Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Details, details.

So I signed up. I'm doing Jaywalkers, I've got the needles, the yarn, the buttons, and the stress. This should be fun. Umm, I guess I'm on the US sock team, or just the US team in general. Hm, whatever. It's not like we're competitive, right?
So anyway. In other knitting news, I started the thumb gore on glovelet #2, or the left one. I love the bright lurid green yarn with the bright lurid magenta needles. :P I resized it even more: 48 sts on US00s.
I like knitting while watching movies. I might do that tonight, because I'm totally slacking off and not doing homework. I feel kind of whatever-ish about it though, and at least I'm motivated to knit, right?
Ok, off to do something. Probably read and knit and watch tv. Good night, and good luck for all you Olympic Knitters. We'll all need it.

Monday, January 30, 2006

what have I done?!

I signed up for the Knitting Olympics. You can see my name on the Yarn Harlot's list. AAAH!
Help!

I'm doing Jaywalkers. It shall be fun and stressful. ^__^ Je suis la reine de stress.

G'night, more info tomorrow. Maybe.

Saturday, January 28, 2006

Citius, Altius, Fortius

I don't know if I'm actually going to do it, but it seems like a nice challenge. I'd do Jaywalkers in Lion Brand Magic Stripes Blue Regatta.
I also want to knit Picovoli (again from magknits, and again by Grumperina) in my pretty blue cotton. It's so the kind of thing I'd wear, besides the not-wearing-knitted-stuff thing.
Oh my. I adore Magknits now. The tunic-thing looks amazingly gorgeous. And I'd SO wear that. *drool*

I dislike being impatient, sometimes. I'm glad it doesn't carry over fully into my knitting. (although I do get second sock and second glove syndrome....)

Sunday, January 22, 2006

Hooray For Me!

That's the name of the glovelets. Hooray For Me! gloves. They're going well, and I'm storing the WIP inside a tennis ball container.

Someone asked me if I ever make anything that wasn't created by someone else. Actually, my first two scarves were of my own creation, and my first complete pair of socks were mine.

Well, I'm off to knit some more.

Monday, January 16, 2006

There's one good thing to be said about deadlines...

The immutable ones are truly motivating. There is nothing that can produce swifter work than the realization that yes, I still have so much more to start/finish, and yes, it all has to be done for tomorrow. No, no extensions. No, no sleep.

I was up until 4:00 am on sunday (sunday's early morning) making an iPod cozy for my friend's new iPod Video. I winged it, hoped, cursed, watched tv, and all in all had a good time. And it was done.

Today, I have so much more homework to do. And it's 9:48 pm. And I have a math test tomorrow at 7:48 am.
This sucks.

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Indecision

Hmm. What to make next. Pasha is done (and given away, to rave reviews), my slytherin scarf is like 11/19ths done, I frogged the cuff of the cursed sock (still haven't added a cast on, deciding whether to make the heel a bit roomier), I've been commissioned to make a Ravenclaw scarf for my other best friend, I want to make socks, I need to make a cow-patterned iPod cover for my friend's birthday, and yet I don't know what to do.
Perhaps I'm bored, perhaps I'm overwhelmed.

I'm also swatching right now with this thin (probably like fingering weight or so) bright green synthetic (I believe) yarn. It's probably about 8 stitches per inch, and I love the bright-green-ness. It might be glovelets, it might be a bookmark, who knows. I'm thinking glovelets, though. Despite the acrylic-ness. I have a huge (radius=3 inches? height=6 inches) cone of this stuff that I bought in London for ONE POUND. One. I adore it.

I'm slowly slogging away at the slytherin scarf. It's kind of cool, and I'll definitely have to block it, despite the fact that half of the stripes are acrylic...