Shut Up & Knit!

It's Mitten Monday!

It's a fingerless mitt!

Yes, I am a little too proud of it.

It's my faked version of Knitty's Fetching. 

I did a tubular cast on because I love how finished they look and that's someone people will notice on a fingerless mitt.

I did a simpler thumb.  Technique stolen from the Easy Mitten pattern I used for Bitchin'Mittens.  I also made the thumb longer.

I used more cables at the wrist because I wanted that part to be longer and I like how it turned out.  I also did a simpler bind off as the one used in the pattern was more than I could manage at the time.

Now I have to make the other one...

Socks for Sunday

Yes, it is socks in progress.

Yes, they are very bright socks.

Yes, they have some issues.

However, they are mine and they make me happy... and that's all that really matters.

Once I've done the second short row heel, I'll work on the length of both.  I want to add more of the pink at the top of the sock in an attempt to use it all.

Yesterday, while working on the foot of the sock on the left, I found a tutorial about Japanese short rows.  It sounded surprisingly easy and simple.  I will be giving that method of short rows a try on the next pair of socks as I am not happy with the method I am currently using and I still do not understand the other method of short rows that involved yarn-overs.

These little neon sockies will grow up to be folded cuff house socks.  Winter is coming and I don't want to live in slippers all winter.  Housesocks are my answer.

Fingerless Mitt Update:  One done.  Piccie tomorrow.  I think I like them.  o.0

WTF Friday!

<~  That is my happy place..

No... really...

WTF! Friday:

I went to the big Joann's craft store in the next county because I needed fabric to line my felted bag(s), a zipper (or two...) and something to use as a handle(s).  I'm also on the look out for a few other little things for yet another project or two.

Without going into a lot of detail, let me just offer up two pieces of information and ya'll can do your own maths.

01.  I hate children.  No, that's not fair.  I do not hate quiet, polite, well behaved children, who know how and when to use an inside voice and say "excuse me, Ma'am" rather than pulling on you toget your attention.  However, it's been a long time since I've seen any of those, so let's just say I hate children.

02.  I have been in quieter child care centers compared to that Joanns this morning.

No... really!

I did not leave happy.  Nor did I leave with anything on my Must Get list.  Oh, and there was a dog in line ahead of me.

o.0

At least, he was quiet and well behaved.

From there, I went to a quilt fabric store to look for fabric for a different project.  I found fabric that I can make work because it's not what I wanted, but I'm not as picky as I was before leaving the house this morning.  I also found fabric on sale that would work for my felted bag(s).  I get it cut and am chatting with the owner.  She rings me up and I write my cheque without really thinking.

Then I get in the car.

I realize that I was charged regular price for fabric that was 50% off.

I am not happy, but it's my own damn fault.  She had gotten busy while at the registar and I'm guessing forgot about the sale/clearance price.

That's the fabric with the bag(s), btw.  I'm trying to be happy about finding it and getting that much closer to getting that thing finished... with a side of annoyed.

Oh, and my happy place?  Yarn I had to dye and over-dye a record three times, but I love it. 

Love the cables, too.

*hugs my happy place*

Red Scarf #2

Pattern:  A rip off of Crazy Aunt Purl's Magic Scarf. 
Yarn: Caron's Simple Soft Shadows in Autumn Red  Their photo is almost as bad as mine.  Think rust with variegations of jewel tones.  Two skeins used.
Needles: Size 9 straights.
Size:  About six inches wide and just under six feet long.
Mods:  Auntie wanted me to do ten rows before changing the stitches.  I did five.  I liked how the squares looked with five rows more than Auntie's ten.  Totally a personal taste thingy.  I stopped knitting when I ran out of yarn.
I also ignored her number for casting on.  I found a width I liked, made sure it would be wide enough, and started knitting.  Very easy pattern to customize to your own taste, and I only had to frog it once for size.
Again?:  No.  This was a very boring knit and I was thrilled to see the end of it.
Lessons Learned:  A boring knit is not a happy knit.
Time served:  A week and half... off and on... give or take...
The UpSide:  It's machine wash/dry. 

Can you believe that cabled scarf still is not dry? o.0

Something about Me

I refuse to believe that he was not cognizant of the potential ramifications of  that speech  prior to making it.

...

Someone is feeling wordy today...

I get wordy when I get angry.  *L*  To the point where I once frightened an elected offical during a telephone conversation.  One of my prouder moments...

However, I am not a speller.  In fact, I come from a long line of 'not a speller'.  We're an interesting group, lemme tell ya, but we do not spell.  In part, I think, because most/some of us are busy thinking in Spanish while trying to speak English.  Some days, I'm lucky to put the words in the right order.  Forget remembering how to spell something.

Then there's the cursing...

I am oddly proud of that.

It's a living tribute to someone I love(d).  He was a stand-in dad for years.  A lovely man, who hunted/fished, drank and swore up a storm.  I always knew I was spending too much time with his family when I started to sound like a sailor on leave.  Since I didn't want to kill anything and I'm not much for drinking, I picked swearing as a way to keep him alive and with me.  It's silly, but it works for me.

The "and shit" comes from Dave Navarro.  He has a thing for sounding "ghetto".  No, I don't understand it, but I don't let that keep me up at night.  Let's be honest, I could have picked up a far worse habit from Navarro during my time as one of his girls.  No... really. 

Anyway, that's a little something about me and might help explain some of my oddness.

Shut up...

Oh, and this was inspired by the loss of a bloglines reader after yesterday's post about my cat.  *L*   The next scheduled yammer is about being silly, btw.

Oh, oh, and real knitting content tomorrow.  I am planning on felting later today.  ::bounces::