Bad dog

I guess thats what happens when you leave your yarn in a remotely accessible place.

Just an update.

I am so sorry I haven't posted in months. Just been too lazy. Oh, well I'm posting now. Any ways I am moving soon which kinda sucks because I hate going through all my stuff and shoving it in boxes, But it kind rocks because I will be biking distance from the beautiful town of Almonte and the beautiful yarn store in almonte called textile traditions. I will also be going to high school next year, which means I won't have as much knitting time.

In other knitting news I finished my first tank top.

I know it looks like this, but it's not. It's just a basic top-down seamless sweater recipe from some where that I just left out the sleeves.

Extreme knitting

About a year ago I was in a very artistic mood and I came up with the idea of using arms as knitting needles. Surprisingly, it actually works. I was playing around with it again today, and in about 2 hours I knit this:

I'm not exactly sure what it is, but it kinda looks like a badminton net or a fishing net. What ever it is though, it sure is cool......

GrumbleKnits has a new pattern!

Lorrie is a cute little scarf perfect for those pretty skeins of sock yarn that are to beautiful to hide in your shoes. It is a very quick and easy knit and would make a good last minute gift. See it on ravelry here or the PDF here.

things that make me happy

Do you know what makes me happy? Finishing a sweater in under 24 hours.

Ok, it has short sleeves but it's still a sweater. And a nice one at that. Now for another thing that makes me happy: big boxes from knit picks.

I got 10 skeins of Wool of the Andes bulky, 7 balls of Palette and A zephyr interchangeable needle set. Very exciting.

Don't worry, I'm not dead

Sorry I haven't been posting for a while but there hasn't really been anything post-worthy happening lately. Actually that's not true, I've just been too lazy to post. I did finish a rather large project, though .

It's a half-circle shawl by Jennifer Jones. For something called a half circle shawl it's not very half circle-y. It's like a pentagon with a bite taken out of it. I'm not sure if I missed a step or something to get that shape but I am baffled, but aside from that I'm quite happy with it. It's huge which is nice. I'm always mad at shawls for being so small, I like things that keep more that the back of your neck warm. Like for example, this thing. But I won't go doing a big rant about the size of shawls, I'll just continue talking about my shawl. So, anyways I used Needful Yarns Woodstock and it only took 400 grams. That's a lot of shawl for 400 grams.

In other knitting news I have been trying to find a pattern for one skein of hand-dyed Misti Alpaca lace.

Actually, I found a pattern. It's very pretty, looks like it would sufficiently hold my attention and is for hand-dyed yarn and I have enough. What's stopping me? The fact that my perfect pattern is in Finnish. They do provide a sheet with translations of the abbreviations and it is all charted. I prefer to knit from English patterns, so I think I'm going to do this one instead.

I am happy

I am happy right now for 2 reasons. The first reason is look at what I have re-blocking. It's the swallowtail shawl. I love this pattern, although the nupps where a little bit tough.

I say re-blocking because I actually finished it yesterday morning and it was blocking all of yesterday but when I un-pinned it parts of it looked un-blocked. So I re-blocked it last night and it's been drying all day today and all last night. I'm only showing you the tip because my room is a mess (Hey! I'm 13. When you were 13 the default state of your room probably wasn't that tidy either.) Anyways, you might have noticed the green yarn there. I'm probably not the first one to think of this, but I felt pretty clever when I stretched some yarn between the corner pins so that I have a straight reference line to block the edges evenly.

Anyways,
the second thing that is making me happy today is this message that I found in my ravelry e-mail box.

Madeleine, I own a little yarn shop in Swansboro, NC called The Salty Sheep Yarn Shop. I have been trying to come up with some one skein ideas for Christmas knitting and came across your scarf pattern. I love it! I think it would be a great teaching pattern. I don’t know how you feel about shops teaching from your patterns. I would love your permission to use it. Have a great day and Happy Knitting! Peggy

Now, of course I said yes because that is the most exciting thing that has happened in a week.