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!!

I hate moving!

Yesterday we spent the day in Sullivan, moving my MIL. Sullivan is two hours away and its where Charles and I are both from. Our parents still live there.


So anyway, she moved from her house "in town" to a house "on the other side of town, across the tracks". Basically all that means is that she moved approx. 1.4 miles away. Her new house was scheduled to be bulldozed, but since her neice owned it and she needed a place to stay, they saved it for her, putting in a new furnace and renovating the inside. Its very cutely decorated.


It was snowing all day and the temp was about 29 so it was cold but not frigid like it had been the previous week. She still isn't completely moved but we all got tired and called it a day.

There was much stress and much frustration, as is usual for such an event, I suppose. This is how Charles looked most of the day:


While I was down there my mom gave me my bag of goodies that she had forgotten to bring during the "car resuscitation" - i.e. my yarn, some magazines and some SURPRISES!! My dad had made me a PVC Niddy Noddy! (Click here to learn what it is.) I had sent them an email a week or so ago asking if he might be able to make one for me, but I really hadn't expected him to have the time to make one for a long time. I was thrilled!!! Also, my mom had finished sewing my needle case! It didn't turn out as we had both expected but it will do just fine. My needles are sitting all snugly in it already. (My Dale of Norway Hauk was in the bag, too, so I can get started on my next WCTP skeleton hat this week.)


The kids spent most of the day at my parents' house doing crafts and playing with Sassy (my mom's mini-Dachshund).

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.

Yarn, glorious yarn Pt. 2

Ok, after the certain X-Box maniac went to bed, I searched and searched the house for all of our rechargeable batteries and found enough for BOTH remotes, the controller, my camera, and TWO extras! Yes, I am amazing, this I know.

So, I tried to play catch up with one post. The first are "PurpleRain" (that's what I'm naming my hat, even though technically he didn't go by the symbol when he wrote Purple Rain, but I'm sure nobody cares about that little detail lol.) The next is some yarn I got on clearance - Lion Brand boucle for $.50 not bad, huh? Then are pics of yarn I've gotten from sweaters I've unravelled so far. The two big black balls in the back (snicker snicker) are the yarn that I had balled for me at Mass Ave Knits. The row of pinks and purples is from a striped chenille sweater that's less than 1/2 undone. And the green and blue is from a 100% wool sweater I got for $2 at Goodwill. I love it, but I cut a little bit on the sides and so the strands I'm pulling off are short and it's pissing me off just a little. There is a little sock yarn in there from Mass Ave Knits, too for $3.

The last two are the "loverly" Athena, and how the TV looks 90% of the time lol. (BST73 ftw - if you understand that then <3, /em loves you. rofl!)

Unravelling #1 and Progress on WCTP hat

I have bought a few sweaters from Goodwill with the intention of unravelling them for yarn, but hadn't completed one yet. I had started a yellow sweater earlier but it was frustrating and so I quit. But today I bought a very cute black sweater with some yellowish and cream colored fibres spun in and decided to just sit and do it. I got more yarn than I had thought I would. (Right now the kids are wearing the hanks of yarn as hats, anklets, and bracelets lol.) I need to wash them and then hopefully I can take them to Mass Ave Knits tomorrow and they can help me get the yarn into balls using their swift and ball-maker.

The pics are a little blurry because the kids wouldn't stop bouncing on the bed long enough for me to get a good picture. Also the yarn is all tied up with blue cotton so it looks a little crazy.

The WCTP hat is coming right along. I think it's really going to be cute.

GRRRRRRRR

Well I finally cast on my WCTP hat. I'm done with the border but my circular was giving me fits at the joint so I bought a new one today at Hobby Lobby since they were half price. They only had ONE in the size I needed (Boye Balene) and it wasn't exactly what I wanted. I bring it home, move all 128 sts to the new circ and it BREAKS on the 2nd row!!!! I am so disgusted. I also didn't like the "perfect points" because I move my needles with my fingertips alot and my poor finger is soooo sore from it, even after only two rows. *sigh* Now I am just knitting the sts back onto the first circ, but I'm really wishing I had just went to the LYS and bought an Addi... I just might have to do that this weekend.

UPDATE: So I drove to the better Hobby Lobby in Greenwood and they had exactly what I was looking for - yay! The joints still suck but they will just have to do until I get the KnitPicks ones or an Addi I suppose. I did pick up Sydney a tiny little counted cross stitch project and also a little wooden loom. Then I had to swing by Meijer and they had some Lion Brand chunky yarn on clearance for $.50. I'm hoping she can make herself a scarf with it and her new loom.

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!

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??

Mass Ave Knits - I AM IN LOVE!!!

This place is so wonderful!!! It's HUGE and they have like 3,452 of everything (although they were out of the one thing I really wanted lol - wooden cable needles.) They have walls and walls and walls of yarn and huge work tables and little cubby holes to sit and knit and snacks and a SALE ROOM and and and and the list goes on and on! I will definitely go back!!

I bought a few goodies - some Katia yarn in a cute colorway of greens, yellows, and lavender - made me immediately think of "The Lime & Violet Knit Along!" which I might have to sign up for now. Since they didn't have the wooden cable needles I wanted in stock, I did find a variation that I haven't tried yet by Clover. And the pièce de résistance [duh duh duh] my very first birch dpns. I am uber-excited to try them out. I bought size 6 thinking it would be pretty multi-purpose.

Oh, and I've also included a few pics of some yarn I forgot to shoot that I bought the other day for some crocheted doilies that I might try to make one day and a little Barbie shirt that I made a while ago - which turned out to be a little crazy, but the kids didn't care.

WIP of another Kind - Blog Part 2

I am working on some informational pages (mostly for my own knowledge database)... And I've named this new place KnittingIsFunnerThanCleaning Part 2, further unravelling - now tell me, how original is THAT!??!?! I'm not moving my blog or anything, just needed a place to store some other pages of info and wordpress actually has a better setup for that.

You can find these informational pages here. So far I only have a Yarn Brands page, but there will be more eventually.

Crazy Girls (and obligatory yarn shot)

Ally wanted me to take her picture - so here you go - what a great pic for Love Thursday!! After Sydney got home she wanted me to take her pic too - too bad they are so camera shy............. And last night I got some dishcloth yarn to make a few more dishcloths as I really like them. (Syd chose the "sexy" background - its a nightgown of hers from her dressup box lol). Ally wanted to pose in the FunFur Scarf tonight, isn't she so cute?

First Knitting "Business Meeting"

Ally has said all day that I was going to a "knitting business meeting tonight"... It was fun - Laura and Crystal (sorry if I mispelled your names or got your names wrong) were very nice and we had so much in common. Laura even knew what UNIX was?!?!?! How cool is that, right? And they BOTH knew about FFXI - which is even funnier hahaha... All in all I would say it was a good time. And I even went to Meijer before the "meeting" and got some cute leopard print yarn for $.55 a skein!! WOOT, can't beat that, right??

Yarn shopping

Well, the girls decided they wanted some mittens and hey, who am I to object to a project hahahaha! So we went to HobbyLobby (closed on Sundays ><) and then went next door to Michaels, which remind me to never go to again - eww... But THEN we drove down the street to Jo-Ann's and found almost just what we were looking for. I was really looking for Paton's Kroy, but I can't seem to find it anywhere here in Indy yet - but I haven't tried the LYSs yet. Anyway, we bought 3 skeins of yarn - one for each child some mittens or gloves if I get really ambitious, and I got some cute FunFur for $1 each to make myself a little cute scarf.

We got Lion Brand Yarn - Wool-Ease in Dark Rose Heather for the girls and Denim Twist for Trey-Trey. The FunFur (also obviously Lion Brand) is Raspberry and Champagne. Should be fun.



Also picked up some sz8 needles so I can finish the blue mitten and blue bootie... (and why is it that nearly all stores are out of sz8 right now???? Is all of Indy knitting suddenly????)

Tomorrow is Trey-Trey's birthday, we bought a cake mix and some icing in a jar to make cupcakes (don't feel like being domestic and making from scratch today). I was supposed to have my first "knit-in" tomorrow at Panera Bread but they've changed the time to be during the day and trust me they don't want my kids there while we knit hahahha!!!

UPDATE: woohoo!! The "knit-in" is indeed at 7pm! I'm so excited... I just hope dh gets in time :-)

Yarn, glorious yarn

I got this yarn on sale at Hobby Lobby and I loved it - it's YarnBee Infatuation. I bought 2 skeins of each of the 5 colors. With the rust colored set I wanted to make myself something - and maybe a shawl for the girls out of the pinks (I bought this yarn before I knew very much about how much yarn projects take and I probably didn't buy enough to make something for myself). But when I started to try to "yarn this up" it was a catastrophe. I do NOT knit well with ladder-type yarns. What's the secret????