Because you can never have too many projects OTN...

I went to MassAveKnits tonight to pick up the scarf pattern, and I went to Greenwood to the Goodwill before I went home. I picked up a really cute kelly green wool Old Navy Sweater (that I started picking apart in the bar at Olive Garden while waiting on my carry-out). Before I left Goodwill, I strolled through the back "crazy aisles" just to glance around and if there wasn't a skein of yarn lol. Ok, nothing spectacular, just some acrylic - nooooooo it was WOOL! And upon further inspection there were three skeins. It's REALLY old and they are three different dye lots of the same color, but I bought them anyway, because I could hahaha. The yarn is a dark burgandy color, kind of like wine. Long story short, when I got home, I looked up a felted bag pattern that I'd been eyeing and cast on my 4th WIP this week!! LOL Can you say Knitting ADD??

Future Project Idea
Pattern: Felted Purse
Yarn: Any 100% wool (not superwash)
Needles: US10 circs, and dpns

I also picked up some Cash Vero Yarn while I was at MassAve since they didn't carry Debbie Bliss Cashmerino, Susan (the owner) said this was a good substitute. So........... I will be adding another pair of Fetching to the list this week, too.

Let's see, that means I have the following OTN:
a. Syd's sweater
b. Skull illusion scarf
c. Trey's socks
d. Felted Purse frogged due to wrong circ length

and e. Fetching waiting patiently to be CO. LOL Wow, I have a lot to do this week!!

Guess what I bought myself???????

GUESS GUESS GUESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Crystal, guess!!!)

An Addi Turbo! Wooooooot! (30", Sz2)

I stopped by Mass Ave Knits and picked one up on the way home from FACE tonight. So, I played around a bit with the Magic Loop Method. Its not too hard, but just awkward; however, not maybe not as awkward as 5 dpns.

A Mother's Love...

You know your mom loves you when you ask her to go to the LYS for her and buy two skeins on yarn and she calls you and tells you she got you like 5!!! WOOOOT

This is the kind she got me (Dale of Norway) - it's for my Pirate Hat. She bought red, navy, and gray, but I can't really remember how many she bought total.

Guage (and other things)

Well, I actually kind of sort of maybe a little did a swatch-ish type thing before I started my pirates hat. I had the guage right on. And it STAYED right on, until I realized the problem was my circ's size (that sounds like a man's problem not a knitters, huh, but I digress...) and had to switch to a 16" instead of my 29". I thought is was going along well, and just seemed littler because it was next to that tiny size circ. Well, I may have been wrong.

Cathy noticed this last night at the knit-in and asked me about my guage. So I dragged out my handy dandy super duper guage-o-meter and lo and behold she was right. I had gone from 6st=1in to about 7.5st=1in. Now, someone else mentioned a good point, I'm nearing the top of the hat and it really shouldn't matter if its smaller because I will be decreasing soon anyway. Well, I hope they are right, because when I try to smash it onto my head on the needle, it seems very iffy that it will fit me. *cry*

Oh well - like I always say, my projects always have one monumental error - this time, as with others, its size...

I will put a pic up soon so you can see for yourself.

On to other news... I went to Mass Ave Knits again today to have my recycled yarned balled up. It was very exciting. I got two big balls out of it - I will post pics of that soon as well. (Charles still has my batteries in the X-Box controller... *grrr*)
I have another sweater almost picked apart, too. It was a striped sweater so that made things a little interesting lol. Oh, and I got two more skeins of Katia sock yarn on sale for $3/ea, and three patterns. One was FREE!!! Yup, a whole sock pattern book for free cuz it was really old and worn but idc about that lol. The other was a sock/mitten/hat set pattern and the last was a pattern book FULL of sweaters for kids. Did I mention that those two books were $1/ea????? :-) Happy Camper Am I. (And since I'm a picture junkie, I'll show it all to you soon.)

I feel like crap today, so I'm going to go try to finish my hat and watch tv.

I hate Wal-Mart...

I don't know why I continue to go to Wal-Mart. We boycotted it for a long time and then they put one in right by us and its just too convenient now. *sigh* Anyway, I went tonight because I had to get art supplies for a book report project for tomorrow, some cheap yarn, and a prescription for Charles. Well, the idiot pharmacist didn't put our insurance information in the computers right and told me the insurance was not in effect. Once he figured out he was a moron (after 40min and 2 phone calls) and set things straight I was good to go - back to the frikkin' front of the store to wait in line for another 10min!

Anyway... I came home with some cheap RedHeart Sport yarn in black and red, and a Peaches & Cream cotton skein in "Fiesta Ombre". I really want to make about a dozen or so more dishcloths, but we'll see how long that takes. The red and black yarn is for the WCTP hat. I don't want to spent money on "good" yarn until I see how well I do with the pattern.

ALSO... I bought some dowels and made some homemade dpns. My kids lost my sizer but I estimate they are about a 10.5. They aren't quite finished yet (need more sharpening on the points and more waxing). And the dog already chewed on them lol - welcome to my life!

Lunch at "Cracker Beller"

"Cracker Beller", which you might recognize as the more formally called Cracker Barrel is a favorite meeting place for us and my parents. Its near the halfway mark between where we live and its a "drop off" and "pick up" point for when kids are transferred between our homes. Today Ally came home and we had lunch before spending the afternoon in a dreadfully packed Colts-crazy Wal-Mart looking for the perfect fabric for the needle holder/carrier my mom is going to sew for me. We picked out a really cute green fabric and a brown bow. I drew her a rough sketch of what I wanted. I am really excited to see the finished project. :-)

Shopping Complete

I did good, ladies and gentlemen! I spent less than $7! Not too shabby for 2 sets of needles, some tapestry needles, stitch markers, and 2 skeins of yarn, huh??

Hobby Lobby Half Price Needle Sale

Uh-oh, I'm in trouble...

Laura from my knitting group here in Indy let us know that Hobby Lobby was having a 1/2 price needle sale. Oh COURSE its the day AFTER I buy those birch dpns that I find this out lol. Oh well - but I'm obviously going to buy some anyway - I mean really, what's a girl to do??? Say no to NEEDLES --- at HALF PRICE??!?! I think not!

One problem though... I really don't know what sizes to buy. I don't wanna spend much money so I want to get the biggest bang for my buck.

Here is what I have so far:
SPN: 2, 3, 5, 6 (2 sets), 7, 8, 9 (2 sets), 10.5, 17
DPN: 0, 2, 3, 4, 6
Circ: 3(16"), 6(29"), 8(29"), 10(29")

My thought process is that I should probably get dpns to match my circs, but I just don't know. I've been looking online at some patterns I want to make and it always seems I have the wrong size for any project I want to do, which seems really odd since I have a ton of needles already. That's the way my luck is though.

Looking through the WCTP pattern I am short a sz1 16" circ needle, so I will try to pick that up. Maybe a sz3 spn and a 10? I guess I'll just have to see what is there when I get there. I have buyers anxiety already!! LOL