I must apologize....

I'm sorry for taking Elizabeth Zimmerman's name in vain, calling her a beeyotch, saying she didn't know what she was talking about, and wanting to resurrect her from her grave slap her, ask her what she meant and put her back in her grave. I should not have doubted her infinite wisdom and talent, I must now do Hail Elizabeths on circular needles with beaded knitting on them, or probably more appropriately fair isle, and then I must stockinette on 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 sts until I have learned my lesson.

Enough of that, well a cup of tea, many hours (going what the $&^@) and 2 ibuprofen later the olympic design sweater is coming along. The sleeves are joined onto the body and I just ripped back 4 round deciding to do something differently. I feel so close to finishing I can taste it, well that or I tried to eat a skein of yarn with the colorway called berries....either or, both are made of wool. Lets go with the first one...

I'm not posting pictures because I want it to be a surprise when it's done, though I'm soooo not going to enjoy the last part of this project. Well it's among a myriad of things I don't like to do in knitting, which isn't that many, but still I digress. I only have a few days left, I can do it? I hope.

Race to finish and steeking good cutting BAD!!!

So I'm working on my Olympic Challenge Project and it's going, well? I'm on the sleeves right now, I want to get them joined by wednesday so I can finish it all by friday, cause that would be nice to get it done early but who knows. I hope I have enough yarn to do what I want to do with this sweater.

In other news, don't I repeat DON'T cut what you "think" is a seam yarn when you're altering previous knits. My Hardangervida sweater I knit about 2-4 years ago I decided to take out the collar and reknit it, snipping the back in the process. I had the local Knit doctor fix it and it's as good as new. I just need to reknit the collar with shaping, and do the zipper plackets again. I'm very glad I kept the yarn for this. I won't post pics of the holes, but when it's done I'll post new pics.

Knitting Olympics and the 2010 Project

So it's that time again and the Knitting Olympics are here and I have decided I want to participate. It's a fun event and it gives me an opportunity to knit on something for the book that I can just whip out. I won't tell you what it is, just that it will be really cool.

Another thing is I'm working on something I'm calling the 2010 blanket. What this is, is very simple, a log cabin blanket of sorts. However what I'm doing is, all of the projects I make in 2010, whatever is left from it will be knit into this blanket. It will be like a memoir of the knitting year. I'm hoping that it will be really cool looking once it's done, and it will give me an idea of the colors I use a lot of, the kinds of yarn etc. So I'm hoping by the end of the year and when the book is almost done (or at least he designing and knitting) I will have a decently sized blanket. I have the center square done and I'm working on the next part. It's really mindless, but I like the idea of it.

If anyone is interested in this as a Group on Ravelry let me know, I wouldn't mind making one.

As for the book, I'm still working on the one project, it's just going to take a while with all of the shaping and the small yarn and needles I'm using. But I will post pics soon.

Wind my arm off

So I was getting ready to wind all of the yarn for the project, measuring, calculating and doing a winding by hand till all numbers were all complete, which I didn't mind. I was thinking, I can't wait to put the motor on my skein winder, and it will go so much faster. Well not so much, the yarn I was winding was too much for my motor and it couldn't do it. So I had to wind about 5 pounds of dyed yarn by hand. Though it did turn out very well I think. Excuse the messy desk, it's my creative chaos.




The orange is a red in this picture, but I like how they turned out. The purple was a little bit of a challenging child, but apparently the knitters who saw it loved it. I'm please with the bright intense colors I got, the yarn is a BFL and I liked it so much I might make it a permanent edition to the Macek Designs line. I know I might want to order more for a sweater I have in mind.

Speaking of knitting the knitting olympics is coming up very very very soon and I'm not sure what I am going to knit for it. I have an idea for it, it's a possible project for the book, a slightly plain sweater with intarsia in it and maybe some other textures. I'm not sure yet, still playing with the idea.

And so it begins....

I am now looking for a new job. I didn't get fired or quit, yet... I just figured it's time for me to do something different and that I will be forever grateful to my work for taking a chance on me, it's time to move on. 2 years at that place is way longer then I ever expected.

Knitting, not much going on really, I started school on monday and it's going well, I just hope I can get one more unit in to make it a full 12.

Does anyone actually read this?