I found black yarn!!! In my room!!! No need to buy it!!!
I am such a pack rat that every time I clean my room, it's like going shopping :)
Yes, those are hideous granny squares (and yes those are my equally hideous satin sheets). The squares are coming along nicely although I am having a hard time deciding how I want to join all the squares. I would love to just border all of them in black but I have told myself that I can't buy any new yarn for this project. I do have a Pound of Love in a horrible aqua. . I suppose if I'm going for ugly, it will have to do.
Before I started knitting, I read an article in Martha Stewart living about the humble granny square. As I read, I recalled that I knew how to crochet quite well and started making squares right and left. Eventually, I started knitting and gave up crochet (although I am an awfully fast crocheter, thanks Grandma!!).
About a month a go, I was in a trendy store downtown and saw the most beautiful cotton granny square afghan. I wanted it, I needed it and then I realized that I could make it myself for a lot less. So I think I am going to make a test granny square afghan and use up the huge garbage bag full of yarn that I have been meaning to get rid of for at least six months. I am so excited!!
(Yes, eventually Jack's socks will get finished)
I have to knit a sweater for my sister this Christmas. For the rest of the world, this might be a fun and exciting thing to do. The kind of heart-warming and touching experiment that brings us together and gets read over some sappy music on a knitting podcast. Two sisters who have little in common except parents and a penchant for crafting. Except she doesn't knit. She sews, smocks, scrapbooks. I knit, knit, knit, crochet and knit. Neither of us has any respect for the other's craft aside from a passing "Oh yes, that's nice [but mine is better]". Anyhow, I don't know what to make- she needs something with sleeves and a conservative neckline. No open lace work and NO wool. I want something nice and sophisticated but youngish since she's only 30. Must think about it.
I haven't done any more work on Jack's socks. I have been in a total crafting funk for 2 weeks which was inconvenient for the swap I was in. The swap package is out now so maybe the funk will go away too. It's just hard to want to finish anything when everything you work on turns to poopy.
I house-sat/visited with Jack this weekend. It was a good visit and I was determined to finish his second sock by his arrival on Friday. It totally didn't happen. I went to my mom's on Wednesday for the 4th of July and spent most of the day helping her prep for the her annual BBQ. I did a little knitting though before the fireworks. My aunt (and fellow knitter) saw that I was knitting and joined me which was nice. I enjoy knitting in public, or in this case, knitting in my mom's backyard while chatting with my aunt and watching her knit a sock on two circs (which I am not clever enough to do). The women in my family are crafty but my aunt and I are the only ones who knit so we have something to compete with the sewers, tatters, quilters, smockers and painters.
I spent the next day at work and the next cleaning, cleaning, cleaning. This, combined with the fact that I was too busy helping my mom on Wednesday to pay proper attention to my gusset meant that I had to un-knit quiet a lot on this sock and have not had time to make it up. Oh well, Jack knows I'm working hard and he really seems to appreciate what I'm doing which means a lot to me.
June was Jack's and my anniversary. I thought it would be nice to celebrate a year of being together by making something complicated. I envisioned him opening the package and weeping in awe (ok, not weeping but emoting) over the intricate work I had done for him; praising my ability to work with tiny yarn, on tiny needles for size 14 feet.
In the end, Jack forgot our anniversary and I was so stressed out with work and another DVT scare that I didn't finish the pair in time. He got one sock on our anniversary and if he's very good next year, he'll (maybe) get another.
Just kidding- he'll get the other one on Friday.
I've been meaning to still this idea from my friend Kristin's site for awhile now.
1) I recently cut my own bangs. This did not end well; I will be wearing headbands for a couple of months.
2) I love weddings but I don't believe in marriage. For me, a relationship should be about love and commitment, not a legally binding contract.
3) I have three mice- they aren't blind but two of them have shortened tails.
4) I don't like or trust older men.
5) My boyfriend is 35.
6) In my defense, I thought he was 27 when I met him.
7) I think the penises are hilarious.
8) My favorite kind of pate is lobster.
9) Before I go to sleep at night, I have to touch my face. This drives the BF crazy.
10) I could eat Mexican food for every meal.
11) I can make anything except sugar cookies, shortbread and fudge.
12) One day I want to go to stunt driving school.
13) I love, love, love Disneyland.
14) I cry a lot; mostly over little things like PSAs or the end of Anne of Green Gables II.
15) When I was in Kindergarten, I would leave out the numbers that end in 9 when I counted, going straight from 8 to 10 and so forth.
16) I have a degree in British Literature and all I remember is that Lewis Carroll was most likely a pedophile.
17) I want to be a librarian when I grow up.
18) I was Homecoming Queen my senior year; I campaigned and bribed people with candy.
19) I tend to take language classes and then forget the language- five years of French and I can't speak it; one year of ASL and all I remember is "frog"; two years of Italian and it's all slipping away. . .
20) I love pink; I don't remember when this happened but I'm glad it did.
21) I have little patience for noise; if you're my neighbor and you're being noisy I will call the cops on you. I don't care if it makes me a bitch.
22) When I think about where dairy comes from, it freaks me out. The same with honey.
23) I have an irrational fear of whales.
24) I get freaked out very easily. I mean it- I have to watch "Unsolved Mysteries" in the day time, with all the lights on and someone sitting next to me.
25) I lived in the same house for my entire childhood.
26) I crush A LOT.
27) I want Melinda to win American Idol and I never thought Chris looked like Justin Timberlake. *ick*
28) Drunk drivers are despicable people who should be drawn and quartered (you too, Paris Hilton).
29) I won't remember your birthday but you'd better damn well remember mine (February 19)
30) I don't understand the excitement of NASCAR, it's like watching really bad traffic.
31) I hate hot weather.
32) I think I have mild Ordinal-linguistic personification
33) I love Wikipedia!!
Mang, this is harder than I thought. . Perhaps I'll do this in parts. .
