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kinda funny

I'm working on the buttonbands for the puffy sweater...nothing else much to report...except...

Something kind of funny happened this week...while at the Proclub, I saw one of authors of a Blog that I've read at one point or another!  I almost said something, but um, is that weird?  "Hi, you don't know me, but I've seen your picture on your knitting blog...no, I don't think I've ever left a comment, but um, I wanted to say hi!"  Doesn't that sound a little stalkeresque?!  Instead I washed my hands at one of the many sinks, smiled and moved along to my workout.

the thing is...

So a few things. 

I got my invite for Ravelry!  yay!  I have one friend.  hahahaha!  Actually I haven't really been looking much at the site (yet), but I'm wondering how it all works.  So far I've only been adding things to the queue.  I don't even have my profile updated.  Do you have a Ravelry account?  Let me know so that I can add you! ^__^

Another thing, the new Rowan mag was on my doorstep when I returned from the Vegas conference!  That was kinda fun to come home to for sure...

a couple of stripey good things

The last thing, I keep seeing TONS of people knitting baby stuff.  Baby stuff looks so fun & addicting!! But, remember these?  Okay.  I honestly did not want or expect an over-indulging mention of thanks...but I definitely could not have prepared for the reply that I received.  Instead of an even lackluster "thanks." I got an extremely condescending "Wowwww.  You must have soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much time on your hands if you could knit this."  Um.  I wanted to say, "No.  I wanted your baby to have them, so I set aside time every damn day to work on them until they were finished."  I didn't.  But, geezus!  I was almost done with a matching hat, but after that comment from my friend's wife, I haven't picked it up and am considering frogging the project.

viva las vegas

Just wanted to check in...I've been working on the CNR like a madwoman (no pics today).  I'm done with the redo of the back and the fronts are ready to go (reworked those as well when I forgot to add the neck shaping-geez).  They just need to be blocked and the sleeves need to be started, 'cept I'm heading to vegas for a conference and I'm not going to be able to post while there. 

Should be interesting.  I'm not a gambler.  I'm sure if I had zillions of dollars, I might throw down on the craps table...but until then...I'd rather go shopping.  Speaking of...I need a new purse anyway! 

I went to get some ca$h for the trip and one of the twenties had the "Where's George" stamp on it.  I went to the site and entered in the info.  Lo and behold, it left North Carolina in March 07.  Well, it's heading to Vegas now baby!

And oh...knitting and blogging will resume next week--really...

library of my own

So I have been very very busy at work.  You know it's bad when you are leaving after the warning flicker happens to tell you the lights in your building are about to shut off.  That and I have been (finally) unpacking some boxes of books at home and lo and behold, I came across my own version of IK Winter05!  Now I can return the copy that I have from the library and know that I won't have to photocopy the Embossed Leaves project.  Nice!  I also came across some Rowan mags and that striped sweater with the CSH is in one of them!  hooray!

Now I can get started whenever I want with this yarn.  I do think, however, that the sweater would look better as a v-neck...so I'll have to do some modifications.  Also I think the body should be tapered a bit.  But, I still need to finish the EL socks.

Something else funny.  I thought other yarn in my stash was for the DB Biker Jacket...but while looking through one of the Rowan mags, I remembered that all bets were off after I had seen someone at AS wearing this:

A Yorkshire Fable sweater

I can't believe I forgot that. 

$aving$

As promised...the amazing savings from the Sunday Trip to HTQA!!

click for readable size

Yes indeed, the salesgirl took one look at the receipt and said, "WOW, it's almost like WE'RE paying YOU to take the yarn!"  Can you stand it?!!  Yay!

I'm sure you would like to see the yarn from said trip, right?  ^__^

even these look good together...

Yes, I decided to go with the seafoam green to go with the chocolate calmer from WW for the future hoodie!  Oooh softie goodness.  The red Cracksilk was store approved by the Yarn Police there for a new scarf.  The YP told me that I should buy more yarn in that color...whoulda thunk?

I think it's the first time that I've gotten out of that store for less than $50.  Heck, it's a new record...outta there for less than $40.

do zombies knit?

So I stayed up until 4:30AM (gosh today!) b/c I couldn't turn off my brain...I didn't wake up until 10:30AM and now I'm feeling extremely slow even after my coffee.  I wanted to tell you something...what was it...hmmm...

Oh yes!  That's right, last night when I got home, I found a package at my door.  In recent light of the fingernail/sherpa disaster, I decided to be a smart girl, go INto my place first and unload everything before picking up the package...(phew).  See, you can't say I don't learn from past mistakes.

'Cept when I went to open it this AM, of course I pushed that nail slightly backwards and OMG ow ow ow.  This was what was in the mailer:

love the taper here

The funny thing is, I bought this book sight unseen (well technically I saw the cover...), but after seeing her on Knitty Gritty, I knew I had to buy it.  Funnier yet, the sweater that I wanted to knit was the one that Stefanie is wearing in her bio picture.  Me likey.  Some of the patterns characteristically use bulky yarns and that is cool b/c what a quick knit that would be!  For people like me though, I'm still not convinced it is a good thing frame-wise.

Okay off to work--I left my invisalign sitting on my desk.  grrr.

holy crap.

OMG OMG OMG.

I came home (late) tonight after a little retail therapy (yikes! and no yarn to boot!) and after spending some time with my friend SS, I once again schlepped everything up the stairs to find a box at the door.  Okay, most sane people would have opened the door, put everything down that was currently being carried, inside (laptop bag, shopping bags, mail, coffee mug, purse, lunch bag, 2 books...) THEN come back for the box.  No.  Not me.

I reached down to pick up the box along with everything else I was carrying and well, I tried to pick up the box underestimating the weight.  It and the books crashed to the floor and I felt my nail break on my left ring finger.  I didn't want to look, but it was starting to sting.  I looked and well...here it is:

please excuse the cuticles & the blood.

The stinging sensation was worse than I could have imagined and the blood was EVERYWHERE.  It got on my borrowed books--argh.  Seriously, the pain rivaled my laparotomy--darn fingers and their many many nerve endings!!  So look at the picture.  See where the nail actually broke so deeply into the quick?!!  The end of the nail has also pulled completely away from the quick as well in some areas.  It looks like it's still attached only b/c I have superglued it back together and made it clear looking and yes, that stung like hell as well.  Clearly only superglue won't last...ChinaSilk, here I come.

Yup. I might be sidelined for a bit.

poop

I had a post all ready to go with exciting new updates (ha!), just tweaking the last bits and um, IE crashed.  gah.  I lost everything.  I also lost a couple of emails that I had in the queue.

I'm going to bed now and will try again tomorrow...sigh.

knitting in seattle

This was the first time that I had been to meet the Purlygirls in Seattle and I'm glad that I did.  What a great bunch of people!  I honestly felt welcomed which was so very nice since I was a stranger to the group...I will definitely return. 

The group meets at the Blue something...Blue...I keep wanting to say Blue Hat.  It is called Blue Star at 45th/Stone Way near the U-district. 

It was there that Sasha brought me this to peruse:

so cool that I'm seeing it in person!!

Yup.  This is the reason that I bought all of the fun colored yarns yesterday!  hooray  She's even letting me borrow it!  I'm just so very excited about this...

It took 25min door-to-door which isn't that bad considering...heck even the commute across the bridge during rush hour tonight was a breeze!  It was just a great day...now...we need to get bloglessCarrie blogging...  ;)

skirty

Trying to decompress after work, I queued up the DVR to see what was there.  I loaded up an episode of Knitty Gritty where I saw a skirt that grew on me.

I like orange, but not here.

I wouldn't necessarily go with this color, but the pattern sure turned out cutie.  The "fringe" on the bottom isn't just regular fringe, it's actually dropped stitches.  I'm not quite sure why this pattern was knit from the wrong side though.  You're knitting in the round, so why not make it easier on yourself and knit with the right-side-out and not do so many flipping purls?  weird.