Cause you can’t think of good titles all the time.
No pictures tonight, folks. Just the news that I have a spiffy new pattern on the lef thand side of your screen. The Wishbone Cabled Scarf. I’m working on it now. And I’ll get pictures after the holidays. Promise.
It’s 4 in the morning. I’m tired, my brains are fried, and I need to eat someone else’s brians.
Yum.
Okay, more on the title in a minuite, becuase I promise you, you will enjoy seeing this.
First:
I FINISHED THE HAT I FINISHED THE HAT!
WOOOOOOOO!
I finished it at around 1 in the morning. I did a jig. The pattern is now on the left hand side of yrou screen, so go look at it. I promise you I will have pictures sometime before new years.
Or after, it really depends on Hailey.
Also. I started a new project. An afghan, with a six stitch variation on my favorite cable pattern. Yes folks, I’m addicted to cables.
I’m using Bernat Handicraft Cotton Naturals in Desert Rising, which, on the skein looks like a desert. when knitted, it looks liek a dessert, namely in the form of neopolitan ice cream. When I post the pattern for the blanket it will be the “Neopolitan Cabled Afghan.”
There we have that.
Okay, now for the Holes.
Our town, Jefferson City, TN, has NOTHING if interest except for the fact that we have 4 car lots IN TOWN, 7 churches, and 12 banks.
And were a population under 8,000.
WHAT?
So, when something major happens, we check it out.
Mom had heard on the news that the road in front of the Pawn Shop and Army Surplus had a sinkhole in it. So we went to look.
Here was the first thing we saw.
Yes folks. A big damn hole.
It was about 15 feet deep, 30 feet wide. We werent allowed to get any closer.
This town is practically built on a mine, so they think that either the mine’s watermain broke, or one of the mine shafts caved in.
So we went inside, and we were talking to some people we knew, and he pointed this out to us.
Yes, a crack in the block of the building. that’s the wall your lookin’ at.
And then, when we stepped back..we saw that it extended.
Yuhp. And it’s outside too. So we went to take a look. When walking around to the side of the building, we saw this -
Another sink hole. This one was the first that the guy inside had discovered. The scrolly sign-ey thingy had to be taken down becuase it was in the sinkhole and LEANING towards the building.
This thing was about…10 feet deep, and about 8-10 feet wide.
Now, remeber those cracks inside the building?> here’s the whooole thing.
From the ceiling to their basement. All the stuff downstairs had to be moved. THey said that the building could just..go..at any minute. It made me feel mildly “living on the edge” to be inside there.
And then some guy, while we were taking that last picture, shouted” You guys are standing on a sinkhole!”
I wanted to shout back “And your standing on a large molecular ball that is consitantly spinning at high speeds and could at any moment careen out of control into mars. I’m safer than you right now. If the planet goes, I’ll fall into his hole and be safe. Nyeh.”
But I didn’t.
So go checlk out the new pattern, and watch out for sinkholes. BEcuase, ya know, the earth is like swiss cheese.
Okay fgolks, this post has little to do with knitting. But I thought I would let you know that my MP3 player is dead.
I have a sansa E260 that I have had since february. It was my baby. I never went ANYWHERE without it, and I had just bought 3 new cds to put on it yesterday.
So I wake up this morning, and it’s under the ocmputer table in the living room. I had left iut ON the ocmputer table. Turns out that sometime int he night it had dropped from the computer table to floor, and dad had shoved it under the table to prevent it from getting broken. He thought I had left it in the floor.
ANYWAY. I get it, get my dad’s laptop (the only computer that will write to it) and I plug it up. The scroll wheel lights up, like normal.
But the screen is still off.
I unplug it form the computer, take the battery out of the back (I have long since lost the screws, a product of a fight between two dogs that I had to break up. It went flying, the screws popped out, and the back flew off.), and put it back in. I plug up my headphones, and turn the MP3 player on.
Same as before. Scroll Wheel lights up, but no screen. I press the paly button. Music plays fine. No screen.
So, In a fit of desperation, I called Tech Support. Surprise Surprise! I got someone who spoke english!
Long story short - I have to send my MP3 player back, and since it’s still in warranty (for another year and 2 months), they wil send me a new one, postage paid, free of charge.
Anyone looking ot buy a new MP3 player - GO WITH SANDISK SANSA! They have the best tech support staff, the best policies. And pay the extra 20 dollars for a two year Warranty.
Anyway, So I went searching for my CDs. I was missing about 6 of them. So I had to burn copies of my OWN CDs. But I have my full collection.
And I’m stuck listening to my music on my dad’s (kjinda crappy) CD player (NO auto skip. The slightest jostle, even my typing, skips it.) Damn this sucks.
Better part: It’ll take about a week for them to get my MP3 player, and only 7 days for them to send it back. I know a guy who’s iPod took a month and a half to get it back to him - and he just needed a new battery!
Okay, now for knitting news. I was going through a sewing pattern book in walmart this evening, when I saw a pattern for a scarf. A sewing pattern. For a scarf.
It was fleece and faux leather, and instea dof a keyhole it had..
waitfor it…
a belt loop
Okay it only LOOKED like a belt loop. In reality it was a small scrap of fabric sewn crosswise, and you slip one of of the scarf through it just like a keyhole, except it lays flat.
Sooo I bought some yarn (Red heart. Dark Green. Shut up.) and decided on a cable pattern (which gives me a new chance for cables! this is one i havent done yet!) and I’m knitting it.
For myself.
As for Hailey’s hat..it’s close to done. Like (I only have 5 more cable twists and the crown and the sewing to do) almost done.
Yuhp. She’ll get it for christmas. I have no doubt of that.
Although it might be christmas 2008…
It’s 1 in the morning, and I can’t sleep.
That’s the norm, as of lately. For some reason I can’t sleep until 2-3 in the morning, and then I dont wake up until 1 in the afternoon. I guess it’s just one of those things you go through every once in a while. Like how you sometimes have to sleep with your head at the foot of the bed to re polarize yourself.
what
you dont get that?
So I’m knitting away on the Snow Princess Hailey Hat (Almost 1/2 done! A few more cable twists..) and contemplating what to knit next.
I need to knit something for Tyler. I’m considering giving him an I.U.O.K (I Owe You a knitted object) for use on his birthday. Whatever he wants. I dont care if it’s made out of Malabrigo and it’s a penis warmer.
Whatever.
He lives in minnesota and I live in TN and it’s gonna take time ot send this crap.
So my next project will be for me.
BWAHAHAHA.
Skull Shrug
I love that! it’s so plain and pretty! I have a huge t-shirt collection from summer that would transition easily into our warm winter weeather with that. I especially love the skulls. And walmart has Lion Wool and Wool Ease for 4 bucks a skein. And I’m going to Joannes tomorrow.
I also have a stash of simplysoft languishing….I am NOT above knitting with acrylic..
Choices Choices.
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So I can’t write kickass titles all the time.
But look! Pictures!
Okay, so first, the partially (read as: 1/3) completed Snow Princess Hailey Hat. This is my own pattern, based on yarn vomit, that I’m working as I go along. Never fear, there will be a pattern posted when the hat is finished!
Note: Since my camera is shit, I heavily played with the lighting and the line definition so you could see the cables.
Also, you can see why I HATE working with solid white yarn.
That, is not a shadow, dearfriends. That is dirt. FROM MY CLEAN HANDS.
Yeah.
It’ll definatly have to be washed before I send it.
Thats the only project I have going right now, so here’s a picture of Fartfignugen, who will be 8 in february. We call him Fat Boy for short.
Isn’t he adorable?
And: new costume for ConNooga and AdventureCon. Chainsaw Sally. Yes folks, she’s a character form a movie. So go rent it!
I didn’t EXACTLY match her costume, but I don’t care. I think I got pretty darn “Chainsaw Sally-Esque”.
Linked Out For Size. Click here to see picture.
So there.
More pictures of Chainsaw Sally today, if I can dodge the rain and get to my toolbelt, and possibly a FO by tomorrow.
BY THE WAY:
Today is Thursday, So tune in at 9:00 PM (8:00 central) to the CW/WB and Watch Supernatural! It’s my favorite TV show, and you can afford to miss Grey’s Anatomy for one damned night, right?
Also, a plug for an awesome website:
www.teamwinchester.com
Okay, so in RE: to my last post, Here’s what happened.
I went out. To go BUY Hiley a damned present, becuase I LITERALLY went through EVERY SINGLE HT LINK on knittingpatterncentral, and NOTHING looked like what I wanted.
Mom had to go to the dollar store to get candles for the menorah, and I was looking around when i saw this..wall. Of fun fur. NO shit, Lion Brand Fun Fur at the Dollar Tree.
Being attracted to yarn of any kind, I went over to it. Now, I have four (now six, since dad gifted me with two skeins of Patons Voodoo for hanukkah) skeins of novelty yarn languishing in my stash, so the fun fur didn’t appeal to me. However, the bin right by it that had many skeins of plain, white yarn did. I picked it up. Lion Brand Baby Jamie. #200, white. Sport weight, 100% Acrylic, recoomended needle size 6. 193 Yards.
I picked up 2 skeins at 1 dollar each (since that’s all I had money for), and took them home with me.
And then, I sat in the kitchen, with my size six DPNs, and staredat both skeins, sitting there, innocently on the woden table, Mocking me.
And then I thought back over allll my previous knitting projects. I didn’t want to do anything garter stitch or feather and fan. HOwever, cables were a must.
And then the pattern for the Yarn Vomit scarf smacked in the face, as clear as if Lea had taken hers off and choked me with it.
So I grabbed one strand form one skein, and one strand frm the other, removed the ballbands (now lost somewhere…in 12 hours. New record, I think.) and cast on the required 30 sts for the scarf, holding both together.
And then it smacked me like a ton of bricks were wrapped up in that scarf.
Make the scarf, but make it way short and have the cabling going around her head, not up it.
So now, 1/4 of the way in, and moving along nicely.
Sometimes you just have to sit and stare at the yarn. It really does speak to you.
Knitters of the world, shut up. Little voice in my head, that means you too.
“You know why it keeps happening.” Says the voice in my head.
“I know, shutup.” I say, surfing for yet another pattern, the sixth in the line.
“It’s the G word. that thing you refuse to do.”
“Stopit.” I say, turning the sound up on my mp3 player, hoping the sound of Bon Jovi will quiet the voice. Nope.
“G-G-Guage S-S-Swatch.” The voice all but shouts, and I nearly scream.
“STOOPIT VOICE, SHUT UP.”
And my dog, Brown Sugar, The one I’m cuddling on the left hand side of your screen, stares at me like I’m an idiot, which of course, I am. But he doesn’t know that.
Okay, go back and read the last post. The one right below this one. I’ll wait ’till your done.
Done? Good. Okay, now, the Horseshoe Hat. I had Caron Simplysoft and Size 6 needles. I KNEW I wouldn’t get the required 4 sts per inch. I didn’t realise though, that 1 1/2 sts per inch smaller would make SUCH a difference.
I cast on, knitted the first 5 rows, and realised that it would fit my mom’s favorite doll, Drowsy (which is a baby doll that is 43 years old.). I frogged, rewound the yarn, and put the double points away in my knitting needle mason jar.
It looks like if I’m going to keep knitting hats, I need a set of size 8s.
Now on to more surfing, HOPEFULLY to find a cabled hat pattern that calls for worsted and size 6 dpns, or worsted and size 8 flats.
By the way, in the words of the writer of Dropped a Stitch (The creator of the horseshoe hat, which I will one day make) “I’m a gaugeiot.” Basically this means your and idiot when it comes to guage swatches.
Maybe, one day, I’ll do a proper one. When that day comes, I’m gonna make a new blog, and call myself Stephanie Pearl McPhee.
Or, ya know, not.
CRAPCRAPCRAPCRAPCRAPCRAP.
Aparrantly I have the attention span of a fruit fly (Which, is saying something since a fruit fly only lives for 24 hours).
So I cast on for the Caramel Cable Hat.
R.I.P Caramel Cabled Hat.
Born December 7th, 2007 12:30 PM.
Died December 7th, 2007 1:00 PM.
Here’s what happened.
Cast On, Knit first five rounds.
Realise that pattern said DK WEIGHT YARN and size 4 needles, and that I’m using Worsted Yarn and size 6. Notice that hat would fit a small elephant or a large st. bernard/mastiff mix.
Frog and wind back around ball.
Crap.
So with one week to go, I’ve got this:
I’m HOPING that since I’m knitting in a slightly tighter guage (becuase I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE……HATE HATE gauge swatching!) that it won’t look so loose, and will be warmer.
Gah.
Still need to make Tyler’s somethingorother (Wasn’t it a guitar hero strap snuggler?) and Arissa’s Knecklace.
One week. One Week. That’s like a mantra in my head Every time my needle clicks it seems to be saying “7.”
I guess I could be knitting instead of writing about knitting.
Next year, everyone’s getting walmart giftcards, and damn the people who ask for handknitted crap.
So the thing about christmas knitting, is the fact that nothing EVER turns out the way you plan it to.
Here was my Original original list of christmas gifts:
Sockotta Socks - Mom
Dragonscale Hat - Leanne
Yarn Vomit Cabled Scarf - Leanne
Super Chunky Cabled Hat - Hailey
chunky Cabled Scarf - Hailey
Anubis Intarsia Scarf - Tyler
Star Pillow (DomiKNITrix book) - Arissa
Okay. There we had it.
So I put it off and put it off. So the list changed.
Sockotta Socks - Mom (Now to be done whenever since it’s mom)
Yarn Vomit Cabled Scarf - Leanne
Ravenclaw Hat - Hailey
Star Pillow - Arissa
Anubis Intarsia Scarf - Tyler.
Now, with 10 days to finish these projects and get them sent, I have this list:
Yarn Vomit Scarf - Leanne- FINISHED AND SENT.
Caramel Cable Hat - Hailey
Guitar Hero Strap - Tyler
Knecklace - Arissa.
With the prmises of bigger gifts for birthdays and just becuase I need to use up my stash.
NOw you may be wondering why I got rid of the Ravenclaw Hat. I had the yarn, I was knitting it.
I was using worsted weight yarn on size 5 needles, and it was coming out LOOSER than if i would have knitted with worsted on size 8s.
Hissssssssss.
By the way, I’m knitting the Caramel cable Hat in Caron Simplysoft (becuase I like to make my life hard.) on size 6 needles.
G-d help me, I like to make life hard on myself.
Also, I’m debating a knitted guitar strap, rather than a guitar strap cover. Hmmm. I’ll see.
Oka, So I’m going to sue all the major music companies.
Mom bought dad a cd tonight. Unheard of, since my dad usually just listens to the radio. She bought him “Premonition” by John Fogerty. Cool. I like john fogerty. So I swiped it to add to my 500+ tracklist on my sansa. I put it in the disk drive, and the music starts playing while the tracks are ripping.
It’s Live.
I HATE live albums. I mean, yeah I’ll listen to it, since I spent the 13 bucks on a cd.
My problem is not the live album. MY problem is the LACK OF LABELING.
It said NOWHERE on the packaging that it s a live recording. To find those words, you had to open the case, and rea the very bottom of the second page of liner notes. in TEENY TINY PRINT THAT I NEARLY COULDNT SEE.
Seriously. That’s the second time in bout 3 months that that’s happened.
So why am I sueing? False Advertising. I expect a CD by my chosen artist, with my favorite songs on it. If I wanted a live album, I would buy one that says “LIVE” on it. I’m not paying 13 dollars for a CD when I could pay 60, get the sme experience, and actually SEE the artist. I’m paying 13 for the version of the song that I want to hear.
Dad’s gonna be so pissed when he finds out.
Of course, I kept the music, because the songs are god, albiet the rythmn changed.
Hence why I dont want to go to a concert. These people make millions off recordings, radio, and CDs, right? Okay, why the f*** are you gonna change the song around from what people know and love, to something else, when theyve paid 60+ dollars to get into the cheap seats?
Okay, rant over. I’m gonna listen to my non-live Bon Jovi CD that daddy bought me tonight. Booya.
