So I'm making a pair of horizonally ribbed arm warmers from my own non-existent pattern. For the most part it's been fantastically easy. Basically I've done a ribbed pattern along the lines of a scarf. The plan is to add buttons to it to close it off and make it adjustable since I'm also planning to make it relatively long -- from knuckles to elbow ( Read more... )

This is the 2nd time in about 2 minutes that I've accidentally ripped stitches off my needle while trying to slide stitches on the other needle closer to the end. Erin's right....no way I could eat and knit at the same time.

Why can't I eat lunch and knit at the same time? :(

I don't know if I mentioned here, b/c I certainly burned my coworker's ear with it, but my mother has been getting on me lately about my wardrobe. Or lack of same. Over the last 5 years or so, I've let my "grown up" wardrobe go to pieces since I don't really need it at work. And I usually don't care. Unfortunately this has also included my ( Read more... )

We made it to my Gram's with no trouble and practically in record time. We've actually been here for hours. I had one fitful nap, lots of ponderations about what to do w/my RP char, and now I'm finally watching Tin Man (got to it late) I am having even more ponderations about post-Sorceress-Azkadellia. Dunno if that means there will be more fic ( Read more... )

Knitting makes my pinkies cramp :(

edit: is 340+ lj icons excessive?

Thanks to jaguarx13 and wallflower731 I can now purl! What, you're probably wondering, in the world is a "purl" and why do you care? Purling is a knitting stitchy term, and you care because I've been teaching myself how to knit with the help of a book by Klutz on knitting. For whatever reason it's taken my brain some serious downtime to get certain things working. ( Read more... )