i'm IN!

i got my ravelry invite last thursday and wow. WOW! go join! be patient while waiting, poor casey and jess are working as hard and as fast as they can!

i AM knitting. made a hedgehog for evie that just needs to be felted, stuffed and given a face. look how cute it is already!



i also need to block evie's robin hood jacket (have i been ignoring it for so long?!?). i'm also working on another uptown tote, this one for a friend who wants one just like mine, same colors and all and since she helped us with the colors in our townhouse i'm making her a bag!

and lastly i'm working on my ribby cardi, though the cotton yarn is proving to slow me down. i'm torn between using the cascade 220 i have hanging out, and just sticking with the cotton. i can't wear wool well and i really want to wear this sweater so...

back to ravelry! still working on getting my projects in, next up is my stash! look me up if you are on, my screen name is coriw!

scarves suck, where is my snow???

Wow. I have forgotten just how utterly and completely boring it is to knit scarves! Wow. They just go on and on and on and...

I’m still on my first ball of malabrigo on my so called scarf. I like this yarn, it’s pretty. I’m wondering if I’ll need both balls of yarn, I don’t know how long I’ll last on this scarf, I’m SO BORED. I know I said I was alternating between the balls but I ripped it out. I thought that the scarf was being pulled along that edge as I carried along the yarn I wasn’t using. So I ripped and restarted it. now I’m thinking it wasn’t the alternating balls, it’s just that this scarf is biased and leans to the side. Anyone else? I’ll put a pic up of mine later so you can see what I mean. Anyway, I’m also annoyed that one side looks super cool and the other just looks like it was purled. I expected both sides to look super cool, but whatever. I wonder if I can make a matching so called hat. Hm… quick google search to see if someone else has done it and… hm. I don’t see anything out there. That may be too much thinking for me, we’ll see.

I’m also knitting along on my scarf with flounces here and there. I started it a week and a half ago on my day off. Wow, could these directions be written any poorly??? How confusing. I plan to write up this pattern a little better and put it out on my blog. Hopefully others will find it when they go out to the net to search for directions to that scarf. Lame.

Evie’s sweater is in a state of flux. I’m hoping to block it tomorrow and then seam the shoulders and start knitting that hood. I’m wondering though… I do want to wash it before she would wear it, should I quick steam block it, seam it and then knit the hood and THEN handwash it? hm… I think that’s my tentative plan.

I’m blogging at work (hence the no links). It’s super super super dead here today. And I’m pissed. We’re supposed to be having this HUGE winter storm, they wouldn’t shut up about it on tv, online, etc. 4-7 inches by the time we wake up this morning and then more tonight into tomorrow for a total of a billion inches. I’m all about snow, a billion inches? Bring it on, I can’t wait! YEA!

Well, like every previous storm we’re getting screwed. Woke up this morning to some ice pellets on the ground. It was a little icy but nothing bad and you can still see the brown dead grass everywhere. And now it’s freezing rain out. WHERE IS MY SNOW??? Poor evie, no pics of her in the snow yet because the one significant snowfall that the twin cities had was over new years and we were visiting the inlaws in WI and for the first time in years they didn’t get snow and the twin cities did.

Grrr.

The startribune.com (Minneapolis newspaper) says, “Announced by all the trumpets of the media, the alleged big one began rather meekly in the Twin Cities metro area Saturday, with a glaze of ice and spitting sleet that caused a flurry of spinouts but fell short of what many had expected -- and hoped for. But just you wait. "The worst is yet to come," a statement by the National Weather Service in Chanhassen warned. "Overnight, much of central and southern Minnesota received freezing rain and sleet rather than significant snowfall. Do not be fooled." Heavy snow was still expected in the region by late Saturday, continuing into Sunday, the service said. Six to 10 inches of snow are expected, with more in west-central Wisconsin. Strong winds are expected to whip the snow into a beautiful, deadly whiteout.”

Sure. I’ll believe that one when I see it. I’m bitter. Every where else in the country OTHER than us has gotten slammed the past few years. Us, nothing. I’m sick of it. I’ll update you tomorrow and let you know who was right…

I wonder if I’ll get in trouble for knitting at my desk. I swear if any customers come in, call, e-mail, I’ll drop it in a heartbeat but this just sitting at my desk listening to the freezing rain hit the windows is killing me. Is it time to pump yet? Think anyone would notice if I went upstairs to pump every hour instead of every 3-5? Sooooo bored…

hm... now what???

i have finished knitting the back, both fronts and the sleeves of evie's robin hood jacket. (i finished the sleeves today!)



next up is the hood. the directions say, join shoulder seams, and then gives instructions on how to pick up the stitches to start the hood.

my question is, do i block all of my pieces first? block, join the shoulder seams and then start the hood? block it all when it's finished? what should I do?

thanks blog friends!

robin hood jacket goodness

robin hood jacket from adorable knits for tots
lana grossa bingo yarn - color 93

told you i would take some pics!

left front and back done! right front (half done!), sleeves and hood to go.



back detail



cable goodness





hard to get pictures of this color! the last one is closest to real life color. at least on my macbook.

love the pattern so far, it actually makes you think about your knitting. and it's going fast considering that i don't have much knitting time!

long time no blog...

How embarrassing… I meant to post some time ago. I wanted to do a 2006 year in review of my knitting… and now it’s almost February! GAH!

I do have a good excuse though! I have a new job! YEA! My stress level has dramatically dropped, despite moving into a completely new and foreign field. It’s awesome! My new job is a lot of fun. I’m selling Audis! That’s right, selling cars. (Had you told me a year ago that I’d be selling cars I probably wouldn’t have believed you) So any of you twin cities knitters looking to help a girl out, come on over and buy a car from me. We have new, used and certified pre-owned Audis, and a multitude of other brand used cars. Send me an e-mail if you are looking for something new to drive! (hey I’m in sales now, I need to pimp myself everywhere I can!)

Anyway, enough work babble, I’m happy and that’s good. While I am bummed because I lost my ‘knitting on the bus’ time, but my commute has dramatically dropped time wise so I’m getting over it. (no more 3 hour plus commute days!) I have started knitting while pumping at work, so I’m making up for that time I don’t have on the bus (I didn’t knit while pumping at my last job, I can’t tell you why though, it just didn’t work). And yes, I’m still pumping/nursing. It’s going well, though I think I’m starting my 3rd battle against thrush. Ugh… thrush SUCKS. When they say it feels like you have ground up glass in your breast while nursing, they are lieing. It’s worse. Much much worse. This bout is just starting, so I’m taking probiotics like crazy and got some grapefruit seed extract today. See if we can catch this one before it gets worse and I need massive doses of diflucan…

Isn’t this a knitting blog? :) let’s chat yarn!

So… I finished evie’s pinwheel blanket back in december. It’s gorgeous. She likes it and I’m trying to make it her ‘blankey’ but it’s not quite there yet.







I also finished my shadow shawl. I finished it some time ago but didn’t get a chance to block it until just before Christmas. And I still don’t have pictures of it… maybe now that I blogged that I’ll take some pictures of it being modeled. I do have some pics of it blocking but I guess I haven’t uploaded them to flickr yet… oops.

What else. Oh! I made evie a cute hat from itty bitty hats! See! It’s rowan cashsoft and rowan cashsoft DK. Yes, I used two different weights. I didn’t even realize they were different until I was almost done with the hat. Oh well, it worked fine.





I bought yarn in WI while we were visiting ILs for Christmas (which was actually over new years) at the little yarn shop in ron’s hometown. I caved at 6 skeins of cotton ease in pink. I don’t even know what I’m going to make out of it but I have a bunch of other colors and I just couldn’t NOT buy it. I also got some more yarn to make evie another hat. 3 balls, red, blue and purple cotton textured yarn. I gave up on it though, the yarn SUCKED. I was no more than 2 yards into the first ball when I hit a knot. Annoying. Ripped it and started over after the knot. SAME THING THREE YARDS LATER! Grrr.. started AGAIN. Looking into the balls I found even more knots! WTF? I’ll find the ball bands and tell you what yarn it was, I hadn’t heard of it before but liked it in the store. Never again will I buy that brand!

I have also finally started evie’s robin hood sweater! I have no idea if I’ve even mentioned this sweater yet but it’s so cute! I saw it on Jess’ little ones at the harlot talk/signing in Eau Claire. SO CUTE! When I was looking through adorable knits for tots and saw that pattern I bought the book on the spot. I’m using a different yarn than specified in the pattern, I’m using lana grosse bingo in an utterly gorgeous blue color (I figure that if I’m putting this much time into a sweater that evie’s little brother/sister/cousin one day can wear it too and this was the color that worked best. Girls can wear blue, boys can’t wear pink). LOVE THIS YARN. Though it’s splitty, I still like it a lot. I’d love to make myself something out of it but it would cost a billion dollars! Pics soon to come, I’m already done with the back and halfway through the left front. I love this knitting for little ones thing, though I’ve never made an adult sided sweater I can’t imagine… but it’s nice getting the pieces done in a reasonable amount of time!

I also started some socks, yum… more about those some other time. oh, and my pomatomus socks are too big! Now that I’m not pregnant and my feet aren’t the size of thanksgiving turkeys the socks fit a little differently. I haven’t had the heart or the time to rip the toes out and make them smaller yet. Blah. One more thing on my very long knitting list!

I got the coolest thing the other day. I had some $ in my paypal account refunded from something stupid that I bought and I kinda forgot about it until I saw bonnie marie’s ribby pulli pattern. I NEEDED to buy that pattern and realized that I had some $ just waiting to be spent! Yea! So I bought some things at scouts swag. The ribby pulli pattern of course, a few soak samples to try, and a turquoise goknit pouch! I LOVE this bag! It is how I take my knitting to work with me. I just attach it to my pump backpack and off I go! LOVE IT! I hear that it comes in a bigger size too, I think I need one. HIGHLY recommended. I know you look at it and think, $18? Dude, my ziplock works just fine cori, you are crazy. Yes, it does work just fine but this ROCKS! It has an interior loop with a snap that you use as a yarn guide, a ‘handle’ with a snap that you can attach to anything, slip it on your wrist, snap it to your purse, etc. it’s so cool! The size I got is perfect for kid sized pieces of sweater, instructions, needles, small scissors and even my little lamb tape measure! See for yourself… (pics to be inserted shortly!)

More later, and I promise I’ll post more often! And if I don’t, well oh well. You guys understand. :)

Oh, and as if this post couldn’t be any longer, here’s a pic or two of evie from Christmas time. We have more recent ones but… they aren’t on flickr yet!