Rainberry Knits

Things

2009-06-23T15:43:00.002-05:00

It's hot out.
It's boring.
Our strawberry is turning red.
Our pepper plant has a pepper.
Our tomatoes have flowers.
Our spirea is doing well.
I am making a baby sweater.
I don't want to work on it.
I finished one Embossed Leaves sock.
I don't want to do the second one.
It's boring today.
I am angry at Mario Kart Wii.
I want to go swimming somewhere.
I want to eat a mango.

Disneyworld!

2009-03-16T18:36:00.004-05:00

I got back from my band trip to Disneyworld a week ago but I was too busy making up things I missed for school and plus I had solo/ensemble contest for band last Saturday.

fireworks by Cinderella's Castle

the statue of Walt Disney and Mickey

this is a duck who too many people feed (not me!) and was acting like a dog.

mickey and minnie!

cinderella's castle!

hollywood studios! (used to be mgm studios)

Epcot

palm tree!!

I saw this guy as we were walking to the entrance of Hollywood Studios to leave. He has a ukulele. Ukuleles are pretty awesome.

More palm trees! They're so pretty.
It was a 26 hour bus ride one way. x.x It sucks sleeping on a bus. I went on Space Mountain twice!! That was the first time I went on a roller coaster and it was epic! I also went on It's a Small World (creepy), Teacups, Test Track at Epcot, Haunted Mansion, The Seas with Nemo & Friends and probably I forgot some. Stuff at Disney world is REALLY expensive. holy buckets.

It was super fun and I want to go back! I was super excited about going through Kentucky even though I saw like ten horses. Apparently you have to actually go INTO Lexington and that area to actually see horse farms in Kentucky. who knew?

I liked it when we went through Atlanta because it was pretty awesome even though it was at night both times.

I started a pair of ribbed socks with self striping yarn. Pics will come tomorrow when there is more light outside.

Miniature Cowichan Cardigan

2009-02-16T19:01:00.004-06:00

I finished this on Thursday. It still needs buttons but other than that it is done! It was really fast, it only took me 9 days or so. :) I used Cascade 220 and size 3 needles. Here is the ravelry link for it.

I have a skein of dark blue Lion Wool that I wanted to use up so I'm making three 3-block strips and then I'll sew them together and it will be a blanket for my doll. I'm using blocks from the book 200 Knitted Blocks. No pics yet though.

I bought 2 skeins of Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran when I made my Fetchings but only needed one so I'm making a hat/neckwarmer out of the other skein. If I have enough yarn, it will be a hat. Otherwise it will just be a neckwarmer and then I'll make a little scarf for my doll. It's about 2 inches long so far.

I'm also going to make this for my doll because the velcro on the skirt that came with her is messed up. It doesn't close properly anymore so she just sits everywhere in the house with a shirt and her underwear and no pants (Miss Violet of LnV would approve). The only problem is I don't have any cotton yarn of a neutral color or that is blue. Her pants won't have pockets though.

Sweaters and a Snail

2009-02-06T13:37:00.003-06:00

These are my Breeze socks. I used Patons Stretch Sock yarn and this picture isn't the greatest but oh well.
This is the Miitten I made. I only made one because I didn't feel like making two and I'm not giving them to anyone so it doesn't matter. If I get bored sometime I'll probably make the second one. I wanted to make it because I love playing the Wii! My sister bought one in December and it's awesome!
This is a Mochimochi Land snail.
I wound my STR yesterday and I took a pic of it because I thought it was so pretty! I wound it without a swift or ballwinder, alone, and there were no serious tangles! Amazing. (I hate winding sock yarn hanks usually).
Here is my Something Purple Sweater. Yes, my shirt has a penguin on it. The penguin has a heart on his belly but my sweater is covering it. ;)
I bought the button at my LYS. It's really pretty. I even found matching brown thread at home to sew it on with!
Here is my sweater on the floor.
I actually finished this a while ago but never took a pic of it! It's the Baby Bolero from the One Skein book by Leigh Radford. This was my first time sewing in sleeves and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.
This is my current progress on the Miniature Cowichan Cardigan. After the twisted rib, it got a LOT faster. I have 5 more stockinette rows to go and then it gets interesting.

Finally some pics!

2009-02-04T17:59:00.006-06:00

This is some Regia sock yarn I received for Christmas. I have one skein of this and since I just made a pair of ankle socks from a 50g skein of sock yarn with a lot of yarn left over, I think I would be able to get a pair of socks with an inch or two or three of cuff from this. Or a hat or mittens.
This is Cascade 220 that I'm currently using to make the Miniature Cowichan Cardigan. I'm still on the twisted rib which is really annoying me because it is a lot slower than regular rib but only like two and a half or three rows to go so it'll be okay.

This is a neckwarmer that was inspired by the ones that Tiennie made. I made it before she posted the pattern but I figured it out. I cast on 100 stitches and knit 2x2 rib for 5 inches and bound off. Actually I still have to weave in the ends (oops) but here it is. It only took me 3 days and I used Knitpicks Swish Superwash in Delft Heather.

This is the Plymouth Sockotta sock yarn I received for Christmas.
This is some stripey sock yarn I got for Christmas. I think I will make plain vanilla stockinette socks out of these or ribbed socks with a cable or two mixed in.
This is my My So Called Scarf that I finished on December 27. It's so soft! I cast on 24 and got about 5 feet of scarf from 1 skein of Malabrigo in the color Shocking Pink. I didn't actually measure it, but it is about as tall as me. I didn't think knitting scarves was fun but I liked this pattern.
This is my Socks That Rock in the Purple Rain colorway. I'm winding it right now so I can make the Embossed Leaves socks from the Favorite Socks book. It's so pretty!
I am pretty pissed off at the cold weather. I just want spring to start so I can start growing plants and stuff! I go to school, it's cold. I go home, it's cold. I go outside, it's cold. The only place it's actually warm is in my bed. Here is a pic my sister took last year or something. It's on my desktop because I don't like winter. flower pic

My dog comes in my room every morning around 6 or 6:30, sometimes earlier, and jumps on my bed and stays there. It's so cute! She even does it if I don't have school because she thinks she needs to wake me up for school every single day. Jasmine

Christmas!

2008-12-29T11:23:00.003-06:00

Christmas was great because I got a lot of neat thins!

-1 skein of Socks That Rock mediumweight in Purple Rain but it isn't here yet because of the snow that the BMFA people had. It's on its way now though.
-Organic Fair Trade Mint Dark Chocolate.
-Mason Dixon Knitting: Outside the Lines
-$30 towards a Nintendo DS

From my other side of my family I got:
$10
$25 Target gift card
pink hoodie
1 skein of Regia Design Line Kaffe Fassett yarn (blue)
1 skein of Patons Stretch Socks (which is now becoming a pair of Breeze socks.
1 skein of bamboo yarn that is soft and blue/tan
pink hoodie
horse calendar
$25 barnes & noble gift card which is now Free Range Knitter and All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot. I was going to buy It Itches but I couldn't find it.
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From my other side of my family I got:
2 skeins of Schoeller + Stahl Fortissima Colori Socka Color in blue/teal color
1 skein of Plymouth Sockotta in light blue/purple color
red Vera Bradley wallet with movie coupons
$30 iTunes gift card

I need to charge my camera batteries and then I will have pics of the yarn. Also! I was saving up for a Polar White Nintendo DS and my dad said he would pay the rest of the money for it. So on Saturday we went to Target which was where I wanted to buy it because I like Target. All they had was one of the Guitar Hero Nintendo DS bundles which was not what I wanted. So I used my Target giftcard to buy Mario Kart DS instead. That is a really, really fun game. You should buy it if you don't have it already.
Then my sister had been to Kmart the previous week and had seen Polar White DS's there so we went there and they had empty boxes out instead of locking up the real boxes so we had to ask an employee to get one for us. She had a really bad attitude. She was like, "Oh, I don't know about that..." which I thought was REALLY irritating. You'd think she would be happy to sell a DS. *rolls eyes* We paid for it in cash which probably irritated her more but I actually had cash so whatever.
Then I opened it in the car which my sister took pics of. Right away I turned it on and set it up (put name, birthday, etc) but couldn't play it yet because it needed to be fully charged.
Then we went to Milwaukee to spend our B&N gift cards. We were walking through the food court when we saw our cousins which was really interesting because we don't see them places very much. Then we went to B&N and bought our books and were going to go home but my mom had to go to my aunt's house for something and I didn't get home until later and still had to wait 3 hours for the DS to charge. x.x
We went to blockbuster yesterday and found Brain Age 2 for only $12! It sells for $20 in the stores so my dad let me get it. :)

edit: OH! I finished my My So Called Scarf. It's as tall as me and it only took 1 skein of Malabrigo in Shocking Pink!

Something Purple...

2008-12-10T22:02:00.002-06:00

I finished my Something Purple sweater tonight minus the button! Hooray! It took me almost the exact time that the Wicked sweater took plus one day. 5 months, 1 week, and 1 day. I'll have a picture whenever I have an available camera. The batteries are still dead and I haven't charged them yet.

I won!

2008-11-29T12:17:00.003-06:00

Hooray! 50078 words! Technically 50001 but the verifier bumped it up a bit.

Nanowrimo is almost over!

2008-11-28T22:00:00.002-06:00

I have currently 47,713 words and I will probably finish tomorrow. I want to try to reach tomorrow's word count goal tonight which is 48,338 words which is only about 600 words more. I am so excited about being almost finished!!

My My So Called Scarf is about 16 inches long and I love it! Maybe I will have a chance to take pictures tomorrow. I hope.

My black gloves that I am making for the holiday parade on Sunday so my hands don't freeze while I play my flute are nearly finished. I just need to do the thumb and make the pinky finger shorter because I screwed up and didn't measure it properly.

My Something Purple sweater needs like 1/2 or 3/4 inch more on the button band and then the sleeves and then it will be finished! Yay!

I will have more time for this when I finish Nanowrimo. I'm so excited for Christmas because I love Christmas! I'm saving up for a Nintendo DS because I really really want one and most likely will not get one for Christmas so I will buy it myself. Currently I have $32 dollars and I need $130.

Nanowrimo

2008-11-16T19:54:00.002-06:00

This month I have been doing NaNoWriMo which is National Novel Writing Month. At this precise moment I have 27,323 words out of 50k needed. It is going pretty well except I just want to play SimCity 3000 tonight and I don't want to write more tonight. x.x But I will anyways. I have not finished anything in a while because I haven't been knitting much this month because I've been writing a lot. I'm writing this because I'm procrastinating writing my mini argumentative essay for my composition class. -.- It feels weird to use contractions because I have almost no contractions in the novel I'm writing because it counts for more words if you just write the words separately. (2 words instead of 1).

Long time, no post

2008-10-22T22:49:00.003-05:00

Since I've last posted, I've finished:

Seedless Watermelon socks
Ardelle hat
Baby Bolero
Snails and slugs (mochimochi land)

I have 1.5 inches to go on the ribbing on my Something Purple sweater!

A few weeks ago I bought a skein of Malabrigo worsted in the color Shocking Pink. It will become a My So Called Scarf which will be started soon, hopefully.

I'm also working on a mini sweater from the Minutia (berroco) pattern. I'm using my dale of norway baby ull yarn in light blue and medium blue and size 1 needles. It is very cute. It just needs one sleeve, seams sewn, and the collar knit. :)

I also made a dishcloth from the Blissful Moss Rib dishcloth pattern.

I love the cold weather because it means I can finally wear all the warm stuff I've knitted!

No pictures tonight, sorry. I need to take pictures still and I have to go to bed soon. :)

Fair again

2008-08-30T21:30:00.002-05:00

Today was the second day of horse judging for the fair and yesterday was the horseless horse groom showmanship classes. I was in beginner showmanship and I got a red ribbon. Then today I had horseless horse groom walk/trot equitation and I got a red ribbon in that too. The pony I showed is a haflinger mare named Candy. My show coat looks like a real one but it's just a blazer that we got at Goodwill for $5! Also my Wicked sweater got a merit ribbon!

Fair

2008-08-28T08:38:00.002-05:00

This week is the county fair and I entered my Wicked sweater, Foliage hat, Saucy socks, and cabled mittens and they all got blue ribbons so if anyone lives near me you should go to Sheboygan county fair and look in the 4h building and look at my stuff. :) Also if you take a peek in the lower barn (older one) and look at the very last stall on the right, you can see my horseless horse groom coach's horse and a pic of me on the stall. :)

Also I entered a poem that I wrote in the 4h creative writing contest and it got first place in the 9-13 category! I got $20 and here's the poem:

As the afternoon
Wanes, the sky grows darker and
The golden sun falls.

Dark shadows are cast
Distorted by the setting
Of the blinding sun.

The sky transforms to
A dazzling rainbow full of
Crimson and azure.

A reflection glows
On the aquamarine lake,
Rippling and shining.

Twilight arrives and
Stars emerge in the heavens
Twinkling vibrantly.

Night has arrived, and
The full moon is luminous,
Contrasting with sky.

Sock and Horses

2008-08-25T13:22:00.005-05:00

On the week of August 10-16 I went to horse camp. It was the Adopt a Horse week and I adopted a brown pony named Midnight. He is a very nice pony except he doesn't like to stop and he doesn't like to wait patiently in line during individual canters. He is pictured below during the riding demo we did for our parents. I can't go back next year because I'll be too old. :( I like the adopt a horse week because three or four times a week you get to wake up at 7:00 in the morning and groom and tack up your adopted horse. Also instead of a "down the hill" activity in the morning you get to spend that time doing "horse fun" which consisted of mucking out stalls (FUN! not), scrubbing water buckets, and making horse treats.

This is the view from the top of the barn. We had to walk up this hill multiple times a day all week. It doesn't look that steep but I hate this hill.
I was doing Spring Forwards but I kept messing up so I frogged it and started a plain vanilla stockinette sock with a picot edge. I started the heel flap yesterday.

For Ravelympics I made a neckwarmer called Fourteen.
Yarn: Malabrigo Chunky in Indigo
Needles: size 11
Mods: Garter stitch border and stockinette instead of brioche.
Finished: August 23 at 11:30 pm cst
I actually finished the knitting part on Aug 9 but I needed buttons and I was gone all the next week. It is very soft!

FOs and sock yarn

2008-08-06T10:37:00.004-05:00

I got my prize from http://mspalmtree.blogspot.com's blogiversary on Monday. I got Gypsyknits Sock It! yarn in the colorway Tink. It's really soft and I love the colors! I also got some neat notecards made with tree-free fiber. They have really pretty designs on them. I'll get a pic of them later.These are my Stargazer lilies when they were blooming. They're still blooming now but not as many flowers. I love them because they are so vibrant.

Monkey socks with Opal Feelings yarn!

My doll's wicked sweater made with Knitpicks Swish Superwash.

I made this hat for a person at my knit night who is going to Mexico sometime. It's the Pastel Marley hat from Itty-Bitty Hats. The yarn is Cotton Ease.

These are my Peekaboo Mittens. People at my knit night thought I was crazy for wanting a hole in my mittens but the hole is there so you can "peek" your fingers through to operate a cell phone or something like that. Obviously I won't wear them when it gets really really really cold outside. :) The yarn is Cascade 220 Superwash and I used size 4 needles.

This is my Papillon dishcloth made with Sugar N Cream Stripes. It was kind of tricky in some parts, but I think it's really pretty.

Flowers (and tomatoes)

2008-07-08T16:20:00.004-05:00

I went outside a while ago. It's 86 degrees outside so it was yucky. I took pics of the lilies and the tomatoes. We found three more growing for a total of six tomatoes! We also have a pink gerber daisy which is really pretty.

Sock and Calla Lily (real lilies too!)

2008-07-08T14:32:00.003-05:00

Ten minutes ago (or less, I'm not really counting) I finished my Calla Lily! I ignored it for a year because I was confused about the short rows. I was working on it until 2am last night (haha) and also this afternoon and I finished it. :)

I also have a picture of Monkey #1 and Monkey #2!

I also have real lilies to show you! The picture is before they bloomed but when I go outside later I'll take pics of them open. They are Oriental Plum lilies and we got them last year from a local flower/garden shop (caan's floral). :) I have Stargazer lilies too but they haven't bloomed yet.

This is our basil plant that we got from the same place as the plum lilies. I think we need to make pesto again! Last time we made pesto it about wiped out all the leaves. It looked like a charlie brown christmas tree. ;) We're also growing cilantro and mint.

Monkey

2008-07-07T23:01:00.004-05:00

I finished the first monkey sock on Saturday and started the second sock on Saturday or Sunday. I just worked on it for a while and just finished the second repeat. I'll have pics tomorrow. On Wednesday I'm going to Stitch n Pitch with my mom and my sister. :) It will be fun even though I think baseball is stupid. ;)

I also won a contest at http://mspalmtree.blogspot.com. I don't know what the prize is but I'm sure it will be a cool prize. :)

Today it was like 90 degrees outside. I only went outside like twice today even though I wanted to go swimming someplace. That would have felt good. :)

Contest

2008-06-28T11:19:00.000-05:00

You should enter this contest: http://theknittingwildflower.blogspot.com/2008/06/blogiversary-contest-begins-and-waht-i.html

It has really really neat sock related prizes such as sock yarn and a tiny sock blocker!

:)

Monkey sock!

2008-06-28T11:09:00.003-05:00

I started these on June 20. Actually a few days before that, but I had to frog it and start again on larger needles (size 2 instead of 1). I really like the wide stripes that the yarn creates and the Monkey pattern is really easy to memorize. I'm almost done with the gusset!

Pictures!!

2008-06-15T11:25:00.004-05:00

Today I went outside and took pictures of all my recent finished projects.

Little Miss Happy Flower Dishcloth

Timothy the Turtle dishcloth

Garterlac Dishcloth

Evangeline Mitts
(with Malabrigo worsted in Purple Magic -- left over from my Foliage hat and there is still some yarn left!!)

Vortex (5) Dishcloth

Summer

2008-06-14T21:38:00.004-05:00

Summer is awesome for knitting time! In the past four days I've finished three dishcloths! I made a turtle dishcloth, garterlac dishcloth, and a flower dishcloth. I only have a pic of one of them because I was busy all day and didn't get a chance to take pictures when the light was good in the afternoon. It was too nice out to be inside taking pics of dishcloths. :) For once it felt like summer and the sun was shining and there were no clouds! It keeps raining and raining and storming and raining and it's a little annoying. grr.

I'll have a better picture of this tomorrow.

I was really happy on Thursday because I went to see what I got on my chemistry final and I got a B on it which meant that my grade for chemistry was an A-! I was really happy about that becaus earlier in the quarter I had an 83 but then I did a whole bunch of extra credit and worked hard and bumped it up to a 93 for 4th quarter but the semester average was like 91 or 92. :)

My current wip is the Baby Bolero from the book One Skein. When it is more finished I'll take a pic of it. It's not much right now. :)

I named the turtle on my turtle dishcloth Timothy. ;) On Thursday night I went to bed at 11:30pm and woke up at 10:30am! I was really tired apparently.

For WWKIP day, I knit on the flower dishcloth in a coffeeshop! I also knit at a party. ;)

Summer's almost here

2008-06-11T16:35:00.003-05:00

Tomorrow is my last day of school!! Yay! I haven't posted in forever because I've been busy. On Saturday we went to Madison (it rained a TON and there were tornado warnings and we went to Applebees to watch the Belmont Stakes but Big Brown sucked and got last place.) We went to Lakeside Fibers and I bought a skein of Blue Sky Alpacas Organic Cotton in the color Nut. It is for the Baby Bolero from the One Skein book. We went to the library today so we could get the book but someone had it checked out so I had to request it so I can't start it tonight. :( I started a Garterlac Dishcloth instead. :)
I also made a baby sweater for a layette at my church with Caron Simply Soft.

I made a whale from Bittersweet's pattern.
Last night I finished my Odessa hat! I used the Cascade 220 that I dyed with Kool-Aid. It is a really easy pattern. I cast on 90 stitches since I was using worsted weight yarn and I didn't add beads. I also added another inch of ribbing so it would cover my ears better. The funny thing about the hat is that right now it is 51 degrees F outside and windy and cloudy so it is actually cold enough to wear it outside!

Horse show

2008-05-17T20:19:00.003-05:00

Today I went to a 4h mock horse show and I was going to show in the horseless horse groom Best Groomed horse class and my coach that I'm matched up with was going to do showmanship and stuff. She brought her young black/white paint horse and she was lunging her and then this other horse got loose 3 times and the third time it ran towards the lunge line and was going to jump over it but then it was going to get tangled so she let go of the lead rope and then her horse went running off around the fairgrounds. Then she decided that her horse was too insane to show (it was going to be the horse's first show) and so she scratched us from our classes. I was kind of disappointed because it was going to be my first show too but I'd rather not show and be safe than be in the ring with an excited horse who goes crazy sometimes. So I was outside from like 7:00 am to 2:00pm and I got a sunburn on my face because I failed to think about bringing sunscreen. I'm also really tired since I had to wake up at 6. I think I was pretty nervous because all I ate all day until 3:30 pm was half a pancake and 1 poptart. I didn't get hungry until we left to go back to my coach's house. I had fun though even though I didn't show.

As for knitting, I finished the knitting for the nautiloid minus the tentacles and I need to sew the face to the shell. I also started a baby sweater for a layette at my church. It is going very quickly because it is very simple and just stockinette. :)

I got an ipod!!

2008-05-10T21:32:00.003-05:00

Today I got a pink ipod nano! I named it Sprinkles. ;) It already has a cozy made from this pattern.I also made a miniature sweater on Thursday from this pattern: Miniature Sweater Ornament.
I finished my Saucy socks on Tuesday but I don't have a neat picture of both of them so I just have a pic of one for now. They fit great by the way!After I finished the saucy socks, I made a Vortex dishcloth. It is so cool and it was easy! No pic yet, sorry. :)

I have a finished pic of the Quinn bag! A lot of people at school have been asking me if I made it, instead of "Where did you buy that?". I thought that was neat.

I started Nautie the nautiloid on Friday. I actually made the face first because we had to go to my sister's college to help her with her loft and see her last band concert. I forgot the stuffing and we didn't have time to go back and get it.

Quinn bag and stuff

2008-05-01T22:10:00.003-05:00

My Quinn bag is 99% finished. I just need to sew on the button that I made a loop for so it will close and buy some fabric and make a lining. Today at my LYS I bought a neat button with a Celtic knot on it. I think it will go perfectly with the cables on the bag. :) Finally I only have one wip. We'll just have to see if I can resist casting on for the Vortex Dishcloth until my sock is finished! haha

Yarn

2008-04-27T11:05:00.002-05:00

It's all dry now so I put it in a hank and then wound it. :)
Also, a wee olive.

Kool-Aid Dyeing!

2008-04-26T17:20:00.004-05:00

My sister and I spent this afternoon dyeing the Cascade 220 I bought last week with Kool-Aid! We used 2 packets of Lemon Lime and 2 packets of Ice Blue Raspberry Lemonade. We used the microwave. :) Here is a bunch of pictures that my sister took while we did it.
We washed the yarn first with a tiny bit of shampoo and let it soak for 30 minutes.

It also dyed the wooden spoons we used to dissolve the Kool Aid but that will come out in the dishwasher. It is now hanging on a tv tray drying. :) I like how some parts of it are darker than others. Some little parts are white!

Contest

2008-04-24T22:17:00.001-05:00

I just entered this contest. http://brileyknits.blogspot.com/2008/04/blogiversary-contest.html
The prizes are a custom needle roll, a hank of handspun merino wool, and a hank of handpainted cotton yarn. :)

ravelry

2008-04-20T22:04:00.004-05:00

I just got back from my trip about 20 minutes ago and now they decide to put Ravelry down for an hour so they can put in a new server! I can understand that a new server will be good for Ravelry but I've been in a car for the second half of the day so I'm a little peeved. Also I was trying to work on my sock and I kept screwing up. -.- But I did get to go shopping at Aeropostale today. I got a green polo shirt and a pink tank top and they were on sale for $5.99 each and this was in MN so no sales tax. pretty sweet!

For breakfast we ate at this Pannekoeken restaurant and I got a strawberry pannekoeken. It's funny because when they bring you the pannekoeken they shout, "Pannekoeken! Pannekoeken!" It was yummy. :) (a pannekoeken is kind of like a Dutch pancake)

In the afternoon we went to a state park. I forgot what it was called but it was really pretty and it had bluffs and a river. There were these really cute flowers on the side of the trail called Hepatica. It was 75 degrees in western WI and eastern MN but as we travelled back to east WI, it got colder and colder. Right now it is 51 degrees. I wore my bermuda shorts and flipflops and no sweater and I was fine. It was awesome!

Oh and my sister and I swam in the hotel pool this morning. I still think that's a stupid rule. They probably thought we were younger than we actually are because we are short. :)

hotel crap

2008-04-19T23:49:00.002-05:00

I don't like hotels because my dad snores a lot while he sleeps and it is nearly impossible to sleep (for me anyway - I like it dark and silent when I sleep at night.) But the breakfast is good. They have a waffle maker!

The hotel we're in doesn't let children swim after 10pm. After 10pm only adults can swim in the pool. So we were at a wedding part of the afternoon and the whole evening and we didn't get back to the hotel UNTIL 10pm and last night they let my sister and I swim. Today the person at the front desk told us we couldn't swim because we were "children" which is pretty stupid because my sister is 18 and I'm 16. :( So I'm really angry and I didn't get a chance to relax in the pool after the wedding. :(

We went to a yarn shop today called Just A Little Something. I got a skein of Cascade 220 in the color Cream. I'm going to dye it w/ kool aid! I would have bought some Lorna's Laces or the Dream in Color that I saw but my dad probably wouldn't have wanted to pay that much. ;)

I finished my sock yesterday! It fits great and I just finished the ribbing on the second sock. I was too angry to work on it tonight and I didn't have any mindless projects in the hotel room. I left my nest tote in the car so I couldn't work on the straps. I also finished a crochet owl and a crochet ladybug. It has a head now!

Almost finished w/ the sock!

2008-04-17T23:19:00.003-05:00

This will be quick - I need to go to bed hehe. Tomorrow is my blogiversary! I won't have time to post tomorrow because we're going to Rochester, MN for a wedding. That means a road trip which also means lots of knitting time!! I packed my sock in progress (about halfway done w/ the toe), my Elisa's nest tote, and some crochet amigurumis that I've been working on on the way to and from school in the car. It's a 10 minute drive. My sister has the little black eyes that we put on the amigurumi so some of my projects are unable to be completed until tomorrow. I had a headless ladybug for a while because I couldn't find my black yarn anywhere. Turns out I put it in my backpack last night. -.-

Wee Sock

2008-04-05T17:30:00.003-05:00

My wee sock for the Wee Tiny Sock Swap arrived on Thursday but I didn't get a chance to post about it until now. It came from knitidiot in Florida! I love it because it has purple on the toe.

I lost and then found my 4th dpn for my socks so they are being worked on today a lot! I'm working on the heel flap right now because I decided to do only 5 repeats of the pattern instead of 7.

Contest

2008-04-04T17:53:00.001-05:00

I just entered this contest: http://modestpurls.blogspot.com/2008/04/contest-come-and-play.html

Sock progress!

2008-03-30T21:50:00.004-05:00

I knit on my sock some more today. It is going much better now, and I tried it on earlier and it fits over my heel! Yay! I have 2 rows left on the 3rd repeat of the pattern.
Another pic of my Cascade 220. Still not exactly the real color, but it is pretty anyway!

Knitting Stuff

2008-03-28T22:57:00.002-05:00

I got to the 2nd repeat of the lace/cable pattern on the Saucy Socks. But there was a slight problem. Before the cable round, it fit over my heel/ankle just fine. But after the cable round, it wasn't near as stretchy and it suddenly didn't fit over my heel. I ignored the instruction on the pattern that said use a larger needle for the leg and switch to a smaller one for the foot. I had to frog it. :( Now I just started it again on size 3 dpns. Before I was using size 2 dpns. Hopefully this will fit over my heel better. :)

I figured out what row I was on on my Quinn bag! So I worked on that a little bit.

I joined Jessica's KAL for the Elisa's Nest Tote. I've been wanting to make it for a while. I'm using Sugar N Cream in the color Lavender Ice.

New Yarn!

2008-03-28T00:54:00.005-05:00

I got $40 for my birthday and I spent some of it on some Cascade 220 for the Mrs. Darcy Cardigan. The color is #9464 and in some lights it looks blue, other lights make it look purple. I bought 4 skeins of it. I really want to start it but I need to finish my Quinn bag first. I actually took a picture of it today! Yay! sidenote: I just noticed it was almost 1:00 am!! Yay for spring break! Time flies when you are taking pics of your knitting and surfing ravelry!

This is not the true color of the yarn. It is actually a little bit darker and I don't really know. It is a tricky color to photograph but it is pretty. It's weird how different yarn colors look under incandescent and fluorescent lightbulbs.

This is a row and a half into the ribbing on the Saucy Socks that I started tonight. The yarn is Schoeller + Stahl Fortissima Colori Disco Socka and I got it from my grandma for Christmas. It is sparkly!

This is my Quinn bag that I haven't worked on since the middle of February. I think I need to frog a row or two because I lost count of which row I was on. (oops). The yarn is Cascade 220 Superwash. It was impossible to photograph because I couldn't get the color to be right. -.-

I finished the prayer shawl tonight! Now all I have to do is weave in the ends.

And the weather people were completely wrong. We did not get a SINGLE FLAKE OF SNOW. I'm not complaining at all though. :)

Stupid Weather People

2008-03-26T09:06:00.002-05:00

You can't trust what the weather people say sometimes. I just looked at the weather today and the winter storm thing is GONE and now on Thursday it says:

Thursday
Light snow likely. Snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches. Highs in the mid 30s. Northeast winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent.

Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of light snow. Lows in the mid 20s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.

50% chance of light snow isn't going to stop us from going to Bahr Creek. Ha! They are wrong again! ;)

Nooo!!

2008-03-25T18:05:00.004-05:00

from http://wwww.wunderground.com
.. Winter Storm Watch in effect from Thursday morning through
late Thursday night...

The National Weather Service in Milwaukee/Sullivan has issued a
Winter Storm Watch... which is in effect from Thursday morning
through late Thursday night.

Snowfall accumulations Thursday and Thursday night will likely
exceed 6 inches across much of southern Wisconsin. Locally higher
amounts are possible near the lake due to lake enhancement. Some
rain may mix with the snow along the Illinois border... where
slightly lower snowfall amounts are possible.

Low pressure will track along a frontal boundary from central
Missouri... to Illinois... and into Indiana Thursday and Thursday
evening. Ample moisture streaming north from the Gulf of Mexico
will be lifted over the front... producing moderate to heavy snow
across southern Wisconsin Thursday and Thursday evening.

NO MORE SNOW!!!!! I'm sick of snow!!!! I was sick of snow last month already!!! The worst part is it's on a Thursday! WHY Thursday? Why not friday or saturday? Thursday is when I get to knit at my LYS! I have $40 to spend there! :(

On a happier note, I joined the Wee Sock Swap 2008. I just almost finished a wee sock today, just for fun and a break from the monotony of the prayer shawl I'm knitting. I used the Double Eyelet Rib Toe Up Sock pattern but only the stitch pattern and I made it top down with 24 stitches. It is so cute!

Birthday!

2008-03-24T00:41:00.003-05:00

My birthday was today (technically yesterday but oh well). I made carrot cake and we had penne with homemade marinara sauce for lunch today. I got legos (yes I'm a dork), $20 Barnes & Noble gift card, I get to go shopping at Delia's, a lemonade vitamin water <3, and cosmos seeds. Then I got $40 tonight when I went to my aunt's house for Easter. I'm going yarn shopping on Thursday! Yay! The carrot cake was really good. The recipe is Sam's Famous Carrot Cake from Allrecipes.com. I have this whole week off for spring break! It's awesome. I'm a little over halfway done with the prayer shawl. I'll probably finish it this week because I don't have anything else to do during spring break because my sister would be home but she is in Biloxi, MS on some kind of mission trip thing.
It sucked today because it snowed! I hate snow in March, especially on my birthday. >:(

Finished!

2008-03-19T23:06:00.003-05:00

I just finished sewing the pocket onto my Wicked sweater like 20 minutes ago! It's finally finished! Now I just have to finish the prayer shawl I'm making for someone at my church and then I'm going to let myself start a pair of socks!! :D Pictures will come tomorrow; I have to go to bed now. Spring break starts tomorrow! We get out of school 2 hours early!! My birthday's on Sunday too. sweet sixteen! wow that was a lot of exclamation points.

edit: pictures!

Wicked sweater

2008-03-17T19:18:00.003-05:00

I finally finished the knitting on my Wicked sweater. Now I just have to weave in a few ends and sew the pocket to the sweater! Yay!

edit: I'm having problems sewing the pocket to the sweater. I hate it. Does anyone have any tips on how to do it?

FO!

2008-03-15T11:16:00.003-05:00

Last night I finished my shrug. It is sooo soft and it fits really well. I bought this neat button at my LYS on Thursday for it. I wore it today for the Solo/Ensemble Festival and my friends thought it was cute. I played my flute in a flute quartet and we played Colonel Bogey March. We did pretty well I think.

Start Date: February 28
End Date: March 14
Pattern: Anthropologie Inspired Capelet
Yarn: Malabrigo Chunky in Indigo
Needles: size 11
Mods: I added a buttonhole and 7 rows of stockinette each to the sleeves.

Stuff

2008-03-14T19:37:00.000-05:00

I started this post last week but never finished it but I'll post it now. I wrote it last Friday.

For some reason, the cuff on the sleeve on my sweater is taking forever! I keep messing up even though the stitch pattern is simple!

Yesterday I went to the Milwaukee Admirals hockey game with the band because we were playing pep band at it. It was pretty fun but also aggravation since I had no time to do anything I actually wanted to do, like knit. I did have a tuna sub from Subway when I got home from school though. It was tuna, spinach, tomato, provolone, and mayo. It was delicious!

I was also mad on Tuesday because my chemistry homework was taking forever and I didn't start it right after school like I probably should have. Then I had to cook my supper (2 egg omelet and I also heated up a little bit of pasta leftovers from this amazing Italian restaurant in my town (Il Ritrovo)). Then I had a 4H meeting which was only 1/2 hour long by itself, but then we played Telephone for 1/2 hour and I wasn't just going to go home without playing games with them. I'm antisocial enough as it is! I think I also had algebra homework. And my chemistry book is online and an actual book but I never bring the book home. My internet kept dying. So I didn't have any time to knit on Tuesday.

Random stuff

2008-03-02T18:12:00.003-06:00

New updated picture of the sleeve.
I was taking pictures of my breyer stablemates today. Macro is fun! The stablemates are only about 2.5" high, to give a perspective. This is my favorite one of the pictures I took.

I took a break while knitting the sleeve and drew this in my notebook with my blue papermate pen. I think it is pretty good.

Wicked

2008-03-02T15:01:00.003-06:00

I finished the body on my wicked sweater and I'm about halfway done with the first sleeve. The sleeve is going pretty fast. It fits pretty well.

I finally took a picture of the little peach that I knit in December.

For once it wasn't snowing on a Thursday so I went to my LYS's knit night and I cast on for the Anthropologie Inspired Capelet with Malabrigo Chunky. I love malabrigo! It's so soft! I'm still on the raglan increases which I keep screwing up on because I keep forgetting the yarnovers. I have 3 weeks to finish it but I'll have it done before then because it is short sleeved and only a shrug. I'm going to wear it to church on March 23rd (my 16th birthday and Easter!)

I finally cleaned my room this weekend! It was getting pretty messy for a while but my sister came home this weekend and she helped me. I threw away a lot of stuff and my closet is pretty organized right now. :)

Currently OTN: (just so I can make myself think I have not that much knitting to do so I can finish this stuff and work on lessening my queue on ravelry.
Wicked sleeve #1
Shrug
Prayer Shawl (need to have this done before May - it is a mentor/mentee project and I get confirmed in May)- It is about 12-13 inches long right now.
Quinn bag - hoping to have this done before June so I can bring it to school.

After I finish that stuff, I'm going to start the Saucy Socks. They are #1 on my queue on ravelry.

More FOs

2008-02-09T23:37:00.000-06:00

I finally finished the Log Cabin blanket for my doll but I haven't gotten around to taking a picture of it yet. It is 13" square and I crocheted a little scallop border around it. I wove in all the ends on the back.

I also finished my second mitten last week.

My mentor from church and I are going to knit prayer shawls for some people at our church. Today I went to Hobby Lobby (with my parents) and bought 3 skeins of Lion brand Jiffy in a purplish color. We're going to start them on Wednesday after the lenten church.

I finished the top band of my Quinn bag and I'm currently on row 7 of the first repeat of the body of the bag. I was on the last repeat of the top band when I realized I had crossed a cable the wrong way on the first row of the 12 row repeat! So I had to frog the 12 rows of that and redo it! That was annoying but I'm glad I caught it before it was too late.

My Wicked sweater is about 10 1/4 inches long from the underarms. I'm going to make it about 11 1/2 to 12 inches long because I like longish sweaters and the border at the end is about 1.25" so then the end length would be 12-13 inches long which would be pretty good, I think.

I only had 3 days of school this week and four last week!! Last week we had extremely cold wind chills (30 below zero) so we got a "cold day". It was really really boring because I had no one to do anything with and I didn't feel like knitting. This week it snowed 16 inches in 24 hours so we had a snow day. I stayed in my pj's all day! It was awesome! Then I didn't have school on Friday because they had some reading convention thing. I slept from 12:30 am on Friday to 11:15 am on Friday. Then I made myself real oatmeal on the stovetop. (real meaning oatmeal from the cylinder box and not the little packets). Then I added dried fruit (craisins, cherries, blueberries, strawberries), cinnamon, brown sugar, and a little bit of syrup. It was delicious and it kept me full the whole afternoon!

A mitten!

2008-01-24T23:51:00.000-06:00

Sorry, no pictures yet. My camera's batteries needed to be charged. x.x The pattern is Elegant and Easy Mitten s from the One Skein Designer book. I used Cascade 220 Superwash in some blue color and size 4 needles. I started it on Tuesday and finished it tonight (minus weaving in ends/blocking). I had a lot of time to knit since I had finals and I got out of school at 11:15 and 11:20 on Wednesday and Thursday. I really like the pattern because it is very simple. I've tried on the mitten numerous times to check fit and it fits very nicely and it is also very warm. I'm going to start the next one tomorrow (I promise. I will try to not get SMS (second mitten syndrome)). I also finished my Foliage hat. I added 5 rows of ribbing so it would cover my ears better.

[edit: pictures! i used my mom's camera.

2008-01-12T18:04:00.000-06:00

I got a $25 French Knots 2 gift certificate for Christmas. We went there last Saturday and I bought 2 hanks of Malabrigo Chunky in Indigo, 1 hank of Malabrigo worsted in Purple Magic, and Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock Multi in Lucky Stripe. Everything was 30% off so I got all of that for only $16. The mmmm chunky is going to be used for the Anthropology Inspired Capelet and the worsted is becoming a Foliage Hat from knitty.

Today my mom and I and some people in the Cedar Grove library knitting group went to Ruhama's in Milwaukee to go yarn shopping and then we went to Cheesecake Factory and Trader Joe's. At Ruhama's I bought 1 skein of Opal Feelings sock yarn. It is really pretty!! We ate lunch at the cheesecake place and then we got 1 piece of strawberry cheesecake to go and my parents and I just split it and it was soo good! Cheesecake factory is expensive though. The cheesecake we got was $6.95 for 1 piece of cheesecake!!
I'm also working on a baby kimono for a relative's new baby girl. It is very easy. I started it on Wednesday I think.

Blogger is being a butt and not letting me post pictures so pics will come tomorrow or later today. [edit: we have pictures!! yay!]

More Yarn!

2007-12-26T13:12:00.000-06:00

From my aunt I got 6 skeins of Sugar N Cream!

I also just received my yarn from Meangirl's contest!!! It is sooo pretty! I love it!

I also got a neat shirt for Christmas.

Christmas!

2007-12-25T09:18:00.000-06:00

For Christmas I got 3 skeins of Cascade 220 Superwash in color 848 (blue). I'm going to make the Quinn bag with it once I get some needles for it. I also got the Simpsons soundtrack and a pair of jeans from Old Navy.

Socks and stuff

2007-12-19T22:21:00.000-06:00

Here's a pic of the baby socks. I've been busy with school and Christmas stuff so I haven't had time to post pics. The pattern is the Ruffle Rib socks from Better Than Booties baby socks from Interweave Knits. The yarn is Dale of Norway Baby Ull. The socks are for my mom's cousin's baby who was born on October 21.
This is my progress on my Wicked sweater. It is kind of halted right now because my Options cable broke. The little metal part that connects to the cable and then you screw the needle tip into, came off. I haven't had time to switch it to the other cable that I have.
This is Molly's Blankie of Many Colors from Mason Dixon Knitting except the pattern is called Joseph's blankie but it is for my doll. Since this picture I've gotten a few more colors on it.
This is my Nine Patch Dishcloth from Mason Dixon knitting. It was very easy. I like the mitered squares.
This is my dog Jasmine. She is very cute although sometimes she barks too much.
I won sock yarn from the contest that I posted about in my last post! I won pink/green All Things Heather sock yarn. It is so pretty!

Tomorrow is the Christmas party at my LYS! I just made Nestle tollhouse chocolate chip cookie dough. I'm going to make the cookies tomorrow because I didn't have time tonight. I can't believe Christmas is in 6 days! Actually less since it's almost Thursday.

Contest

2007-12-15T15:46:00.000-06:00

I entered this contest. The prize is sock yarn!

http://meangirl.blogspot.com/2007/12/i-lost-40-subscribers-eek.html

I also finished the baby socks.

Almost done w/ the baby sock

2007-12-09T22:00:00.000-06:00

I just finished the gusset decreases on baby sock #2. Hopefully I will finish it tonight but that probably won't happen. I will for sure finish it tomorrow. This sock went much faster than the first one. I only had to frog this one once, after the first row because I cast on 90 stitches instead of 88. The first sock I had to frog at least three times because I messed up. Actually I had to frog the heel flap numerous times because the heel wasn't turning out right. Turns out, for some reason I had one less stitch on the heel flap than I needed. So I just did a M1 and it solved all my problems. I even did the toe and kitchenered it at the lys knit night the other week! pretty neat! I'll have pics tonight or tomorrow I promise.

Long time no post!

2007-11-30T23:21:00.000-06:00

I haven't posted since November 7th!! I've been knitting a lot this month. Since my last post, I've finished:

1 baby sock
AG doll cardigan
AG doll shrug
9 patch dishcloth
Falling Water Scarf for my AG doll

I'll have pics up tomorrow, I have to charge the batteries for my camera.

I just entered this contest: http://janevdoviak.blogspot.com/2007/12/300-post-contest.html It is a contest for her 300th post! The prizes are pretty neat.

I'm a little farther on my Wicked sweater. I have one round left of shaping and then I enter Stockinette Island where I get to just knit, knit, knit for 11 inches or possibly longer because short shirts bother the crap out of me ugh!!!

ugh

2007-11-07T19:16:00.000-06:00

Does anyone know how to do a contrasting heel on a sock and then get back to using the first color? On my baby socks I turned the heel with some dark blue yarn but now I want to use the light blue yarn again but it is way back by the cuff.

Ballband Dishcloth in One Day!

2007-11-05T21:34:00.001-06:00

Yesterday sometime around noon I cast on for a ballband dishcloth using maroon and cream colored Peaches N Cream yarn. I finished it last night. That's a record for me. I just kept knitting and suddenly I was done. Of course, the ballband dishcloth is a very simple pattern, but still. Now I am making a Woozy cloth in Victorian Christmas Peaches N Cream. I love this stitch pattern! It is so cool looking. Sometime I am going to have to make the Breeze socks from knitty. They have the stitch pattern in the Woozy cloth, except on a sock! I'm trying to get my WIP count down to about two projects but I have about five right now haha.

Wicked sweater
20%

Baby Socks
20%

Mini Christmas Stocking
20%

American Girl Doll Cardigan
70% (Stuck on Sleeve Island with this one and worrying about whether it will fit my AG doll -- I have Molly.)

Woozy Cloth
30% (I did the first 13 rows tonight.)

A few months ago I found the Quinn bag pattern, but I was like ZOMG SO MANY CABLES ACK! But now, I really want to make it. We'll see if I get any money for Christmas so I could buy yarn for it at my LYS. Then I would probably bring it to school, except they probably wouldn't like it. My school has this really stupid rule that says you can't carry any bags or purses that are big enough to hold a textbook, but people do anyway. They cracked down on it a few weeks ago, but now people are still bringing big purses. My purse right now is this one in Capri Melon. Like a ton of people have vera bradley purses at my school. ANYWAY, I don't think a 9" square purse could hold a normal sized textbook.

Finished my socks!

2007-10-26T12:39:00.000-05:00

I finished my socks on Wednesday. They fit perfectly. Last night at my LYS I bought some Dale of Norway Baby Ull yarn for baby socks. I think I'm addicted to knitting socks.

I finished the Saturday Market Bag a while ago. I added a garter stitch flap with a button so it would stay closed. I also made a strap with my sister's spool knitter. I don't like making icords.

Here's my progress on the Wicked sweater. I'm on the raglan increase stuff right now. It really isn't that bright of a blue but you can blame the camera for that.

Yarn!

2007-10-11T16:46:00.000-05:00

My knitpicks order came today! The yarn is so soft and I really like the knitpicks needles too. I'm leaving for supper soon and then going to the knit night at my LYS. We're making banana bread right now. It smells really good.

KnitPicks

2007-10-06T15:01:00.001-05:00

This morning we ordered the yarn for the Wicked sweater I'm going to make. I'm going to use KP Swish Superwash in Delft Heather. I also ordered size 7 dpns and size 7 needle tips and the 32" cable.

Ankle Sock Finished

2007-10-01T18:57:00.000-05:00

On Saturday I finished the first sock of my Cascade fixation pair. It fits great! I picked up an extra stitch in the gusset so there are no holes in the gusset.

RAVELRY

2007-09-25T21:47:00.001-05:00

I'm in!!!!!! I'm rainberry.

Ravelry

2007-09-25T16:07:00.000-05:00

ugh now its 233 people! maybe i will get in later tonight!

Ravelry

2007-09-24T18:12:00.000-05:00

Only 693 people in front of me on Ravelry!

No, I haven't finished my sock yet.

Scratch that, now it's 577 (6:26pm)

Ravelry

2007-09-23T09:19:00.001-05:00

Almost there!

Found you!

You signed up on July 17, 2007
You are #17664 on the list.
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Sock

2007-09-23T09:07:00.000-05:00

I'm almost done with my sock! I would have it finished by now but things keep happening. 1) I forgot my sock chart when I went to the knit night at my LYS on Thursday so I didn't know how many stitches I was supposed to end up with after the toe decreases. 2) We went to Oshkosh because they were having a scholarship recognition night and I brought it along to work on in the car. I forgot what kind of decreases I was supposed to do on the instep and I forgot the sock chart again. x.x 3) I forgot the 4th needle when I was going to work on it on the way to supper yesterday. It's very frustrating but I think I have it all figured out now.

20 stitches after the toe decreases
k1, slip 1, k1, psso, knit to last 3 sts, k2tog k1
and i found my 4th needle.

I can probably finish it today except that my dad is having me do all these chores (mowing the lawn etc) and he is going to pay me $25 to go towards horse camp next year so that will take a while plus I have homework. But it doesn't take too long to do toe decreases on 44 stitches.

New Breyer Stuff!

2007-09-07T16:23:00.000-05:00

This post is not knitting related but I just got a new Breyer horse and a breyer bridle. For my birthday in March I got a $25 wild horse feathers gift card. I finally spent it last week and they came today.

Ravelry Update

2007-09-03T00:05:00.000-05:00

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I was so mad on Friday because I was going to get up at 6:00 am to watch Knitty Gritty since we just got cable, but when my alarm clock went off I just turned it off and went straight back to sleep and woke up at 8:30. Then I went back to sleep and slept until 11:30 which caught me up on sleep that I lost getting up at 6:00 am to watch Uncommon Threads the day before. And we forgot to tape Knitty Gritty too. :(

Felted the Cell Phone Cozy!

2007-09-02T23:51:00.000-05:00

I felted the cell phone cozy the other day but I felted it one more time yesterday since I could still see the stitches. It came out the perfect size!

Post-Felting Dimensions:
Height: 4.5"
Width: 3"
Height with flap open: 6.5"

My sister almost forgot it in the car when we took her to college today! My mom sewed on the button.
I turned the heel on my Cascade Fixation ankle sock.

I have this sweater that I bought from Kohls last year and it is like a knit sweater and it has a pocket but the sewing around the pocket that holds it on keeps like undoing itself so it is breaking I guess. Then I saw the Wicked sweater pattern http://www.zephyrstyle.com/catalog/item.cfm/2367447/3974522 and I was like I could make myself a sweater like the one I bought and it wouldn't break. So I will probably make the Wicked sweater sometime in the near future with KP Swish Superwash since the Artyarns Supermerino yarn is pretty expensive if I'm going to need like 8 balls of it for a sweater.

Ravelry

2007-08-28T20:51:00.000-05:00

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Some FOs and my dog

2007-08-28T20:40:00.000-05:00

While I was at horse camp, my sister bought a skein of Lion Brand Wool in Ocean Blues. I made her a cell phone case and I'm going to felt it today or tomorrow. I had a pattern that I saw that was something like this but I can't find it again. I cast on 36 stitches on size 9 dpns and knit in stockinette for about 6 inches. Then I cast off half the stitches and made the flap and I did a whole bunch of k2tog's until I had 3 or 4 stitches left. I also made a small buttonhole on the flap. Then I sewed the bottom up.

Pre-felting dimensions:
Height without flap: 6"
Height with flap: 8 1/4"
Width: 4"

I made a Cupcake Critter yesterday! I found the pattern here. I made it with SnC cotton in some pink color. I forget what it is called. It is crocheted.

Tomorrow we are getting cable so I can watch Knitty Gritty on Friday! I will also be able to watch all the horse racing that's on ESPN like the Breeders Cup! I was so mad when they switched it from NBC to ESPN because we only ever had basic cable but then I got my grandparents to tape it for me. I also have a few random pics of my dog Jasmine on my bed. They are pretty cute. You can read her blog here. She doesn't write that often, but it is interesting anyways.

I finished my socks!

2007-08-24T21:45:00.000-05:00

I finished the second sock yesterday! It fits perfectly like the first one does. The stripes on them match almost exactly. Today I also knitted a mini sock out of my sock yarn since I have a lot left. It is so cute and I finished it when we were at Applebees for supper since it can fit in my purse.

I also made an apple. I still need to make an icord stem out of brown yarn but it is otherwise done. The pattern is from here: apple

My sister just learned how to crochet! Today she made a little bird. The pattern is from here: bird
We went to Michaels twice today! The first time was to get a size G crochet hook and size 6 needles. Then later we found the other G crochet hook that we thought was lost. The second time was to get an F crochet hook and plastic googly eyes for the birds my sister is crocheting.

I also have a little bit on my Cascade Fixation ankle socks.
If anyone saw the last post before I deleted it, I was in a really bad mood when I posted it. I was mad because I was having problems with my sock. I thought it was long enough to start the toe decreases but it wasn't so I had to frog it a bit. I got it all figured out though. Then I didn't know where my camera was so I couldn't take pics of my socks.

2007-08-22T22:51:00.000-05:00

My second sock is on to the foot portion now. I hope to finish before the knit night at my LYS tomorrow so I can show everyone my finished pair of socks. They think I'm a child genius or something because I'm already knitting socks and stuff and I'm only 15. I'm the youngest one at the knit night.

Last week I was at horse camp. It was really fun. I went to Hoofbeat Ridge Camps in Mazomanie, WI for the Adopt a Horse Week. I adopted a cute pony named Star.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=starrpony
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/minihorsegrl/IMG_0118.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/minihorsegrl/IMG_0109.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/minihorsegrl/IMG_0104.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/minihorsegrl/star.jpg

The last time I was at my LYS I bought a skein of Cascade Fixation in color 9442 and I'm going to make a pair of ankle socks with it. I think knitting socks is fun!

Sock 2 update

2007-08-07T21:58:00.000-05:00

I had to frog what I had done of the second sock (like 3 rounds) and then I started again and I messed up again! But then I looked closer and found my mistake. Instead of doing knit 2, purl 2, I accidentally did purl 2, purl 2. It's all fine now and I have approximately an inch on it now. :)

Sock

2007-08-07T17:40:00.000-05:00

I finished my sock today! It fits really well. I started the second sock but I think I messed up the ribbing so I will have to start over. x.x It is taking forever to start this second sock!

I started a ballband dishcloth yesterday and I will probably finish it tonight. I'm using SnC in Playtime and Black.

Dishcloths and Sock

2007-08-03T09:09:00.000-05:00

I redid the Wisconsin dishcloth pattern with cotton yarn just so I could see if it would look better since I can knit better now. I ran out of the purple yarn halfway through so I switched to robin's egg blue yarn.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/minihorsegrl/IMG_0445.jpg

I'm on to the foot of my sock. I've been procrastinating and starting other projects so I am still on the first sock of the pair.

In April I made a dishcloth for a yahoo group called Monthly Dishcloths. It is called Diamond Drop Lace and mine looked completely different from everyone elses. Today I redid a little bit of the pattern in pink/white yarn. I got a big (12oz) skein of it at Michaels for $2! It still doesn't look perfect but it looks better.

the blueish one is the one I did in April.

Sock

2007-07-02T00:53:00.000-05:00

I have a picture of my yarn and my sock now. I like seeing the stripes appear on it. It is interesting following the yarn to see which color will come next. I finished the left hand of my Fetching mitt (thumb and all). Tomorrow (or today since it is 1:00 am) I'm going to do the thumb for the right hand one.

Last week Hobby Lobby had Sugar & Cream yarn for $1.11. We went and I bought 3 skeins. I bought Floral Prints, Sunny Sky, and Playtime. I like how bright and cheerful the Playtime color is.

Sock Yarn!

2007-06-30T00:15:00.000-05:00

My grandma came today and I forget why but she brought me a skein of ONline Supersocke 100 Summer-Color sock yarn. It is color #792. I don't have a picture yet though. I almost finished the right hand of my Fetching fingerless mitts.

FOs

2007-06-27T10:38:00.000-05:00

I finished the June Mid-Month KAL.

Here is my Mid May KAL.

I also finished the left hand of my pair of Fetching handwarmers except I need to do the thumb and weave in the ends. It fits very well. I only cast on 35 stitches instead of 45, which the pattern says to do, since I made a swatch with 40 and it was too big. To prevent Second Fetching Syndrome I already started the right hand one.

Fetching!

2007-06-20T21:52:00.000-05:00

Today we had to go to Grafton so then after we went to the Grafton Yarn Store. I bought 2 skeins of Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran in color #601 (light purple). It is soo soft! Then I needed needles so I bought some size 6 bamboo dpns. I paid for it all with my own money that I earned while babysitting a few weeks ago. I am making Fetching from knitty.

http://knitty.com/ISSUEsummer06/PATTfetching.html It says to cast on 45 stitches but I made a swatch in the round with 40 stitches and it was practically falling off my wrist. Then I tried 30 but that was kind of tight. Finally I tried 35 and it was perfect. So then I cast on and started knitting it during a free outdoor band concert that my sister was in. Right now I'm doing the 5 rows of 4x1 ribbing.

I really like the yarn store we went to today. They had Noro Kureyon for making booga bags, and also they had lots of sock yarn but I didn't really look at that. I wish it was closer. It is about 40 minutes away from me.

I got really frustrated with the Mid-June KAL for the Monthly Dishcloths group on yahoo. I almost frogged it and gave up but I kept going. I got frustrated because it looked crappy but then I started to see the pattern more so I didn't frog it. I have 1-2 more pattern rows and then the border and then I'm done. I started it using what was left of a skein of Sugar and Cream yarn in Painted Jewels and ran out partway through so I started using my solid purple S&C yarn.

Fetching WIP Mid-June KAL WIP

Socks

2007-06-16T22:51:00.000-05:00

In May I knitted my first sock. It's from the North Country Cotton baby sock pattern and I used my Lion Cotton Ease. Then about a week ago I made a pair of wee socks. (!!) I love miniature things. I think they are so cute!!! We visited a LYS today to see what they had and they have sock yarn. (Bahr Creek Llamas and Fiber Studio in Cedar Grove, WI)

ipod sock!

2007-04-26T21:18:00.000-05:00

Today I finished the ipod sock for my sister's ipod. It fits the ipod really snugly, like it doesn't just slip in and out. I might make another one but make it a little bit bigger because I think it should be easier to get it than that. oh well. The pattern is at http://www.ipodsocks.biz.

I got a $20 Michaels gift card for Christmas and I finally decided what to spend it on. I got 4 skeins of Lion Brand Cotton-Ease yarn in Berry, Lime, Lake, and Violet.

I also started the Simple Bow Hat (pattern from http://members.cox.net/janlewis1/SimpleBowHat.pdf). I'm making it using the berry yarn I got from Michaels. We had to go to Hobby Lobby to get needles because Michaels didn't have the right size needles.

Coin Purse

2007-04-22T21:10:00.000-05:00

I thought I'd post a picture of the coin purse I made. I got the pattern from the Klutz knitting book.

The tube I was making on the DPNs was turned into a little hat for a Teenie Beanie (the small ones from the happy meals).

DPN!

2007-04-22T17:11:00.000-05:00

Today I learned how to knit with double pointed needles! It's just a tube but I think I will try some interesting patterns. :)

This morning I finished my KAL for the Monthly Dishcloths group. It looks nothing like the other peoples' kals, but oh well. I can't take a picture of it yet because my camera's batteries died. x.x

I have a picture of my stash!

Knitting

2007-04-18T22:18:00.000-05:00

So I just started knitting last month. So far I've just made a Wisconsin dishcloth which turned out oddly because I screwed up the knits and purls. It's flipped. Now I'm making an iPod sock for my sister's iPod. I wish I had one. I would get a 4G green ipod nano. Then I would make a sock for it. :)