Monday, March 27, 2006

I have no yarn over and I must scream...

Been busy lately. On top of the never ending blanket I have exactly two rows of what will eventually be socks that I started and then put down and the beginnings of a lace shawl that I'm making for a friend's birthday...if I can actually stop ripping the thing out every ten or fifteen rows. We hateses lace work, we do!

Actually it's kind of fun in a masochist sort of way, I suppose. And it shur is pretty when it turns out right although I thinking the particular pattern needs to be blocked to hell and back to give it the same sort of shape as the picture of said pattern as it's knitting pretty much up into a plain triangle-ish shape rather than one with scalloped edges (and after restarting the thing at least five times I can guarantee that the beginning isn't wrong!) I really do need to crack down on the shawl though as I have a deadline, obviously, and a new video game or two arriving this week to distract me from said shawl.

So currently the score is: Shawl for when I'm paying attention, blanket for tv knitting, sock for whenever I get around to actually working on something that I'm only making to make to learn how to do it.

The roommate that I've corrupted with knitting is currently working on a 2x2 ribbed scarf in horrific green acrylic yarn that I gave him from the depths of my stash because I knew I'd never use it. He's also now got a fair amount of black and gray wool ease yarn and some fuzzy muppet yarn that he bought willingly...be afraid, be very afraid...

Monday, March 13, 2006

I haven't disappeared completely

I feel kind of like tapping the mic here and asking if anyone's home but it's not really fair since I haven't been either *laugh* It was a rather busy week last week including American Idol (of which I am this show's bitch, sad to say) and then sinus death plague near the end of the week. Happily I'm...well, not really that recovered but I have new yarn and fabulous pizza so all is at least sort of well with the world.

During the busy-ness I did manage to get another two and a half color changes on the blanket done so it's coming along fairly nicely. Still not entirely happy with the colors but after about almost three feet of blanket knitting you just don't want to rip it out and start again. You just give it to someone who has to smile nicely like they like it if you hate it at the end, right? *grin*

I've started teach my sort of but not really teenage roommate to knit and he has already cursed me once saying he kind of liked it. Only got as far as casting on and knit stitch but I expect to start him on the obligatory scarf this week unless he decides he's being far too unmanly. And more importantly I got rid of some awful acrylic yarn that I bought when I started out that I hate now!

Not much else to note now. I went to a craft fair yesterday and pondered the feasibility of learning to weave....most of the knitted stuff there was obviously machine knit or very dull patterns. However I did pick up a lovely silvery blueish-green silk/mohair blend that I now have to figure out something to do with. It's a little light weight for a guy's scarf in my opinion.