Witchy Stitchy

ow...

i really need to start using my camera again... i think most people who read blogs secretly do it for the pictures... anyways, so far, my progress on outstanding projects:
1. Cloak- no progress since the last post... i've been lazy... i'll work on it sometime during the week, i need it finished by the 30th.
2. mile-a-minute afghan- again, no progress... i'm lazy...
3. daphne blankie- still no progress... wow, this is getting old...
4. rainbow scarf- i started this because i had a skein of rainbow yarn and wanted to get rid of it... the scarf is for blair... its almost finished, just needs fringe... its sitting in my backpack, in my car, along with my math homework which is due tomorrow but i haven't even started... its got an interesting twisty pattern to it, i got bored on my field trip to Bergamot Station.
5. simply soft scarf- another scarf for blair... she loves the scarves i do with this yarn... i made her one before, and then another for her friend, and she requested yet another, so i'm working on it... just a simple double crochet scarf, with a single crochet border... its pretty thin, like, 3 or 4 inches, and will be about 6 feet long... she likes them long... i have about a foot done, and am in no hurry to finish it...
6. IHS- still no progress, i have to remember where i put the danged thing!

so i bought Stitch n' Bitch Nation today, and i love the patterns in it, i can't wait to stock up on knitting supplies and get started... of course, i think most of the things i would make for blair, she wears that kind of stuff, but still... but i promise not to start anything else until i finish 3 things from my list... okay, maybe 2 things...

now to explain the title... my arm is killing me.... seriously, a few hours ago, it started out as an ache in the middle of my forearm... annoying, but managable... over the past few hours, it has spread to an almost intolerable ache going from my right ring finger, to the right side of my jaw... i don't know what to do, nothing is helping, i just want to cry, or scream, or cut my arm off... so this means no crocheting or knitting for me until the pain goes away... at least, no knitting, i think i can crochet with just one hand, being left handed and all...

oh, one more thing, am i weird? seriously, i am a lefty, and i've heard that its easier for leftys to knit the continental way, as opposed to the english way (or is it the other way around? i forget)... anyways, i knit the right handed way, but backwards... switching right and left in patterns... which gets confusing, but at least it makes sense to me... i have tried it the other way, and i don't get it... it doesn't matter though, right? as long as it works, i guess... but still, everything i see tells me i should do it the other way, and i don't see the point.. of course, i would love to learn how to knit right handed, too, that way i can do stockinette withought having to turn, and without having to do any purling.. just knit from right needle to left, and then back onto the right needle.. that would be fun... lol...

posted by Brittany @ 9:24 PM