Shut Up & Knit!

She's not dead, but her computer is...

Greetings, this is Knittyotter with an update on Cookie.

She is doing well, but her computer is dead.

She'll be back when she has a new box. (insert dirty joke here)

I'm on the phone with her trying to convince her to go get a new computer RIGHT NOW. She is being more sensible and will get one when she finds the right one/deal. *pouty lip out*

She will be spinning to ease the pain later today. She's currently sitting in front of the dead computer talking to me.

Please pass this along to those that worry and have everyone check in here to let her know you're okay as well.

She'll be replying to comments later as time permits via texting/cell phone. :P (Totally kidding she refuses to text and can't find the Internet on her phone. Due to being so old! (She made me write that!!!))

Happy whatever the heck day it is!!

Thanksgiving Thursday

Happy Thursday And/Or Thanksgiving!

Ready for one more Thankful Thursday? 

Too bad, I'm doing it anyway. :p

I am thankful for this day.  Just like every other day, but today it's making the list. 

I am thankful that no one expects a photo today because TypePad is not working with me but rather against me today.  Fine... whatever because I am so thankful that I cooked yesterday... if you can call putting a roast in a crock-pot cooking.  Today I get to eat, spin, heal and relax, which is exactly what I need.

So grateful that I went with pot roast and brown mushroom gravy.  Yum!

I am thankful that I am content with my life and at peace with the choices I have made.  I am much happier than I was a year or two years ago without question, and I look forward to things getting better and better with time.

I am beyond thrilled (thankful) that today is sunny, that I can wander around singing "It's a Beautiful Day" without annoying anyone and that it is possible to spin while wearing Hello Kitty slippers. 

And I am grateful for all you.  Commenters and lurkers alike for being willing to spend some of your time here, reading the ravings of this not very nice person, who knits and spins more than she really should.  While not always as well behaved as I would like, I have been (and will continue to be so or heads will roll) lucky enough to be generally treated with respect and kindness by those who do comment.  I know that is not a given and I am thankful.  Also really grateful that I finally figured out how to ban the icky people from commenting.


Go forth and eat pie!

Or something.

Shut up!

xo

Lyra

Pattern:  Lyra

Yarn/Thread:  DMC Baroque  3.3 skeins used (I had to start a new skein before I was finished with #3 because I did not want to have a join in my crochet cast off.)

Needles:  Addi Lace US 0 / 2.0 mm circular & an F hook for the cast off

Time Served:  Too much.  Started 09-24-09  Finished 11-13-09

Size:  32" by 32" more or less, give or take 

Mods:  Square version.

I used stitch markers between charts repeats to help me keep track of where I was in the chart because about 50 rows I started to have trouble figuring out where I was.  Not good.  The stitch markers saved me and made everything MUCH easier when I got to the part of the chart where I was working every other chart repeat as a corner, which meant knitting it differently from the other chart repeats. 

I ran into trouble a couple of times and, at one point, tinked back about 3K stitches.  However, I survived and I really did enjoy this pattern.  Even though, I should have paid pattern attention from time to time.

I feel like I failed in the blocking.  I don't think it's square enough, but that may just be me.  Pinning it out on a bed made all the difference.  For my back and for the finished piece.

I can see knitting this one again.  I love Niebling and how his designs just flow and make perfect sense.  However, I don't really see myself blocking another out.  Too much bending and way too many pins.

Carole & Opal Said Cozy*

Please send all complaints to them.  Thank you.

I was given a skein of Punta Yarns Merisoft Hand Painted Aran weight yarn as a gift from someone who thought it was sock yarn.  Long story.  Trust me and move on.

The yarn is soft, squishy and wonderful.  However, it is also a merino single.  From my experience, that means it's going to pill like a mofo.  Because I only have one 197 yard/100 gram skein, I knew I had to ponder and ponder I did.  Long and hard.  HARD, people!

In the end, I knit a coat hat for a tea pot.  I'm still not sure why, but it was fun to knit and I didn't want to kill anyone while doing it, so it's a win.

I faked a pattern as you can tell by looking at the thing.  In my defense, the tea pot has a knob on top of the lid, which I kept in mind while working the top of the cozy.  I'm not at all sure about the I-cord thingy.  I may have reached the point of having been single for too long.

Shut up.

I like it.  It's a nice punch of color to an otherwise plain white tea pot and I've got half a ball of yarn left. 

It's Monday of Thanksgiving week and we're calling it a win.  This is the wrong time of year to be picky, ya know.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go make a nice cuppa and read some blogs.

* I asked them what they wanted to see today and they both said tea cozy.  Blame them.

I'm just a knitting monkey

I tell that to our Stacey all the time when she asks me what I think about this yarn with that pattern.  For the most part, I don't have an opinion.  Just tell me what you want and I'll knit it. (I said it so many times that she made me a button.  :D)

Now in an attempt to be like the cool kids, I guess I'm proving it.

Yes, I started one of those Twitteresque facebook-like mini-blog thingies.  Be warned.  It's going to be even weirder than it is in here.

I'm just sayin'.

& because it's not Saturday without some sky...

Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got some yarn to thwack.

Happy Saturday, people!