Who's a happy kitten?

My first yarn+needle purchase from knitpicks arrived yesterday and you bet I was swatchin the moment I sat down on the subway. The Lelah calls lace bit calls for 7&9's but they have not arrived from the other sale I bought from at knithappens but I can easily enough fit them on a 16" untill the 24" arrives.

This is going to make for some great semi-mindless knitting. Although I am swatching carefully. I've read on other blogs that this can be the top from hell if you dont get your guage in check.



3.25mm, 5.5mm, 4.0mm

I think I'm partial to the smaller guages. As Julie points out, "It looks more handknit than homemade".

feeding the shopping jones

I haven't been doing much knitting lately. The needles just aren't calling. Ok that’s a bold face lie- I just want to buy different yarns. I would really like to start the lelah top in the next few days. Maybe I'll do a lil shrapnel damage today? Mebbe.




What color?


I find I spend my time perusing shopping blogs and reading up on what everyone else is doing/wearing thes days. Here are my picks from anthropologie.com

I went snowboarding in vermont on the weekend

in spirit


Also been working on Kevin's #2 which by accident I made ginormous and had to rip out down to the flaps. Comming along nicley though ..NOW... *frustrated*

Guage is the bane of my existence.

half baked

Instead of finishing one glove completely, I started the second to save time while I figure out how to make the hole Karo wants. Seriously. This is damn hard.

Cast-on for my endpaper's and about 1/4 way throught the first one I realized I didn't like them as much as I had hoped. I'd post a picture but it's already back at the pond. Maybe a houndstooth motif instead. *shrugs*

I'll be so glad when I can knit for ME.

I have two other *secret* projects in the works right now for two friends who are all about exclusivity. They want stuff nobody else has, and nobody else will ever have. Easy enough, look forward to me breaking many copyright laws in the comming weeks.

what else?
Oh yes. I'm going to clean up this blog, sit down and write out some CSS/HTML and make a proper webpage. Whats the use of havin skills if you dont use them right?

arrrrrrrr guy

arrrrrrrr guy, originally uploaded by j_sun.

you so boxxy

And in the category of things that have now taken up my life...

This year I keep a few resolutions in my minds eye...

One: become stronger than I was before the accident
Two: being all my needle projects to fruition
Three: erase visa debt, and save up the cost of vacations BEFORE hand


Here's what I plan to accomplish so far for 2007. Crazy is as crazy does..

not in order

1. Fair Isle fingerless gloves/armwarmers *my own design for Karo
2. Endpaper mittens
3. Bella Paquita *Click
4. Lelah top *Click
5. Amelia *Click
6. Clapotis *Click
7. An undetermined triangle shawl as a gift to a friend
8. An undetermined rectangle shawl as a gift to a friend
9. Odessa *Grumperina


Besta get knittin hmm?