Woohooo!!! I actually transferred my moms hat sucessfully from circular needles to double pointed ones:) No mistakes either..

Yea Me! 

I'm still playing around with this and have done the tail part of the icord and then I cast on (a bit strangely) additional stitches and knitted and purled the first row.   I'm really hoping this will turn out.  Will post  updates of my progress and hopefully I can have this completed by tomorrow early evening at the latest.

Because I am getting itchy fingers and its not because of dry sking or creepy skin affliction I'm going to cast on for this today ( Read more... )

A lovely lovely person gifted me with a Gift certificate to elann.com which appears to be a really nice yarn site:) I'm seriously thinking of getting this yarn
Elann Sierra Aran    I'm just trying to decide on what colour(s) I'm leaning heavily towards the Garnet and Jaspter

I finished the Calorimetry headwarmer!!!!  Though its not perfect I love it and will wear it anyways:)  I'm casting on another one tonight for a last minute Xmas gift but this time instead of the Cascade Wool I'm using Noro Kureyon for the first time in Earth Tones:)  I even have enough of the turquoise Cascade to make myself another better one ( Read more... )

Heehee....I just need to sew on the overly-large anime snake eyes and its done:)


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It is and this is the first AND the last time I'm using it.   I've had to rip back 4 times. .First time because I screwed up using hte circs for the first time.. Second time when I realized I wasnt knitting with the working yarn :::face palm...third time after three rows and first row of increases that I somehow had more stitches than I should have ( Read more... )

I am at the 50% mark for finishing up my second and pink snake scarf for xmas.   I watched a Vin Diesel Movie and knitted; I watched an episode of Corner Gas and knitted and I watched an episode of 90210 and knitted.   I really like watching shows that I can mostly listen too and knit ( Read more... )

Ugh! Anytime I blog about knitting something in Mohair someone please hit me.   I'm almost done with my gauge swatch and its driving me nuts.  Mostly I dont think the wood needles are working well so when I get home tonight I will knit the swatch onto my metal needles and hopefully it will go smoother ( Read more... )

So under this lovely LJ cut is the patter I'm using for my capelet:) and the yarn too

( Lookseee )