Voila!

Through the brilliance of Ravelry's help page, I give you: PROGRESS BARS!!!!

Part of me wishes I knew how to code this on my own so I could say I did it myself, but the rest of me is happy to show off my knitting/computer brilliance and let it be.  =D

Currently knitting a strap for my laptop bag, since it never had one... =D Pics will be posted when I finish it and get around to taking them...

~e

Wahoo!

My hat is finished!!!!! And I must say, it looks wonderful! =D

I made a hat!

Yes, another hat. This one is really cute, though.

And fairly easy considering I had NO idea how to make it...

So, I'm kind of awesome...

I figured out how to link the RSS feed of my Ravelry projects page to this page.  I feel so intelligent! =D Sadly, you have to be logged onto Ravelry in order for you to see it... I'll figure that bit out later, though.

Ok, time to cook and then knit more.

Tschüss.

Look Ma!

I accidentally made a beer cozy!!! =)

I say "accidentally" because I meant to make it into a cowl but after I started the pattern I realized that I couldn't possibly have enough yarn...  When I ran out, I simply crocheted the edges together (crocheting? me? what????) and voila! My beautiful beer cozy was born.

I have to say, I think that this is the only beer cozy that

a) has a matching hat and glove set:

and b) is made mostly from merino wool... =)

Nevertheless, I'm proud of it.  =)

Okie, time to run to class.... tschüss!!!

This week I made a hat and a matching pair of gloves =D

Voila!

HATS!

Yes, the socks STILL aren't done, I know, I'm a slacker.  BUT, I'm also in a foreign country, so I'm going to use that as an excuse.

During my second week here, I made Bank (my travel buddy) go to Wolle Rodel with me.  Mostly because I wanted to check it out, I didn't have any real idea of buying anything.  But Bank thought that knitting was so cool "if it wasn't so effeminate I'd totally pick it up" he says.  Even though I tried convincing him that guys knit too, he wouldn't listen.  But instead commissioned a hat.  Out of Alpaca.  He bought the yarn and said "I want a hat from this."

I GOT TO WORK WITH ALPACA!!!!!  Oooohh, it's so pretty!!!!!!  I love love love love LOVE it.

So, Bank's hat was made in a week.  Here's a picture (on me, not on him yet, but I'm sure one will be coming up later)

I cast on a little too loose, so it's not quite as snug as it should be.  (And I just realized how absolutely horrible my stitches are close up... Maybe pictures are a bad idea...)  But Bank is so happy with it, so that's good.


In other news: I bought yarn ( a while ago) with the colorway "Vera" from Firefly.  "It's my very favorite gun." Yep.  That Vera.  It's Grey and Black-ish with Yellow.  I started making a hat out of it while I was here (this was before Bank's commission) and realized that it would look pretty good on me, so a "receiver" was born.  Then I realized that I'm in Germany and it's going to get cold and I forgot my coat.  Which means that I also forgot my hat, scarves and gloves.  Which means I get to knit myself a whole new set.  I thought "matching winter accessories could be fun" and headed back to Wolle Rodel to see what I could find.  I selected a yellow for some gloves and brought it back, thinking "ok, it's not exact, but it should be close."  When I compared them this morning, they were SPOT ON.
I was absolutely amazed with my color-finding talent.  =D  I'll show pictures later, when I have time... For now, I have to get to my Deutsch class.

Tschuss!

Still knitting those socks...

Left them at Bonnie's last night, though. I'll get them back from her tomorrow. =) Our "Knitting Nights" are a lot of fun =)

According to this site, I'm allowed to take my knitting on the plane as a carry-on item...

I feel like I should start something new for the occasion... =)

Suggestions?

Cool giveaway:

Found this through a friend's blog:

www.CatherinetteRings.Etsy.com

If you like that sort of thing... Personally, I think they're pretty cool =)

pictures!!!

Finally, after all this time, I have photographic updates =)

Big Big's socks:

Started on a trip to Iowa, finished on a different trip to Iowa.

Hair Tie:

Inspired by a trip to the Renaissance Faire...

Ellie's bag:

No pictures of it felted just yet...

I'll have to bother her for some of those. =)

Still knitting those socks...

I'm sure if I actually worked hard on them, I'd be able to finish them fairly quickly, considering I'm just going to continue the 2x2 ribbing until it's time to play with the heel...

But I keep getting distracted by things like hair-tie commissions and stuff... Yes. Hair-tie commissions. I "invented" a hair-tie, simple cord with a tag on one and and a loop on the other. Pretty effective when it comes to tying up the hairs... =) It even holds back my massive amount of unruly hair...

H'okay... It's too warm to knit outside (yes, I'm lazy like that) and I have a new station to play with on Pandora... I'll hopefully be getting a new net book soon which will be nice, because then I can put on a movie or something and knit wherever... as opposed to having to use the computers in the trench in the MTCC... The bad lighting down here is not conducive to knitting with dark colors... Especially with this ridiculous pattern and my choice to work from both ends of the same ball instead of two different ones...

Wow, already loving this Pandora station... Starts out with "Bring Him Home" from Les Miserables, then "Angel of Music" from Phantom, and now it's playing "Belle" from Beauty and the Beast... AMAZING...

On the subject of socks.

Okie. Started the new socks on Thursday night. Got REALLY confused after the first margarita, and put them away to deal with another time. Note to self, next time you want to drink and knit, don't start on a pattern the likes of which you've never attempted before... =D Thankfully, I realized that margaritas and two socks at once was NOT the way to play the game, so I put that away... Took it out again today and figured it out. (Minus the fact that I cast on with the wrong color... ::shrug:: It could be worse, they're just not going to have a different color stripe at the top. No big deal =) So far the colors are going to be Navy Blue and Black, but I don't know if I want to make them that dark, so I might make the contrasting color a white or ... something. I'll figure it out. I'm a smart cookie, especially when it comes to figuring things out... =)

So, I went to the crack store...

...and only bought needles!!!!!

Yes, I've been calling Loopy my "crack" store, because, well, good yarn is addicting.

I was SO proud of myself, though! I walked in, went straight for the needles (which was the reason for going) and when I couldn't find the circs (they keep them in a different place, tricksey!) I went straight to the guy for help and didn't even TOUCH any of the lovely hanging yarn...

::sigh::

One day, when I'm intolerably rich, I'm going to go into Loopy and NOT feel guilty when I leave the store... =)

Aaaand more sock information...

So, going to "give up" on the socks (read: keep them on the side so they're still interesting) and start a new pair.

The pattern wants me to do both socks at the same time... That'll be interesting... But I think I can do it. I plan on using some pretty Cascade 220 that I have lying around... Unless, of course, I find something better to use that for. =D (Alright, sentence structure just Isn't My Thing today. I apologize.)

Oy, I really need those circs if I want to speed up on this sock progress... =p I don't think that'll happen soon, though, so I'm going to continue plugging away... It's just kind of hard to try them on to see where I am...

::shrug:: =)

OH - was just reminded of something:
I need to learn how to crochet so I can make these.

=D

Socks update

Still working on the first sock from the Red Dwarf pattern. It's kind of awesome. =D

I also started reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. This, I am ashamed to say, has made me neglect my knitting severely because Zombie hunting is just SO entertaining. =D

No doubt I'll finish the Zombies tonight or tomorrow and begin working on the socky-sockersons again. =D

Also, I need to find two pair of size 2 circs so I can knit these socks well, because it CAN be done on dpns, but it's unnecessarily complicated... =p

more socks! =D

started new socks today. same yarn, new pattern.
problem is, the pattern calls for 2 circs and I just don't have the time or money to acquire those, so i'm kinda fudging the recipe and doing what i can... it seems to be working pretty well, though, for now =D


hm, i really need to start doing the whole "uploading pictures" thing again...

Finished the socks this morning around 7:45. Just before class. Forgot to drop them off at campus on my way home... Thankfully I'll be going there tonight to meet up with Bonnie and Genevieve for the DMaC concert at DePaul. Yep, going to IIT to go to DePaul to go back to IIT. Plenty of train time with means plenty of time for knitting to be done! =D

Socky-sockersons =)

Got one of the socks done. =) Went with the simpler pattern because it was, well, simpler. It turned out pretty well, I'll have to remember to take pictures. Mom laughed at me, said it was a very "grandma" thing to do. ::shrug:: oh well... Though, having your mother call you a "grandma" is a but unnerving ;-)

Watchin' NCIS and starting on sock 2. =)

Life is good.