bathrooms, washed the kitchen floor (swiffered), orgainized the kitchen, dining room, and living room. OOH! FUNNY STORY: Okay, so I was vacuuming the carpet in my room, right? So I was right next to one of my socks (not exactly my favorite sock but still a sock) and my vacuum sucked up the scok! I was like "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" So I ended up having to take the bag out of the vacuum cleaner and put a new bag in. Luckily I was able to get the dirty sock out of the bag since it wasn't extremely far in the bag. :)

So yeah.

Last night, I stayed up to 5:45 am this morning. That was after I fell asleep for 2 hours during Selena. I want to watch the end of that movie so badly! It's driving my crazy because I know something bad happpened to her but I don't know what it is! Because I was watching the movie last week in Spanish. And last Friday we were suppose to get doughnuts and watch the end of the movie but we had no school because of power issues with the most recent storm that came through. Grr. I was so mad. Anywho (I totally know how to stay on topic), then I woke up and went to my room and knitted for the next three hours on the huskey scarf and I only have 3 or 4 more stripes to HOPEFULLY do. If not 3 or 4, then it'll be 9 to 10 rows. Gah. I squirm at the thought. I am not going to knit ANY scarves for ANYONE next Christmas. Too many hours of riggorous monotony. Sounds exciting, huh?

I think I am going to go felt the short knitted bowl so it can hopefully dry in time.

TOO MANY PROJECTS, TOO LITTLE TIME!

Currently life is crazier than it's been in a long time. I bet it's the Christmas Season coming in less than two weeks. So far here are my plans:

Aunt- Watercolor Painting Framed
Uncle 1 and 2- each get a stripped felted bowl
Grandpa- Watercolor Painting Framed
Grandma- Watercolor Painting
Aunt's Mom (the most wonderful person ever because she taught me how to knit)- a plain blue cardigan (yes, the one I've been working on for over 6 months)
Mom- I'm not sure quite yet, most likely a watercolor painting, scarf, or fingerless gloves/possibly mittens, or slippers. (still thinking)
Dad- Robot doll (named Tobor), felted bowl,
Sister- Husky Scarf (she's a big fan), knitting supplies (I recently taught her how to knit so she deserves a knitting bag plus something to start off the huge collection she will have in the next 20 years), yarn, and something else that I am forgetting right now.

It's so hard to knit for people in my family because I always hope they love what I give them and that I spent several hours and hours slaving over hot needles to have them just discard into their everso growing mountain of knitted stuff that I have made for them. HOPEFULLY that's not the case. But I know that my sister sometimes doesn't keep things I make for her. She's evedn given me back what I knitted for her. Sometimes a couple months later or even the same moment I give it to her. Just like, nope, don't want it. Can you say REJECTION?

My major goals are to:
1. get every single project off every single pair of needles I own
2. start off the new year with limited number of projects on the needles
3. finish all Christmas knitting gifts before the end of next Monday (the 18, of December) Even if that means several all knitting nighters.
4. If I can, get the projects off the needles before x-mas, if not, then New Years.

Minor goals are:
1. Try not to argure with my sister
2. Get all of the gifts I'm giving under the tree before x-mas eve
3. Clean my room (it's a pit)
4. Make yummy sugar cookies for bowling xmas party.
5. Make sugar cookies for family for x-mas.

That's pretty much it for now. So yeah. Hasta luego!

Christmas Gift Making Time!

Okay, so it's the day after Thanksgiving. I had a lot of fun hanging out with my family and relitives. Between now the the week before Christmas, I will be in knitting for people's xmas gifts mode.

So far I have finished 2 gifts. Each were feltable bowls. Turned out pretty darn good if you ask me. Anywho, I am also making that blue cardigan, a stuffed animal (actually two), a lap blanky, and a pair of socks.

The good thing about the pair of socks is that I've already finished the first part of the pair and I'm almost halfway done with the second one. So I hope to finish it today. Then the first stuffed animal I'm about halfway done. I could probably finish that today or tomorrow. The second stuffed animal is less than an eigth done, so it needs a lot of work. The lap blanky is being made on my knitting machine so it won't take that long. I'll probably also finish that this weekend. Hmmm, the cardigan. The most ambitious project in my knitting career. It'll take awhile but I'm almost done with the back so it won't take that long. I only have to do the two front sides and the sleeves, plus the collar and buttons, which reminds me that I need to get buttons soon.

Besides that, I have absolutely nothing to do. :)

"Test"

Okay, this is my first try making a second blog. Hope it works! Well, this blog is going to be all of my knitting projects I am currently working on/patterns of some other patterns.