Play things!

The kids FINALLY got a play kitchen. I've been wanting them to have one since Benjamin was 2 and he's 4 now. :-P
So now I get to make some food and oven mitts and things like that. I'm so excited! I just started an oven mitt last night for my daughter out of some leftover pink variegated Cascade cotton. I was messing around with the size, otherwise I'd probably be done already. ;) I need some instant gratification projects.

I'm famous!

Okay, not really...

I wrote a story for a podcast Never Not Knitting Episode 20, The Vest Quest. So if anyone that has listened to the show comes stumbling over here, I figured I should at least make a post to say hello.

This blog is VERY informal, in fact most people besides those who come to it from Ravelry don't even know about it. I spend a lot of time knitting (though over the past 2 weeks or so, not so much). I just don't post about it as much as I could. This blog also lacks quite a few pictures. I know it needs more pictures. Sorry to disappoint.

Mostly it's just a place for me to ramble to myself about my knitting. ;)

I post on my other picture blog nearly every day and I also have a livejournal account, but my journal is locked and is mostly read by family and a few friends.

Curiosity

I'd like to state right now that I have no desire to make a lace shawl, maybe one in particular, but it wouldn't be out of lace weight yarn. Do you know what's hold me back though? I see tons and tons and tons of knit shawls on blogs, but NEVER see anyone wearing one! I mean what's the point if you aren't going to wear it?

Color me confused.

WIPs

I have 8 works in progress. *le sigh*

I have the stupid rug that I just want to be done with already that goes in front of my kitchen sink. I failed to read the directions when I was "finishing it". So I have the last section on the wrong side of the rug and need to do another section too. So I get to frog one sections redo it in a different place and then do one more section. I wondered why I still had yarn left over...LOL.

I have a pair of longies that will probably end up being shorts now. :-P I knit all the way up to the short rows several months ago and just didn't execute the short rows, where if I had sat down and taken the 2 minutes to do that I could have moved on and done mindless knitting on the rest of it and Abigail would have had pants to wear over her diapers. Procrastination...thou art mine enemy.

Placemats for my mother and father. My mom is coming in a week and a half and I haven't been working on them at all. :-P I don't like the way the yarn is joining together but the pattern is fun. Just not a mindless knit at all. Though it is a stashbusting project.

Shimmer shrug: Endless sleeves. I'm on the second sleeve and this is a pretty portable project, so I am getting somewhere. SLOWLY.

Tank top for Abigail: Cute and am sort of getting somewhere on it too.

Ribbon Market bag: I finally have the extra yarn to work on it with. I just need to go find it and do it. This new ribbon yarn is thinner, so I may end up doubling it, which would mean rewinding the ball, which is HARD with ribbon yarn because it's SLIPPERY!!!!

Log cabin blanket: Waiting on knitting cables to come from Knit Picks to keep going. This is just a whenever I'm bored with everything else project.

And the Hokie socks....I love them, but need to frog again because I wasn't trying them on enough and now are super wide, so I need to go back a bit. Also dropped a stitch somewhere so there is a hole. So I need to start from the beginning again.

I should find the placemats and work on them some today. That's the smart thing to do. :-P Or maybe I'll frog the socks...I could always use them as a car knit on the way to WVA, but that's not for another week and a half.

A better bucket?

Me thinks not. I did the mods that someone else had suggested to get the brim to flare out more, but it doesn't and just looks stupid on me. I'm half tempted to frog the whole thing even though that's about 4 days of my life that I won't get back. :-P But yarn is really pretty and I'm sure I could make a better hat than the better bucket.
Up next for me is a striped tank top for Abigail out of Misson Falls Cotton. It was supposed to be a dishtowel, but the pattern is tedious and I hate it. And I love the colors of the yarn. Purple and green. =) They are lighter shades.

I REALLY should finish my Absorba so that I can have a rug in my kitchen again by the sink. It's so close, yet so far. I think I have 2 sections left.

I've been working on my Shimmer shrug again though it's still slow going. The sleeves are killing me. BORING!!!!! Thankfully I'm on the second sleeve and am finally making some progress. The back should be fun since it's a lace pattern.

I also need to finish the ribbon market bag. My friend dropped off the yarn I needed to finish it, so that will be fun.

Peace Fleece

I realized this evening as I was updating my Peace Fleece stash in Ravelry, that I have about 7000 yards of it. 7000 yards!!!! And that's not even all my yarn! Oh boy.

Headbands and placemats

I did start two things today.

I finally settled on a lacy headband to get rid of some sock yarn.
http://www.knitpicks.com/Lacy+Headbands_PD50552220.html

I also started a placemat set for my parents (the pattern is actually for a blanket), but can't figure out the stupid corner and how to increase to get the corner to turn. Looks like someone just clarified though...

*puts the headband down and returns to the placemat*