Hey look, its me again!

And once again i completely brainfart on the blogging, I can make excuses: wedding planning, work etc but really its just being lazy.

I have been knitting tho and in an attempt to not get overly picture heavy and get more than a post every 3 months i shall blog things individually.

without further ado: Mittens!

You may remember somewhere in the mists of time i knitted the full length bellas mittens for Katy, well they were so well recieved that her mum wanted a pair in black in a more regular mitten length and thus:




Its Bella's mittens (again) in lambs pride bulky in onyx (i think, black anyway)
Ravelry deets herererere.

I wants your money!

Have decided to the the Cancer Research Race for life thing, thus I want your monies!

Sponser me here

(Also putting it in the sidebar)

RAAAWRR*

We decided at work we needed a lab mascot, and naturally it should be a dinosaur called Reg. We decided that instead of trying to buy one I would knit one, thus pattern search ensued, there are little to no T-Rex patterns it turns out.

In the end my mum found an Alan Dart pattern (this one) which i modified to make into a dino!

Hence I give you Reg:
knitted in various colours of acrylic.



*dinosaur for I love you...

Winter Woolies!

Whats this? Knitting something that isnt a cosy for some form of electrical device? Shocker!

However I havent quite managed to escape the knitting for others tho.

After we went to see the film that shall not be spoke of my dear friend Katy decided that she musthave the mittens in it thusi was set to task, a quick ravelry search yielded multiple patterns but i went for the freest and the chunkiest as i felt them truest to the original, yarn was ordered (i had actually hoped it would be darker, boo to monitor colour shindiggery). Yarn arrived and 2 days later Katy had mittens:
I do not seem to have escaped the knitting for others loop as now her mum wants a pair, thus i have to find a nice black chunky weight yarn...
Details: Yarn is patons Inca and the Pattern is Bella's Mittens from here. Rav it up over here.
It was a good pattern to knit and cos of the chunkyness quick quick.

I have managed to fit in some knitting for me! Its cold and the only hats i have are either a touch big or a touch smAll and tend to compress my hairto the point that i cant see thus a new one was in order...

Front:


(excuse the emo hair it needs cutting)


Back:Its Meret by Wooly Wormhead, the first time I've tried one of her patterns and I must say it was a very pleasent experience, it was a super quick knit, only a couple of evenings simple but not boring and the end result is ace, it also gave me a good reason to trymy new blocking boards.
The yarn is Arawhatsit nature wool solids and apparently neverending, i started with 2 balls, knit a pair of quite large slippers, then this hat and still have over half a ball left! What next?
Rav details.

In which i once again return from falling off the planet...

So December kinda disappeared huh. I have excuses I started my new job (its good so far), went to my friends wedding (pictures here) Anthony was over, and I got a horrible horrible cold flu thing that knocked me for six, my lungs are still trying to escape.

I have not however been entirely idle in this time.

I finished my scarf:

Its a bit too long for proper pictures! Its Backyard Leaves from the scarf style book, in Knitpicks Andean Silk in i believe appropriately leaf, rav detailios.

I also got the christmas stockings done in time (altho mine was finished late xmas eve due to afore mentioned illness)


Anthony's was lined cos well the colourwork was a bit scrappy on the inside. Details

Illness also meant that the one piece of xmas knitting i was doing wasnt finished in time but daddy didnt mind:


Alpine sweater from the lionbrand site knit in Knitpicks Swish (Which is very nice) in delft heather and indigo heather (which may have been a little purple, damn you colour representation on monitors...)


I then seem to have got myself into some what of a loop. It started with this:
A little iphone case for my friend, because since living in edinburgh and being a posh lawyer she has become a ya (tho we still love her) thus i decided her phone needed a ya sweater too. knit as per the pattern.

My dad saw it and said oh i know someone that keeps theirs in a sock could you knit him one. So I did:Again close to the pattern except knit in the round and the bottom grafted
My other friend saw it and said hey can you knit me one for my camera

So I did, this time again in the round but using the chart from the Anemoi mittens. Then my dad decided he wanted a case for his SatNav/GPS (depending on your nationality)
Thus i did, I had asked what he wanted on it he said (i think) jokingly the World, well I aint one to shirk from a challenge so a chart of the World was drawn up, I also made it a wee bitty wider and longer to accomodate the chart/beastie.


I had decided that my 5 year old ipod was getting a bit past it (30 minute battery life anyone) and that a larger capacity would be fun, so a new ipod was got (and new headphones as you can see) thus it needed a case to keep it shinyKnit in the round on less stiches for more snugglyness, at this point i wanted it done quick so dispensed with the colourwork, I also changed the rib to 1x1 to make the top tighter so there was no need for a button etc.

I then showed this to my friend at work who then asked if i could do one for her DS

I did, this time knit in chunky not DK, as i didnt think i had any red DK, as it happens i do but this made it quicker. knitted to fit the DS.

They are all based in varying degrees of looseness on the Argyle Iphone Sweater and mostly (appart from the first one) knit in acrylic. Ravel it up here and here and here and here and here and here.

I am not showing them to anyone ever again....

I do still have the stoopid sock in progress which make good train knitting and my silk cardi has a body:

The sleeves are mostly done but its all being ignored due to the 5 cosies in the past 10 days and now I am knitting my friend mittens based on the ones in Twilight (which you really dont want to get me started on)

WIPdate: week 4

Or is it 5? I cant remember. So here we are, end of November, managed to post everyday woo me, now I can go back to only posting when i have actyual content.

I didnt get my sweater finished but considering that since the last week of October I have knit 2 sweaters, a pair of mittens, most of a scarf, some fingerless gloves, a xmas stocking, slippers a washcloth and another scarf I reakon thats pretty good going.

As for the Wips, the only postable change has been in scarf:

It has grown a bit from last week, got 4 and a half repeats left so really only an evening or so's worth of knitting, when i can actually be bothere (not tonight too tired).
As for the socks I think they have had half a row knitted on them since last week, oh well.

I do think its time for more casting on soon.

Ho hum

Went to the crafts for christmas or whatever its called show today, not terribly exciting, didnt seem to be a whole lot there, 2 booths with acrylic and no fabric (which was what i was wanting) to be seen not even that much in the way of cardmaking really but never mind. I did get a couple balls of goldfingering to play with so thats ok.

Then we went to Costco where i failed to get boots but did get PJs which are always good. Thats it for now

I wonder if there is a support group

This week I bought these:

Pink and Black, we enjoy pink and black.


Possibly the greatest shoes in the World (which i make claim of a lot, I know this, but there are a lot of awesome shoes, most of then Converse)

Now this may seem ok, but given that these are pairs 6 and 7, I may possibly have a slight addiction (which clearly blogger is embarrassed by as it wouldnt let me upload the pictures of the other 5 pairs).

So Converse Addicts Anonymous anyone?

Because I dont have enough to do...

I have started another semi sekrit xmas project. I am knitting stockings for Anthony and I , they are semi secret because while he knows I am knitting them, what they will look like is a surprise.

Given that its only 4 weeks til xmas you may think this foolhardy however:

Big yarn, big needles! No Bother...

Nothing much to say

The problem with this blog everyday thing is it gets to 11 at night I still havent blogged and by now i cant be bothered with the whole getting up and taking pictures thing, not that i have anything terribly exciting to take pictures of but I'm sure i could find something, so I end up with nothing interesting to blog about, I could go steal a meme from somewhere but really at the end of the day who is interested in that? So I shall say nothing and apparently I shall be quite wordy with my saying nothing.

Now I shall go back to grumbling.

To keep my tootsies toastie

I have cold feet, always. So I knit me some slippers. Good old instant gratification knitting, they took me a night.

I think they will benefit from a wee block i think as the ribbing kinda flares out the way


They are ballet style slippers knit in Aruwhatsit natural wool something something (can you tell i pay attention, ravelry knows more about it.

3 In a week!

Anyone who has been paying attention will have noticed an absent project from yesterdays WIP line up, that gentle reader is because they are no longer a WIP


Convertible mittens:Finished sometime in the wee hours of Sunday morning during an all night transatlantic intercontinental gaming session, that was all a dream!
Pattern is Convertible Mittens, yarn is Per Trving something something that i inherited from somewhere (Yorkie?), knit 2 at once on a 32" circ. Rav stuff.

As they go they are alright, bit wide in the hand and i got bored of the flap so its a little short but bearable, I suspect there are also a couple errors in the pattern that i didnt notice til i had knit all the hands which means that the beads are in differnt places on the 2 mittens but they will do the job and the ladybug buttons are cute.

I also managed to kill my windows install today (I blame facebook) so I am on borrowed computers til an XP disc can be located.

Blink and your miss it

The progess that is!

The WIPs as they stand:teeny tiny scarf half



2 half feet.

I am so tempted to start more casting on but if i do that i doubt these will ever get finished and I need to get on with the Sekrit Sweater which i doubt will be done by then end of the month as I am only halfway thru the front oh well.

I like food

So I stole this from Adam, cos it looks like fun.

Here’s what I want you to do:

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Italicize all of the items you want to try.


1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu or shaojiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

38/100, somewhat middling...

Filler Post Alert

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And Another one!

2 sweaters 1 week! Woo me!


This one turned out way better than i had expected I am really pleased with it, its not too gaudy at all.
Close up to show off the sparklyness
Off the shoulders
More boat necky

Ignore the gawky photos its hard taking photos of yourself

So Stats: yarn: Noro Aurora that i inherited from Miss Yorkingwhop pattern is $5 in Paris, Ravelry detailios are here.

A small rectification

Now I have one more pair of shoes yay!

Its about that time again

Time for my annual shoe review, this year I have taken individual phots and made a flickr set a preview of which is here

www.flickr.com

I have much fewer shoes than i thot i feel thuis should be rectified, course there are a few pairs omitted as they are in another country but still...

You knew it was coming

I finally managed to buuild up the effort to finish the sleeve:

Yes i know the white vest underneath and the flash makes it look like i have been paped! I'm not sure of it, its a little big and shapeless, the armholes comedown to practically my waist but well its'll do for generally wearing. The pattern is Purple Sweater and the yarn is Knitpicks Cotlin in Desert Turquoise.

In other news I finished the back of my NaKniSweMo sweater and decided to knit on my mittens for a bit, when i pulled them out there bag i found this:Well i found the needle, the disengaged tip i found on the floor 5 minutes later. I think with the addition of some superglue its salvageable but until then I cant cast on the rest of the sweater (i need those needles for the hem/cuffs)

Also note the cutting it very fine to not posting today, totally forgot. I also wasnt sure i was gonna have an internet to post with due to ISP switching but as you can tell I'm still here!

Its Sunday...

...That means WIP-date! I have decided for purposes of non-repition etc to only show the projects that have actually changed since last week.Blue sweater which has had the most attention (as you may be able to tell) it really should be this weeks FO but the sleeves are boring and long!

Mermaidish socks have had a few rows knitted. thankfully they are no longer orange.
$5 in Vegas, still stripey and still liking it yay

So thats it,I have also nearly finished the back of NaKniSweMo which prolly isnt good enough progress but no matter...