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Stitches West 2010

Hey! Look at me! Actually blogging about something that happened THE SAME DAY instead of 6 weeks later! Amazing!

I went to Stitches West yesterday and today, and by “went to Stitches West” I mean I went to the market and didn’t take any classes.  I had a budget and LO. I have three whole dollars left and didn’t even get out the credit card.

Here’s what I got:

Stitches Haul 2010

I mostly bought from Miss Babs this year because she had the nice big skeins of worsted weight, of which I only need two skeins to make a sweater out of. I got two skeins of the “Yowza Whatta Skein” in Blue Teal and Sandi’s Red. I also got a skein of her “Yummy” sock in squash blossom.  The other sock yarn I got was from Wabi Sabi and is the colorway Orchid in Glow Sock. I chatted with the lady from Wabi Sabi for a bit; she was really nice. I wish my camera would take a picture of the right color of that yarn because it’s beauuutiful; a deep dark purply orchid color. *love*

My rule re: sock yarn this year, since I have a sick amount of sock yarn, was that I could only buy it in yellow, purple, and red, which are colors I don’t have as much of as the rest. By the time I bought the wabi sabi yarn I had almost run out of money, so I stopped by Chameleon Colorworks and picked up a bottle of the Ravelry-inspired Soak.

Stitches Haul 2010

It smells really good.  Normally I go with the grapefruit Eucalan because it’s way more economical, but I do like Soak and this was with the last of my money for the most part.

After we were done, my mom and I stopped at In N Out Burger with my aunt January. Mmmm, double double/dr pepper!

And now I’m home, watching crime, and about to make some green Thai curry for dinner. Good times!

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Up To (No Good)

I’ve spent a good portion of these first two months of 2010 doing nothing but knitting on sweaters and listening to zombies on book-on-CD while I work on some jewelry designs. My place is pretty trashed due to my tragic housekeeping skills, though I did clean my bathroom recently (the other bathroom is my de-facto paper-towel storage center and knit-wear cleaning station). And one of my new years resolutions was to keep more on top of things, and I certainly have in the kitchen, which is where things were most dire. Other places in the house it’s just full of craft-related clutter. The one thing in the kitchen that is throwing me is recycling, like where do I keep that stuff? I don’t even know. Argh.

I’m trying to be a better housekeeper, but…

Honestly, I have better things to do. 😛

So anyway, I have been knitting, and I totally knit this sweater in January:

Gathered Pullover
(hard to take a decent picture of yourself, let alone knitwear by yourself at 10 pm in the middle of winter, you know? oy.)

I like it.

PATTERN: Gathered Pullover, Interweave
YARN: Dream in Color Classy,  Happy Forest
MODS: Well, the whole thing is a mod except for the bustline cable. The original pattern has you knit from the bottom up with no ribbings.  But that is not how I roll, so I knit it as a top down raglan with 2×2 ribbings. I hate the curly look of stockinette edging. Also, I made 3/4 sleeves instead of long sleeve. I had enough yarn to make long sleeves but I wasn’t feeling it.

IN CONCLUSION:

Here is a picture of the zombie box I made that I found on my harddrive.

Zombie Box

Hard to believe that I actually made that like six or seven years ago now! Oh, zombie box. It only lost two of the Barbie arms in my travels.

…I hated sculpture class. I have no aptitude for three dimensional thinking (hence making illustration/drawing my main focus), though I did enjoy ceramics.  If I ever find my grotesques I’ll post pictures of those. I have no idea what happened to them – I remember packing them, and then they are just not here anywhere post-Texas. I’ll have to check the shed.

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Crocheted Snowflakes



Crocheted Snowflakes, originally uploaded by Pynnski.

I mentioned previously that I had made a small banner of snowflakes to decorate for Christmas. These are the ones that I made.

I used a variety of patterns, including several from a vintage pamphlet from the sixties. I also used a couple from Beyond the Square Crochet Motifs, which is a great book with a lot of variety of so-called granny squares (or, hexagons, circles, etc.).

The yarn I used was a sparkly DK weight Vanna yarn that I can’t remember the name of, but hey, Vanna White = win, so whatever, and the blue yarn is Dream in Color Smooshy in Some Summer Sky.

I forget what hook I used, probably like an E or something.