Saturday, February 25, 2006

was bored today...

i went through one of my boxes of junk (i have several piled up in the family room from when we got new floors put in... everything that didn't have a spot got thrown in a box). I found some of my knitting needles, which is great. and i felt particularly crafty today... i was more in the mood to crochet today, but i can't for the life of me figure out anything to make... so i decided to make a baby blanket for Daphne. i have a huge skein of blue cotton worsted weight yarn, which is perfect... so i'm knitting the main part of the blanket with the light blue, and then i'm going to crochet a border with black cotton yarn, and i'm going to crochet a black flower and sew it onto the bottom left corner of the blanket. then daphne will have something to chew on...
seriously, that mutt has no appreciation for what i do... its a miracle that she's not barking at me right now because i'm paying more attention to my computer than i am to her. i swear, she's jealous of this thing... tough, i've had it for longer, and spent at least twice the amount of money on it than i did on her. so she'll just have to deal with being in second place.
anyways, if i can ever find my camera again (i know its around here somewhere...), then i will post pictures of the blanket, it should be cute, although i'm still trying to figure out a cute edging pattern for it... anyways, the blue section is about 1/3 of the way done, its about 6 inches, maybe more... (i know i have a ruler around here someplace, too...). I figure i'll give it 18 inches, and then the border should add at least 3 inches width and length total, depending on what i pick... 21 inches seems like a good height... oh, i'm just working in garter stitch, for those who are wondering, and i attempted a crochet cast-on, not exactly knowing what that is, but guessing as best as i could... it was so much faster than casting on normally... i hate casting on and binding off, i guess i need more practice, but those parts aren't the parts that get used as often. you only cast on and bind off once per piece... i'm rambling again. i think its my schizophrenia... lol, long story...
tomorrow i have a busy day ahead of me, so i might not get much else done on the blanket for a few days. i promise, i will finish it! same goes for the IHS... oh, i found a second cable needle, so expect progress on that in the next week or so... i have to wash it when i'm done though, because stupid daphne decided that it was her pee-pad, and peed on it, so its stinky and gross... at least dog pee doesn't linger like cat pee does... i'm being gross again, sorry...
anyways, i need to put my blog out there, i haven't posted in it much yet, but i do intend to keep it fairly updated, unlike my other umpteen thousand blogs... who knows, maybe i'll start up crochet challenge again, after i get more readers here... i wonder, is there a way to see how many people look at this blog? so far i'm relying on comments, which i don't get many of, but i have no idea if anybody is actually reading this or if i'm just typing all this for no reason...

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

long time, no knit...

i haven't posted in awhile because i haven't been knitting for awhile... i set down the IHS because i misplaced my cable needle... then i started a k1 p1 rib scarf on plastic needles, and then proceeded to sit on a needle and break it... i babysat over the weekend and took along a kit i picked up at a thrift store for leg warmers... i got one finished, but there are several mistakes, mostly from being tickled mid-row, causing me to pull away, and slip several stitches off the needles... i'm not very good at picking up dropped stitches, especially when it rips out several rows down, so there are a few noticable mistakes, but i guess it kind of gives them the 80s grunge look, so its alright... now i need to find time to cast on the second one... and i found a pattern for a sweater that i'm dying to make, its the Red Heart tri-cable pullover... i think it would look cute on one of my friends, but she has zillions of sweaters, and i don't have any, so she told me to make it for myself... not sure if i would wear it, but i would at least enjoy making it, and thats whats important... now i have to convince my mom to buy me the yarn and needles i need... i already owe her money, although i did give her $50 yesterday, which is half of what i earned from babysitting... i wish i could babysit more often, right now its only about once a month, and that $100 i get needs to pay for my gas and food, but my mom insisted i start paying her back... so i gave her half of my money, and then "borrowed" her ATM card and filled up my gas tank... wow, gas is so expensive... it cost almost $30 to fill the tank! i hope prices go down soon, although i know they won't... but anyways, unless anybody else wants to hire me to babysit fairly locally, i'm stuck with no money for knitting projects... hmm...