Grandi notizie! Sono adesso membro di Italia di Squadra nel Lavorare a maglia Olimpico 2006!
Anche, alcuni mettono da parte il miglioramento. Tento attivamente di lavorare a maglia da mette da parte, mentre aggiungendo anche a esso. Ciò è cosí sbagliato? Ho preso due colori diversi di Wildfoote di Pecora Marrone, che spero usare per alcuno Houndstooth o i calzini spogliati, e del cotone di Rowan da Yahaira che non sono sicuro che userò per ancora.
(Thanks, freetranslation.com!)
So I couldn’t help myself. I was totally against the Knitting Olympics, then Trek mentioned the Sock Team just as Lu mentioned Team Italy and I had to join in. (I’m also [un?]officially in the Special Knitting Olympics, and I’ll start a different project for that. I’m in it for the hugs at the end.) I’ll be knitting, or attempting to, Jaywalkers in that time period. I’m going to use my Knit Picks Sock Garden in Geranium, my Lorna’s Laces red/black, my new Opal sock yarn, or my red Cascade Fixation. That way it will count for my Knitting Olympics submission, Sock-A-Month, 200Sox, and Red Hot Sizzling Socks KALs. How’s that for Multitasking?
In the meantime I’m “training” with the shawl I have due at the LYS. I also need to be studying for my broker’s exam which is Saturday, and I believe my shawl is due then too. Damn! Anyway, here is my progress so far:
Now off to “study” at the gym … (which means read the gossip magazines.)
This is definitely my week! You have got to see what my Secret Pal (7) sent me:
Can you believe this? Gorgeous red and black Opal sock yarn (if I hadn’t bought that Sassenach yarn last week this would be the most gorgeous sock yarn ever), Knit Picks Shimmer, lots of chocolate (I think, it disappeared really quickly 
), a Plumeria candle, some Tazo tea (I should make some right now!), Knitting Around by the famous E.Z. (I’ve got to start that Pi Are Square shawl soon!) and yes, you saw correctly, a gorgeous Lantern Moon project bag and extra-gorgeous Lantern Moon dpns!!! Talk about spoiling a person! Thank you so much, Secret Pal!
Of course I had to try out the dpns right away, so I cast on for a pair of Broadripples in my Sock it to Me Esprit. I don’t know how this yarn compares with Fixation but if you screw something up it is really hard to find the stitch to fix it. However, you can’t fault the gorgeous, decadent dpns!
I’m on a roll! I finished up A.Lo’s Banana Fish sweater last night. It ended up being my own cable/wave design with set in plain sleeves and used up 3 skeins of my Cotton Ease stash (does that put me down to 4 skeins?):
I made out! Look what my Knitty Mellow SP sent me:
I have been eyeing this book since it came out. Guess what I’m going to work on first:
I just love backseamed stockings. That’s basically what I was going for with my tattoos and back when they weren’t that popular (that is, only in certain circles) I used to be asked if my tattoos were part of my stockings. Anyway, I’m excited.
I’m also in a finishing mode. I am planning exactly 23 more rows on my Katrina Rib and then I’m calling it done. Here is how it looks now:
Just a few more rows (I keep telling myself), sleeve finishing and I’m done!
As I think IM is now saying: “All done!”. From this:
To this in about 15 min:
I was questionable when I got done knitting, but it finished so well and my LYS’ owner was very impressed! I was sad to hear the fingerless mitts had been given to someone else to do, but this project will be much better (and pay more!):
It’s a garter stitch shawl with a short row edging that makes a ruffle, in Schaeffer Anne. I’ve been interested in trying out the Schaeffer yarn, and this is a perfect chance!
And of course I couldn’t leave the store without a purchase, so I bought one more skein of Mountain Colors Mountain Goat in Ruby River so I can make something soon!
I also got two packages today. I ordered this from Sassenach yarns on Etsy.com and I consider it the most gorgeous sock yarn ever:
And I got two cute stitch markers with it too! I also got my Kpixie order, including these from Bartlett Yarns:
and of course when I heard No No Kitty was no more, I had to buy this sock yarn, even though I’m not sure it will make a whole pair:
Now I’d better get to making some socks!
I (along with many other knitters, I think) am going sock crazy this year. I have ordered lots of sock yarn to go with the approximately 17 skeins of sock yarn I already have (a small sock yarn stash, I know) and many sock books. I’m still working on Peaks N Valleys, and next on my list is Broadripples (the Jaywalkers of 2003) and I want to make up a few patterns of my own.
Speaking of which, Amy created a list of sock patterns on the web, and I’m honored to see my Twist Barbie Socks on the list! I almost feel like I was published in Knitty or Magknits!!!
I stopped by my new LYS today and got one more skein of Kureyon for the Lotorp Bag. I ran out just before finishing the body of the bag (less than 1/6 to go) and still had the strap to do and finishing. I’ll definitely have it finished by tomorrow, even though the owner didn’t seem all that pressed this week that I have it done when she said it was due last week. I guess I’ve impressed upon her that I’m not just out to take the yarn and run …
Speaking of which, I got a Lion Brand catalog in the mail today and was remarking to a friend of mine that it had a price tag on it of $5 and it was just like the Victoria’s Secret catalog. When I used to work at Victoria’s Secret in the late ’80s, they would display the catalog and people thought it was free, but we were supposed to charge for it. My friend said something about the Victoria’s Secret catalog being not just about shopping (for the men, if you get my drift), and suggested that people don’t look at a yarn catalog that way! I’m sure there are some of us out there that use a yarn catalog (maybe Kpixie, though, not Lion Brand, but you do need your cheap thrills sometimes ) not as it was intended, right?
I’m getting to the point where I might consider myself a slow knitter. I’ve been working away on this Lotorp Bag with only two skeins of Noro Kureyon (I doubt I’ll have enough, even) and I’m still not done with the two skeins! I plan to go into my LYS when I am out of yarn but there always seems to be more! I’m 2/3 of the way done with the body of the bag and then it needs a 10″ strap:
From the “Colbert Report”, I just might have to give a “Tip of the Hat/Wag of the Finger” to Carole for encouraging my bad habits. Of course looking at the current list I’m way behind many others but I got stuck on Ebay tonight. First I got these:
And I have coming a Kpixie order, some handpainted sock yarn from Etsy, along with my three or four Ebay purchases (and I’m bidding on some others). I don’t know how I’ll ever catch up with Risa, though, she’s already at 44 and I’m around 20!
What a day. I awoke at 3 am to the dying sounds of a rat in our attic (sorry to any animal lovers out there but we have had the exterminator out to get rid of our rats), then at 5 am noticed an email from the “crazy lady” at our school. Long story short, she is incredibly officious and doesn’t just send emails (and letters) to the people who have subscribed to the school’s Yahoo group, but any email she can get her hands on. I’m ready to pull my kids out of this school because of her.
Then this morning I go to Weight Watchers (I was going to go to the 7 am meeting since I was up but I waited until 8:30) and I have gained weight. Sure, it was only 0.2 lb., but it was still a gain and I’m depressed.
And finally, here’s my dilemma with the Noro Lotorp Bag: the pattern calls for size 6 needles and I got stitch gauge with size 5 needles but not row gauge. If it were for me I wouldn’t care, but since it’s for a shop sample I don’t know if I should worry about it and if I should, even how I would adjust the row gauge. I emailed the owners and am awaiting their response, but still knitting.
It’s a really interesting pattern. You knit three circles (increase, decrease, increase, decrease, increase, decrease) and do some sort of origami to get the bag. The ones I’ve seen done are gorgeous so I’m glad I have an excuse to make this pattern, even if I have to remake it three times!
Probably the hardest part is my knitting ADD. This pattern is easy and portable, but I keep wanting to start a new project! I joined the Red Hot Socks KAL and this morning around 6:30 pulled out some red Sock it to Me that I’m going to make into Broadripples. I’ve been eyeing that pattern for maybe 18 mos.
Hey, wait a minute, I do have a KAL I can work on while I’m knitting the Lotorp Bag … the “Buy More Yarn” KAL! Off to Ebay I go …
P.S. I’m finally getting around to selling some of our CDs on Ebay, half.com and Amazon. Yarn money, here I come!
I’m a professional knitter! Sort of …
We have a new LYS, and never one to miss a “grand opening” I had to stop by this morning. The owners are really nice, and IM was pretty good even though I was there for maybe an hour.
Anyway, they were looking for people to help them knit swatches and I figured why not, so I talked to them, and wasn’t given a swatch, but a (I have no idea what you call this) shop sample! Here is my first project:
I have a week to do it. I really hope I can make it! They already want me to do a commission piece, fingerless gloves, and an afghan after that. I’m so excited! Now if only I could get BR to let me work there, they’re hiring too!
