WIP WIP wooray

So you may have noticed the large amount of things that are in progress from my wee bars over there... i think i have knitting ADD that and too many birthdays in too short a time so i will have a bit of an expose on the WIPS.

First off the group shot, bit alarming when you see em all like this
Individuallly in order of starting them:

The sweater of doom aka Danny's Sweater for his birthday 8th or April still a front and a sleeve to go is it gonna happen?Its getting there slowly...
Next Dream swatch scarf, has been put on the back burner a bit as its for me thus no rush what so everBamboo is pretty

I think the next in line would be the pirate bag, aka double knitting of doom its going slowly and also been put of in favour of more urgent mattersOne side is red and one side is black see... Also notice little goober holding the end of the circ together thats my yarn guide best £1.30 (plus postage) i ever spent makes things so much easier!

Next Shawl of eternal and everlasting doom. can you tell i am not loving this, its getting better now but at first it seemed to be getting nowhere oh and did i mention its all garter stitch all 160 rows of it.But well its for my friends birthday so i will perserver hopefully i can get it finished and posted by the 16th of March...

These next 2 are for the sake of completeness tho i dunno if they really count

Poly bag knitting started at the museum for demo purposes it
will ultimately be a bag if i ever get round to doing anything more with it

This is a test swatch for something i am kinda trying to design its more to see if all these ideas i have in my head are physically translatable to knitting
Yup 3 colour work and cables, am i mad? prolly...

Lastly the most recent start and that which is likely to be needed the quickest! Its the beginnings of the Pea Pod set (from IK knits, will link pattern when its done) and is for one of my dads coworkers who's wife is due to sprong next week thus i need to be getting a wriggle on!
Its coming on quite quick and look:Lace!! albeit kinda bumpy unblocked stuff but still lace!!!

So yes WIPs ago go...

Shopping!!

I've been doing me some shopping... Yesterday on the way home mother and i went to costco, i got this top:

We will be ignoring the double chin action in these pics ok! Dont i look all 60s! We also got this, which meant i spend a portion of yesterday lying in the back of my mums car in costco carpark to see if it would fit (it did eventually with much angling and swearing)
Twas a little dark out side.
Today we went up the street i got a hairband (as seen above and below). Then we went to New Lanark, mainly for yarn (coming up) but there was a sale in the Woolen Mill place, mother said it would be crap i said a sale is a sale, she got 2 jumpers (gonna be crap eh?) and i got this:

Feel like i should be going to play golf, but i like it! I also raided their cheap jewellry section again:

Pearl necklace thing, just like the queen, pretty earrings and a bracelet and to go with the necklace

Scary close up of my ear! Then the main purpose of the trip aran yarn for experimental purposes

twas a bit soggy out so had to leave it in its wee pokes, was also gettn dark but you get the idea!
Lastly the results of shopping i did thru the week, i bought a plain yellow tshirt cos it was cheap and then put my own design on it whadda ya think:

If you cant see it says all the cool kids knit, which is true!

My daddy was in Paris a coupla weeks ago and brought me this back:

A Scarf with a fluffy hood! am i not glam and Parisienne?

Think thats me, lotsa piccys!

A week in minutes!

Oki so yes again its been a while but well a lots been going on.
I fixed my puta woo yay, i got mosta my stuff back bigger woo yay! It wasnt cheap but well hey ho!
Then the majority of my Wednesday was taken up by essay writing (yes Valentines day, but well its pointless and no boy!)
Thursday is pub quiz day, we won the first round and got this:
We shall call him Bob and he will be our mascot! Because of this Friday evening i did this:NTP=National Tea Party our team name! Spiffy!
Saturday parental units came we went to art gallery again, not a lot else went on tht i can remember.
Sunday I KIPed for 7 hours! The Eduinburgh Stitch n Bitch group City Knitty that i go to got invited to do a sorta demo at the National Museum, knitting with unusual materials so we went along armed with poly bags and wire and chatted to people and what not, twas rather fun
here is Liz and Hugh knitting away!
Monday i had pancakes, Tuesday i went to the theatre
Today i went to the cinema then shopping (via the art gallery for the 3rd time) I got these:For a fiver!!!
funky no?
now i must knit the evil things

Muppetry and Mourning

I forgot to mention yesterday that my computer got very very ill this week, in fact it may well be terminal but i havent brought myself to try and fix it yet... So thats a bummer all round, 5 years worth of stuff swallowed by the big you didnt back up you eejit blackhole, altho i do still have some of it on this puta so its not all lost but still you know!

Also a slight correction to thelist of things from glittr, the chocolate as i discovered upon going to eat it is not in fact a chocolate its a little pot of cunningly disguised lip balm!

Just goes to show you cant judge a book by its cover...

Packages Galore!

Now i have my camera back i can post properly. First the catch up, I knitted my handspun wheeee

Sorry about the blurry photo even with the macro on it still didnt like it (the advantage of the blur is you cant see my goosepimples i was cold when i took this!) I didnt have much but it was enough for this wee cuff, i like it!

Now Parcels! first as promised the package from the lovely String :

In the pic we can see 4 balls of knitpicks wool of the andes in blueberry and i think wine (cant be arsed getting up to check) 3 balls of knitpicks sparkles in sunset (the 4th is currently otn!) its very bright!, some nice cards, postits and a magnetic shopping list, v-handy!! There is also a hersheys n more mallow bar and a lifesaver. Not in the picture because it already went in my tummy, 2 lollies, more lifesavers another herseys bar (shortly after the pic was taken the second followed the first!) and some easy mac yum! Thanks String!

Now todays, It really is what they say good things come in small packages! i recieved this little box from glittrgirl :

it contained all this!

We have a v-nice purple beret that i have been sporting all day (was a good look for going to an art gallery i thot), some very very nice greeny blue yarn, a book "At knits end" by the yarn harlot, which i have looked at on more than one occasion and thot i wantee and its v-good! a brooch and necklace, some soap wittily called soapal fruit for those of you who remember starburst before they were starburst! 2 candles, a wee choccie and a little teapot shapped teabag dish

One is terribly chuffed, big thanks to glittr on that one!

I span!!

Yes I'm not dead, have been doing uni work and having a vague social life terribly inconvieniant i know! i also have not got my camera at the moment so despite having lots of things i could take photoes of to blog i cant! this i only happen to have a photo of because i took it at home! Anyway this is my first attempt at properly spinning and plying, isnt it pretty (i also love this photo i think its very arty!) its merino ooh, I've already knitted it up and its fine, i would show you were it not for the lack of camera! I also got a very nice package from the ole USofA more on that when i get my camera back!!

SUCH an exciting day!!

First off this is a bit picture heavy but well a lot has gone on!

today has been very exciting, took the grandparents out to the trossachs with parents for a jolly.

Started off at loch lomond where as well as getting bracelets that were reduced from £15 to 10p, i got this:

About 230m of raffia, for? 46p, 2p a hank!! i figure it will become a bag yay cheapness!!

Next on our agenda was the Scottish wool centre, exciting enough but on the way in i noticed a sign saying that on saturdays they gave free spinning lessons, well what could i say? Spin i did! the results? variable!

I did this:

Mum did this:still need washing, take pictures after that :). Needless to say were hooked! So we bought this

and have been looking on ebay for carders are more fleece yay!

then we continued on round the scenery, i took some piccies outta the car window, bit blurry but hey

Now a coupla pics from yesterday

waiting for the bus i noticed the sky was v-pretty, wouldnt it just make a lovely colour of yarn

Then i got home and granted a day late had my haggis! (having it now too, can you od on haggis?) anyway as it should be:

Slippers! yes a 2nd FO in 3 mins

Pattern
Yarn is rowan calmer in blue of some description and i used fiber trends slipper soles on them

not strictly true i finished these last night well i did one before xmas then got severe "2nd sock syndrome" and couldnt bring myself to start the other but i did it!

Just looking at these the colours look totally different there they same honest!

In other news i have managed to lose the hat i knitted on monday is that some sorta record?? need to go and ask at uni see if it tis there, most upset!

Also once again hello to my dad's higher class, do feel free to leave comments y'all :)

Babies! an FO

I think this was actually my first FO 0f 2007 if memory serves but i wanted to wait til it arrived at its destination before posting it. It went to CBear for her new wee babba, Elizabeth Noelle (Zellie) born 18th January. I've put picts of the inside too to show how many press studs are on it!Pattern is one that i got from my gran's many many baby patterns and its some White baby 4ply that came from my grans too and snuggly 4ply in pink

Now the best bit: modelled by Zellie, isnt she just a cutie!!

Congrats Cbear and Mr CBear!

A non knitted FO and a pressie

So i am endevouring to "down size" clear out some of my clutter and generally keep things tidier, and i was thinking what can i do with all my hats n gloves and such like i thot i could go to Ikea and get some sorta hangy pockety thing then i thot hell i can make one! and thus i did, its rough as arse but it does the job:

and full of crapola:

I also got a package this morning from darling Yorkie, filled with exciting American goodies. I was quite excited about the mac n cheese given my love of cheesy pasta, sadly it was a bit yukky thus i shall keep the other box for posterity!

Bunnet!

In a severe case of startitis (and the threat of impending bad weather) i decided to forgo the current wips and make start on my hat then today due to being ill i finished it! i love hats so quick! Any way here it is

Yarn is Wendy Fusion in Fenugreek that i got for my b-day

Pattern i modded to add an extra decrease row to debumfle and i made it a bit longer than prescriebed.

Recipe and a Random piccy

So i have a tendancy to make what i call "mystery dinners", see whats in the cupboard and combine sometime they work sometimes they dont, i have decided that when they do i'll blog the recipe for safe keeping. Todays was originally going to be veg lasange but due to a series of mishaps didnt quite end up that way so here we go.

The vegeatble lasange that wasnt

Ingredients:

1 thing of Broccoli (what is the units of broccoli?)

1 red pepper

1 yellow pepper

1 green pepper

1 onion

1 can chopped tomatoes

1 can tomato soup

oregano

basil

dried pasta

cheese

Making:

Preheat oven to 180 deg C. Chop the onion and fry til soft in a little vegeatable oil, add the can of tomatoes. chop the broccoli and the peppers and stir into tomatoey onion mix, add the tomato soup and a good sprinkle of basil and oregano stir well and simmer or a low-medium heat for about 10-15 mins. Then get a ovenable dish and put in a layer of the pasta, not too thick pour over the veggie sauce making sure that all the pasta is covered, grate cheese over the top and bake for 20-30 mins.

now i cant post without a picture so specially for my dads higher class:

A near case of knitting theft!

So my dear and lovely (or so i thot) friend Danny came to see me today, i showed him my knitting.

He put it on:Then he tried to leg it with it! his own jumper wouldnt fit over it so he took it off and stuff it up his jumper instead!

Theivery!!! I nearly had to search him on th way out!!

FO RAK and more dad realted goodies

OOh look at the abreviations! start with the FO

Yes the pic isnt brill but have you ever tried takin a pic of both arms yourself? Anyway i saw the pattern for these and had to have them, they were also perfect for my first foray into all things noro, so so pretty which is why they are different colours!

The yarn is Noro Kureyon in 159

Pattern here

Now the RAK, lovely lovely Sue send me pretty things lookee

Fank oo Sue Kisses!

Next my dad once again proves to be the saviour of knitting, i need 15mm needles for knitting my colinette, so off to b+q for some dowel then off father went and crafted these babies

Best part? they cost 39p!!