Inspired

I feel refreshed today, I had a good day...

Here's some photos, as I don't really have any knitting progress to show you.

First the Project Spectrum Photos:

Some Green


Some Rocks in my backyard


And now some Macro! Kitteh!


Freckles!


Poly Paws!

(Mittens is what is called 'Polydactyl' He has an extra claw between his thumb and 'pointer' spacing them out, making it look like he has mittens on!)

Annoyed! Kitteh!


Thats it! Bye!

Catching Up

Hello again. I'm back. Apologies for the lack in posting but I've been without internet for almost all of February.

You see, I've moved. Out on my own. I'm living in a basement suite, and I've got my cat back. He's now living with me. I know he hates living in a basement with tiny windows that he cant reach, but I also think he's just happy to be living with someone who loves and cares about him again. I love having him here.

I've been knitting a bit, I'm almost finished that nice cowl, but I wont show you pictures, I know stockinette progress pictures are pretty boring. This may very well end up being a photoless post.

I've decided to do Project Spectrum again this year. I've 'done' it the last two years as well but didn't ever really follow it. I plan on actually participating this year, and I'm looking forward to it. The theme this year in 'Cardinal Directions.' (north, east, south, west) First two months should be easy, as the designated colour is green. Green is the predominant colour in my yarn stash and wip line up. And I know I'll enjoy taking photos of rocks and snow and dirt. Odd as it sounds...

For more information on project spectrum please visit Lolly's Project Spectrum Cardinal Directions post. It might help you readers to know where I'm getting some of my inspiration. And it might be fun to follow along. Or join yourself! You don't have to be a knitter to join. You can just take pictures that go with the theme, scrapbooking, clothing, whatever strikes your fancy.

I've been thinking about what new projects to start lately. I've got some worsted weight purple coloured wool that I'd like to start a February Lady with. This sounds like a much easier first sweater project and much more flattering than what I orginally had in mind.

I'm also trying to hash out an idea for a cat bed for Mittens. I have a specific cable pattern that I'd like to incorporate, but I need to do a small amount of figuring to make it work.

I've got some soft green GGH Kid mohairy yarn that was formerly another project that I really disliked. I'd like to turn it into a Reading-in-Bed Shrug or something. I'm not 100% sure yet.

Anyhow, I think that's all I have to say tonight. Thanks for reading.

PS Have a picture of the Cat

Happy New Year

Hello, welcome to 2009.

My new years resolutions are...

Blog more often (we'll see)
Knit more often (already doing pretty good)
and
Get my diploma (goal is to do that by the time I'm twenty, not sure yet if that's realistic. I turn 19 on Jan 14 for those of you who don't know)

Guess what, I've been knitting for just over three years now. What do I have to show for it?



I've been working on this cowl for a while. I'm just over half finished I would say. Looking forward to having it completed.

I'm knitting it in Artyarns Ultramerino 6. I love this yarn, it really does knit like cotton because it's spun so differently but the feel and sproing of it is spectacular. Loving it.

I also love picot hems. Although I finished the first hem while in a moving vehicle. Not recommended, especially when you forgot to bring a needle to hold your live stitches! That was risky..

I think that's all the knitting content I'll give for today. Don't want to catch up all at once. At the slow rate I'm knitting I'll be caught up in a few posts though.

Thanks for reading, and I hope all of your new year celebrations were happy and loving ones. I know mine was.

Hello

I have a camera again.

ps, the last two were actually taken with my previous camera, but I realized I hadn't shown you pictures of my Bleeding Hearts stole yet.

Alive and well.

Holy, a lot has happened lately.

I have no camera, I was celebrating a friends eighteenth birthday with her at a pub and it was stolen.. That sucks. My next camera shall be a Fujifilm Z10. A green one.

I do have some knitting pictures still that I never got around to posting about. So I'll try to post those in the near future.

I got a new (read: better) job and I start on Friday. I'm nervous.

I moved. To the other side of the city. I've been living here for a week and only last night did I finally set up my bed. No more sleeping on the floor for me!

That's all I can think of for now, although there's probably a lot more than that. Isn't catching up fun in point form?

Peace!

PS I miss my kitty!

60th Post!

Well I've already had a 60th post, but that was before I deleted all the stupid, irrelevant ones. So this is the real 60th post.

Here's a photo from a recent road trip of the front of my mom's car. We thought it was rain at first. The sun had just set completely so we couldn't really see what was hitting the windshield, turns out it was bugs...

That's all mosquitoes. I like to think we did the world a favour.

ps, I've been knitting, not much but I've got one hem repeat done on my bleeding hearts stole, I'll start taking photos as soon as I get to the main body of the pattern.

Meme

Here, have a meme, to make up for the fact that I've done almost no knitting in the past month...

1) What was I doing 10 years ago?

Well I would have been eight... Would have just been getting out of third grade. Uhh, yeah can't really remember that far back. I learned my first bits of french that year.

2) What are 5 things on my to-do list for today?

1. Make a snack for work
2. Drink lots of water
3. Finish this post
4. Go to work
5. Possibly get some cleaning done when I get home, but probably not because it will be late

3) Snacks I enjoy:

Dark chocolate, honey flavoured stuff, cookies involving chocolate, brownies (that can be a snack, right)

4) Things I would do if I were a billionaire:

1. Buy a house... in the country... with a bigass farm
2. Get a couple dogs and a few cats.
3. Start a hemp farm as well has manufacturing plant and textiles mill.
4. Go travel with some friends. Finally see outside of Canada.
5. Start shopping 100% free trade, organic, free-range and as local as possible.
6. I might quit my job but maybe not right away. I like my job.

5) Places I have lived:

Saskatoon and Calgary.

6) Jobs I have had:

Pretty much all Retail Salesperson.



I tag Dad... and anyone else who wants to do it. Leave me a comment if you do so I can check it out!

Rain...

Hey, just stopping by to let you know that IT HAS BEEN RAINING FOR THREE. WEEKS.

It's a little bit of a downer... I want to get started on my summer already!!!

Hey

Been kinda busy lately, I'm slowly recovering my social life again. I also just started a new job a couple weeks ago.

I have been knitting, I finished my cable twist socks and started a new stole. I'll have pictures soon hopefully.

Away From Home

Hey all, I'm in Lloydminister for some family stuff. Just chillin in my motel room. So that means I don't really have any good knitting content (ie photos, I forgot my transfer cord) for you, although I have been knitting.

I brought my dad's socks and my cable twist socks with me. I've been having second thoughts on dad's socks, I'd like to start them again but have them on one long circular instead, I've been doing this with my second cable twist socks and I'm finding that it's going a lot quicker and smoother. I'd also like to start over because I casted on way too flippin tight, it's a shame though, I'm past the heel already. Not a big deal, I wasn't totally happy with them anyway.

April Flurries?

I figured, since everyone else is doing it, I'd show you a ground shot of Calgary's progress on spring.

Yeah, we're not doing as good, it's been snowing every day. I found a little melted patch on my backyard lawn and the rest is all snow. (see how my Merrel treads are snowflakes?? Cute huh?)

Here's some progress/detail shots of Dad's orange socks, I'm past the heel now.



Before I go, you must see pictures of my new baby MacBook!

Click to enlarge. He's a pretty one.

ETA: Sorry about the new layout guys, the template that I had was cutting off my pictures so I've switched to a boring but wider one for now. Hopefully I'll have a nice new one up soon. I just have to figure out how the hell this whole switching templates thing works.

ETA2: PLEASE BEAR WITH ME WHILE I'M MESSING AROUND WITH MY TEMPLATE.

ETA3: I think I'm pretty much done fixing things, let me know what you think!

Meh

I am pretty sick, I haven't been able to talk since yesterday morning and I'm coughing like crazy...

Somebody come make me some soup...

Keeping my word

I seem to be doing okay at this blogging regularly thing.

Here's that modeled shot of the Montego Bay scarf I promised:

Yeah, I'm terrible at taking pictures of myself. Also, that mirror is filthy. Some day I'll have a better one, but for now, that'll have to do.

This is the wrap for my mother that I've been working on for I think two years. I'd have it done by now but I'm having hard time staying motivated, all I've got left is the ties. It's only 1x1 ribbing but I'm finding it excruciatingly boring.

It's nice though, I think it'll look great on my mom.

This is my version of the Anthropologie Inspired capelet. I'm really liking this project so far, it's working up lightning fast because of the bulky yarn.

The brooch is pretty, no? I found it in my room one day while I was trying to get a little organized. I'm planning to use it as a closure for the capelet instead of a button or something. It's also got a little dangly pearl drop on the bottom.


I think that's all I've got for you right now, see you later.

Spring Cleaning

So I just deleted somewhere around 13 old blog posts, they were either irrelevant, or irrelevant and stupid.

I have been spring cleaning a lot lately, but it's not really in the physical sense. In other words, my living space is still a disaster. I've been doing mostly electronic organizing. I've been photo cataloguing all of my yarn and my knitting projects and posting all of these photos to flickr as well as ravelry with descriptions.

So that means theres a lot to see on my Ravelry account, but not on here... yet.

I've got my Montego Bay scarf finished, I need a modeled shot of it. Here are a couple of things I'm working on right now.

Some orange socks for dad:


My Green Shedir:


And mom's wrap:


Well, that's about all I've got for you right now, more next time.

Whew...

I'm back, hopefully for good this time. I know, I say that every time don't I? I've been a little busy but things are starting to slow down a bit and I now have the technology to write proper blog posts.

I just got a new computer, it's a Macbook, it's white, I'll have pictures of it up shortly. I love it, it's my baby. I also figured my camera out, so I have pictures and everything now. Yays!

So I've started and finished my Montego Bay Scarf, it's insanely long but I love it.
I've been wearing it a lot lately with our spastic Calgary weather. I still want to give it a bath and block it out. See if the fabric changes at all. I'll also have a modeled photo up soon.

I haven't really be knitting all that much lately I guess. I'm still working on my NaKniSweMo sweater, I don't think I'll be calling it that anymore though, haha oops. I've had the urge to work on socks lately though, I think I'll try to finish up the orange Earl Grey socks for dad. Here's a photo.

They'll be nice to work on.

Okay, so this blog post sucked but they'll get better, I promise.

Hi, still alive, had a happy Christmas and a boring new year. Working lots. Will post as soon as this new damn camera of mine stops refusing to connect with my computer...

Hahaha... oooops.

Mmkay, so, you know how I promised new pictures this post? Well, that's not going to be happening for a little while now.

I kind of accidentally drowned the contents of my small purse in cranberry juice, including my most important electronics. Thankfully, the most expensive one (and only one that I actually paid for myself), my iPod, survived unscathed, just a little sticky. My cellphone and camera, however, are another story.

My cellphone survived, but the battery dies in under a day and the dial pad is kinda messed up, also I can't put my ringer on vibrate, silent or high+vibe.

My camera actually survived pretty well at first, until everything had a chance to dry, now the function wheel will barely turn and as of today, it will no longer turn on.

So, new camera, new cellphone. I wanted new of both eventually anyways, but I would rather have done it on my own terms. So it'll be a while before I have new pictures, at least a couple of months, have to save up for a new camera. I also have to save up for a new phone and figure out how to get it working on the same plan that I have now.

Anyways, in the way of knitting, I have one new project started. I'm almost done the main part of my Shedir. I'm still working on my Noro striped scarf, which I think I need more yarn for. I finished one of the Hello Yarn Twisted Cable bed socks.

Bye for now.

Still here.

I'm still here.

I think it's funny how, every time I come back and say I'm back for good, I make a couple of lame posts then bugger off again.

A part of the reason is that I've started working full time a couple of weeks ago. I love my job and I'm having a lot of fun and I love the fatter pay cheque, but I don't find myself having all that much time to do stuff anymore. I guess I just have to get into the swing of things.

I have been knitting, I went to BC and brought back yarn. That was a lot of fun. That's an important story and I really need to post about that. It's very knitting related in parts.

Let's see, what have I been knitting lately. List time?

- Shedir Hat
- Noro Scarf (adapted from this which I think is adapted from something else...)
- Cable Twist Bed Socks

I have a lot of new yarn to post about, I might be able to post some of it in this post, but I still need to take pictures of some of the newer stuff.

Shoot, I don't have any pictures of any of the new stuff... I'll show you newish stuff that hasn't been talked about on the blog yet then..

Socks That Rock Lightweight in Firebird.

From the Rockin' Rock Club.

Socks That Rock Silkie in Walking on the Wild Tide.
Also from Rockin Sock Club.

This sock has since been finished, need to start the other sock. It's kinda hard to get on my foot, very snug. Maybe it'll be better with a block?

Knee high sock. Has been frogged. Made me feel chubby. Nuff said.

This is a lot bigger now, I think I have almost all of the repeats done. I need it done soon, it's getting cold out there!

I have received another Sock Club instalment since pictures have been taken. I'll try to take some pictures this weekend, hopefully the weather will be decent.

I also want to make this a lot. Is that not freakin gorgeous?

Well I have to get off to bed. Night.