Tipsy, Excited, ZephyrGals are awesome...

Alright, so I pretty much just flipped my shit at getting mentioned in the ZephyrGals blog, like, really, freaked out a little bit.

A suprise came in the mail!

Oh look, it's a box! How interesting...




Look, who it is from... Yarn, that's interesting...


The anticipation is killing me!


Oh look!


And what's this? A spindle?


Look how pretty! Sheeps!


Instructions, they look classy.



It's the pre-pre-drafted test yarn I spun.


Look at how pretty it is.


Here is the first that I spun


It's not very pretty.


I think that I'm really gonna have to have someone show me how to do this better. Watching videos and reading about it isn't helping very much, i'm still a little unsure how to control the twist, though I suppose I will have to practice more.

Project in less than 24 hours...

So I completed the boy hat today, I cast on this project yesterday, and it was nice to cast on and cast off in a day, makes me feel better about some of my longer projects.

Not much more to this post, but here are some pictures.

Rubbing elbows with the Knitting Stars

So, guess who should show up tonight to Twisted Knit Knite? Why, it would be the ZeyphrGals who designed my tree jacket. I about peed my pants when they showed up. Not only did they come to knit knite, they came out for drinks afterward. I talked to Rachel for a long time about knitting and designing patterns, and she has put the idea in my head that I should start designing things for men, maybe I can convince them to collaborate on designs with me, that would rock ass.

I cast on the boy hat today, and am almost half way done, I should finish it tomorrow.

It was a good day for knitting.

Sleeves, Hats, Gloved Dreams

I am probably 3" away from being done with the second sleeve of the sweater, but I am waiting for my sister to get back to me with her preferred sleeve length, which is taking a while because she has a baby. So, until then, I pulled out my longer needles and re-threaded them to work on the body. The only sad part is that the sleeves went so fast (I knit the second one in about a day) that the body seems to be going so slow. I just need to get back into it.

I am itching to cast on a new, shorter project, as many of the ones I am working on right now are bigger. I want to knit the boy hat out of the Velvet Grapes Malabrigo that I bought at Twisted last week (how can anyone resist this yarn?). I think the patter is interesting enough to be fun to knit, but simple enough to show off the yarn. It'll be nice.

Also, i have this dream of making fingerless gloves out of the Malabrigo lace weight yarn, which means, with my gauge I'd be knitting on double zeros, which I've never done before, but I think the result would be amazing. So tell me, am I mad?

Update on stuff

Wow, I haven't updated this in a while. I'm about 10" into the body of the Tree Jacket, but I just finished the first sleeve. Because I want to make the sweater longer then the pattern calls for, and I am worried about yardage, I decided that I am going to knit the sleeves first, then finish the body, either stopping when it is long enough or when I run out of yarn, whichever comes first. I am a little worried that the sleeve is too short (it comes in at 19" from underarm) and that it will be too baggy. But I won't really know until I try it on my sister (come December).

My socks are progressing nowhere, both the ones for myself and the ones for Kati, I just haven't been in a sock knitting mood.

I bought some Malabrigo yesterday from Twisted, I think I will make myself a wonderful little hat, it will be glorious.

I think i am going to scrap the Seascape Stole, and try a different kind of shawl, I have been finding it too frustrating.

Jason's Gryffindor scarf is also behind schedule, I have also been finding it boring to knit.

Granted, it's not really behind schedule, since these are all christmas presents.

Moar Socks

I'm very surprised with how well the socks are going. If I wanted, I could stop the one I'm working on now, it's long enough, but I think that I am going to make them knee highs (Ghey...) which will be fab. I'm a little less pleased with the striping pattern then I was earlier, the toe and heel stripe the way that I want, but my feet are just to big, so the main body of the sock is doing single row stripes, where I would want them thicker, but it will be alright in the end, it is my first exploration into socks, and it's going well.

I'm going to start a pair for Kati tomorrow, she's going to buy then yarn and then I'm going to try and get them done before she leaves. I'm also going to knit them both at the same time, which will be a first, but I'm excited to try it.