Knitting and pics!

Okay, I DO have stuff to update, but I don't have pictures ready yet, so that will have to come later. I finished another scarf this week-it's extra long and super soft. I bought 2 skeins and ended up just using the 1, so I think I will make another and keep one for myself :) I will get a picture of that this weekend.
I also started on a rug, but I need another skein of the wool I am using, so I am going to go as far as I can and then I need to pick another one up. It's a chunky off white wool with some flecks of a sort of autumn palette. Kinda nice-like rolling a sheep in a pile of mulched autumn leaves :)
Last night my darling dear Lisa helped me get my cat to the vet so he could get checked out and I found out that my little guy needs dental work done and it is going to cost me lots of money. He's lucky I'd do anything for him-that's all I can say :) I'm way to broke right now for that but we'll make it through somehow.
Afterwards we went to Lonestar for supper and Chad bought us both food-because we are awesome! Then back to my place so I could get lots and lots of photos of Lisa and her knitted projects. Good thing I left my light up and ready-all I had to do was move the table and put up a backdrop :) I'll post a couple here when/if she gives me the go ahead, just to show off how cute she is :P ha ha ha ha ha ha
That's about it right now. I am trying to get supplies(but I am broke) so I can start making some handbags and accessories to sell this fall. I'm hoping I can supplement my income with it, since once I get laid off I will be extra broke. I want to sell stuff around the city and possibly also on Etsy, as I know a few people that have stores online there. Not sure how good business is on there, but worth a try, I suppose.
Have a great weekend, blogland!

Whew!

Okay, well, it's been a few hours and I've finished the wrist warmer I was working on and nabbed my dpns for the camo hat, which is also now done. And all that before 11 am. I love holidays! :)
Wrist warmer

Camo Hat

Where the hell are my dpns?????

Okay, so this weekend has been full of knitting.
Friday night I started a pair of wrist warmers using this lovely black and purple variegated yarn I bought quite a while back at The Loop. I think it's Cascade. So there's one of my 2 sets of dpns. I also have another pair that is pink and made by Pearl. I have ONE of the set of 5. Only ONE. The rest, I know are in the package. Somewhere.
Why is this a problem right now, you ask? Well, because I am finally(I say that like it's been forever when really it's only been 3 or 4 days) at the decreasing point on a camo hat I am knitting for my sweetie, Chad. And I totally could have finished it last night if I a) could have found those dpns or b) hadn't of started that damn wrist warmer Friday night.
On the plus side, in my frantic 2 hour+ search, I had a chance to lug out ALL my yarn and get it somewhat more organized. I now have a GIANT bin that I freed up from stuff I still hadn't unpacked yet which is now full of the many balls of yarn my mother has acquired for me at yard sales, another giant bin full of the cheap Red Heart and Bernat yarns I had picked up when I first started knitting, along with a bunch of cotton, a medium sized bin full of all my natural wools(my "good" yarn), and another bin full of my novelty stuff. And I have an extra bin left over for the future. Hahahahaha Half my closet is yarn.
But ya know what? No damn pink Pearl dpns were to be found. So now I guess I need to spend the morning trying to finish 1 of 2 wrist warmers so that I can use the needles to finish the hat, and then do the other wrist warmer. Thank heavens it's still the long weekend :)

The start of X-mas knitting

Okay, so in posting the stuff as I work on it, I realize that I am opening myself up to possibly ruining x-mas presents on people. I really don't want to do that, but if I wait until everything I am planning on making in the next 4 months get's delivered and opened, then i will have no projects to post. So I am just hoping that no one I know other than the handful I gave the link to actually find out about this blog. Mom and any other relatives-if you come across this, I apologize. As a compromise, I am just going to leave out the recipient of the items I list, so maybe someone will be surprised if they DO stumble across this little corner of the internet.

So, my finished project for this post is a very neat little scarf I made up on the fly and finished in about 2 days(so maybe, 5 hours?) thanks to the nifty little knitting loom I picked up the other day. I wish I had the time to handknit everything, but in some cases, you need to make a compromise. I decided scarves are that compromise. At least when heading up to x-mas.
The yarn I picked up that I fell absolutely in love with for this piece is by Patons and is called "Bohemian". I picked black because, well, I usually do, to be honest. And this yarn is soooo super soft. Really-I'd love to just roll around in a huge pile of it. Then, after getting it home, I decided to pair it up with a Berroco yarn called Candy FX that I picked up a few weeks ago on sale at The Loop. The color for that one was 8734-it's a black, silver and white sort of concoction. Very cool.

Anyways, enough of this-here's a few pics of the finished piece!

Knitting night!

Well, tonight was knitting night-Wednesday nights-and me and the girls all met at Lisa's place. I was working on a present for my mom, Karyn is working on a wicked Transformers scarf she is inventing for her fiance, Lisa is working on multiple things(like her second Space Invaders sock from knitty.com) and while we were missing our little Kel, Crystal came out for the first time and learned how to start a hat. I think it was a productive night for the most part for everyone. Afterwards, to spare Lisa from driving EVERYONE home, and in a bid to be somewhat self sufficient, I decided to not only get the bus over by myself, but to get it home as well. Lisa's neighborhood is slightly scary at night and I was the only person on the whole bus all through the shitty neighborhoods until we hit pretty close to downtown. SCARRRRRYYYYYY!!!!! hahahahaha But worth it, i think. I need to stop relying on drives. Especially since they all come from Lisa. :P I love you, Lisa. You're my hero. :)
Notable quote for the night goes to Lisa with "I can't take a good picture of my weiner" in reference to what I call her bag sack-a crocheted plastic bag holder she finished last weekend. If she ever gets a blog up, you can go look at it. It's pretty :)
And I have a picture tonight! My first hat, knit from no pattern and finished off with a little help from Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's Knitting Rules. I can't wait till it's cold enough to wear it! :)

The beginning

Well, now, I'm a little out of practice at blogging, so if anyone ACTUALLY decides to start reading this, I apologize.
I'm actually running a little late for work, so no pics for my first post, but I WILL have a few pics of the new hat I just finished for myself that I pretty much made up out of scratch and which I was very pleased with. I almost can't wait for it to get cold! ha ha ha ha ha
Projects I am working on-well, some of them I can't really mention, because thy are gifts for people I know that may happen to stumble across this little piece of the internet. I am working on a baby kimono for a friend who is pregnant(all that's left is the seaming and the ribbons-the knitting part is done!), a few scarves for some gentlemen friends that I know, STILL have to get back to Chad's scarf that i started LAST fall-hahahaha, and any number of other things.
Well, that's it for now, I will have to get some pics from friends since I actually don't keep too much of my knitting for myself!