Birthday!

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!

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

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!

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

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

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

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.