WOW!!!! I cannot BELIEVE how long it's been!!!

Okay, so I haven't done much knitting for the past 2 years.

I started a pair of socks last october. i worked on them on the band bus. i quit halfway through the second sock because i got so busy.

I just picked it up yesterday.

Hopefully, I'll start knitting-and posting-regularly again soon!

Gee, I don't even know when I stopped blogging...I kind of forgot about it! I've been incredibly busy my whole freshman year, and now my sophomore year is going to be even WORSE.

Ha like anyone is reading this!

But maybe soon.....? :)

No FO's, but a few W'sIP

I got a new camera for Christmas!!! A camcorder/camera/mp3 player/television!!! Sort of.



Anyhoo, I now use said camera to show you pictures of my current projects OTN:



The cabled legwarmer:





I started it a few weeks ago, but had to put it away so I could work on Christmas presents. It actually started out as a sock, but after considering buying legwarmers with my Christmas money, I realized that people would be constantly asking me if I made them. So I decided to make some with the purple knitpicks, b/c I hate saying I didn't make something over and over again...

And, while we're still on cables (which are not visible in this photograph that was taken by shaky hands):

I started this scarf (without a pattern--Woot!Woot!) with the leftover cotton-sock yarn on Christmas Eve, futilely hoping that I could knit and knit and knit all night and then give it to my daddy for Christmas. Needless to say, I did not accomplish this goal...



Remember that Artyarns Supermerino I talked about in my first post? Probably not. Anyhoo, I forgot all about it until yesterday, when I started this hat:


(It's dyelot #130, and prettier than this photo shows...) I started this-my first-hat last night, with Ski Spree 2007-my youth ski trip-coming up next week...I thought it would be cool to have a hat that I made to protect my gorgeous locks...I love this yarn!! I think I'll buy some more, and make another hat...After all, it's, like, an 8 hour drive!

Comments:
1.Any tips on photography? I'm obviously not very good at it.
2.I lost the tag to the supermerino...I know it's superwash, but can it go in the dryer?
3.If you felt something, block it, get it dirty, and put it in the wash, will it just felt some more?
4.Can you put felted items in the dryer?

I've pretty much given up on getting any comments.

I finished my grandparents' Christmas Presents! I decided not to give the Ag Tech socks to my aunt, since I'm already giving her a Christmas tree ornament...Speaking of Ag Tech, I got a 100 on the project!!! YAY!!! My teacher said it was one of the most unique projects he had ever had...I choose to take it as a compliment:-P Anyways, back to Aunt Ann. I think she got Taylor and me candle snuffers. Long story. OKAY, moving on!

Left-to right: Mommy's fuzzyfeet, PawPaw's fuzzyfeet, Jeptha's fuzzyfeet (yes, I call my grandfather by his first name, get over it!), Grandmother's mittens, MawMaw's mittens. I might knit some mittens or wristwarmers for my friend's birthday (she was born on New Year's Eve, isn't that cool??). I was going to say something else, but I forgot what it was.

I feel kind of bad b/c I didn't knit anything for my dad, but he seems okay with it. I wanted to make some things for the kids next door, but I didn't have time:(

I've gotten lots of compliments on my booga bag...Mr. Snowman is particularly fond of it. Taylor likes it, too. She wants one for her birthday.

It's the most wonderful time of the yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry I haven't posted in a while...I've been too busy knitting!

**PLEASE NOTE** This list of events is not in chronological order. So yeah. Sorry.

My FIRST EVER MITTEN!!!-I just made it today! It's a little too small for me, though. And there are some little holes around the thumb. Whatever. I'm too disappointed with it to make the second one just yet.

I don't know why, but I just randomly purled 11 stitches amidst a bajillion rows of stockinette. It's okay, though, because you have to felt your

FUZZYFEET!! I had to start over, like, a millabajillaquadrillion times...But I finally got one and, um, 4/5 done. I was making them for my mom's birthday, but I ran out of yarn when I got to the toe of the second one. Stinky. I've still got to get some more.

My dad wasn't home enough for us to do the knitting cabinet-organizer-lap desk-thingamajigger, so, instead, I made one wool sock and one cotton sock and compared them. YAY! The blue one is cotton, the other is wool. I only bought enough yarn for two socks, but for some reason, I only needed 1/2 of what I bought for the wool one! So I made its mate! The stripes don't line up, but whatever. I wish I had a picture of them together-they haven't met yet-but my Ag Tech teacher still has to grade the first one. They're a little too small for me-I was in a hurry to finish in time-so I'm giving them to my small-footed aunt for Christmas.

My first ever knit picks order came last week!I haven't done anything with it yet, but yesterday I started on a pair of cabled socks with the "African violet" (the purple stuff). I must say, it is a bit of a challenge-for me-to use the fingering-weight yarn, seeing as tight stitches+thin yarn+clumsy fingers=snarls of frustration. Still, it's knitting up pretty well and I am excited about it. I have to put it on hold for a little while, though, because we went to Hobby Lobby and Micheal's today and got yarn and needles (I don't feel like taking pics, but i got Peachs 'n' cream and Lion Wool-yeah, I know) for mittens and Fuzzyfeet for the grandmas and grandpas. I got a set of bamboo 10 1/2 dpns, and I am SO THRILLED b/c the circ was driving me INSANE!!! It got all bent up when I-and Cruzz-was knitting my

BOOGA BAG! I knit it at youth on Wednesday, the band concert on Thursday, and yesterday, when I stayed home from school b/c my mom thought I would get the flu like she and Taylor did...Anyhoo, I cast on 32 instead of 34 to begin with, and then I ran out of green yarn so I had to cast off 2 rounds early, and my i-cord is only 5 feet-the recommended length-when I stretch it out a little. And I had to cast off part of it-but not all!-with turquoise!! So wacky! I'm sure it'll turn out okay, though. Isabella and I taught Cruzz and Elisa how to knit on my booga bag while we were at the band concert (I also taught Emily how to knit, purl, and slip a stitch knitwise while I was working on my first fuzzyfeet (fuzzyfoot?), and then the wool sock). They were fighting over who got to knit it...So funny! Then, while our band was playing, Cruzz held it up to show me he was working on it. There was no way for me to stop him from the stage, so I just gave him a thumbs-up. But afterwards I found that he kept forgetting to slip off the stitches, so there are a bunch of really big stitches. I sewed the worst ones up with a tapestry needle, and I'm hoping the felting process will hide the rest.

Sorry that my phone-taken pics aren't very clear. But some were taken with the camera my mom got for her birthday-I'm sure you can pick those ones out:).

Well, I'm gonna go chill with my fuzzyfeet!

PLEASE, PRETTY PLEASE, I BEG OF YOU!!!!!! COMMENT!!!!!!:
1. How do you take care of bamboo needles? Will the ends get dull if I'm not careful?
2. I discovered today that I knit best when I am crying (don't ask). What mood do you knit best in?
3. Your choice of needles-DPN's or circs?
4. How do you keep little holes from developing around the thumbs on mittens?

Congratulate Me:I finally finished the second sock!

Pics:

Right after I finished it

Solemates meet at last! (Pun courtesy of Taylor)
I've still got to weave in the ends...
Oh, yeah, and here's the first one!
Every sock has its imperfections...


G'wolly wa! Every time I add in new yarn, I get this big hole in the sock! And when I try to pull the yarn tighter, it just makes it worse!

Oh, well...The socks are wearable...I am VERY pleased with my first full PAIR of socks!

Quadruple Woot! Woot!

Can I get a Woot! Woot!?

I can't believe I knit a sock in just TWO DAYS!!! And it's actually wearable!!!

I knit the "Shadowbox" sock from Knit Socks! by-I think-Betsy (Beth? Betty? Gwen?) McCarthy...

I'm amazed it turned out so well; the needles were a size too small and I dropped and picked up, like, a gazillion stitches...

Nothing an experienced sock knitter would have done-probably laughable, but definitely not guffawable, but I am very pleased, and will give it to Taylor for Christmas...

I wish I could post pictures, but my camera *phone* died-Darn Cingular!!! I lost all my pics of yarn and the blackhead sock in-progress, too!

Still, this has been a very productive knitting weekend!

P.S.--Woot! Woot!

Yarn!

I just got back from the after-Thanksgiving sale at my LYS...I bought 3 skeins of Zara merino extrafine, 1 skein of Berroco Bling Bling (It's 2% aluminum!!), and 1 skein of Dolce Amore to make my little cousin some baby socks for Christmas...






Before that, I had gone to Michael's and bought4 skeins of Sugar 'n' Cream, but my mom is probably going to return it, b/c I had wanted to make some socks with it, but discovered that it's 100% cotton, which means no memory or elasticity...





Danielle went with us to the LYS...She got some Gaway and DPN's...I showed her how to set them up, but didn't have time to show her how to knit in the round, so I gave her the knitting help address. I also showed her Knitty.





Here are her hands while she spread the stitches onto the needles:





I accidentally fiddled around with it so it isn't as clear as it should have been:(...Also, I made her hands look wider than they really are...




Comments!:


Something I was debating with my mom, Danielle, and Danielle's mom-do you pronounce "skein" as "scain (ai as in raid)," "skeen (ee as in green)," or "skine (i as in twine)?" Is it a regional thing? Like Yankees versus Southerners?