The Knitting Goddess… she now spins.

Haha, it’s been awhile since I’ve written… thowwie about that. But it was nice to have a little break. I had a great time with my family, Christmas was amazing (which you’ll see why in just a minute, haha) lots of good food, it was just epicly awesome, haha.

On Christmas day, and the 2 days after, I spun 4oz per day. So that’s 16oz in two days. Now, I don’t know if that’s really fast or not, but for me… as someone who just got their wheel… that’s really amazing, haha. I’m rather proud of myself ^_^ (then I spun 6oz over the last 2 days, ish. And all that’s done)

So the result of the first three days are as follows…

This is…BFL Superwash(^^), I believe. And the color is called Salmon Crossing. Dis was my… second spinning attempt

Then theres…

Galinda The Good (that’s the color name. How amazingly awesome is that?!) which is Merino Top. This was my first spinning attempt. This one has been washed, and all that’s left is to wind it up into a cake and knit it. I think, haha.

And then, I spun up the last of my Doctor Who fiber ^_^ which is 100% BFL. This one is my favorite, I think. This was my third attempt, so by this time I had really gotten the hang of it.

Either way, I’m absolutely adoring spinning. Holy cowwww, I love it so much. Definitely one of the best Christmases ever ^_^

Also, on Christmas Eve, I got my hair highlighted. Which was cool for me, because I’ve never dyed my hair before.

It’s kinda hard to see… but it’s like a subtle chocolate brownish-redish-ness.

Oh, and also for Christmas, among such amazingly awesome things, I got some earrings…

That are… thebomb. com. Fo seriously. (you can kinda see the red in that picture, haha) Little baby owl earrings?! How can you go wrong?!

Anyways, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, and you’ll have an amazing New Years :-)

Eggnog Latte Sugar Cookies.. mmmhmm

This year, it’s a little different than the past years. But only in the fact that I’ve done practically no baking… at all. Until today, when I only made 2 kinds of cookies.

Usually we make like 5+ different kinds, and we just make a huge day out of baking. We also end up crashing at around 3:00 PM, because we’ve all had so much sugar, it’s not even funny. Hahaha :-P

So today, I made something new that I hadn’t ever had, heard of, or tried. It was exciting. I made Eggnog Latte Sugar Cookies

It was also really easy, because I used left over cookie dough from when I made Jammie Dodgers, which I had frozen. Soooo, all I had to make was the icing!

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Holy cow, I think I ate about… I don’t even want to know how much I ate while I was assembling said cookies, hahaha. It was a lot.

Soooooooo amazing. Ooooh my goodness. Yeah. Yeahhh yeah. They’re really good :-P

After those were done, I did Cyclops cookies, which Katie requested. Easy peasy, done in about 20 minutes.

And now? I’m very very ready to take a break, and maybe knit a little bit.

Speaking of knitting! Last night, very very late (which I shall explain why in a moment), I finished the last .3 that was left of the Christmas knitting. Yes, it is all complete. And happy. And joyous. I still have to wrap everything. But that’s ooook, I’ll have fun wrapping.. whenever I wrap, while watching old Doctor Whos, or the Big Bang Theory (I caught up on New Girl last night. Holy cow, love that show)

So, why was I up late late last night? Well, my family and I went to go see Mission Impossible (which from the time of getting into the car to go to the movie, and leaving the movie, I had cast on, turned the heel, and started the gusset of a sock. during the movie. In the dark. I was very proud of myself)

So we went to go see this movie, and go home around 9:30 ish. We then hung out for a little bit, and then decided that we wanted to watch another movie. We settled on The Three Amigos, which is an old family favorite.

Upon watching this, I was told that when I was 5, I adored this movie. Though, I’m guessing that the only part I understood was that there was a singing bush, lots of pinatas, and it was funny. I was also told that Dusty Bottoms was my favorite. And I liked his costume the best.

Yes, yes, you can laugh. Because I was definitely laughing my head off when I heard this.

Also, I was very good at doing my own rendition of “My Little Buttercup” (which you really should check it out. It’s…hilarious. Their version. Mine was never recorded… or at least not to my knowledge, haha)

Anyways, I shall leave you all now… I feel the need to go knit, or wrap all the presents.. that need to be wrapped.

Tomorrow is Christmas Eve ^_^

Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree…

If you need a little smile or a big laugh, you will definitely get both from this video.

Yep.

Merry Christmas ^_^

.7 projects left! Yesssss

So, I might not have to stay up very very late/very very early on Christmas Eve/Christmas Day after all.

At this very moment, I only have about 1.5 (and barely that..) gifts to knit left. That absolutely have to be done. And the 1, it’s a hat. And all that’s left is the decreases. So… maybe more like .7 projects left, haha :-P

Phew. Lots of knitting right there. But totally more than worth it. Most definitely. I’m going to try and do my best to get pictures.. of the objects on/with/near by the recipient.. hopefully, haha. :-P

I love Christmas knitting ^_^

Plus, after I’m done, I get to continue my work on the UFO bin… and that Stephen West shawl, Sharktooth ^_^

West Knits rocks my world

So, I don’t know if I mentioned this before, but I signed up for the West Knits Shawl Club by Stephen West and the Yarn Co… and I don’t remember when I signed up for it, haha.

It definitely caused a huge amount of excitement, like reallllly really excited ^_^

I mean, it’s Stephen West’s patterns and yarn that he picked out! (really really nice yarn too :-P) How in the world could it be bad???

So, today when we got back from doing some Christmas shopping, I went to go get the mail, and was greeted by a wonderfully happy package ^_^

The first month of the West Knits Shawl Club ^_^

It’ll go until April, I believe. How stinking amazing is that. Every month, you get to look forward to getting a package in the mail box with a skein of ammmazingly yummy and squishy yarn *AND* a brand new Stephen West pattern.

Also, on an unrelated note: I love the looks and stares I get when I knit while walking through the mall. It’s just too awesome.

Musical Monday!!

We watched this movie last night. It really is pretty awesome. I think more people should sing this song… it’s not sung enough, haha :-P

Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fireeeee

last night we did half of our Christmas decorations…

the exterior illumination is out, and shall shine in it’s glory when it gets dark.

While the boys worked on the outside, my mom and I did the inside… the banisters, and such. It’s all good :-P

Tonight, the plan is to decorate the tree, which has been living in our house for the past couple of days. By now, the cats have gotten used to it. They are still a bit nervous about it, but they’re not so nervous that they act like a Ood will come climbing out of the insides (Major brownie points if you know what an Ood is! *Doctor Who jokes ftw*)

Tomorrow… we plan to clean, bake some stuff, go get my Christmas present (HOLY COW, I’M SO EXCITED!!) and then piano lessons… where I have a big theory test to do. Wheeeee!

I love Christmas time… it’s so happy ^_^

(Also, I’m totally going to, hopefully, watch the Doctor Who Christmas special on Christmas day. Hoooly cow, I CANNOT WAIT… ^_^)

FO: Frosted Chocolate

Oh yeah! OHHH yeah! We have not only an FO, but PICTURES of said FO. (Thanks to Joey, who took the pictures for me ^_^)

Pattern: Simple Pleasures Hat by PurlBee Soho. (direct link the *free* pattern! woot woot!)
Yarn: MC – Cascade 220 (lost the ball-band :-/) CC – Noro Silk Garden . Color: 272
Needles: US9 and US10
Mods: none

Also, I completed this hat in a span of 24 hours. Total knitting time was probably about 4 or 5 hours. I cast it on around 8:00 pm… knit a row, then the next day, completed the 6 inches of 2×2 ribbing during the movie Hugo (which I’m rather proud of myself. 2×2 ribbing, in the dark. No mistakes. Oh yeah.) Then I finished the body of the hat 2 hours later.

I’m pretty happy with it. It’s got a really nice long folded brim. It’s really super baggy. It’s colorful. I used stash. I used stash NORO (you all probably know by now, pretty much anything I do with Noro is stinking happy, haha :-P). In fact, both yarns were stash. Old stash. *accomplishment*

Now *heres* a hat that I would totally recommend for beginner knitters. Or “Let’s move on, one can only make so many scarves before I go insane” stage knitters :-P The crown shaping is so fun, I loved it.

Usually with hats, when I’m doing the shaping, I’m getting impatient… I just want to be able to wear the hat, or give it away. I want to move on. But no, I have a million rows of shaping to do.

This had like, 4 rows where you actually decreased (and 2 rows in between each decrease row). And bam, I was done! I really like the look of that as well… it’s pretty stinking adorable, if you ask me :-P

You know you’re a Jeeves and Wooster fan when…

I’ve been a bad knitter over the past couple of days, and have been knitting things that aren’t necessarily Christmas gifts (though, they could be) and ignoring the fact that, yes, I should be knitting on Christmas gifts. But noooo.

I had to cast this on. The yarn was just too happy, and the pattern too tempting *not* to cast it on. I mean, I had already waited, what… 2 weeks? 3 weeks? since I actually got the pattern and the yarn.

So the pattern is Poet Society Tam by Madelinetosh, and I’m using Madelinetosh DK in… Warm Maize. Which definitely fits the color, most definitely.

As much as I’m absolutely adoring how it’s turning out, and how it looks… My relationship with the pattern itself is rather rocky. Really really rocky.

Well, just getting it started, and all that jazz. It was really bad.

Though, I must say, when I started it, it was like…11:30 at night. So I definitely wasn’t the most alert person. And on top of that, Jeeves and Wooster was playing, so I was busy practically quoting the entire episode. You know you’re a Jeeves and Wooster nerd/geek/insanely huge fan when you can quote almost an entire episode.

But yeah, with the little overlap thing, it made sense… kind of. But the way it was written (or the way my brain was translating it, haha) did not work. at all. Stitches would have ended up in the wrong place, the beginning of the round would have been in the wrong place. It was just all wacky.

Eventually, I figured something out, and now it’s going along extremely well.

It was just really frustrating to have that problem. I was also being impatient, so that wasn’t helping anything, haha.

I definitely wouldn’t recommend this pattern to a beginner knitter, or someone who doesn’t know their way around the knitting world very well. If you *do* end up making it, at some point in time, and you’re confused… definitely shoot me a message, and I’d be happy to tell you what I did.

On a happy note, I have absolutely adorable buttons that are going to go on the hat when it’s done. Like, adorable adorable. Oh yeah.

Also, the ad on Pandora for McDonald’s Big Mac, is only relatively annoying after it’s played 15 times in the span of 20 minutes. *sarcasm*

But that’s my personal preference :-P

Musical Monday!!