been a while...again

I guess I'm not that good at keeping up with things as I thought I would be. \

I've been keeping up with my knitting for the most part. I've got a shawl (clapotis), sweater (my pattern), toque (my pattern). and Ive got a few other little things that I finished. A toque, a couple cubes, a penguin (which I've taken apart already)

during my trip down to the states I made a trip in to the Yarn Sellar, and the Knitting Experience. I got some Gallway painted and colorways, and some freedom spirit. <3 it.

I'm working on toques for my little cousins, using the Gallway yarn. they're great, I just need to decide what to do with the remnants of the skein...mittens, scarves, wrist warmers or leg warmers....who knows.

just let it be known that even if the posts are slowly (or quickly) the knitting ensues.

wow, been a while

summer was quite intense. broke up, got together with someone else, broke up (multiple times with the same guy), worked two jobs, went to school 5 days a week, and tried to occasionally knit. although, gotta say I did get quite a bit done.

geeze, I just took a look around my basement and I'm now realizing how much knitting and stuff I have down here in the basement. OH! and I also have Danica from Knitty upstairs in my backpack as my bus knitting. So let me count off all of my WIP's......Mario Bros scarf, mermaid socks (cool socks warm feet), Danica, cable sweater, clapotis (knitty), pasha (knitty), big blanket, and a baby blanket square.

okay, so it's not as bad as I thought it was, but my nanny thinks I'm crazy.

omg.........

so, im just realizing how much money im spending on wool. *jaw falls to the floor* first time i spent $25, then had to go back and buy another color, spent $12, and today i had to go buy even more cause i had run out of purple and was low on blue, another $25. So, if ya do the math, thats $62 on wool. cheap wool too, not expensive at all........omg.......im gonna go broke. Good thing I have two jobs, live at home, and never spend money!

Camp is great for knitting

so, I went camping with my brownies this past weekend, and although I missed going in town to knit in public, I still did it at camp. and got quite a bit done of my bag too. I probably only spent like two hours or so on it, and im amazed at the amount of work I got done.

Oh, and another thing, I definately misread (didnt read) the size of the skene that they were using in the pattern. so the balls i bought were half the size as what i needed, so I only have like half the amount of wool that I need. I've already run out of purple. and i think Ill need more of the blue aswell. this will teach me to read the pattern WELL next time.

just workin on the strap now. Well, I would be if I had purple wool :S

Loop craft cafe

yay, went down to the Loop on Barrington today before my lab, and got some real wool. :D yay! I'm using Freedom wool, and yes, the laptop bag has fallen under the radar and I just want to knit this purse from SnB and felt it! just to see how it is.

detail of the herringbone pattern.