doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo...

I'm exhausted. I was supposed to go on a trip soon but I can't since I'll most likely be moving this summer. I'm very sad about not hitting up Paris, but I guess it means I have to find something else to entertain me and allow me to rest. I'm wondering if I could make it to NYC and Boston before april for some PR&R (the p is for party of course). Considering that I work with kids every day of the week, I'm run down and I don't want them to suffer from the crabbyness that comes with being overworked and underpaid. :D Think about it this way, most parents raise about 2 kids. I have 45. I've been working with kids since the age of 15 (OMG I just realized how long that is!), I whine and bitch about them but really they're awesome.

Anyhow...

I finished my first pair of socks of the year. They're just a plain pair but I like them. They're super multi-coloured! It's at moments like this that I'm a little sad about my camera situation...feh!

Tomorrow I cast on for the CPH. Can't wait.

For now, I sleep.

happy dance

about 10 minutes ago I did a happy dance. I finished the Gathered pullover. YAY! Everything is nice and seamed up and I tried it on and it looks as if it were custom made for me. Oh wait, it was!

Since I still can't find my camera's charger, you'll have to wait a little for visual proof but I sure am happy that it's done!

Ok, so now I have a plain sock to finish and then, I'm off to Central Park Hoodie-land...

big trouble in little seams-ville

so last night i went to knit night and it was a lot of fun. It also proved very helpful since i got some good advice on why my shoulder caps weren't very much fun to sew in. The shoulder holes were perfect and the sleeves fit me well but they didn't match when i tried to piece them together so now I'm rebuilding. I ripped out the shoulder seams in an effort to make them smaller to fit the shoulder caps but then i was helped to realize that the shoulder caps are too small. So now i'm re-knitting the back to make it a little smaller and i'm reknitting the sleeve caps to make them a little bigger. Le-sigh! I guess this is a lesson in patience...! Hopefully they'll fit when I re-try to sew them and I'll be able to finally use this sweater before it gets to warm for wool.

I've also swatched for the Central Park Hoodie. I don't know how much I like the Cascade 220 knit on such big needles, I might go down in needle size and up in sizing to get the desired effect.

Mark my words, I will make and finish these two items.

omg

I'm seaming the Gathered pullover. Me. Seaming a sweater...Shit!

The process to finish this baby is going well (thanks to some helpful YouTube vids) except that the seam between the first sleeve and body has a two tiny gaping holes in it. I don't know if I should simply try to hide them through the WS or rip out my seam and start aaaaaaaaaalllllll over again. Tomorrow is knit night so be warned that I'll be there asking for help... If I can finish this puppy tomorrow, I'll be in heaven!

Tomorrow I'll be getting ready for the next project: the ever popular Central Park Hoodie. I have a truckload of Cascade 220 in a really loud pink that's just waiting. Tomorrow morning, it's winding time and hopefully by Thursday (I almost typed Turdsday *snort* I need to stop taking joke advice from 12 year old kids...) I'll be casting on. After that, I'll be due for some sock knitting. I miss socks. Sweet sweet socks...mmmmm!

Goodnight!

mindless

knitting sleeves is so vedge! With the body, I had the cable section to look forward to, but now, it's just knitting all the way around and then doing it all over again. I'm hoping that I can start the increases soon.

Oh I tried the body on once I seamed the shoulders (which made me feel like a champ btw!). Sweater fits to a tee. I'm really excited to see the whole thing once I get some arms onto it.

that it all.
goodnight.

almost

shockingly, i'm almost done with the body of my Gathered Pullover! The front is complete and now i'm working on the back. Maybe my Olympic challenge will be to actually finish it and wear it by the end of the games. Yay me!

Boredom

Every once in a while, I experience acute boredom. I have fridays off from work so I spent the day in my pj's, having some Skype meetings and knitting. I'm 22 rows into the cable pattern of the Gathered Pullover. Pretty fucking awesome so far!

Oh, I also realized that I'm missing the second half of the second season of Lost. I could just go rent it BUT that would imply getting out of my pj's...

Tomorrow I have to go to a baby shower. A friend from high school is having a kid. Scary! I've known this girl since grade three. Baby... WOW!!!!! Anyhow, I'm making pie for the event (ooh, I should get on that!).

Anyhow, more news soon!