Wild and Wooly Wally-World

eh...not like they have wool. but it sounds cool.

Wal-mart had their new yarn section all set up.
NEW:
Caron 'Fabulous' and 'Feathers'
Lion 'Incredible' 'Suede' and 'Moonlight Mohair'
Red Heart 'Kiss'
Bernat 'Disco' and 'Envy'
plus new colors of Red Heart Plush and Caron Jewel Box

i broke down and bought three skeins of Suede in Garnet to make this, which i have wanted for a while. Plus a skein of Plush in blues and greens for $1.25 on clearance. yay! first time i've bought yarn all year...tee hee!

"It's Like Our Own Private Knit-a-Long or Something"

so yeah. y'all know about the lovely, lovely yarn that Wendy so lovingly sent me and Joeli. Yeah, it is so soft and cool and just wow.

and so it was made as a joke in chat, that hey, maybe those two will knit the same thing...

well, you know, we had to run with that! And so Joeli picked out the Honeymoon Cami and I was sold. So I cast on two weeks ago, and from Sunday time and class time, I have created a super easy, super lovely, super fast tank! my first summer knitting!



of course i had to alter the pattern. skinny straps....3-st i-cord on circs? no thanks. i wanna wear a bra. so i did a 7-st in seed. lovely lovely! oh my, there's my belly button. eek!





As with any KAL, the members do not all finish at the same time. read the sordid story. poor, poor Joeli...but at least i'm sending her a 'consolation' prize.

plus i only used half the yarn Wendy sent me. now what?

It's Almost Like, Illegal or Somethin'

so yeah. i was out today, and happened to stop in Barnes and Noble.
and guess what I bought?

summer IK!!!!! it's here, it's here! not supposed to be out til Tuesday when i was gonna run to the newstand. but i have it now.

is that right?

say WHAT??

Helen Louise Failing's Aliases

Your movie star name: Chips Ron

Your fashion designer name is Helen Sicily

Your socialite name is Smellin Helen Chicago

Your fly girl / guy name is H Fai

Your detective name is Kitty North

Your barfly name is Chocolate Mudslide

Your soap opera name is Louise Portsmouth

Your rock star name is Chocolate Cheetah

Your star wars name is Helmuf Faibil

Your punk rock band name is The Excited Candle

The Amazing Meganame Generator

Kitty North, Private Eye... me likey!
The soap opera works as well...the rest, eh...say WHAT??

Who watches 'Everwood'??? AND surprise for Monkee!!!

my tape broke and it didn't tape the hottest episode all season where Ephram finally learns he got Madison pregnant AND I DIDN'T SEE IT!!!! Who has it on tape??? I need it! please!!

in other news, here's this:


ain't it purty? it's my lovely Wendy yarn...be sure to check out Joeli's snippet too. hehe.

thanks Joeli

yup. they had probs. thank goodness it wasn't me hehe
"Bloglines Outage
This morning, one of our user databases suffered a failure that wasn't detected by our monitoring systems. This resulted in the inability of people to log into their Bloglines accounts. The database has been reset and no data was lost. We apologize for the issue and we're looking at ways to ensure this doesn't happen again. "

Houston, We Have A Problem....

okay. so i go to check my bloglines to read what is new...and i can't get in. It is signed out, when i had it set to always be signed on...and it won't let me in! i tried all different e-mail address, but the password doesn't work with them, and then when i click 'lost password' it says to enter your e-mail address and they will send you your password? but it says the e-mail address is incorrect. what gives??

don't be turnin green....

but lookie what i got!!!!
i swapped for this wonderful lace weight in a gorgeous color from Laura

and then Wendy decided to spread the love of her stash to me and Joeli lovely lovely yarn with the aid of postmistress Deb. oh what a wonderful day!

TEN BALLS! of this gorgeous colorway...half egyptian cotton have akrill...like heaven...

thanks guys!!!

Let this be your warning.....

This is a warning for monkee; Stephy; and Ceci & Ana. Because, monkee's especially, your little goodies that are going out in the post tomorrow look kinda lumpy and bumpy....y'know, like maybe they are little bits from terrorists.... teehee. little white paper wrapped packages. hmm. good luck opening them...i guess just find the seams of the envelope and slit it there...I used a good deal of tape to make sure they got to y'all. because the looks on your faces (Ana's especially) will be priceless, I'm sure. cannot wait til you guys get them!!

i also got a cute postcard from Kate/westozcaat. yay, another new blog to read!!!

INTERVIEW WITH A 'STAR' teehee

Ariel wants to interview me! yay! here goes:

1. What is the strangest thing that has happened to you while knitting?
Hmmm. I guess the time when two elderly ladies were whispering to each other about my technique of two-handed-stranded-veritcal-striped-mitten-cuffs-on-dpns. yeah, that was odd. also the asian guy who sat next to me while i was using homespun on size 15 to make a quick scarf and he said he bet i could make him a scarf on the ride home. STEP AWAY!

2. What is one technique or item that you have no interest in knitting?
Hmm. this is tough. used to be socks. used to be lace...done both. i don't know...hmmm. i think maybe skirts. don't really wanna knit one of those. I am going to make a granny-square skirt. i'll go with that as my final answer ;)

3. What are you working on right now?
Whew, what a loaded question! Currently 'actively' knitting is the Ruffles scarf and Madli's shawl. resting are mitten #2 and Mariah. plus lots of pieces of things..like a sweater front that i wanna frog. yucky pattern.

4. What is your favorite thing to knit - or do you do a variety of projects?
i love felting. because it is fast, fun and pretty. but i do also enjoy sweaters. I truly do. don't mind 'sleeve island' or seaming or anything else.

5. Do you have a favorite yarn that's just waiting for the perfect project, or a yarn you've been dying to try?
i love Cascade 220. it's what i use to felt and what I'm using for Mariah. I also have this yarn that i cannot wait to use. maybe a tank from new knitty?

thanks for the interview, Ariel! ;)

WHY ME????

so yeah. i knew, just knew, that today would bring the new knitty. and so i go to class, come home, eat dinner, run for groceries, take a walk, pic my bro up at the library, and finally sit down to find....my AIM works and NOTHING ELSE. NO E-MAIL, NO CHAT, NO INTERNET!!!!! NO KNITTY!!!!!!!! so of course Joeli teases me that she is swatchign for 'branching out' so not fair!!! at last, oh at last it works. and i love branching out! and Wendy, not only is your pattern fantabulous, i love the picture caption and your bio. so fun! so YOU! and Jodi Green has another hit, and i like some of the tanks...now to pic one that works with my tahki cotton colori in my stash. hmmm. hmmmmmm.
will ponder this soon. very soon. a new tank would make me feel happy

PS-why do we use blogger when it sucks so bad??

waiting not so patiently

i want spring knitty so i can make a tank (hopefully) and i want summer IK so i can make a shurg for next winter. i am way ahead of the trends cuz i wanted one at the beginning of THIS winter. hah! now i will have plenty to choose from and find one that actually fits and flatters.

not much knitting at the moment. the ruffles scarf, madli's shawl, mariah and mitten #2 are all languishing. plus i'm waiting to see what nifty italiano treat i am getting from wendy. and marmite from Joeli and smoochies

STASH FLASH!!!

this is from standing on a chair...roughly half the stash. to get you prepared.

ready  to move on??

swear??

We'll start with good old Red Heart Super Saver and some other brand of acrylic. good stuff ;)

one skein of homespun and four Red Heart Light and Lofty

Down to three skeins of homespun from 12. 6 to make an afghan, 2 to a friend for a scarf and one for a scarf for me..on a needle somewhere. under the bed, maybe? the color is actually green. darkish green. with rusty highlights.

Lion Polarspun from the ever so kind monkeemaven. Tutti Frutti x3 and Sherbet x2 now put up into yarn cakes, zib's favorite.

Lion Kool Wool, "Camel" from monkee, now put in cakes.

Berella "4" acrylic cheapies from Herrschners. 10 green, 1 "wine mist" plus a sweater front of 3 green, 1 wine. don't want to make that sweater though

Soho Studio's "side by side" one strand each of black and white. 16 skeins plus 2 into a sweater i do not know if i still want. notice a trend? Acrylic.

Red Heart GIANT. Navy Blue. FIVE of them. $1 a piece. could i pass that up?

Spinnerin "Caresse" Acrylic, about 50 yds each, 20 of them. ebay find.

Lion Colorwaves. such a pretty boucle yarn, and so soft. 4 skeins plus half a poncho. hopefully will finish it this summer to wear next season. color "mai tai"

2 skeins Lion Woolspun from herrschners sale. left over from cute vest I made.

three skeins Bernat Handicrafter cotton. yellow, blue and white, and tannish with colors. have already made a ton of dishclothes.

4 cards candlewicking thread that are in the mail to monkee. glittery skinny yarn from a yard sale. three balls crochet thread.

two fabri-knit purse kits. denim is a cute little one, which i also sent to joeli, plus purple tote.

Covered with Color mitten from Knit Mittens! in lambs pride worsted. need a second mitten

this is what's left of my first kool aid experiment

the 'fun' stuff. two lavendar Lion "Fun Fur", one purple/yellow Bernat "Eyelash" green is Red Heart "Tiki" and black is Lion "Trellis" in "stained glass"

CPY Splash and Squiggle in "Seven Seas"

leftovers. i love ziplocs! one for lamb's pride, one for 220, one for novelty, one for acrylic, etc....

mohairyess! one skein Plymouth Divine "richest rose" from a sweater, two skeins red from thrift store, two skeins Adriafil "floppy" from LYS bargain basket

cascade pima tencel for ruffle scarf from Scarf Style

two skeins moda dea "sassy stripes" and two patons Kroy

Plymouth Sockotta

brown sheep naturespun for mittens.

Classic Elite Star...baby gifts, maybe

10 skeins 220 for Mariah. it is a deep charcoal gray

7 skeins sock yarn to make granny square skirt from Hip to Crochet.

Gedifra Gigante left over from a bag i bought and made hat, scarf, mittens.

noro! one skein pink in armwarmers already, other in cake form, booga bag for the blue someday soon.

WOOL! purples and reds are lamb's pride worsted, black and brown lamb's pride bulky, blue is 220, and hat to frog is yarn from inspirationsyarn.com

wal-mart yarn to someday make a cute plastic tote from Knits with a Twist

thrift store find. 100% wool with cables and bobbles and seed...lots of yarn.

thrift store find. 100% wool from ecuador, hand made so seams are beautiful....huge mans sweater, will get nice buttons as well.

super soft thrift store find. 90 wool 10 acrylic. hopefully will dye nice.

Sneak a Peek!

okay. so today was productive. monkee, in the pictures at the end, not only is the carpet vacuumed, it is washed. my mom wanted to, so i took everything out leaving me room to spread yarn for stash flashing friday

so anyway, latest package from SP:


and my technique for winding:

i put the yarn on the chairback and can spin it nicely while winding.

such pretty wool!

also finally working on:


and for your yarn p0rn enjoyment, a sneak peek:

I MISS JOELI!!!

i really do. cuz she's having fun with 'hush-hush' and smoochies. *sigh* *sniffle* at least i have monkee to myself!! hehe :-*

anyway, i'm ridiculously tired, so i will post pics tomorrow. they are on the camera, but i am too tired to get them into the ether. so you can wait. i cleaned parts of my room today. and i have an awesome idea for Flashing my Stashing!!! i hope it turns out as cool as i picture it. i need to hyperlink parts of an image...like an image map, i guess. maybe i will need help. someone can help me, please??

so if i make this public....

i should stick to it.
this upcoming sunday is the last sunday i will work. i told my boss i have religious things to do, so no more. so now i will have a day of rest, starting and ending with church. so my huge goal is to start running. at least once a week to start, and then add in more as i go. because i need to get in shape. now it's not for my appearance anymore, but its for my health. i gotta tone up a bit.
the winter knitting season is done, so i will wait on sweaters until after i think i am as 'small' as i am gonna get. i would hate to knit things that will then be too big to be attractive.
this will give me a chance to catch up on all my other stuff. i have three sweaters to undo, and christmas gifts to knit and small things for myself like mittens and a booga bag. plus a latch hook i have been working on for like a year...and some material...a lot of it is even cut out already. so yes. this is my summer. i am loving it!

it's really happening!!!!

OH MY GOSH, GUYS!!!!
so last week i sent in my cover letter and resume (which many of you proofed, thanks again!) and they called today to set up an interview!!! but everyone on my buddy list is away and anyone I could call is in school....so this is my first announcement!
now i have to go get my work schedule for next week and gather all my info...such as when school ends and when i can quit my job and see if they will let me have time off to volunteer at bible school. this will rock so much! yay!!!!!!!!!!

updates as promised....and away we go!

hey guys! thanks for waiting so patiently, Wendy. Here is my update.

First off, I had this stuff:

which of course is recalled because of 'SYC' as Yorkie puts it ;) (Spontaneous Yarn Combustion for the rest of ya) i guess thats fine cuz the more i looked at it, the odder it was.
so i went to the LYS and got this:

Cascade Pima Tencel...OMG. petting the skeins was good until i knitted it up:

wow!!! it is the softest yarn i have used. i am loving it so much! plus the pattern is totally mindless and i cannot wait to wear it. should be a fast knit.

and i finally finished my Hurry Up Spring Armwarmers, and not a moment too soon. it is still winter here. even though saturday is the last official day, we will still be cold for a bit. the yarn....gosh. will anybody yell at me if i say Kureyon is not my favorite yarn? Just about everytime i went to make the 'knot' where you knit into three stitches in the front/back/front it broke...i swear the yarn was only thinly spun in those places and i had to keep spit splicing it and it would untwist and argh. plus the colors .....i don't like how the one has no orange/red. but i guess they look okay together. if it weren't for the amazing vibrancy of the colors and the softness of the FO, i would hate these:


and my new toy!

it's a Zen Micro...same touch technology as the iPod but for a fraction of the price...plus, it's a cute size and it glows blue!! heh heh

guess that's it for now. will go knit my scarf and whatnot. there is homework to be done, alas....