Witchy Stitchy

not much progress since yesterday, i'm not feeling well enough to sit and concentrate on anything right now... didn't get any work done in the waiting room, we got there, signed in, and were in the exam room in 2 minutes... it was weird, i have never been to a doctor's office without waiting. good news though! My mom's leg is healing, so they might not have to do a bone graft and muscle flap! anyways, i'm dying to start working on the Lacy Shells Poncho from luv2crochet. but i want to use the pink yarn that i'm using for the scarf, which means i actually have to finish the scarf before i can start anything else... oh well, i guess i'll have to keep working on the scarf, it shouldn't take me more than a week to finish, depending on how i feel...

posted by Brittany @ 3:53 PM 1 comments

IHS- continued...

So i could barely sleep last night, i kept coughing, i hate being sick.. as soon as the sun came up enough for me to see, i picked up the scarf and started working on it... I've got about 2 1/2 feet done so far, go me! i'll probably get a few more inches done today. Assuming i feel better tomorrow, i have to take my mom to the doctor, so i'll have lots of waiting room time to sit and knit... i'm a bit upset because about 7 inches into the scarf, i screwed up and had to rip out 2 rows. some of the stitches got twisted as i put them back on the needle, so there is a "scar" going halfway across one row... it doesn't look too bad, but its still frustrating. i decided to leave it alone because i wasn't sure i'd be able to actually fix it, i was worried about messing even more of it up... anyways, daphne is bugging me, she wants to play... she's jealous because the computer has my attention at the moment. i'll post more pictures tomorrow...

posted by Brittany @ 3:17 PM 0 comments

Irish Hiking Scarf

so i got bored with the stupid garter stitch scarf... its not like i'm gonna ever wear it... its freaking white! although it would actually be pretty cute with the outfit i have on, white pants, and a green tshirt with "I *heart* Nerds" printed on it. and the heart is white... so the scarf would go pretty well, but too bad. its over, unless i get really really bored... so i pulled out a nice fat skein of baby pink yarn yesterday to attempt a doggie sweater... except the pattern used cables, which up until that point, i had no clue how to do... and daphne was getting all tangled up in the yarn, while i was counting "knit one, purl one... leave me alone stupid dog... where was i? oh, purl one, knit one, purl one... why is this ending on a knit stitch? aw crap... " so i frogged it, set it down, and proceeded to find instructions for cabling. then i remembered someone posting on SnB about a cable scarf they were doing as their first cable project. I found the pattern, and its so freaking easy! Its the Irish Hiking Scarf... it looks really pretty, too... So then i dug frantically through my grandma's old knitting basket, found a cable needle (not easy, there is too much crap in there), and decided to try out the pattern on my pink yarn... i think the scarf is gorgeous, but also can be very masculine, it would be the perfect gift for a guy friend, except its pink, and besides, i don't have any guy friends to give gifts to... i'm having one problem though, i hate purling! the rows where i knit more than purl go very fast, but the odd numbered rows where i have to purl a lot, take me forever! I dread finishing an even row because i know what comes next. but i look forward to finishing odd rows, so i can take a break with the even rows... i might just be going crazy... oh well... daphne is sound asleep on my pillow next to the scarf, she's adorable... and pictures... i turned of the flash for the daffy picture, and it made it be slow shutter and it came out blurry... i'll have to figure out my camera a little better...

posted by Brittany @ 1:08 PM 3 comments

I'm sick, my digital camera is still in my car, and I'm too lazy to get up and get it so I can take pictures of what I'm working on... I am so antsy to start a new project, I found a whole bunch of adorable patterns that i'm dying to crochet, but i really need to finish the things i've started already... I have a mile-a-minute afghan going thats about halfway done, its a very late christmas gift for a friend who's going to japan soon. Luckily her departure date got pushed back to june, so i don't need to rush to get it to her. i'm lazy. She understands. I'm also halfway through knitting a scarf, just a really basic thing, just to get the hang of it... I'm just using garter stitch, 15 per row, on size 10 needles, with boring white worsted weight acrylic yarn. and its twisting... like, a spiral scarf, but this pattern doesn't work like that. And apparantly garter stitch isn't supposed to do that. I know i'm not doing it wrong though... I'm probably just the world's lousiest knitter. We'll see... maybe after I bind off, it will magically straighten itself out. So far its about 3 1/2 feet long, so i'm halfway there... I am so bored with it now though, i want to try to teach myself something more challenging, like cables.... ooh, cables... I think they are too advanced for me at this point though... i think i'll make the doggy sweater from Lion Brand next... last time i tried it, i had the wrong size needles. now i have the wrong size dog... i seriously need to shrink that pattern... Except i don't know how to do that yet... Oh well, thats all part of the learning process, i guess...

posted by Brittany @ 12:34 PM 1 comments

Witchy Stitchy

This is my knitting/crocheting blog. I adore knitting blogs, I adore knitters. Sadly, I am not much of a knitter. But I am learning, slowly... So this blog is a combination of knitting and crocheting, so any viewers aren't stuck looking at my shoddy knitting all the time, they can oggle over my wonderful crochet projects as well. I know, I have a big ego... Why else would anyone start a blog though, if they didn't think that what they have to say deserves to be shared with the rest of the world? Bloggers are so egotistical.

posted by Brittany @ 5:22 PM 4 comments