She's Alive Behind That Redwood Curtain

More posts and knitting info was/is my New Year's resolution. This should count for something albeit, I did just come up with it and we are now in April. Call me a late bloomer.

Things with Q are good, school hates me, my job is great and the fact that I have loads of time to knit makes up for the decreased wages. Speaking of knitting, I have a butt-load of projects on the burner. I'm ramping up for the County Fair in August. I have just completed my last contract knitting job of the season and now will only be knitting for the fair, all the time.

That being said, I just finished Bauble from knitty . This project is almost like instant gratification. The knitting takes no time at all. I think it took about 2 hours, maybe 3 hours, to string on all the bead and crystals. Oooh, aaaah! Look how sparkley the Swarovski crystals are. I found that the 3 1/2 yards of beaded string is too long. Garter st. as most of us know scrunches up but stretches out like nobody's business. Anyways, it helps to have extra beaded length for knitting just so your hands have something to hang onto. I knit this up once and ripped it out when I realized provisional cast-on would work better for grafting. Overall, I like this project and if you want a quick fix, this is a great bet.

Lily cat is snotty as always. Q and I were trying to get her attention the other day to give her love. She completely ignored us. What is wrong with cats like her that snub you when you want to pay attention to them, but at 4am, when all you want to do is sleep, all they do is screw with you and get hair up your nose?
Here she is in all her "fat cat" splendor.

Where In The World Is Carmen San Diego?

Or more importantly, where the hell have I been? Lost in space. Too busy working and knitting to blog. That and I was increasingly irritated by blogger.

This will be short. I have finished that interweave knits sweater. I only have "in progress" pics.

I know, they are both oriented strangely. When I tried righting them with the editor, the looked askew and wrong. So turn your head to get a better idea. This sweater has been finished for months. I wore it a million times and it needs a good washing and de-fuzzing. It is knit using Brown Sheep's "Top of the Lamb". I love the yarn. Warning, it pills...a bunch.

That is it for now. Here are Q and I over last summer and a picture of Lupine on the Summer Solstice.

Coffee Thieves Must DIE!

I doubt that it would surprise anyone that it would take getting really pissed off in order for me to finally post. That being said I will rant on.

This morning I woke up early because I needed to write a site description for my soils project (turning it in 3 days late). As a reward for actually hauling my ass out of bed to go to school and write, I stopped at Starbucks Tenbucks and purchases a low fat venti vanilla latte.

My morning is off to a fabulous start and so I head over the the McLean computer lab to fix up my paper. I leave the coffee outside the lab as is called for by computer nazis everywhere. It takes me about an hour and a half to finish up and pack up my things to leave. I exit the computer lab and I see that someone has made off with my coffee.

Whoever you are that stole my coffee, you are a heartless bastard and I hope you choke on your next meal.

Done.

As for knitting, of course I have been knitting. A sweater from Interweave knits winter 2005 issue and one from the Spring 2006 issue. The red is from the winter issue and the light blue from the spring one. The latter is the one that I have knit the most. I give it two to 3 more weeks to be finished.

I finally knit a booga bag that I love. I won some stuff at the fair back in August. I'll have to post pics sometime soon.

I apologize for not being more up on my blog but I must KNIT!

Knit on crazy folks!

Ciao.

Hello Dad. I'm In Hell!

It's official. I'm in hell. It was 111 degrees F here in Sacramento. Crap-olla.

ATTENTION! Knitting news...knitting news...knitting news....

Friday I turned in my entry form for the county fair. I am entering ten items.

This is a beaded bag I made as a sample of the kits Janice bought for Handmade Memories. I think the company is Swallows Nest or Hill or Robins egg or something like that. Can't remember. Anyways, it was DMC rayon thread (don't know the guage) and size 10(?) beads on 000 addi's.

This next project is the Amelia Earhart Aviator hat. It calls for size 8 needles but I think either she has a small head or...she is an even more uptight knitter than I am. The first one I did was way huge. It looked like and Amish hat. This one is done on size 7's and it turned out super cute. The flower is from S & B's Happy Hooker.

This is the Sheep's Butt Boucle Bag (on the right) from way back. I need to de-fuzz the whole thing because I have used it a fair bit.

And this bag, entitled Blueberry Truffle, I am quite proud of. It looks simple but the real beauty is in the construction of it. I am hoping it will win a ribbon (blue, please let it be blue), and then that people will want to buy the pattern.


Here is my second set of Wyvern's (pattern by Marnie MacLean). These are out of Paton's Grace and were done on size 2 addi's. I did a picot bind off to make them extra cute.

This las bag is called Toffee Delight (don't blame me, Q came up with the name). I made it out of the leftover yarn from the felted clogs I made my Dad for father's day.

I will also be entering my take on the Melon Ball Bag pattern by Anastasia Knits. Mine is a watermelonball bag. The seed are needle felted.



Finally, Q and I are on again. Hopefully he can keep from making me mad or hurt again. Here we are on the 4th of July. Pretty sad when you have to wear a shrug and turtlenecks to keep warm in the middle of summer. Although, I suppose it is preferable to the hell that is the central valley.

Oh well, you can see that even though I haven't posted for almost a month, I have accomplished much in knitting. And, I finished two summer school classes to boot. I am in Sac this week helping out my Gram because her normal helper is on vacation. I did warn her though, if the AC gives out, I'm going back to the coast.

Keep cool y'all.

Ciao.