Work around

As I am having technical difficulties with my computer I cannot add a photo ditectly to ravelry. :( but blogger will let me take a photo and post it here. So there you go...

Finally

I have it finished. It took longer than expected mostly because I got distracted but I am pretty happy with the end result.

Final thought

I should have been in bed 45 mins ago. But I've been reading. I'm going to try selling things to help me reach some goals (like making more money, working less hours at my real job, and knitting more!) However if it can help me get a laptop and some stuff for the house too that'd be ok with me. I like that this is something that will have repeat business (refills on scents or add'l warmers for other rooms) without me having to be pushy. It's also the most laid back sales thing I've seen with party options and online sales. Although I will have to sell about $100 a month to justify the website. Overall seems like a good idea and with a simple start up if I don't love it I can stop and make use of the kit products (worth more than just the items within). Here's hoping.

Back to work

I really can't wait for this week to be over. I'm constantly cleaning and scrubbing and picking up after people trying to keep the house tidy for this party Friday night. After that back to knitting :) I need to hid the ends for the two baby afghans (hence why I don't think I have them marked as complete yet) and I need to finish Joan's. I'm sure there's something else that will need done soon as well. However I'm thinking that my brother in law could use some color at his place ;-) I never did get to give them a wedding present. I'm thinking that maybe something like the one I'm doing now only with maybe a slightly darker blue and no green (very Americana). It'd look good on their couch. Always good to have the next WIP in mind. 

I'm back

Yeah so I may have been reading mindless cutesy books because Work sucks and I've needed easy De-stressing. I also have not been knitting as much, mostly because time just seems so limited. And because I NEEDS to clean the house so that I can have my lil gathering next weekend. But will be back on track soonish. Especially since I need to get Joan's blanket done by Christmas.

Alpaca

Kinda like a cross between llamas and sheep. So cute. So soft... Such lovely yarn... I went to the Alpaca farm this afternoon. They had an open house. I think lil bug is going to end up in the paper - the photographer took her picture anyway. I learned several things. 1) I do not react to alpaca like I do to regular wool(very very cool). 2) it is super super soft and what they had there was a much lighter weight the I am used to or expected. 3) if my yarn comes from there - and I would like it to (support local people) when I finally get a chance to make something just for me I'm going to need to save my pennies. However they had several things already knitted that I would LOVE to have. Several very pretty sweaters, some scarves, long finger-less gloves, socks, hats etc...but again with me needing more pennies. I don't know if their shop has items listed on their site but if so here's me doing a lil free advertising for them. WWW.stonemeadowalpacas.com . Very cool lil spot. Very very pretty yarns... Must go back sometime.

Jess' baby afghan

This isn't a hard pattern but it becomes Huge. 196 are on a needle it's bound to be huge. And I even went with smaller needles. Oh well still not bad it I just say so myself. Needs washed and blocked oh and wrapped... But it's finished and I am happy.

Thinking

Yes I know that's dangerous. 8) however it's something we all do occasionally. I've had people ask in the past if I'd make things to sell. And its something I've considered off and on. Started thinking about it today after someone mentioned Christmas shopping. Could definetly use a little extra money for that this year. And doing something I enjoy/ makes people happy seems like a better way to make a little extra than a second job I loathe. I only really know how to do flat things. Must branch out eventually if I'm ever going to make my lil band of misfits Christmas stockings to hang (be nicer if we had somewhere to hang them). But in the meantime baby blankets are Always in demand (so many pregnant people in the area. It's nuts!) And they're quick and easy to do. (And I like to think I do them reasonably well). Will have to put some feelers out... Thinking is dangerous.

what really Kills me

So I'm looking through old photos - (see projects I added the photo I'm about to rant about there) and I see this afghan that I made --(doing the math..) 7 years ago. it looks like the one i was going to do in green should look. Like the pattern in the book that i have looks. BUT do i have this pattern. NOOOO.. Can't find it anywhere. Could I probably work it out - yes. its a knit some - slip 2 as if to knit.. well we've been thru this already but it's not the point. the point is that i"m being mocked by some higher power. because not only is my book wrong but the world is wrong and I had the answer years ago and lost it. Well if i could find this book and my "knit afghans of many colors" book I might be able to sleep tonite.. yeah not holding my breath. Could someone please come remove the gnomes from my house that keep hiding the stuff i want? Please? Thanks a bunch.I know I should give up the afghan hunt a lil and try something in 3d (like round stuff) but that all seems so scary...

Disappointment

Started the green and white afghan. Although I really like the chevron ripple pattern I don't think I can use it for this. The two afghans are going to the same house and I think the ripple is going to be HUGE. You start with 196 sets. Granted it's a pretty sharp ripple but I would like to have them closer to the same size. And the only way to do that for sure is to use the same pattern. They're different colors so that should be ok. If I had done the ripple pattern before and knew exactly what the end result looked like/ how it measured it would be different. Maybe I'll use it for that blue one I need to do.

Ta-dah

Mostly finished with my yellow and white. Only took a week. However it was a very busy week and I don't think I touched it at all Wednesday or Thursday night. Just need to tuck in the ends. Which I hate doing. But I'll do it soon. About to start on the next one but that'll have to wait til tomorrow

Ouch

So my wrist hurts. Wrist probably isn't accurate it's the area just behind my wrist and down my arm on the right side of my right arm. But the end result is still that it hurts, well aches. Tylenol/advil help but I'm looking the cause. And was thinking that because I was knitting more than I had been that knitting was the cause (its nice to have projects and time to do them again!)
Picture me crying here.. :*( where this really does seem likely I have reviewed a couple of articles online that said the size of the needles/ way you hold the work may be the cause more than the knitting. 8) I'm hoping so. I did just go to smaller needles for the yellow and white blanket... Here's to hoping...

Random

I really need a new background - all of these are taken against the back of my couch. It's dark but it's not a good solid background. Something solid or on someone even would be better. Wonder how James feels about modeling....

blogging!

Goodness I haven't posted in ages. But this seems as good a way as any to communicate.
I haven't done as much work on my projects as I'd like lately *and there are plenty of things I'd like to be doing* but I'm hoping to turn that around in the next few days. Need to get the baby blankets done - need to find out when Jess is due.. Other than that some cleaning, some cooking as needed, some much needed R&R. Would like to get the sewing machine out and running before Sarah's too big for the patterns I have. Oh well they can always head down south once she outgrows them. Need to get that ever looming denim quilt stated too. That I think is probably going to my unfinished masterpiece. Oh well i do some, Sarah maybe does some, her children and grandchildren can finish it. :) but only if i get it started.