YOU KNOW WHAT!

Schools kicking my ass.

Zach has officially moved to Australia (which is sucking the fun right out of things, despite the whole being apart fiasco)

Aimee LOVES THE SNOW, which would be great if it meant i didn't have to stand out there in it for hours while she gallivanted.

My knitting is lagging...

I'm off to nap. I promise something more up beat next time.

Love you all, hope you're enjoying the snow, if you have any, and that you're enjoying the fact that you're running out of time to knit christmas gifts!

SQUEEEE!!!

SMITTENS!!!

At this point I'm a leetel worried about how they'll fit, they seem a tidge tight.

I'm hoping blocking will help loosen them some. Either way they're GOING to fit because i refuse to frog. Just saying,.

Midterms

Midterms make me do bad bad things....

Just ask Aimee.

Or should I say "Mademoiselle le Bee"?

Hehehehehehehehehehehhehehe.

take THAT

oops, deleted the first try. here we go again....

So I was digging through my old WIPs in the attempt to avoid the haruni....and I came across the bead bracelet that has been half finished for around 3 years...woops?

Since I had a ton of studying to do, I sat down and finished the bracelet.

It's bead crochet. What you do is load a ton of beads on some thread, then go to town with the slip stitches until you've decided your rope is long enough. I'm sure, via google, you can find some handy dandy instructions if you're so inclined.





Then, you whip out a teensy tinsy needle and some thread, and sew that baby up. If you only have white, like I did, but you need black, DONT PANIC! It's okay, just color it black with a permanent marker first!

At this point, even if it is midnight, you should wear that little sucker proudly around the house.










Go on, wave it in the dog's face. You know she cares too!

Well okay, maybe not.

Some advice

Don't ever tell a dog smart enough to break into the fridge and eat all your butter than you don't want to go outside and play fetch right now, because its too much work to get up and get a bra.

Especially if they REALLY want to play fetch.

Fluff!

I've finished the Ptarmigan Cowl, out of the lovely lovely Absolou.

It's light as a feather and oh so fluffy. It says in the pattern to block it. My philosophy on that is: if you can already see the lace pattern, why bother? Especially when its going to be all wadded up on my neck most of the time anyways and it'll just undo all that hard pinning work. (Plus, who wants to hurt that lovely squooshy yarns?!)

The pattern called for 175 yards of yarn, and that is EXACTLY what I had. So, to be on the safe side (and also because I am beyond paranoid) I only did 2 garter ridges at each end, instead of 3. I probably would have been fine doing 3, as I ended up with a little extra yarn, but I wasn't stressed about running out the entire time this way. The main reason for this decision is Mr. Flood recommended the long tail cast on, and I always overshoot on that, so I had about 2 yards of dangle left on my cast on that MIGHT be necessary. It was really better this way.

The pattern also suggests a sewn bind off. (AKA tedious beyond reason bind off) This was for stretchy purposes. I'd never done it, so I gave it a shot. It's not much stretcher than if I had cast off normally. If you want something super stretchy I'd google some other methods. Otherwise, this method is fine. ESPECIALLY if you're one of those people who ends up with a funky mc-bunched tight cast off all the time. 

I'm off to work on the Haruni. The plain, boring, white haruni. While my dogwood blossoms sweater kit taunts me....

For those of you who were concerned, it only took 45 minutes but with a little help from my dog we managed to get the alpaca untangled. It's intact, and doesn't seem to have suffered much during its little doggie adventure. 

Fallen

I've fallen, and my credit card has slipped. I think I have a sweater related problem. I blame my comfy new runcorn.

When I fell, I ended up with a kit for one of these:

Purchase your own here.

It will be a while before I get to start because I'm working on a haruni for someone
for christmas.

I'm itching to get starting. What do we think, cardigan version, or pullover?