Currently, Me

I did this kind of post back in February, and thought it’d be cool to do it again :-P Maybe it should be like a monthly, every-other-month type thing.

Obsessing over…

Loop Batts, if I had the money, I’d buy every single one of them. EVERY SINGLE ONE. Also, Lollipop sock yarns.. I’ve heard so much about this yarn, but never was online during the shop updates. But I saw one was happening a week ago, or something, and quickly scootered over there and got me and my mom each a ball. I’m saving mine for traveling knitting *and* I’m planning on trying my first Afterthought Heel by Laura Linneman (ravelry link :-P) from The Knit Girllls (one of my favoriteest podcasts)

Working on…

Well, at the moment, the projects that are front and center are..

The Wispy Cardigan (my KAL with Hannah ^_^)

The Featherweight Cardigan (just an inch and half left on the collar)

Various little iCord headbands

The Mysterious Unnamed Sweater (a.k.a. the one I’m designing :-P)

and tons of other stuff ^_^

Spinning wise, I’m working on finishing my Mom’s birthday batt, which is happy happy happy ^_^

Thinking about…

Graduation! Major major graduation, the first one is only a week away! And the second one is 2 weeks away. It’s getting closer every day! Lots of stuff needs to be done. I’m also thinking about all my amazing friends and family who are helping me stay sane and happy while we all work together. They’re seriously the best <3

Anticipating…

Haha, more graduation stuff. Starting junior college in the fall, with a busy schedule. Knitting in class ^_^. Ballet recital. Piano recital. Getting to go back to the town I grew up in and graduate with pretty much everyone I grew up with. Working this summer. Getting my driver’s license. Lots of stuff, haha.

I’m also looking forward to the happiness of Tour de Fleece and the Ravelympics! It’s going to be epic!!

Listening to/bands I’m addicted to…

Allie Moss! Paper Aeroplanes! Jenny and Tyler! JJ Heller! Mumford and Sons! The list is endless ^_^

Eating…

I’m craving some chocolate chip cookies.. but alas, they are not to be had. I think I must fix this problem :-P

Wishing…

That it would rain, haha. More time for various things like knitting, spinning, reading, and focusing on the blog. That I could take another trip over to London, Dublin, and Edinburgh.. it’s almost been a year, and I miss it :-P Missing friends and wishing they didn’t live so far away.

Projecting Busy Vibes into the Fiber Arts

I has been a’spinning!

So much stuff has been going on, haha, it’s been a little, to say the least, hectic, haha. So I’ve been trying to project all the stressfulness and stuff that comes afterwards into my crafty endeavors, haha.

Lots of knitting, lots of spinning, a little crocheting. Progress all around.

So I’m more than halfway done with my mom’s birthday Loop batt, and it’s spinning up beautifully. Loop is so amazing, I could spin Loop batts for forever.

Theres a little left of the teal blue, then two other colors left. A dark navy, and finishes with a beautifulllll TARDIS blue. SO GORGEOUS.

Needless to say, I can’t wait to get to the last color ^_^

Birthday Spinning, shhhhh!

For my mom’s birthday, Joey and I split the cost of a Loop batt and then I’d spin it. So, now that I finished my first Loop batt (which was on my wheel when her’s arrived) I got started on her’s ^_^

And it’s really hard to photograph that lighter blue, but it’s like the most vibrant blue you can think of. That green is just the beginning of the second color… there are some majorly beautiful colors that’ll pop up sooner or later…

It’s gonna be sooooo beautiful! I can’t wait to see what my mom does with it :-P

A wispy update, haha… I’ve got almost three and a half inches of the first sleeve..

yaaaaayyyy progress! Haha, it maybe an itty bit, but I’ll take what I can get. I was just happy to be able to sit down and knit for a little bit, haha :-P

FO!!: Le Judith

Someone has a finished objectttttt. And that someone might be meeee. ^_^

This may have been one of those projects that I just felt the need to start, even though I knew I shouldn’t… but I did anyway (heehee ^_^) so, it doesn’t *quite* count towards my “Demolish that UFO bin” cause. Because that totally became a thing with a name. About 2 seconds ago :-P

Pattern: Judith Shrug from Quince and Co. but Cecily Glowik MacDonald
Yarn: Sublime Yarns Extra Fine Merino Wool DK (about 3.2 skeins)
Colorway: 0251 (dye lot: 60372)
Needles: US5 and US6 (3.75mm and 4.0mm)
Mods: none :-)

It really is a beautiful shrug, the lace pattern is so extremely easy… but it’s one of those ones that people look at and go “OH MY GOODNESS. You made *that*?!?? That looks so complicated!”

When it’s actually not ^_^

Yep, yep. I’m really really happy with it ^_^

Also…

I got lace Toms for Easter, and that’s kinda really really happy as well, heehee.

(AND I also have a more than amazing brother who takes pictures of whatever I ask whenever I ask, and the pictures are awesome. Yep, he’s pretty much thebomb. com)

FO: Fortnight!! And Mah Birthday ^_^

Haha, so you’re probably wondering… if I have an FO, why didn’t I blog about it before? Because if I did that, I’d feel way more accomplished, blah blah blah.

I actually kinda finished this in about 4-5 hours. So that’s why there wasn’t a post about it, haha :-P

Pattern: Fortnight by Jared Flood of BrooklynTweed
Yarn: Cascade 220 for MC and Cascade 220 Heather for CC
Needles: US8 24″ circular and US8 DPNs
Mods: none
Check out the project page on Ravelry!

I really really enjoyed knitting this hat, actually. I’ve heard so many horror stories of knitting garter stitch in the round, that I was worried it’d be a pain. But nope, it went smoother than the cabled part, actually.

It really is an amazing hat. And this is also a gift. And I kinda want to keep this one, haha. But more on that in a moment :-P

After this little mini (which is redundant, I know, but it’s my birthday and I can do what I want :-P) photoshoot, taking off the hat resulted in…

crazy-hat-I’ve-just-kinda-rolled-out-of-bed hair. And because it was *that* special, I decided that I’d show you guys. Because you guys are awesome, haha.

So, it’s also my birthday today. The big One-Nine (which is extremely cheesy sounding, hahaha :-P) My last teenage year. The beginning of new things. It started off with an amazing breakfast…

Some epic epic cinnamon rolls my amazing mom made. They were so good. Reader, you so started drooling… don’t deny it :-P

My awesome (did I mention, she’s amazing??) mom also excused me from physics (and pretty much any school I didn’t want to do ^_^) and we’re now going to watch Doctor Who, knit, drink tea, bask in this glorious cloudy and rainy day (this day was made just for me. The weather, I couldn’t ask for better) and feel extremely blessed to have so many friends to send me so many extremely sweet and kind notes on facebook, emails, texts, tweets. Thank you so much :-)

Anyways, my goal is knit another hat. That’d be awesome. It’d be called “My Birthday Hat”. But more on that later :-P

Goodbye, 2011. Helloooo, 2012.

Out with the old year, and in with the new ^_^

Unfortunately, I’m bringing in my new year with feeling rather icky with some strange stomach bug. Or something. I don’t know. Whatever it is, it’s not cool.

So, I’ll be like everyone else and say how fast the year went by. It feels like it was just January. Which, obviously, it wasn’t. It was 11 months ago. Almost 12, haha.

Things happened, things changed, things were learned. Soooo many good things happened. Though, not to say that nothing bad happened to me this year. Lots of bad stuff happened, but that’s just… part of life, haha. But the good stuff does definitely out-weigh the bad stuff, which is definitely a happy fact ^_^

I met so many awesome people this year, it’s not even funny. People, that I hope to be friends with for a loooong time (“If you stumble, just make it part of the dance” :-P) I became better friends with people that I already knew. (“Poor Bob… Poor poor Bob.” *dies*)

So some of the big highlights of the year… Let me think…

Well, in February, I officially became an adult, haha. That’s…important, haha. I also became addicted to Doctor Who. Extremely addicted… as you all well know, haha :-P
April, Emily and Sam came for the ball. And that was more than extremely epicly awesome. (yessss, for LY words, haha)
May, I got my hair cut. It went from the middle of my back to being a little longer than ear length.
June, so began our world travels, where we spent… 3 weeks visiting Ireland, Scotland, London, Paris, Rome, Florence, Bath, and Oxford (yes, we went to *all* of those places. In 3 weeks. And we didn’t die)
July, this was our mini resting month. At the end of July, Joey and I headed to Manitou, Colorado for 2 weeks for Summit
August, this also includes Summit. And at the end, the Ballingers came to play for a dance practice. Woot woot, Prairie Fire! And that visit, no words. No words. It was amazing ^_^
September, I began my UFO bin workage, haha. Finished I think… 2 sweaters that had been languishing for forever. I also began my Christmas knitting
October, I took an online photography class, which was amazingly awesome. I learned a ton.
November, this was a busy month. I saw Owl City in concert. I yarn bombed for the first time. Finished a sweater in 19 days. And made my best and most favorite FO yet. Thanksgiving happened, my sister-in-law graduated PA school, Annnnd. I think that’s it, haha.
December, the Ballingers came to visit again! (eeeeee, so happy ^_^) to play for our winter ball. Which was so amazingly awesomeeee. My Christmas ballet recitals happened. It was awesome. Annnd Christmas happened.

And here we are, December 30, 2011. Haha, writing all that stuff down, I had fun remembering all of it.. looking up stuff, looking at old pictures. So happy :-P

So what do I plan to do in 2012? Well, first off.. I really hope I do what I want to do, haha. That I actually finish some things that have either gotten started recently, or have been started for a very very long time.

I plan to:
1) finish the various blankets I have going. Such as the Mitered Cross Blanket, the Granny Square Blanket, and a blanket that… was supposed to be a birthday present 2 years ago. (yes, I do know that’s a horribly sad thing to say, haha)

2) get my license. If it kills me. Which the traffic here, since it *is* insane, haha, could do.

3) finish almost everything in that UFO bin. And use up the stash yarn I’ve saved up.

4) Spin. a ton. and knit with it.

5) Have fun times with my friends. It’ll be awesome.

6) Graduate. This is important, haha.

7) and most importantly glorify God in everything that I do.

and a bunch of other stuff that either I have no idea will happen, or I do know will happen, I just don’t know.. a lot about it, haha.

Anyways, dear readers, I hope you’ve had the best 2011, and I hope that 2012 will be even better for you :-) Thanks for sticking with me through 2011!

Now, lets go knit and watch some Doctor Who ^_^

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 :-)

.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 ^_^

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star..

And so these Christmas ornaments are almost done!

None of them have their faces, except that one.

But holy cow, these would make such cute… like hair clips, earrings… orrrr to sew onto like a hat or whatever.

They’re just pretty stinkin’ adorable, if you ask me :-P

Christmas Ornaments!

aren’t these like the cutest things EVER??

And they don’t even have the faces yet.

These are little Christmas ornaments for my sister’s tree. She doesn’t have a ton of ornaments at the moment, so she asked for some. Though she didn’t ask for handmade, I thought it’d be a really nice thing to do.

The pattern is from this blog, where there are some examples of what I want mine to look like, haha.

Hopefully I’ll be successful :-P

These *are* crocheted. Which, is definitely not my strong suit, haha. I’m sure I’m butchering some of the stitches, but oh well. It’s a work in progress :-P