Men

Need I say more?

I wonder why my husband is able to change my mood in a second?   I was so excited about our upcoming Disney trip and thought I had done a nice thing by going shopping for new shorts for him.  God forbid he shop for himself!   I asked him to try the shorts on since I HAD ALREADY PACKED FOR HIM!  And he gave me the eye rolling and the huffing and puffing.

I just don't get it.  The clothes are not only purchased, but washed and laid out.  All you have to do is step into a pair of shorts to see if they fit and you are going to get shitty?   WTF?

Totally took the wind out of my sails and the shine off my upcoming trip.  Why do I let him do that to me?

Ack! Lace!

Had my last lace class today.  I think I may finally have the hang of this!   I just don't understand why it is so hard!  I mean, I can k2tog, I can K, I can P, , I can YO and I can slip a stitch...so WHY OH WHY do I keep messing it up?????

The girls at the knit shop were going through a basket of glass buttons today and I was able to do several rows without messing up.  They were over and across the table I was sitting at.  YEAH!  I can't tell you the amount of concentration that took.  Whew!

Here is a photo of the project...

Thank goodness for the life lines!

No good deed.....

I found out that someone I know from High School's son was in an accident on 12/30.  To make a long story short, some mutual friends started a fundraiser to help with medical expenses.  I haven't seen this guy since high school and we weren't particularly close then.  Sort of mutual friends etc and are "friends" on facebook.  natch!

Well, someone volunteered to head up the fundraiser, his wife works at the Wax Museum downtown New Orleans and got the venue donated and another friends was helping them.  They just needed someone to do the silent auction.  <raises hand stupidly>

So...here I am volunteering to head up a silent auction.  There are two things that I didn't realize going in to this:

1. that we would get so many things donated (well over 250 individual items)
2. that people would be so mad at me at the end of the event!

We put things into packages since we just didn't have the space for almost 300 individual items.  I believe that so many people came out to help this family because we all were thankful it wasn't us that had to go through what they were going through.  Given that we didn't have to go through that, the next thing was to help someone who was going through it.  And a whole community did!

The event was last Sat night and I'm glad it is over and I'm also glad I was able to help do some good.  The silent auction raised in the neighborhood of 11K and the fundraiser raised in the neighborhood of 28K (tickets were sold as well as t-shirts and a raffle)

Put a fork in me...I'm done!

Needles make all the difference?

I'm working on a different looking scarf in my Mardi Gras Malabrigo colors (207 or SM Gold) and while I like the pattern I have been dreading working on it. I think the reason is that I hate the needles I'm using! They are bamboo needles which I normally love, but it seems the slick finish has come off and so they just aren't sliding nicely. There is nothing like that feeling of sslllliiidddiiinnnggggg your yarn to the next needle.

I'm heading to my LYS this evening for an event and I think I'll either pickup some Lantern Moon's or some Laurel Hill needles.

Here is a photo of the project I'm talking about. Still a scarf, but a tad different looking than the regular rectangles I've been doing.

Not So Scary Scarf - Completed

I messed up the Not So Scary Scarf (really called My So Called Scarf) AGAIN yesterday as I was in a hurry to have it done for Valentines day. Went into my LYS to beg for help (Thanks Heidi!). Came home and worked on it most of the rest of the day and FINALLY finished that sucker. My hands were killing me but it is done and I'll be able to wear it on Monday which is Valentine's Day! Woo Hoo!

Update: 2/14/2011: Did I mention that the yarn I used for this scarf is 85% WOOL???? It was 72 freaking degrees today and although I was fairly warm...I wore it anyway! Too much work went into this thing to have a little heat wave deter me.

UGH!

I have messed up three projects in the last 12 hours! WTHeck is wrong with me?

I messed up the lace project. I knitted the wrong row on the wrong side.

Then I frogged the Mardi Gras Malabrigo since I still thought it made me look like a jester.

Figured I'd go back to an old faithful my Not So Scary Scarf and I just messed that one up too! I was running out of yarn and was not quite sure how to change the yarn on this scarf. I can't double the yarn like I do normally because the scarf is full of YO's and P2tog. Thought I could try it but ran out of yarn almost through the row and then messed up the tinking. UGH!

I really wish I'd have learned to tink in one of my classes. I can tink a knit stitch, I can tink a SSK and PSSO but not sure about tinking a purl stitch and the rest. I'm very frustrated this morning.

Just a general update

I have several projects that I'm working on and I'm sort of stuck since I can't decide what I want to actually work on. Does that happen to anyone else?

I'm close to being finished on my Half the Calories scarf. I decided to just finish it off and hopefully I'll be able to twist the scarf so it looks less clownish. I have more of that color so I'll do something else with the rest.

I've decided to return one of the three skeins that I bought to do the Goldfish Tails lace scarf. I'm just not loving the pattern all that much and it seems silly to finish out 3 skeins when I have no idea what to do with it. Plus, I only did three repeats of the pattern so I think I'll be ok using only two skeins. Feel like I need to work on this one the most since I'm doing it in a class for the next three weeks. I seem to be ok with the pattern so I'm not sure if we'll move on to something else or if it'll just be a knit along.

I really really really want to start my nemesis La Novia again. I seem to be doing ok with the Goldfish Lace so maybe I can finally sit down and tackle this one.

Also have a WIP that would be great for Valentines Day but I need to start working on it again.

It has also come to my attention that the leg warmers for the 5 year old are not perfect. They seem to not stay up on her thighs like she wanted them to. Not sure if that is a problem with the yarn or because I didn't change the needle size down to do the ribbing or if I just need to put some elastic in there. ???

Video's are something I'd like to work on as well. Mainly for myself to refer back to. If I put the video's here of different stitches then it'll be a good place for me to remember where they are! Thinking about that....

Proud Mardi Gras!

Drop stitch scarf using Trendsetter Segue on size 19 needles. Lantern Moon are my new favorite needles. :) Trendsetter Segue Yarn 118 Moss & Lilacs

Very happy with how this turned out.